Reacting to Real Magic in Hollywood Movies!!
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- čas přidán 2. 05. 2024
- Today we are reacting to the magic of Buster Keaton, Al Pacino in The Recruit, Kyle Gass in Saving Silverman, Supernatural, and Leslie Nelson in Airplane! Enjoy. Guest appearance by Alex.
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Wes Barker is a Canadian magician and comedian doing funny tricks, and telling great stories. Watch here for hilarious magic, stunts, and pranks. I am the funniest magician that is also a stand-up comic, or maybe I'm the comic who is best at magic. Either way you get the idea. I tour all over doing colleges, comedy clubs, and corporate events. Catch the adventures and tricks right here. With this magician / comedian based out of Vancouver and Toronto, Canada. I make funny stuff. That’s my only rule. Everything has to be funny, from street magic to stage illusions, as long as there is a joke to be made. I do magic tricks, sketches, stand-up comedy, card tricks, mind reading, and tricks with naked people. I’ve been on America’s Got Talent, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, MTV Greatest Party Stories Ever, and Wizard Wars. You can find me pulling pranks on friends, gags on strangers, or just general sleight of hand, magic, illusions, and the occasional bar bet. Wes Barker also hosts a podcast with Chris Ramsay called Bottom Of The Barrel. Go check it out! - Zábava
Buster Keaton is a G!! Love those videos bro 🔥🤘
Follow Alex everyone. He’s today’s amazing guest!
Alex was truly the stat of the show today!!!
Surprised he was awake to comment after the 24 hours of shuffling!
@@WesBarker waiting for subtitles
Did alex ever get that mr. Beast shout out during his 24 hour challenge ? If so where did beast shout him out....
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That whole episode of Supernatural is a great spoof of the magic industry 😂
Hahaha I agree! 😂
"Gonna polish my trophy" it's that what the kids are calling it these days. 😆
Awesome clips this week
Hahhahaa
You gotta watch Airplane. One of the best comedies ever! So many quotes and jokes are still alluded to in various other movies and shows.
It’s a classic!
For real though! We even watched this in my high school film class about 15 years because of well it's done and has aged.
I don't care if it's in no way related to the trick; I want every magician to just scream "Go back to Hell, Demon" from now on.
I had no idea Alex talked that much, ever. xD
Those are fun. I only vaguely recall the Supernatural episode... it was forever ago.
Hahahaha
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I've seen someone do the supernatural version of card through the window in an instagram story and it really couldn't have been a video cut... AND IT BOTHERS ME SO MUCH
Only need a 1 frame cut with two takes (one with cards one without)
@@kuromiLayfe true but I can see how it might be possible to do what alex said in the call, pivoting the the card behind the window like a door
About the card through window in Supernatural, as a filmmaker, I can tell you how they probably did it (though I don't know for sure), or maybe I should say, how I would have done it for that scene:
First, I would should a clean plate (without the card) from the approximate angle that the final shot would be shot from.
Then, I would shoot the scene with the card already there.
In post production, I would use simple 2D tracking, to match the slight handheld camera movement, and use the clean plate to mask the card out, until it needs to appear. The piece of cardless window from the clean plate shot is being used as a visual patch, to hide the card that's already there in the main shot.
If some of the cards thrown at the window intersect with the patch from the clean plate, there will be a bit of rotoscoping for a few frames, but due to the simple shape of cards and the very short time on the screen, such rotoscoping wouldn't create a major budgetary strain on a proper TV show like this.
This method can also explain why it shows up so suddenly.
Cheers!
We get it wes, You have a Fool Us trophy🤣
VERY WELL DISERVED BTW!
the way you stabbed that phone book with the sword ;)
You gotta watch Airplane! Kristen needs to do a spoof review of the crew. Please?
As someone who acted as a Magic Tech Advisor on many TV shows, I had to remember that my job was to give the producers and directors what they wanted, not promote specific magic methodology. I do remember times when I would specifically ask them if they needed it in one shot and working out the more advanced method to accomplish that, then see the final cut and it was edited many times that could have simplified the method greatly. The other VERY important thing is that it must work perfectly for EVERY take over and over which typically means not relying on the on camera talent to pull it off. I would frequently be laying on the ground just out of the shot making things work so the talent could just “act”. I also had a team of guys off camera resetting multiples of each gag so we would be ready to go for every retake. The last thing you wanted to hear was “Holding for the magic”! Yes, he Supernatural gag was probably a shot done in post. The card appears in less than one frame (1/30th of a second) and to get that card to land in the right place with a spring arm and then get it out of the shot is impossible. Much easier to shoot it with a locked off shot, add the card in post (as they did the foley sound of the hand squeezing on the glass) and then ad some digital movement to the shot afterwards. At one time that would have been expensive but not any more. It’s all about speed on the set, especially one trying to crank out that many pages every day!
