傳奇魔術師大衛考柏菲解析魔術電影，《逃脫大師胡迪尼》這一段是假的？ David Copperfield Breaks Down Magic Scenes｜經典電影大解密｜GQ Taiwan

one of roberto dan's great inventions is the light and heavy chest it was a chest that a kid could lift quite easily but a strong man when he tried to lift it couldn't lift it in the illusionist they took that idea that same idea i'm going to reveal the method of the light and heavy chest agq it's david copperfield this is the breakdown [Music] first up now you see me it's 11 50 p.m here in vegas that's 8 50 a.m in paris your bank opens in less than 10 minutes one two three a number of years ago a screenwriter named ed reichardt came to my show and we did the show in the round which was very unusual hasn't been done before and we did an illusion also quite unique where we would vanish me and a specter to vanish from the theater and reappear uh in a location in hawaii it was pretty amazing and groundbreaking and it's what inspired the whole now you see me series i like that little french guy where'd he go there he is teleporting around the world wasn't ever done in the magic show and they saw this opportunity to use it in a movie the magic wasn't just card tricks or whatever it was something that could be done as a whole basis of real drama inside of your helmet you should feel a button don't press it just yet now that button activates an air duct that connects paris to las vegas okay good now you can press it all right now that's it hold on tight you might feel a bit of a vacuum in our version i brought the reign back with me into the theater in the round in this version probably a little bit more cool for the audience the money comes back to the theater you know it's about credibility when i did this illusion and people thought it was ridiculous nobody's gonna believe it people said it couldn't be done not credible at all and we spent three years interviewing audience members changing bits little by little to make it a credible thing and finally we got it so the people in the audience were crying so when ed reichert saw that uh in the show he saw a pretty good version of our thing so it could be credible it was something you could do it does feel credible in in this film because they really are committed to it and they did all the steps that we did that we found we had to do to make it a credible thing having proof having uh kind of a relationship between the monitor in the theater and um yeah i think it worked our version happened over the heads of the audience it was a surrounded in a circular theater i wanted you know people beneath the illusion itself they had the in the round and i guess because they didn't have people below they had the the piece collapse up so it was kind of avoiding the trapdoor idea to me magic isn't about making something disappear it's about really having the audience feel emotionally attached to it this is an example of that because this was about characters that you care about these people i mean these actors are amazing also the people in the audience who are involved with this are people that you get to know and care about or have some kind of stakes in the matter so it's not about the the illusion it's about the illusion plus caring about why it's happening the prestige because making something disappear isn't enough you have to bring it back that's why every magic trick has a third act the hardest part the part we call the prestige i love the poetry that chris and his brother put into this movie we don't use words and magic like the prestige or the all the things he did but i think it's kind of nice gravitas that he added many people say there's seven pieces of magic seven effects and it's hundred percent not true i'm with my amazing staff invent new technology all the time and i think in this case uh what christopher nolan and his brother did with all the electric currents the tesla coil effects he created a new language in that way that doesn't exist in any magic show in history so i think he had the same kind of instinct as i do in my show now you know i'm doing magic with dinosaurs and spaceships and aliens and time travel nothing that you could find in a magic book most magicians you know unfortunately kind of uh do things that have been done before but a lot of the really great people who are trying to progress the art form in the past and also today are trying to change the language and move things in a new way you know they say in there that if you vanish something you have to bring it back in that case a bird was vanished and they had to make for the child the the fear of something bad happening to the bird go away i don't believe it's important to bring things back uh necessarily i vanished an airplane once and i didn't bring it back and it was viral before viral existed and it's because i didn't bring it back it was kind of unsatisfying the audience was going what happened to it if i brought it back it would have closed the circle i don't agree with that idea that you have to bring it back now you see me too ninja [Music] [Music] my executive producer chris kenner started a whole trend of juggling cards in a beautiful way and it was called cardistry this sequence is based on that entire idea andre geek who took that idea and took it to another level helped design the sequence which is pretty interesting all these moves are based on real moves real things you can do everything you're seeing here really could be done it'll be kind of hard to do it all in that sequence but they are all possible