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Daniel Nicholls Veteran user UK 390 Posts |
Did anyone else just see the Amazing Steven on this years Britains got talent? Only went and dropped his third hand in front of 14 million people on national tv. Oops
Close your eyes. Open your senses.
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michaelmystic2003 Inner circle 3062 Posts |
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Daniel Nicholls Veteran user UK 390 Posts |
That's the biscuit.
Close your eyes. Open your senses.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
FAR worse exposure than the Masked Meathead!
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts |
My worst mess-up doesn't seem so bad now.
At the WMS, a teen competitor dropped his Fakinni shell (luckily in a room full of magicians). Half a ball lay on the ground for his routine. At the follow up interview he was asked "How do you think it went?" He answered in a fake cry, "I dropped my ball, and it broke."
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
At least he didn't try to claim he was challenging the audience like that nut did last year on America's Got Talent.
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michaelmystic2003 Inner circle 3062 Posts |
LOL I almost forgot about him! That was hilarious!
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
Didn't see that one. Any links?
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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Brian Proctor Inner circle Somewhere 2323 Posts |
That is why this is an amature show. And magicians should not be on this type of show if they are not bullet proof.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Who is bullet proof? After thousands of shows, even Chung Ling Soo had a fatal flaw in his act. Failure is not only the domain of the amatuer.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
Ross W Inner circle UK 1778 Posts |
To a non-magician this exposed nothing at all, other than the fact that this act screwed up. It was played so fast, and edited so tightly that no one - unless they knew the trick - could have deduced what the "fake hand" was supposed to have been doing, so users of "spirit cloths" etc. need lose no sleep!
BUT what is truly distressing is that once AGAIN a magician goes on Britain's Got Talent and screws up a trick, simply adding to the perception by the show's producers (and, by extension the viewing audience) that magic is dumb, its practitioners are under-rehearsed twits and the whole thing is worthy of ridicule. Okay, so BGT is pantomime. As I continually remind my kids, Simon Cowell is not REALLY nasty, he's just playing the pantomime villain. But that's no excuse. Knowing that the producers WANT magicians to fail should serve as an added warning to our brethren who want to brave the televised auditions. |
magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
Stephen is a member here.
I think he should've won hands down... Joking aside, they want to see you either fail miserably or be incredible (magicians or anything else). So if you have got an absolute doozy up your sleeve prepare to be either humiliated or not get on TV. |
daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
Was that a typo? Did you mean to type if you DON'T have a doozy up your sleeve?
Anyway, I had a hard time watching it, because I definitely picked up stomach turning vibes from the judges of "Oh. Another %$#^% "magician." Kid's stuff" "whoopee" "When will this be over?" etc. And it seemed as if his hand was absolutely HOVERING over that buzzer just waiting for the inevitable mistake so he could POUNCE like a tiger on a chunk of fresh meat." I mean did you notice how lightning quick he hit the buzzer as soon as the hand dropped?" Am I imagining all this, or am I right?
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Everyone, absolutely everyone, has problems at one point or another. I was at a Worlds Greatest Magic show and the guillotine (sp?) used by Melinda in her routine "What I'd Like To Do TO Lance Burton" stuck and exposed the workings. I was at a Copperfield show when the lights went on when he was heading for his appearance in the middle of the audience. Happens.
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
Yeah. I know I've had some totally out of the blue freak disasters happen in my show that no amount of rehearsal would have ever prevented. Murphy lurks around every corner.
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magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
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On 2009-04-26 22:43, daffydoug wrote: It was. Thanks, Daffy. |
daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
Hmm. That's what I thought! Deductive reasoning, doncha know.
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Gilgamesh_The_Librarian Elite user 408 Posts |
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On 2009-04-26 16:54, magicgeorge wrote: Absolutely right and I am amazed by the number of folk that think wandering on with some variation of standard magic tricks that have been seen a billion times before is going to win them anything. To be fair to Stephen, from the brief glimpse I saw, he was doing something different but he's paid the price for all the numpties that have gone before. |
Billy Whizz Special user Plymouth, UK 576 Posts |
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but he's paid the price for all the numpties that have gone before. I wouldn't say he's paid the price, he's just another 'numptie' to add to the list!! |
MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I don't know what a numptie is, some term you UKers use I guess, well you and Daffy Doug, he likes UKerspeak. Other than the hand falling off he did the illusion pretty smoothly. We had guys on Americas Got Talent doing magic that should have never tried, they only had one major error also, theirs being their belief they knew how to perform magic. I think the Amazing Steven did fine and it is a bummer that happened.
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