Keep up the awesome content! Please review the magic done on the television show Columbo from 2 specific episodes. S5E5 Now You See Him and S8E1 Columbo goes to the guillotine. If you have time I'd watch both episodes in their entirety as there is both magic and deception throughout especially the second episode mentioned where Columbo outfoxes a mentalist posing as someone w ESP.
Supernatural is my favorite show ever!
I forgot the egg scene in "Airplane". That was an interesting one to see. Like the opposite of "The great escape".
When Buster Keaton Escapes by jumping through the persons brief case. It's been 100 years and I still have no idea how it was done.
One of the best days of my life. Airplane! was my suggestion a few weeks ago. Thanks for these videos Wes, they're awesome!
"using magic to look like a loser" sounds like something Chris would say to Wes
You should do a whole episode on Buster Keaton!!!
Airplane was released 02JUL80. The first time I saw it was as a child, on a Military sponsored flight from West Germany to the U.S. They also showed The Cannonball Run. Great memories.
The airplane! One was fantastic!! Keep em coming Wes ❤️
_Buster Keaton was fantastic and so ahead of his time with his tricks & stunts. There is however, an even better one....Stan Laurel & his thumb lighter in the film Way out west....you will absolutely love this, I promise. Copy/paste thus title in CZcams. Laurel and Hardy - Thumb lighter (Way out West 1937)_
I'm digging the call a friend portions in these now. Keep it up
5:33 okay, for those who are confused, its called the "David Blaine" balducci levitation TV editing or... whatever. 5:33, When he throws the cards towards the window, it is legit throwing cards at the window, using similar card to ceiling from the great Michael Ammar, except at 5:37, its called TV editing, 5:40, where now the card is placed behind the window.
You're the best! This kind of content makes magic fun again. Even in the new era of videos which can be watched frame by frame. It doesn't matter if you know how its done eventually, it matters if it suprised/tricked you on the first first time you saw it... Thats the fun, thats the magic.
The Supernatural trick was done using a greenscreen card. The card had a screen film in front of it and was attached to the window the entire time. It was edited in post during the reveal.
After going through the window magic trick, I think I know how they'd do that with VFX (or at least how I would originally approach it):
1) Record a plate of our magician shooting out cards, all except the important window card.
Now, without moving the camera and keeping the location in frame of the card ejection, we're going to film two plates (a background shot without the actors/important object).
2) Using a professional card thrower (if that guy already isn't), the thrower is going to throw the card, with adhesive on the back, at the window. It will be thrown clean enough (easy for a professional) to where basically everything except the card can be cut out and just the card flying is the only thing left of the plate (this isn't really a plate but the concept of shooting it is like a plate, lets move on).
3) Finally, we are shooting a true plate of literally the card being behind the glass with no actor in front.
What is beautiful about this shot is, that for a professional VFX artist, this is super easy on skill and time to pull off, as what needs to be doctored only needs to be less than a second of footage that is only at most 30FPS (and only a small portion of the screen: WHERE THE CARD FLIES). We are first going to combine steps two and three, using a quick meld/morph edit between them for the card to get behind the glass. Then, all we have to do put the actor's shot back in front and only cut out a hole in the shot to where the glass card can be seen. We should only have to rotoscope holes between a couple of the flying cards that will add up to like 10 frames at most, and for two to three frames, add some shade to the glass card because other cards were in front of it.
This is actually a super practical and easily managed visual to do. This is super reasonable to have a camera crew do, as they are literally just shooting like 10 extra seconds of film without having to steady on anybody (they can literally do it while a director is talking to actors). I feel confident that I could recreate this in a day. I'm sure a professional, which the show would hire, would do it in 30 minutes to an hour. THAT BEING SAID! If this was all practical, then big f'ing props dude and I honestly have no clue how it was done. I would like to hope it's practical.
