Magician FOOLS Penn & Teller w SWORD + PHONE BOOKS!!
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Channel: WES Barker
Views: 5,467,642
Rating: 4.8091869 out of 5
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Id: J8L3EBJhXU4
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Length: 9min 56sec (596 seconds)
Published: Thu Aug 06 2015
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Cutting away right before Wes grabs the sword for a second time, is a PRIME example of how this shows editing has hindered it slightly. It's not necessary a camera trick, but it does hide something a smart eye could catch.
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I know were not supposed to talk about the way he did it but can we talk about the way he didn't do it? What did they mean by mentioning "Luke Skywalker"? Were they inciting that he was using a fake phone book?
I am not a magician.
But it felt like Penn was basically giving up in the sense of "We're not going to be assholes and insist that you didn't fool us, and we're wasting time on TV, so we'll give in." this is just a purely intuitive response, I have no evidence.
Are we confident that they really fooled P&T?
I just watched this episode and read the comments above. I believe Wes marked the page Jonathan selected by creasing it. Then when Wes was demonstrating to Jonathan how not to tear the book by opening it and "going to the middle" he opened it to the creased page and looked at the page number that he had creased earlier. At the end of the trick he never shows the stabbed page and just states the two page numbers. One additional thing I noticed is that Wes somehow put a page on the sword before he stabs, but due to editing cuts it is hard to see when. I used my dvr to freeze and step through frame by frame the stabbing part and it is very clear that the stabbed piece of paper is already on the sword and hidden behind Wes as he stands with his back to the camera. This I believe is to guarantee a page is actually stabbed, but he already knows what page number he will give and does not allow inspection/verification. And I agree with a coiple of comments that Wes would have given in or was about to give in, but Jonathan did that goofy boom boom bang thing. So it wasn't a force, but it was a break and peek. No index because one is not needed.
Can someone PM me even so much as a hint how he did it? He didn't force him to pick a certain page but he was aware of what page he picked. Still doesn't explain how he did the darn trick lol
520 isn't on the same page as 521. Odds are lower. Page 1 and 2, 3 and 4... Etc. the non-confirmation was key.
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