I have just finished watching "Death Defying Acts" it stars Catherine Zeta Jones who attempts to con Guy Pearce's as Harry Houdini into thinking she can contact his dead mother. It's more of a love story between Houdini & Catherine Zeta Jones who plays a stage medium, it's a good film but not as good as the Illusionist or the Prestige. This film is more fiction then fact which i found disappointing especially at the end of the film, i want spoil the film for you. But i would of loved to seen more of a autobiography type of film, anyway this is a small review of the film as there's not really a review on here about the film.
Review of "Death Defying Acts"
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I didn't quite like The Illusionist. All the magic he performed was just special effects. For example, at one part he starts to a rising card and I'm like "cool I can do that" then he starts floating the card around with special effects.
The Prestige, however, used all real things (except for the final stunt obviously.) I loved how he would always backpalm his business cards.
The Prestige, however, used all real things (except for the final stunt obviously.) I loved how he would always backpalm his business cards.
The idea of using special effects for the magic in The Illusionist was to try and convey the memory and feeling many spectators get when they see an effect live--the way they might remember the effect, not necessarily how the effect may have really happened. So in some parts some classic effects were intentionally overexaggerated. Ricky Jay and Michael Weber were the magic consultants on the film, and a lot of thought went into just how to present the magic for the film. It definitely wasn't "Let's just throw some special effects up there." Edward Norton trained hard for the part, essentially becoming an amateur magician, and Jay and Weber of course did no slap job on their end. The way the magic was presented, in my opinion, was well researched and very intelligently done.
not much of a review though..
Havent you realized that when close up magic is caught on camera,the method almost always shows? Or it can be worked backward.
The effects were added to the movie because thats how our audiences remember the magic.A helluva lot more impossible than it really was.