On YouTube there's a video of magician Criss Angel taking the old "sawing a woman in half" trick a step further. He actually pulls a woman in half, whereupon her upper half crawls away in horror while her legs remain behind wriggling. I, like many other people, have been trying to figure out how he does this trick. All I can conclude is that it's achieved by clever editing of the camera footage. (Which, if true, would make it less a magic trick than a special effect, but entertaining nonetheless.) My reasoning is that the (half of a) woman who crawls away at the end is probably not fake. She's likely a woman who, in real life, has no legs. But this cannot be the same woman who initially walks to the table and lies down on it. (No, I don't think she was using robotic legs, or anything like that.) They are two different women. Which means that at some point the camera must have been turned off, and the one woman replaced the other on the table. This also suggests that everyone in the crowd were actors. That's my theory. But I'm actually hoping it's wrong, because it would be cool if he could have done this without turning the camera off at some point. (Thanks to Captain DaFt for the link.) (And I could have sworn I once posted about another Criss Angel trick in which he crawled through a glass window pane, but for the life of me I can't find the post about this.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawing_a_woman_in_half
It explains how the trick was carried out.
The genius of Criss is how he constantly misdirects your attention. "I pick you. . ., Oh wait, you're not tall enough"
Notice that the skirt never rises and exposes the bottom person's head. That's clever tailoring and cleverly picking a woman who will protect another woman's modesty. Also note how the upper woman knows how to "walk" on her hands without using lower extremities. As if it were learned from a lifetime of living without them.
Cool stunt though!!
- P
Read the disucssion.Looks like the participants have nailed it.
A keen observation i made is => LOOK CLOSELY at the point when chris angel splits the women ..women upper half is being dragged away while lower remain unmoved, watch Chris angel's hand.
At the point when he hits the torso , the torso BOUNCES BACK !! .
When the torso is split , he still has his right hand on the lower torso , and IT BENDS WAY DOWN like a FIbre would do , unlike a human stomach.
Good enough to show the lower portion top was made of some sort of Cloth , fibre material ,which is squishy squashy !!
He has WHAT? I'm so SICK of American illiteracy. Every article I read, from blogs to CNN has a lazy writer, who doesn't proofread their own bs, makes assumptions about what they write (that everyone should just know what they are thinking, but never bother to explain what the f they are referring to). Sure enough, he HAS. WHO has? Who has WHAT? What the f are you TALKING about? Not that it matters, but it's just a clue about your IQ, and why you can't figure this trick out.
1.Yes, it's obviously a legless woman. We all KNOW this from looking at her and that it's the ONLY possible explanation.
2.No it's not the same woman who walked over to the bench. How would she balance on top of a contortionist with such a natural gait? It was a perfectly natural walk, and if it was a contortionist bent in half, where would her upper half be when she laid on the bench, for one, and two- when she laid back, the top lady would've falled backwards HARD. There would be no smooth way to lay back.
3. Knowing that 1 and 2 are obviously true, because it's the ONLY possible explanation (unless you believe magic is real), then we can use LOGIC to understand the rest. That..
4. YES, the camera gets turned off and a switch is made. The girl who sits down was thin and petite. The half woman is chubby with huge jugs. So knowing that the camera is turned off and a switch is made, we then know that..
5. The ENTIRE crowd is in on it, it is ALL scripted, pure fiction, and they are ALL actors. He did a second version of this trick where two people are switched and their legs are switched and they act all freaked out and you can clearly see that the womans feet in flipflos become huge, hairy man feet. Since it is not possible to rip humans in half and trade legs, we know that the camera is turned off, trickery, cheating, camera tricks, lying and acting is the only things involved in this "illusion". since the audience are screaming and freaking out, after they would HAVE to have seen what was going on, we know that they are ALL actors.
Simple logic and occams razor will get you far in life. The same goes with religion. I'm guessing that you are a DIE HARD Christian, RIGHT? I don't know you, but using the SAME logic that i used to figure out this trick, i am able to deduce that you are religious. That is because Christians are gullible and have very low IQs, making them believe EVERYTHING they see, without question. When you open your eyes and research the bs that you believe, you'll see that there was no "ark' or flood, nobody split the red sea, they didn't live to 800 years old, and that somebody lied to you and you believed it.