You are watching watchmojo.com. My name is Jason and I am a professional illusionist and I am your host right now explaining you the art of magic.
The art of magic in the past thirty years has really developed quite a bit. In 1979, we have David Copperfield who started the mega illusions, the big illusions, bringing back the Vodville Era, Harry Houdini style magic but it bigger with newer technology and making the statue of liberty vanished and making an airplane disappear, sawing a woman in half but in a new way right down the center.
So we have this, new idea of magic, this new concept of magic and the art of magic. David Blaine comes-in in the picture and we have him here in the past couple of years ‘wowing’ people on the streets with new technology. We have the camera reaching the masses, doing card tricks, card tricks that are very, very old, but right now, he is doing it with new technology and bring it to the masses.
If he is saying, “You know what, you do not have to be a millionaire to watch his show on the theater, you can come and watch me, I am on the street and I am free. So I think it is a good idea. It is bringing back people to the idea of magic. And it is getting more intrigue and you see the intrigue carry on with Chris Angel.
Chris Angel had actually developed a whole new idea of David Copperfield and David Blaine. He is a mind freak, he does everything using ESP, mentalism, and I think personally, he really encompasses both spectrums right there, but again he is doing it live. He is doing it reality TV magic. It is still good, it is fabulous.
I like it because he does do bigger effects a well right Harry Houdini, the escape stunts and the levitations, just as David Blaine as well. So that is my take on the last 30 years of magic.
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