The comments on the youtube site suggest that there were two midgets...but when she walked over and sat on the bench, there was no lack of coordination or awkwardness...she looked like a whole person. But when she was crawling away, which I didn't get, (why wouldn't you go back for your legs, also, the look on her face was priceless) she looked like she was used to getting around like that, so it appeared that she was born with no legs, but that wouldn't explain why the legs were adult sized, and still moving...
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I don't normally "reveal how it's done" ... because it's sort of a courtesy to a magician NOT to reveal secrets. However, when video editing tricks are used ... it kind of irks me, and I think that's the case here, though I'm not certain.
Obviously, the person used here is a "legless" person to begin with. I forget what the medical term is, as I don't think it's parapalegic. I'm pretty sure that the people watching here are all actors and in on the gag ... we haven't heard any stories or videos of them putting the woman back together.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's possible that the woman is an identical twin, and her twin has no legs. They show the clip of her walking over and sitting down, and cut to another angle. Edit in the legless double already laying down. And pulling her a part is pretty easy. If you watch the part where she's "wiggling her toes", it's shown at an angle where a person can be laying down with knees bent, and a spring loaded dress "stands up" with the person laying down behind it ... toes wiggling. While the other person crawls away. no midgets needed.
If anybody has actually seen this trick IN PERSON ... or filmed with no jump cuts, let me know ... because it would not be done in the same way.
Now, they could do this "halfway", where the person doesn't walk over ... and they pull her apart and get a horrified audience reaction ... then cut in the scenes with the toes wiggling and her walking over to begin with. That way the reactions are "real" and not acted.
David Blaine did this with his "levitation" trick. He did a one-inch levitation, which is a nice little street trick, which is easy to do and done at the right angle can be quite amusing to a steet viewer. He took the reaction shots and initial levitation trick, and then edited in shots of him hovering several feet off the ground. So the trick itself was done without the aid of camera tricks ... but the illusion itself is bastardized on TV when they add in shots of him doing the impossible.
That's a pretty logical explanation. And of course we know these aren't real.
Why?
Because Chris Angel doesn't "try to lie" about his profession. He doesn't claim to be a "magician". He doesn't claim "mystic powers". He calls himself precisely what he is............. An "Illusionist".
So there is,by the very term illusion,some reasonable explanation for what he does.
Now when someone calls themselves "a magician" inferring "magic" rather than "illusion" I take some issue with that.
JMHO
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Quote: Now when someone calls themselves "a magician" inferring "magic" rather than "illusion" I take some issue with that.
I dont' really care what they call themselves. They can call themselves Bull-sheet artists for all I care.
I just don't like it when they dupe television viewers into thinking that this is how an illusion would look if you were here in person, and then through the magic of video editing skills ... they make the illusion seem greater than it is. That's not an illusionist ... that's a video editor.
The best magicians/illusionists are the ones that can do the same tricks with you in person. There's this one card trick on you-tube. The guy takes 4 cards, and the same card shows up every time he flips through the cards. I know exactly how he does it, yet I could never pull the trick off myself. THAT is a good trick.
Quote: I hope she wasnt elderly, because if she was breaking yor hip is a death sentance
Normally, yes. My grandma broke her hip 3 years ago, at age 85. She gets around just fine - lives by herself........honestly, not even slower than she was.
My wifes grandpa broke his hip 12 weeks ago.........he's home, getting around with a walker (when anyone is there - he walks without it if no one but his wife is around - he's a rather stubborn man).
But, both times, when my grandma broke hers, and when my wife's grandpa broke his, I said something to the effect of " uh oh, this usually is not recovered from....", and apparently, both times, I was wrong. So that's actually good news.
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