hi this is Penn Jillette of Penn &
Teller and today I'll be reviewing some
movie scenes with magic in him now you
see me she's gonna do an escape she's
being tied up as stuff from I assume
Home Depot and she's now gonna escape
from the from the now she's not doing an
escape here this is a movie they reshoot
this and everything it's it's it's about
magic it's no more she's no more doing
magic than a police officer is actually
arresting people during the movie I
believe if I remember this right
piranhas are gonna drop in at the end
and and either but piranhas will not
attack people like that and we did a
whole thing on that would tell her in
the tank of piranhas where we were very
smugly saying and the piranhas wouldn't
actually bite somebody and then the
piranhas bit teller which bit is toe
really badly and maybe laughs really
really hard
yeah piranhas won't really do that sadly
sadly would be nice if they did oh and
she appears in the audience yeah that's
done that's done all the time some of
the onstage vanishes they appear in the
audience and the great thing is when you
really do that for real you just walk
through the audience and they don't
notice you they're paying attention to
the stage and we think everybody's gonna
be like pointing T and yelling
but they don't just walk through
spotlight hit you you're there the water
tank which is what they're doing a take
on in this is usually associated with
Houdini and it's very important that
Houdini had a rule that he wouldn't do
anything more dangerous than sitting in
his living room and that's not only an
artistic decision it's also a moral
decision and not just for myself not
self-preservation it's also immoral to
put the up make the audience complicit
and unnecessary human risk on the
prestige watch carefully
we will we'll watch very carefully
you'll see no trickery we will see trick
or no trickery is employed everything
he's saying is a lie
familiar to certain citizens of the
Orient and various holy men of the
Himalayas that's not true either what
you're about to see is considered safe
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wasn't that something he moved a long
distance what could be easier to do than
that in a movie as far as I know that
has no real antecedent that's no real
magic trick if you did it as a magic
trick live on stage the eyes would know
you were using twins you know there's a
sense that movies never get where
everything being done in a magic show
has to be in some way plausible and
that's a good example of a trick that
would be horrible in a live show because
you've got what's called and this is
more complicated I'm really going to go
into but it's called the to perfect
concept if a trick is so perfect there's
only one way to do it well then that's
the way you did it and to move that kind
of distance and that kind of speed would
have to be a identical twin I'm not
talking about Hugh Jackman or the
overall movie just that one trick a
little stupid mm me too peanut but just
wait till next weekend once I'm out of
here you and I gonna go paint this town
red well so much ice cream will never
stop puking that's what my favorite
moments of magic of all the stuff we're
gonna see today that may be the only
thing that was really done he actually
did that magic trick Houdini I hope he's
a Tony Curtis it is oh boy they're
putting lots being put in their little
list right in middle out there this is a
little like something Houdini did this
isn't that far off looks as if you've
got me pretty well locked out oh I think
they're telling him what to do in this
like he's not the one who built it and
designed it and hasn't done it a
thousand times
oh yeah yeah put your hands like this
yes I know I designed the trick once you
see locks in a magic show you know
they're right the locks belong
to the magician you'd have any Keys
rigged them any way you want will you
hold this in front of me oh yes surely
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but he does their the the adjusting the
curtain while you're doing an escape
that is a standard gag that Houdini
undoubtedly did one of the things you do
in escapes is you're one step ahead
while they're putting you in the next
thing you're already out of the thing
before so he would be out of the he'd be
out of this before they even put the
curtain up and then able to do stuff
once again he mentions there that that
the guy built it like it was a challenge
of the person brought in Houdini had a
lot of that or needed a lot of stuff
where the local brewery would build a
beer barrel and challenge Houdini to get
out of it
of course Houdini had sent them that
plans for that beforehand so the guy
might have actually meant because this
is a movie so it's not true but a nudie
mias case he might have actually had the
person make that apparatus but they
would have made it to his exact
specifications he would have escaped
from it hundreds of times before that
practice the illusionist this is a trick
that teller is obsessed with teller
pitches this trick to us to do all the
time he always wants us to do a trick
where a seed is put in and and a plant
grows out of it man tell her tell her it
loves this trick I hate this trick