Keep these videos up man! I love them!! 😄
Love these videos! So much fun to watch, made my day, my good sir!
These are great as always. Alex is always full of energy
Its wes time yahooooo🙃
I like this series, because as a magician as well, I kinda speculate on the same train of thought as you do.
On a youtube side of this, might I suggest screenshoting the comments you get for the suggestions, and show them on the screen? I think it would encourage more comments and suggestions, and in turn would help grow you channel and it helps the algorithm. Just a thought. Great video again as always
For the Supernatural trick, I think the most likely way they did it was they took a picture of the front of the window, then they taped the card in place and took another picture, and they filmed *almost* the entire shot. Then they put a green screen on the window (or part of it) and had the actor do the spray against that, so they could replace the green with the two stills as necessary.
Awesome video wes!
Looking forward to the next one!
"Buster Keaton is a F$&*ing Genius, and I don't use that word lightly" . . .Which word Wes? xD Edit: Awww, Alex!
lightly.
I love these types of videos. Keep them coming! Also, the movie WILLOW would be a fun one to do green screen. Thanks Wes!
The supernatural window trick is definitely a camera trick - my guess is they did the trick twice [or multiple takes until they had two that "fit"] - once without the card and once with the card - and then "blended" [overlapped] the video footage - because the card "just appears" between two frames .. the card doesn't "move" to the window - it just suddenly pops into view already in place .. it's also possible they had a locked camera shot of the window, either before or after the trick, shot the scene with the card in place and then did some post-production scene stitching / digital painting to hide the card until the reveal ..
Wes,
About the Devil Douche effect. If you review the gag, not only frame by frame, but in video slo-mo shuttle you will see the gimmick..inside the glass. First none of the TV audience saw the card force. Then the shuffle fly. The card spray is completely out of camera focus. This keeps TV viewers from seeing the cards faces or backs. They could have been blank cards for that matter. The stooges on set get to see the cards up close.
Then the revel. The D-Bags spray falls short in longevity. So there is an edit of a slow diagonal top/right to lower/ left wipe. The wipe included additional card distractions.
As the wipe is in motion the DEMON CARD flips up, face front, against the glass. But wait.....
How did the card appear on it's mark, in focus, behind the glass.
It's an old puppetry trick. Behind the glass is a thin, black painted, Bamboo stick. The card is affixed to the top of the stick. The card and stick are bent forward against the glass for the D.O.P. can perfect the shot. Also at the top of the throw the stick must have slight tension so as the card not flop around, The bamboo is bent in the opposite direction to the floor if needed. It is held by a prop guy below camera range.
The effect starts. Mumbo Jumbo. Cards fly. Prop guy releases the spring tight keycard. Snap like a fly swatter. Bam. The card is against the interior glass.
Take a closer look at the card suspended against the glass. In Frame Freeze. Coming down from the bottom center of the A of Spades you can glimpse the Black Bamboo crossing the black infilled shelf gap. But if you follow the slightly angled line you will see that same Black Bamboo as it crosses the Tan shelf and you will see the bamboo stick. Presto Chango.
~Jim
I fell in love with Buster Keaton movies a few month ago and in turn my kids did too!
Haha nice. Definitely watch everything Leslie Nelson's ever done, you're welcome.
Dope vid wes like always
Wes ur getting better at being on camera. Ur editing is getting better. Which is awesome cuz ur awesome. Keep up the great work my guy. Cheers
Th card through window trick is obviously a camera cut. Exactly when the card appears, the reflection in the window changes...
Also, awesome Jack Skellington mug, @Alex!
Wait, you don't have Airplane! memorized? How old am I compared to you? Great video!
It's amazing how there's a big f u on the trophy lol😂😂😂
always a pleasure to watch these with u.
Love Buster! Would love to see you react to Kohl and Co and/or Avner the Eccentric opening for The Flying Karamazov Bros version of Merchant of Venice...
What I love most about the trick in Airplane! is how he was overacting the hand moves. That's deliberately telegraphing "I'm doing a magic trick" to shatter the 4th wall.
The supernatural one the character doing the trick was supposed to be like an A-hole so that's why they had him be so extravagant
Serpent And The Rainbow!!!! Come one man there is some great sleight of hand in it. Gotta show it!
Yoo puzzel champ!! Great to see you again!
0:58 Clever editing! It's the little things.
bro where did you get that wallpaper? I love the look of it!
