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Spot the difference a good story makes

Spot the difference a good story makes

I recently watched the L&L World's Greatest Magic Wild Card DVD on which a selection of the best magicians each show their version of the effect created by Peter Kane.

The first magician shown is Steve Dacri, who is no slouch in close-up, and he does a very good job of performing Wild Card with a nice presentation and story. I would happily perform this trick as Steve does, he certainly gets a good reaction from the audience with plenty of gasps at every turn of every card.

However next is Tommy Wonder. Right off the bat he has hooked the crowd with an audible interruption to his act and they bite the bait like hungry wolves. For the rest of the routine he is slowly reeling them in with every twist, turn, surprise and laugh, until they give ten times the applause the good Steve Dacri received.

The trick is the same, the presentation (thanks to Flip) and the performance is in another world.

That is the great thing about magic, it really isn't what you do but how you do it. I suspect the crowd wouldn't even recognise the effects as being the same. Tommy Wonder demonstrates how there are no boundaries and that little extras added to something simple can make it so much more.

In a world where we are thrown more magic temptation than ever before it is too easy to stop when we believe a trick has been learnt. We should stop when we have learnt how good the trick can be. That may be never, as the trick is never the limitation, you are!

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