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David Blaine Freaks Out Harrison Ford (1 Viewer)

I've dabbled in magic. Ford is shown the cards as Blaine riffles the deck face up and asked to pick one in his mind. The 9 of hearts is suggested via a slight pause in the riffle. it will stand out in Ford's mind because of this small glitch or pause by Blaine. Also people tend to choose hearts or spades and tend to choose odd cards over even, so that makes the suggestion even more powerful. The card in the fruit has been planted beforehand along with a few cards in other pieces of fruit. Blaine gets Ford to pick that piece of fruit with how the fruit is positioned and the way he points to it and there are other strategically placed pieces of fruit with the same card inside. Ford is stoned (not drunk) which helps immensity. If the trick doesn't work they just won't show it on tv. It probably didn't work in most if not all of the other homes he was in for that special. If you went to 52 of your friends homes with a camera crew and did the same thing, odds are you'd hit it one time. That is what you show on tv and you'll look like a miracle worker. Blaine's chances of pulling it off are much better than 1 in 52, probably closer to 1 in 10.

 
^he asked Harrison to think of a card before he showed him the deck and told him the card would be missing from the deck and then he looked through the deck.

 
Willie Neslon said:
I've dabbled in magic. Ford is shown the cards as Blaine riffles the deck face up and asked to pick one in his mind. The 9 of hearts is suggested via a slight pause in the riffle. it will stand out in Ford's mind because of this small glitch or pause by Blaine. Also people tend to choose hearts or spades and tend to choose odd cards over even, so that makes the suggestion even more powerful. The card in the fruit has been planted beforehand along with a few cards in other pieces of fruit. Blaine gets Ford to pick that piece of fruit with how the fruit is positioned and the way he points to it and there are other strategically placed pieces of fruit with the same card inside. Ford is stoned (not drunk) which helps immensity. If the trick doesn't work they just won't show it on tv. It probably didn't work in most if not all of the other homes he was in for that special. If you went to 52 of your friends homes with a camera crew and did the same thing, odds are you'd hit it one time. That is what you show on tv and you'll look like a miracle worker. Blaine's chances of pulling it off are much better than 1 in 52, probably closer to 1 in 10.
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If you knew how filming works, you'd understand that there is probably .0000001% chance that they filmed at 52 separate celebrity homes to "get it right." Now, maybe HF was in on it, but I assure you that filming at multiple locations to get one trick filmed is not what happened.

 
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shadyridr said:
^he asked Harrison to think of a card before he showed him the deck and told him the card would be missing from the deck and then he looked through the deck.
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We don't know what happened in the seconds before the video started when he asked the question.

 
Bucky86 said:
Willie Neslon said:
I've dabbled in magic. Ford is shown the cards as Blaine riffles the deck face up and asked to pick one in his mind. The 9 of hearts is suggested via a slight pause in the riffle. it will stand out in Ford's mind because of this small glitch or pause by Blaine. Also people tend to choose hearts or spades and tend to choose odd cards over even, so that makes the suggestion even more powerful. The card in the fruit has been planted beforehand along with a few cards in other pieces of fruit. Blaine gets Ford to pick that piece of fruit with how the fruit is positioned and the way he points to it and there are other strategically placed pieces of fruit with the same card inside. Ford is stoned (not drunk) which helps immensity. If the trick doesn't work they just won't show it on tv. It probably didn't work in most if not all of the other homes he was in for that special. If you went to 52 of your friends homes with a camera crew and did the same thing, odds are you'd hit it one time. That is what you show on tv and you'll look like a miracle worker. Blaine's chances of pulling it off are much better than 1 in 52, probably closer to 1 in 10.
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If you knew how filming works, you'd understand that there is probably .0000001% chance that they filmed at 52 separate celebrity homes to "get it right." Now, maybe HF was in on it, but I assure you that filming at multiple locations to get one trick filmed is not what happened.
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That's how all of Blaine's specials work. They only show the hits. Put 20 hits in a row in an hour special and he looks like a God. I didn't say they filmed at 52 celebrity homes, i said you could do a card trick like this and odds say you'd be right 1 out of 52 times. Has he ever performed all of his tricks he shows on tv in a nightly show with a live audience? There is a reason why he generated backlash amongst many established magicians. I much prefer the great Ricky Jay. Now that is talent.

 
You're saying that the filming for something like this would be time consuming and require an extensive set up. I think it'd be less exhaustive for a show like this than you think it would (Ford is not going to allow for something massively invasive into his home either) but for argument sake i'll agree and say it'd be a big undertaking. Do you think if a lot went into the set up that all they would plan to film would be this one trick? No, they'd film a bunch of stuff they could possibly use for the special. Now for this special they filmed in other celebrity homes as well. Do you think that Ford's house was the only place that Blaine attempted this trick? With all that you say goes into filming they would likely film this trick multiple (if not all) places so they could be sure they had stuff to use for the special. So if they filmed multiple tricks at Ford's house, why did they show only that one trick? And if Blaine tried to pull that trick off in multiple locations, why was Ford's house the only place where they showed that trick? If he pulled it off every time wouldn't they show that or at least release video showing his amazing and uncanny prowess? They don't show that video of him pulling it off over and over because it doesn't exist. Fact is he wouldn't and couldn't pull that trick off night after night in front of a live audience because he's miss much more often than he'd hit.
 
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