10:15 - 10:40 RIP audio
If you look at her mouth, she did give away the gimmick though.
CZcams recommended your videos to me and I cannot stop watching them! These are so great! I am pretty sure I am going to fail my last semester of law school... but if you want to teach me magic, I will take that as my career instead.
I love your passion for the process, and your ability to create your own, and I must say: You must be one heck of a Mentalist to have landed such a wonderful woman as Kristen...Congrats on all your EVERYTHING! ❤😁
Card thru window is ultimate card thru window. Which really looks like this.
That first trick definitely could be done with a jump cut in 1928.
You're the shit bro can't wait to see you gain some real traction! I'll stay tuned in!
That was great
Don't really remember The Whole Nine Yards...
But I'll never forget Amanda Peet in The Whole Nine Yards.
😂 yep.
Polywhirl is such an underrated Pokemon
The supernatural trick could be a simple chroma key. If you take a single image of the room behind the glass, then, since they camera is locked in place and nothing passes between the camera and window, you simple replace the tiny green screen with the room until the card appears at which point it is replaced by the card. The lack of size and interruption makes the effect really quite cheap (compared to most computer effects)
Wes you should start trying the tricks u watch that would be cool
My favorite TV show.
The Buster Keaton bit was from "Steamboat Bill Jr." -- the same movie where they dropped a wall on him. Keaton had been a performer in his family's act since he was three years old, originally in medicine shows but eventually vaudeville. They often crossed paths with Houdini, who is (probably apocryphally) credited with dubbing little Joseph Frank Keaton "Buster" when the toddler tumbled down a flight of stairs and got up unfazed. Keaton learned a lot of tricks travelling with stage performers.
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What if the card is inbetween the glass, I am aware of that stage magic trick where the card goes through a window in a frame and it shoots from the bottom into the middle of the glass and the glass is tighter from the middle to the top which and friction stops the card in the middle, not sure how fast the shooting would need to be in order to not catch it in another frame, but yeah, that's a way.
another great one :)
There is an actual episode of Perfect Stranger (episode 108 to be exact) where Balki (Bronson Pinchot) performs a magical stage act.
You should Collab with corridor crew and do magicians react to magic in movies!!
When you’re watching the card through window frame by frame. Notice there is a break between the springing the cards on the window... I think this was done by someone slapping the card on the window and there was a couple of frames edited out
For the super natural scene, I think It would be cheaper and easier for them to have the card erased and then appear at the perfect time.
Alex Boyer ..... pumpkin spiced latte on the ground 🎶 🎵
Hahaha
I suggested this earlier, but the shuffles in The sting by Paul Newman are cool (I know it's not really him but the edit is good)
i've said a few times, but u should check out "houdini" with tony curtis and his wife janet leigh! they do some practical, actual houdini tricks, including my favorite, the metamorphosis!
ALEX SPEAAAAKS!!!!!!!
For Buster Keaton they actually COULD do fancy camera bullshit back then (even if, in this clip, it's probably not the case).
Special effects would have been invented in 1896 by Georges Mélies who, moreover, was a magician before making movies. If you want for a future episode I highly recommend this clip of him (date from 1909) which skillfully mixes practical effects and camera tricks :
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Also, there is other magic tricks in Buster Keaton's filmography. There is two in Sherlock Jr (1924).
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First one is a quick change act that he use for escaping bad guys. We can see him prepare the trick at 32' and doing it at 34'21.
The second trick is at 35' and I honestly don't know how it was done but I think that's it's also a practical effect because Keaton didn't like to cheat with his effect.
One last film of Buster Keaton with several magic tricks, it's a sound movie called Mixed Magic (1936). Tricks start at 5'10
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It's funny how in this films he uses practical effects that he reveals after to make people laugh instead of George Melies who used camera effects but keept the secret for make people dream
still holding out for Shade to show up in one of these. There's so many moments of magic in that movie and so many magicians involved, it could be an entire video like Magic Camp was. Also, there's a brief moment in Rounders where Ed Norton is just released from jail and shows Matt Damon his card mechanic skills he's been working on by doing a false dealer's cut. Based on the DVD commentary, it was Stever Forte's hands they cut in
4:33 haha maths
I think for the supernatural card trick they filmed a clean plate (I.E. a shot without the actors in it) and in the scene itself with actors they had a greenscreen cutout of a playing card on it. This way you can either A. greenscreen it so it looks like a normal window or B put any card on there when needed.
