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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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1 comment:
Golly, I hate to break it to you, But Google answers all!
Q. While watching the NBC magic miniseries "Phenomenon" recently, I was particularly amazed when Kevin James apparently sawed a man in half and then stapled him back together. Can you explain how he might have done that?
-- S.O., of O'Fallon
A. I always hate to take the magic out of people's lives, but a population explosion on stage and a handy camera cut or two apparently easily explains this bit of visual chicanery, according to the best explanation of the trick I can find.
As the illusion starts, you're led to believe there are two main players taking part in this little hocus-pocus -- the chain saw-wielding magician and the victim, who is about to experience a horrible slice of life. But before the act is over, four people actually get in on the action to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Here's the setup: James, holding the chain saw, is pushed by his assistant so that he stumbles into giving the poor victim the unkindest cut of all right through his waist. (And, not a drop of catsup ... er ... blood, imagine that. Must be a new kind of chain saw that instantly cauterizes vessels.)
Now, notice two things: First, the victim is standing next to the table like he has been glued to it; there's not a scintilla of space between them. That's because he is actually two people.
There's a person with no legs on top (other magicians apparently have used people with similar deformities) ready to walk around on his hands when the top half of the body is "knocked off." Meanwhile, the head and chest of the person making up the lower half is hidden inside the box -- which explains why the box and the man are like conjoined twins.
Spoiler No. 2: The legless man is wearing a mask. This isn't for sanitary purposes. He's wearing it to hide his face so that you can't tell they've pulled the ol' switcheroo on you when they bring out the fourth man (also wearing a mask) at the end as the reconstituted victim.
The convenient camera cuts help, too. After a brief shot of the judges, the camera returns to the victim, who suddenly has sprouted legs again as if by, well, magic. Then, when they roll the torso over, the legs already follow, which means the coup de grace -- the stapling -- is obviously superfluous.
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