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How is the magic of walking through walls done?

There are two types of floating in the air. Stage magic and video magic.

Levitating stage magic is not difficult and can be easily achieved by relying on a dark stage background and suspended props. There are two main types of suspension. One is vertical suspension, which is the wire commonly used in film and television stunts. The other is the ancient Indian rope method, which is to make the rope into a V shape, with the actor at the bottom and two assistants pulling hard on the two tops to make the person fly. Since the color of the prop rope is consistent with the stage background, it cannot be detected at all. Most of these magic techniques come from India, using a black stage background and black props, so they are collectively called "black magic".

As for video magic like Chris Angel, two magic weapons are needed: stunts and extras.

Chris Angel's magic is nominally street magic, but it's actually nothing like that. His performance is a collection of so-called "full support" magic and video magic. In other words, everyone on the scene is a "support", and the magic can only be watched on TV, and it will be a fool if you watch it live.

A typical example of this kind of magic is "bending spoons with telekinesis". It is really magical when you see it on TV, but if you are there at the scene, you will find that there are things below that cannot be captured by the camera. A blowtorch is spitting out heat invisible to the television, and of course the lead spoon bends. The audience at the scene could clearly see the blowtorch, but they had expressions of surprise and shock, so there was no doubt that they were "trustees".

However, there is no need to worry too much about this. Chris Angel's TV magic is a form of magic performance that has become popular recently. This form is slowly becoming popular in mainland China, and it includes special effects technology and editing technology. In other words, there are a lot of things you don't see on TV that silently support this magician's performance on the TV show. Magicians, to put it bluntly, are just actors who practice tricks that ordinary people won't see. There are many aspects to these techniques.

But this does not affect Chris's achievements as a magician, nor can it reduce the entertainment experience and aesthetic feeling we get when watching magic performances. On some level, all magic is fake. The important thing is that we break the rules of our senses and witness the miracle.