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The short and psychedelic animated logo appeared and disappeared. In the seat, George's mood could not help but surging. The complex feelings mixed with anticipation and excitement made him a little restless, but his eyes remained on the screen, for fear of missing any details.

Nolan's films are one of the directors who feel the strongest sense of the picture. The "complexity" of the lens also makes people have to put in a lot of energy, otherwise it will be easy to not understand.

In other words, the director's style pays much attention to the layout of the film, and he likes to start from the details, but it makes people ignore the role.

This is very different from Lehman, the director of Firefly.

As an "amateur" film critic, George, who only contributes occasionally and has no column, has already noticed this director who seems to him to be very spiritual.

After the opening of the film, as soon as the film opened, there was a round of applause. A magician wearing a round hat and a tuxedo was performing magic on the stage.

His technique is very skillful, step by step to seduce the audience's interest, won everyone's applause.

At the backstage, an old magician told a little girl about his understanding of magic. He said that every performance can be divided into three steps, one is to show anything ordinary with a superb technique, one is to show the reality with the fictitious. A bird, a bunch of flowers, and no matter how the viewer checks or stares at it closely, it can only be true, even if it will be fake.

The second is to steal the day and change the day, use "normal" things, or guide the atmosphere, or use props to make a superficially compelling performance, but also make the audience unable to find the other key, even if they understand it in their hearts, but the eyes cannot. come out;

The last thing is to turn corruption into magic-theprestige, the title of the deadly magic.

Stage, magic, cheers.

Just when the audience thought that the plot would need to be guided, the well-known magician Anjie (Hugh Jackman) was performing a trick to escape from a difficult situation. He fell into the water tank under the stage, but because the lock of the water tank prop was replaced with a real lock. , Unable to escape and drowned alive.

All this was seen by Anjie’s opponent, another magician (Christian Bell), who became famous, because the entanglement between the two and his motivation behind the scene could not be explained clearly. The police were pushed to the court as the biggest suspect.

Although the evidence does not show that he killed Anjie, it does not exonerate him. After the trial, Burden was sent to prison.

It is said that because of his non-cooperation, he is likely to be sentenced to death to quell the magician death storm in full view.

In less than 10 minutes, a male lead died, and another male lead also faced death after the judicial trial. This really caught the audience off guard-it was too fast, just such a scene, "Wolverine" and " "Batman" is gone?

But this is just the beginning.

A gentleman came to the prison to visit Burden. He claimed to be working for a jazz who likes magic and wanted to buy the secret of Burden's famous work "Transformation". Don't let this great magic disappear from the world.

That's how it was said, but Burden was very stubborn.

The gentleman was very angry and threatened. After you die, your daughter will be sent to an orphanage or even become a child laborer. Do you want to see this result?

Burden disdainfully said with confidence that his assistant Fallon will take care of my daughter, and you don't need to worry about it.

But the gentleman reminded him, don’t forget, he is just your assistant, even if you have cooperated for many years, he is also an outsider, and he cannot get custody.

After speaking, the gentleman took out a note and gave it to Burden, saying it was a gift from Sir, and asked him to think about it.

After this person left, Burden opened the notebook and found that it was a set of anagrams, which was weird, and always felt that something was hidden...because of the "transformation" technique and The process is also a pattern of anagrams and symbols, in order to prevent being stolen, to crack his famous work, and to expose the answer...

Seeing this, the audience was even more confused.

Sir, Angel, Burden, what roles did these people play in this?

Also, who killed Anjie?

As a somewhat suspenseful film, "Fatal Magic" only used an opening transition to raise everyone's expectations.

Then, there was a flashback.

In fact, this film is a narrative mode that alternates between flashbacks and interspersed narratives. Compared with direct narratives, it seems to be more laborious. This is also one of the factors that affect the film's not very popular.

After all, watching this movie requires patience, but many people have lost patience in the complicated work and life. It is normal to spend an hour or two playing tricks like finding answers to mysteries. It is normal not to be liked...

Time, back to England in 1894.

In the theater, both Burden and Anjie are just new magicians who just debuted and are watching a performance by a veteran magician.

During the period, the two took the initiative to act as staff members, to find flaws for the audience at close range, and to help the magician to perform escape magic, binding a beautiful woman.

During the preparation process, An Jie secretly kissed the beautiful woman’s thigh. Later, she became An Jie’s wife.

After being tied up, witnessed by many audiences, the beauty hung in the air, and then fell into the water tank in the middle of the stage, the curtain was covered, and in a flash, the magician said a few guiding words to make the audience worry about the beauty Will not die, and then confidently gestured to Anjie to unveil the opening ceremony.

Sure enough, the performance was very successful, and the beauty stood on the stage again, except for her body soaked, without any damage.

The audience was surprised how it came out of the big water tank, and applauded in admiration.

Magic is like this. You know it's fake, but if you don't see it, you still feel very shocked.

The veteran magician took off his hat and greeted him and returned to the background in applause.

At this time, Anjie and Burden just talked and laughed with the magician. It turned out that in the performance just now, the two of them were a supporter, deliberately pretending to be passers-by in the audience. In fact, they knew how to cooperate with the magic.

After all, the water tank has a secret door that can be opened, but the method of being tied with a rope is also important. If it is tied into a dead knot, it can't escape, and this can't let the audience who don't understand it cooperate.

Afterwards, the group drank to celebrate the success of the performance.

But Burden said that there is nothing new in this way, and it will be seen through by the audience. When the time comes, the magic will naturally be abolished and it is still very embarrassing.

He believes that as magic performers, they should continue to innovate, rather than blindly perform these clichés.

Anjie and the old magician laughed at Borden and said that the principle of magic is deception. How to trick the audience into believing is the most important thing. Can you invent a magic that others can never see through or imitate?

Burden was not convinced, and vowed that he would be able to do it in the future.

Then, he proposed to improve the knot of escape magic and adopt a stronger Lan's knot, because in the performance just now, due to the mistake of the stage staff, the actress who was hanging in the air almost fell in advance.Too dangerous.

But the old magician warned him that the rope is strong, but it is also difficult to break free. What if an accident occurs in the water tank?Slipknot is still used.

Everyone paid no attention to this, except for Burden.

One day, Burden and Anjie went to observe another magician's performance. This one's unique skill is to transform large utensils, such as water tanks and teapots.

But Angel and Burden quickly discovered the secret of this magic.

But I know it, but it is very difficult to imitate.

Because the magician made a lot of sacrifices for the performance, setting himself up as a person with inconvenient legs and feet. Whether during or after the performance, he limped and walked to hide his generous costume. In between, preparations for hiding the props under the crotch...

In the prison, Burden couldn't help but laugh when he saw the notes that Sir had said about sacrificing magic. This reminded him of one thing.

Back then, as an assistant, he performed in a small theater, dressed as a nursery.

The magic is a magic in which a birdcage is covered with a cloth, then disappears, and then the birdcage reappears.

The technique is very simple, but the difficulty is to set off the atmosphere. After all, it can be done only by using props and space to hide, but how to win applause still requires a bit of discourse skills.