The only problem is the movement of the camera., I wonder if they couldve pulled that off and im not too sure about that..
Lots of people know how easy it is to do all kinds of trickery when there is a stable camera. So, one of the best ways to fake these kind of basic camera tricks is to put in a fake wobble by zooming in slightly and panning it around.
It would be VERY easy to do with a locked off shot then add the movement in post. AfterEffects actually has one control to add random motion to the shot like this.
Hmm, I think the number of cards in that "clump" before the ace sticks is consistent with it actually happening rather than a camera edit, so maybe Alex is right? Or maybe there's a device, but it's in the bookshelf itself? Hard to tell the difference between something happening just inside the glass vs. just outside the glass, I think.
Love the movie Airplane!
Supernatural ♥
I miss to watch Supernatural 😭
Eric James came out with a dvd years ago that I'm 90% sure is the method for the supernatural clip.
I have a question Wes, while filming 'BTE' with the boys, did you have 'life insurance' policy? And if so, was it hard to get coverage knowing exactly what you would be exposing yourself to?
Or, were you covered by the production teams liability insurance? Just watched you explaining the 'Falling Wall' opening and the ACTUAL danger you were in is pretty god damn REAL 😲
No one is open enough to discuss things like this but I figured if anyone has the balls and is transparent with their audience it would be one of you guys 👌🏼
Mad props (no pun intended) for how open you boys are with exposing the 'magic' that happens in front, but mainly behind the camera... This kind of stuff is SUPER, super interesting to me.
Hope you are keeping well buddy? Would also love to hear how you adjusted back to day-to-day life after spendingthr best part of 100 days just chilling with some of your closest friends, making crazy routines and basically performing on a daily basis. I imagine it could be quite hard going back to reality... One day you're jumping through walls, surrounded by a cheerleading team on a sports field, crushing cars etc etc... Then back to sitting alone in your living room... Kinda just twizzling ya thumbs and sniffing your farts not knowing what to do 😂😂😂
Just wondering if you got hit with a depressive episode after it was all wrapped up? Just going on my own life experience, I would find this so hard to go back and adjust to normality! Either way, hope you have managed to deal with these emotions and have came out a better and mentally stronger guy.
Keep killing it my man! Your content brings a lot of entertainment and education to me and is seriously appreciated! 🙏🏼
They use the shot with the card not there to comp out the card in post to make it look like it’s not there. And then they just make it appear by removing the effect. It’s not too expensive. You can probably do it in less than a day
Bro wes I'm such a big fan
Could have done the supernatural trick with card stuck to outside of window and he just mimed rubbing the glass and they added the sound effect
Ben Stiller does a load of magic tricks to impress Attila the Hun in the first Night at the Museum movie. They're not very impressive, but they might be worth checking out to see if he really did them.
For your next Video you could do all of the magictricks in the musikvideo of abracadabra.
If you like Airplane then you should look into other Leslie Nielsen movies like Naked Gun. He starred in several very popular ones with that style of comedy. I don't remember if there is any magic in them, but maybe you'll get lucky.
Legend!! #bigtrickenergy 🤙🤘✌️
good vid
Hey, you're always making for magic stuff in movies and since it's Christmas I thought I'd offer one up but with a catch. Please, defend if you can, the magician who's intent on murdering Frosty the Snowman in that holiday classic.
No other artist can compare to Buster Keaton
Please do magic scenes from the netflix TV show "Dark"!
Any practical magic in "Practical Magic"?
Buster Keaton was a live action performer {vaudeville stage} long before he ever made his first film .. getting "hit" by his father and taking a hard fall to the stage when he was like 2 or 3 years old - then bouncing up and continuing on with the set .. some of his tricks are camera edits but most of them are real - they had to be convincing in front of a live audience .. he did his own stunts and got pretty badly hurt jumping off the train ..
I wouldn't be so fast with the "they couldn't do camera trick at that time"-thing... Ever heard of Georges Meliès ? Magician turned filmmaker...?
(Not saying Keaton's skits were not legit, nor most of Meliès...)
You should review the 58th episode of Columbo: now you see him. Tons of magic in it.
1:48 Kyle Gass
I think Wes needs to Stay-in-Place for a week, or more, to binge watch the magic related shows and movies he hasn't seen yet.