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Are audiences becoming more sophisticated?

  • 04-04-2008 10:02am
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    Registered Users Posts: 17,398 ✭✭✭✭


    The reason I ask is because despite the complexity of some card tricks (pick a card, any card) I always view them as 'kiddie' magic, something to amuse the kids when it's wet outside.

    I think this is because we're increasingly used to seeing 'street-magic' and large-scale illusions on TV. Exposure may be dulling my senses?

    I am still impressed by spoon-bending :o and tricks like this one:




    So for the experts amongst us, have you found audiences becoming more 'immune' to some types of tricks over the years or do different audiences find different tricks more entertaining/wondorous than others?


Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    No way. If you present anything right, even something found in a cheap magic book from the bargain bin of the news agents, you can blow people away!


  • Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭bigslick


    Well i believe that some audiences are becoming more sophisticated than others. For example i have found americans seem to be more blown away by my tricks than irish or english ppl.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    It's not really that. Irish people are more inclined to be quiet and think "WOW" than Americians who tend to be more vocal about it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭bigslick


    Yeah could be that. However i do think that people in society as a whole have more accepted magic into their culture, so when ya say you wanna see a trick they kinda know what to expect if ya get me


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,178 ✭✭✭dionsiseire


    Well i think Card magic has become cliché

    that said its all i tend to do, but i can still blow people away with a few tricks that just have a strong presentation with them, especially if it catches people off, if bigslick is who i think he is, he'll know a move dubbed "the grafton street move" i regularly do this when people are un-impressed having seen one or two simple tricks

    if done right, it ABSOLUTELY blows them away, also there are certain tricks i pick to do purely based on the patter i can use with certain tricks, i find a lot of jay sankeys tricks to be open to a changable patter that can draw the crowd into the trick and the person you are using even further into the trick


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