Recently, I watched a television show on AXN. The show title was : Breaking the magician's code, magic's biggest secrets revealed. In this show, it showcases the many television magic tricks that magicians have famously performed over the years. From the trick where the magician slices himself into half, to the classical magic trick of disarmament. My first reaction to the show was, oh man, I am finally going to know how they did it, but another side of me wanted to look away. The reason, read on to find out.
The other side of me wanted to look away as I was thinking, the magician who originally performed this trick had spent days, maybe even months, coming up with the trick and perfecting it. All with the thought of impressing, and achieving. With this show, not only that magicians cannot perform the trick again, they have also lost their creations and ideas to these people. Think about it, if you finish a project worth a very high A1, and someone steals the thumb drive it is stored in, and presents it off as their own. How would you feel then? However, this show would bring in lots of revenue, not for the magician, but for the producers of the show.
Another point, the magician will never be able to perform the magic trick again as people already know which are the areas that give out the whole trick. Thus, the magicians have to come out with new tricks, only for them to be exploited again. This point can be displayed elaborately in the following scenario: One day, you finally invent the washing machine that irons the clothes automatically after they are washed. Your assistant steals the plans and applies for copyright of the product. You now, can no longer claim to have invented the product, and can never be able to use it without payment. This is just like what the magicians are going through now. They invent the trick, the producer of the show exploits it, turns it useless, and leaves the magician thinking for another trick to truly amaze.
Over all, I still think that the show is quite interesting though I have forty percent of my conscience screaming for me to change channel. Thus, I will only recommend for you to watch it if you really are desperate to know how the trick is done, if not, keep figuring out how the trick is being carried out, and continue to be amazed, that would make a magician most happy.
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ReplyDeleteHi Jun Mun,
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said. By showing how the magic tricks are done, there will not be an element of surprise anymore. It is really quite unfair for these people to show others how the magic trick is done. If this is shown, the efforts of the person who invented the magic trick will all go down the drain. However, on the other hand, they just want to show how the magic trick is done and to teach people who also want to be magicians but just cannot find out how to do the magnificent and incredible magic tricks. This show is suitable for these people. But, for those people who want to figure out how to do the magic tricks by themselves, they should not watch this show as it would be too easy for them and will not get the sense of satisfaction they desire. For me, I love watching people do magic tricks. Whenever there are people doing magic tricks either live or on television, I will definitely go and watch it. It would be so fascinating. However, if I watched the show you just did a review on, it would not be so surprising anymore as I know how the magic tricks are done. I could just do them by myself instead of watching people do them.
Dexter.
Hi Jun Mun,
ReplyDeleteperhaps you could look at it from another perspective, once the magic tricks are exposed, the magicians would then have to come up with new tricks, this would be better because we would be able to enjoy new magis tricks rather then the same ones over and over again.The magicians would probably also rack their brains to come up with "invincible magic tricks" (tricks that are tough to decode), wouldn't that be great? Besides, it is not the fault of the producer of the show but in fact, is the fault of the magicians, they cannot blame someone for decoding their magic tricks.they should continue creating tricks, because nobody would watch the tricks if it is being done over and over again,thus , if the magicians look at it positively ,the tv show would become an inspiration to them and spur them on.