you'll never see this in a Penn & Teller
show as long as I'm alive now the I
believe the magic consultant on this was
Ricky J and Ricky was one of the
greatest minds had ever lived in magic
and a wonderful person and Ricky laid
this out to be very close to what the
magicians would have really done at the
turn of the last century well that's not
Paul Giamatti that's that's a Chuck from
billions in the movie you see the tree
grow you see the oranges get bigger when
you would see this in a stage show
becoming with a cloth in between so
maybe if it look like this and getting
our show it's not going to look like
that it's going to look like covering up
a twig with a piece of cloth and
sneaking in another plant while you're
doing it it sucks mission impossible wow
this is amazing
they made Tom Cruise look tall oh we're
look at Tom he sees playing the part of
a magician now knowing how hard Tom
Cruise
works he probably actually practiced
that it's a it's a big thing that's
supposed to be going up his his sleeve
you made the disk disappear using using
sleight of hand now if you're going to
do that for real he might have actually
done it for real their minds just taking
on a few frames you just throw that
what's called the topic it's a little
thing built in to your suit coat that's
like a big pocket that you can just
throw something in and when he comes in
like this you could do that I doubt he
does because why bother he's Tom Cruise
the incredible Burt Wonderstone this is
uh this is tellers favorite magic movie
oh my goodness
while they're acting out a little high
school thing
oh yeah I'm gonna be doing a sword
cabinet here yeah she would not be
surprised but where the yes what was
gonna come would you like to see it
tonight that's essentially the way it
would be done is we do a lot more swords
and the purse would be in another more
uncomfortable position and also you'd
probably have the cabinet built in a
cheating way to give you more room to
hide in it as the swords went through
one thing that's very accurate about
this is how casual they are when you're
doing these things are looking credibly
death-defying you're very very very
casual
this is Arrested Development I know this
is a TV show but TV and movies have
become the exact same thing now this is
the most realistic thing we've seen so
far for magic this is exactly how real
magic is done yeah this is there's no
CGI here taking an old guy shame in the
box is done all the time there's a panel
just put it around the girl of mind it
don't make any noise all right in this
clip he tells the gentlemen what to do
when he gets in the box and that's
called instant stooging and it's
interesting but you can tell someone on
stage to do something and they just do
it there's hardly ever a question we
don't do much instant stooging because
it's kind of not fun because it's more
fun to fool the person who's on stage as
well but that's a technique that's used
and the idea is that you give up folding
one person or the full the whole
audience but I've just found it more
fulfilling for everybody to have the
person onstage full too so we have I
think without exception we always fold
the person onstage
finally the Magnificent Seven show us
our money party well this is the new
magnificent server oh yeah you can't
resist picking the card see this is just
not card they're trying to show this as
you can't
just picking the card we're naturality
getting someone to pick a card it's
almost impossible go to a party fan on a
deck of cards they want to pick a card
everyone will say no let's go on commit
the card to memory when you're ready put
the car back in the day oh yeah I like
that they're using actually an antique
kind of deck that's nice with a shuffle
and a cut all they get someone doing
Carter Street in the close-up that's
that's not the actors hands on your car
that's a three hearty food card you
didn't let me finish
oh that's nice he's performing under a
lot of pressure there a lot of pressure
I think I'm better under pressure
we were doing Saturday Night Live in the
80s which is about as much pressure as
we've been under because you've got
whatever it is eight million people
watching you and it really is no kidding
live we did a bit that was really really
hard which was a bit where we were
upside down in the audience at home
didn't know it as we could do all these
levitation and vanish things with the
gravity being up there we're hanging
upside down all day we've been working
on it for six weeks all the time to
rehearsal and there was an incredibly
hard move in it where I had to wall him
upside down I had to do this juggling
maneuver upside down looking like I was
right-side up with gravity backwards and
really really hard move and in all the
rehearsals I never did it once right and
then on Centre Night Live with all the
cameras were only in front of 8 million
people was the only time I nailed it
so offer my personality you put a couple
guns on me I'm gonna do the best
performance I'll ever do other people
they just throw up I hope I've told you
a little bit about how magic is done in
movies and how movies talk about magic
and hope you've learned something but
remember I lie