Now You See Me | David Kwong | Talks at Google
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- The magician behind "Now You See Me," David Kwong designed all the magic for the story and taught sleight of hand to the film's actors. He's Hollywood's premiere magic consultant, has written numerous NY Times crossword puzzles, and tours with Mumford & Sons. David will perform a power set of mindblowing, puzzle-based tricks and talk about his work as a magician, puzzler and producer in Hollywood.
About the Magician: David has uniquely combined his expertise in illusion and passion for film. A former member of the DreamWorks Animation story department, David developed "Now You See Me" with director Louis Leterrier.
David is perhaps Harvard University's only graduate to have studied the history of magic. - Zábava
Must have photographic memory, or something close. In an earlier trick he used a man's dollar bill and took the time to memorize the serial number. Now when he does the scrabble trick (telling the audience he plays a lot of scrabble) he took the time to make sure he could match the serial number with the 3 8-letter bingos. Remarkable, this man is brilliant.
Wow...he made puzzles and arithmetic entertaining. That's a trick in itself.
A plausible guess: He has pre-identified a bunch of 8 letter words (though not many I suspect, but certainly a handful are possible) which when tri-grouped, will sum up to the serial no. He has analyzed by probability how many hand grabs of scrabble pieces would be significant enough to provide for the needed words. Then by his remarkable wordcrafting skills, and some showmanship, he begins to form any 3 eight letter words while filling in the rest around them, which in itself is impressive enuf
Speechless! Holy cow....
"Now you see me" he probably already had a set prepared which he exchanged with the ones given by the people.
Excellent
The most amazing part is that Google has hired little 10 year olds. Now that's a older far eastern trick.
ok... tht was beast
how the heck'd he do that?!?! like... seriously.
It's basic shit guys. The bit of this trick that makes it "amazing" is the fact that he didn't know the pieces. If he knew the pieces, it would be obvious that he figured out all the words and numbers previously, and the whole three minutes of "figuring it out" is just a routine. It's amazing because he "didn't know". So - he did know. But we saw the audience select the tiles! Sleight of hand, guys. Literally the magicians most used tool.