Stuff You Wish the MM Hadn't Given Away on National Television
Mitchell Leary
illusions, completely made up out of whole cloth, or just flat out
doesn't matter.
However, I do feel he has done major damage to the close-up and parlour
entertainers (us old dudes over 50, we still do magic in out parlours
Lol).
I haven't seen too many of these shows as I find the presentations very
boring. The one thing that did catch my eye was the explanation of the
Needle-Thru-Arm illusion. I really wish he hadn't given that away.
Another one was the Cigarette-thru-Quarter trick. That's one of my
favorite tricks, and a great way to glamorize cigarettes in the eyes of
young people. I blame the fact that we have so many obese kids in
society today because we outlawed cigarette commercials.
But I'm getting side tracked. Are there any tricks you wish the Masked
Magician hadn't given away on national television?
-Leary-
Carlo Morpurgo
zombie ball!
Al Hastings
Ever since the very first episode, I thought "don't show the
TT...don't show the TT...don't show the TT..." After a season or 3
later he exposed it. The way he exposed it was so bad, I seriously
doubt it will affect anyone as he used the TT wrong as most magicians
do. As a matter of fact the announcer even stated "the TT is invisible
on your thumb"
I use the guillotine in my larger shows. Even if people know the MO,
it's all about comedy and entertainment. So that didn't bother me.
It did bother me about the needle through arm, but has anyone ever
seen Andrew Mayne's version with a wet nap and paper clip? It is much
better then the origional, less hokey, and less suspicious.
Rope routine? I'm glad he did. I do a cut and restored rope w/o
scissors.
In the David Williamson edition of Reel Magic, he said he even fooled
Copperfield with the switch on the pen through coin routine. Ammar
even has a killer routine in his one book.
There is only 2 things that yet to be exposed that would really hurt
if people knew the MO. Any guesses? Long story short, a majority of
the people who watched the show will forget the methods after a year
anyways. Don't let the critics of the masked magician fool you,
Everyone has a price.
-A
Al Hastings
Watch this video of Charlie Frye, Does it matter if you know the
method? It's beautiful, funny, & VERY entertaining!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1W4OVrYwaw
-A
Carlo Morpurgo
too frantic a presentation, i don't like it.... if that were the only
known presentation of the effect...probably it would not matter much.
but you know well that you can really make this very magical ...and
hence, yes I think it matters, a lot....
carlo
Mitchell Leary
thereafer. Magic audiences are populated mostly by other magicians and
kids whose parents have brought them to the show. Anyone interested in
seeing a magician usually is one or is interested in becoming one.
Normal adults never take magic and magicians seriously and couldn't care
less how all this crap works. Ever shown someone a trick and the first
thing they ask you is how much you charge for a kids birthday party? I
just want to f***ing strangle them!
No matter how seriously magicians take their art, nobody else does. In
the public's mind you're just an idiot that never grew up.
-Leary-
Eric Haddix
> It did bother me about the needle through arm, but has anyone ever
> seen Andrew Mayne's version with a wet nap and paper clip?
I love that version. I use it. Of course Andrew's best work, IMHO, is
the bowling ball from shopping bag. That one floored me and is just tooo
simple.
Eric Haddix
> Normal adults never take magic and magicians seriously and couldn't care
> less how all this crap works. Ever shown someone a trick and the first
> thing they ask you is how much you charge for a kids birthday party? I
> just want to f***ing strangle them!
I fix that by telling them that I CAN do their party but I'm an adult
magician and I mean adult as in XXX and I tend to curse, a lot. That
usually stops it right there. If it doesn't then I can explain a few
tricks in my routine and they shut right up.
Mitchell Leary
Magician's seem to hate that trick but I think it has it's place.
Jack Poulter
Mark Lewis when we need him?
J.
Eric Haddix
> I bet you tell them you do the ding dong and the bra trick! Where is
> Mark Lewis when we need him?
>
> J.
Actually, I developed all of my own tricks. They're based on other
tricks but those tricks aren't remotely adult in nature. It takes a perv
on a totally new level to look at the most innocent of tricks and find
something raunchy. I always knew I had a calling...hehehe.
Eric
Al Hastings
> I bet you tell them you do the ding dong and the bra trick!
Silk to panties...you forgot silk to panties....
..not that I know about that or anything, a majority of my magic
business is a family entertainer!
-A
Jack Poulter
here.
A pro magician friend, now deceased, used to do shows at clubs in our
area. At these, he usually included the Amazing Bra trick and for the
"slightly oiled" audience. It went over well.
One night he was booked to perform two shows at a club. After the first
a well-endowed young woman approached him and asked if he would select
her do that trick in the next show. The magician asked if she wanted
him to really remove her bra. When she said yes he told her how to
prepare the bra so he could actually remove it.
After the bra was removed from the woman, she whipped up the front of
her sweater to reveal that she was truly bra-less! It brought the house
down!
He also did "clean" school shows and birthday parties. ;-)
Old Jack.
Al Hastings wrote:
>
> Silk to panties...you forgot silk to panties....
> ...not that I know about that or anything, a majority of my magic
Eric Haddix
> After the bra was removed from the woman, she whipped up the front of
> her sweater to reveal that she was truly bra-less! It brought the house
> down!
>
> He also did "clean" school shows and birthday parties. ;-)
That is hilarious. It'd pay off a hundred fold to have a girl willing to
be THAT kind of stooge for your show.