On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Pete Ahles <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't understand the objection. > > Penn & Teller are only looking for original tricks, so an amateur > performing a known trip from a book will always lose unless P&T have never > seen it. > > They are skirting a fine line with the "Magician's Code". They just show > that they know how the trick's done. They never said that they would tell > the audience how it's done. > Mathieu Bich fooled them with a trick using a spread of cards. The trick is not an amateur one - Bich has a website to sell the trick <http://www.mathieubich.com/site/US/TRICKS/spreadwave_US.html> for $50 and he sells other tricks there as well. The part of his "fooling" that bothers me is that Penn said that the key to his trick would be in the box that held the cards. Bich opened the box in front of the audience and it had a sign with the word NO on it. Everybody laughed and they moved on. Why didn't P&T take the box and look for compartments? I think they liked the act, figured it would work well at the Rio, and claimed to be fooled. The other weakness I see is that a gifted amateur who creates an illusion from scratch might not know the jargon for its components. So P&T might ask, "Did you use the Gooseberry Lay* in your trick?" and the magician would say no, not because he didn't use it but because he doesn't know what it is. *The Gooseberry Lay has nothing to do with magic. It's the name of a scam mentioned in the Maltese Falcon. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