to do they helped a little bit with a little bit of a camera technique to get it to work perfectly each time but all very risky moves there could actually be really happening this whole throwing of cards started a whole trend youtube videos of people trying to do hard throwing where they land in specific spots we did 200 takes to get this one shot in movies you know we all do uh many many takes of scenes as as actors in this case this is a lot of things put together john chu who is a wonderful director of this film his background is in dance and choreographing beautiful sequences so the combination of cardistry and john choo's direction comes together quite nicely here this is very advanced sleight of hand to make that all work in a real world situation it would be very risky to do i was once held up at gunpoint and i stupidly uh did what is magic called the pocket dodge i showed my pockets empty even though my passport's never in the pocket that's a real world situation i did but in fact i think in retrospect it's pretty pretty stupid to do and here uh they're on a movie set so it's it's okay all these little details are are based on real things and that's what's really uh rewarding for me all the sleight of hand moments are really uh based on real palming back palming sleeve manipulation techniques of elastic all that's real stuff you know and they put it into kind of a nice sequence i think my friend levent simkindly vanishes a jumbo card on stage with that exact method on the back of the card is a a pattern of his jacket and he just vanishes it and it's really looks great and then as a gag he kind of reveals it and shows what happens so it's okay for me to say the story but it's a really great thing and it does work there's a magnet in the jacket and it sticks to it when my friend does it the card vanishes and it looks fantastic and then it's really magnetized to his coat the famous magicians of the past used to scale cards into the audience take cards with their picture on it and throw them in the audience and hit certain marks in the theater amazingly it was a great skill and this is uh taking that to another level it's using it for real purpose they would skip cards off the ground like a rock and a lake and all this is based on that [Music] [Music] it's also a pickpocket technique where you're managing people to move a certain way you can pick their pocket here you can touch them they're going to look this way you can steal their watch it's that kind of technique all combined in this in this piece the illusionist i borrow a handkerchief from someone you madam thank you using audiences personal artifacts has always been part of magic even the street performer would use things from the audience i think it makes the audience feel they're part of it and involved also makes it more impossible when you're using one of their objects in the real version of this it was a ring and a handkerchief that would vanish and reappear time from the moment we enter this life we are in the flow of it we measure it and we mark it we cannot defy it we cannot even speed it up or slow it down they did something really nice here in magic you know there's manipulation of all kinds cigarette manipulation which is a no-go end right now but that was a thing you know manipulation of coins and cards and billiard balls billy balls will appear between your fingers all that and i think in the illusions they did something kind of cool to make the oranges small enough to do actual billiard ball moves i think that was a really good idea when the orange goes up or goes in slow motion we can do that they did it with special effects but as long as it can be done it has a lot of credibility for me ed norton's character really was a wonderful magician a lot of skill i know ed norton worked very very hard in his technique one of the illusions he did was the orange tree which is based on something i have actually i have the original one created by robert hudan in in the 1840s it was the big rage of the time real oranges would appear they'd be tossed out into the audience and they were real oranges people would freak out in this movie it's done in a very very high level it didn't work quite like that in reality in the original hudan version the leaves would already be there and the oranges and the orange blossoms would grow slowly but this is starting from the very beginning where it's kind of a combination of a growing orange tree and a blooming orange tree it really combined two different effects which are all legit to make it happen roberto dan was a clock maker and an automaton maker so basically the orange tree was an automaton mechanical leaves would reveal oranges like an automaton the flowers would appear and atom of time-like butterflies would allow the butterflies to fly from behind the bush and reveal the handkerchief and rain might i see it one of roberto dan's great inventions is the light and heavy chest it was a chest that a kid could lift quite easily but a strong man when he tried to lift it couldn't lift it that illusion in the story goes that stopped a war in france we're dealing with a group called the marabons the french sent in their most powerful wizard robert hudan showed the french magic was stronger than this faction that was going to go to war with the french so this one box this one illusion helped solve a war as the story goes in the illusions they took that idea that same idea i'm going to reveal the method of the light and heavy chest back