Three stages of magic

Mark · 09-27-2011, 07:36 PM

There are many effects the 'Prestige' doesn't apply to, at least not in the way as explained in the movie.

For instance, whenever I perform 'The Flash', the best reactions I could possibly get is if I don't do any 'Prestige', simply because a 'Prestige' would turn a jaw-dropping reaction into a theory about how and where I hid the object in question. So it definitely doesn't apply to every piece of magic. At least.. according to the movie.

But.. this is where the 'Prestige' is often misunderstood (I actually wrote about this in my 'L-RoMA' so I will try to sum up what I wrote in there): the 'Prestige' doesn't just apply to vanishes, transpos and such. Much more often, it is just the phase in which everything makes sense again, after the 'Pledge' (in which everything made sense to begin with) and the 'Turn' (in which something extraordinary happened). It leaves everything just normal, ordinary, just they way it was or the way it should have been, no more funny business going on.

That being said, the three phases are extremely important and valid for every piece of magic. But yeah, the way it is described in the movie is incomplete (however, it is complete for the main effects that were performed in the movie). Without any of the three phases there just is no such thing as magic though.

09-27-2011, 07:36 PM	#2
Mark Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 935	There are many effects the 'Prestige' doesn't apply to, at least not in the way as explained in the movie. For instance, whenever I perform 'The Flash', the best reactions I could possibly get is if I don't do any 'Prestige', simply because a 'Prestige' would turn a jaw-dropping reaction into a theory about how and where I hid the object in question. So it definitely doesn't apply to every piece of magic. At least.. according to the movie. But.. this is where the 'Prestige' is often misunderstood (I actually wrote about this in my 'L-RoMA' so I will try to sum up what I wrote in there): the 'Prestige' doesn't just apply to vanishes, transpos and such. Much more often, it is just the phase in which everything makes sense again, after the 'Pledge' (in which everything made sense to begin with) and the 'Turn' (in which something extraordinary happened). It leaves everything just normal, ordinary, just they way it was or the way it should have been, no more funny business going on. That being said, the three phases are extremely important and valid for every piece of magic. But yeah, the way it is described in the movie is incomplete (however, it is complete for the main effects that were performed in the movie). Without any of the three phases there just is no such thing as magic though.