then people didn't know about electromagnetism turning power on and off to make a box electromagnetically stick to the ground was a whole new thing and in this case they're kind of replicating that same idea make it stand up straight like that wouldn't work quite with that technique but they combined that to make this kind of a a credible challenge and i think it works pretty well the great magician [Music] [Applause] pretty cool stuff i really enjoy the sleight of hand i think he could have just done this little origami thing and left it like it is i've never seen that before i love that idea i'm a new dog lover so this is a kind of cool and that could work you know it wouldn't look exactly like that but that really could work [Music] i want something better than them his technique is really nice his movement is very beautiful all the magic isn't real all of its a lot of it's not really happening but it's kind of it kind of could it follows that rule that you know if it could be done could you do that and the answer is yes you could make that happen and besides these women are very happy this is kind of like street magic in a elegant setting let's put it that way [Music] what i like about it is they didn't just take the easy way out like like bewitched which i love by the way where they would just blank out the thing would just disappear boom they took the time to do technique where it was credible maybe it did happen maybe the sleight of hand could have existed so they went the extra mile to make that happen this is a real effect that my friend channing pollock did a version of this looks a little bit different but the production of a glass is normally a wine glass filled with wine but he does it you know where it's about jewelry for the women as you all know a magician is nothing without his that's funny he says a magician is nothing without props well he just did a whole bunch of slide of hands so that makes no sense at all take it [Music] vanishing bullets would be sleight of hand it couldn't work exactly like this but it could work for sure they are replicating all sleight of hand if confetti couldn't come from the gun obviously it was borrowed gun so it would have to come from somewhere else in his uh this person and he could do it it's pretty risky pointing a gun at some mustache dude there's nothing in here that couldn't be done it wouldn't look exactly the same but my favorite thing is is the dog bone for sure i think that's uh that feels really new the incredible bert wonderstone bert wunderstone our team created a sequence for the movie that the actors could feel really proud to do because there's no cuts nothing changes and they work really hard and when we got the take everyone was really happy so this piece you can watch over and over again you can slow motion it you can look at every frame and arrested development i used to dance a lot in my show with uh fluffy shirts and gigantic movements and large objects we actually made a boat appear in the bermuda triangle he makes it vanish in this case with a little bit dancing definitely i think i'm to blame for this i wish i could do the split though that was pretty good there was a book when i was a kid written by al jaffe called the mad book of magic and it was all these you know how to put your finger over here in two sections well you'd cut your finger off that was the method for it it was just crazy methods that would really inflict major pain on yourself to make it happen is all a very big parody this is an example of that will arnett is great and he does spectacular magic his method was kind of like the al jaffe book of magic where the the the method destroys the family's boat michael magician never reveals this i sunk it i sunk the yacht at least i think i sunk it i mean i blew it up and i don't see it anywhere it's a method probably could have worked and finally houdini one would never do something for the first time you're always going to really have planned what your what your escape route is how to get out of the situation so adrian brody went to tannen's magic camp he loved magic as a kid and really studied it so it's kind of fitting that he got this part besides he's just kind of a harry houdini discovered that escaping from things really captivated audiences interest you know he started with handcuffs and kind of upped the game straight jacket escape underwater escapes he found that had a connection with people people got that and the idea of uh having near death as your adversary was one that people could really understand and relate to i've done a lot of escapes from an imploding building i did a water tank escape i got hurt in the water tank escape there is danger to it in houdini's day everything happened behind a curtain except for a stray jacket escape which you could show people everything else was hidden behind things and in those days you can get away with that people would sit patiently for an hour watching a a red curtain and not knowing what's happening behind today they'd walk out you know but in those days you could do that this sequence is the water torture cell which we have who needs actual water church cell right here in this museum so that's all very legit historically not accurate but uh looks pretty good thank you so much for watching all those clips with me hope you learned something until next time

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Length: 19min 54sec (1194 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 27 2021