The other night, I sat down with my girlfriend and we viewed "The Prestige" with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. For those who don't know, this movie is all about magic tricks and how conjurers - at least the ones in the movie - would stoop to any lows in order to discover the other's secrets. They wanted to be the ideal magicians, which is something that I'm sure all others in this line of work strive to be. How much more remarkable would their acts be if kettlebells were used?
One of the most heavily featured tricks in the movie is the water tank escape, which has one person bound by the arms and legs as they attempt to free themselves from the aquatic cubicle. I'd have to imagine that such a stunt would be made only even more interesting with kettlebells. Adding an extra amount of weight would only make things tenser. In addition, the weight could bind to the person's arms, meaning that they'd have to maneuver in different ways in order to escape. The effortless use of such weights is something that fitness like authorities like Lorna can attest to.
One other trick that should be mentioned is the Chinese linking rings. These rings are attached to one another and the task is to free them from the binds which keep them together. There is a true method behind it, though who's to say that the trick could not apply to kettlebells as well? Along with the right amount of illusion, there is also the smartest of motions to take into account, which only serve to help make this trick come to fruition and, thereby, wow the viewing audience.
There is also one other strategy shown in the cinema that I thought was both dazzling and suspenseful. Alfred Borden, who is Bale's fictional character, makes use of the bullet catch trick. The trick goes like this: the bullet is put into the gun but it never reaches the point where firing it off would be terminal, or even painful. Delusion is also used in order to mimic the sound and appearance of a gun going off so that the viewing audience is left impressed. It's a trick that only smart magicians can pull off.
As someone who was only a little interested in magic at first, "The Prestige" definitely opened my eyes to a world that I knew very little about. Not only did I learn about the secrets of these tricks - at least to some degree - but I saw just how zealous these people can become when it comes to their own work. Sometimes they can downright vicious, which is something that I suppose goes for any job where the public eye is present. I still have faith that these free weights could come into play.
One of the most heavily featured tricks in the movie is the water tank escape, which has one person bound by the arms and legs as they attempt to free themselves from the aquatic cubicle. I'd have to imagine that such a stunt would be made only even more interesting with kettlebells. Adding an extra amount of weight would only make things tenser. In addition, the weight could bind to the person's arms, meaning that they'd have to maneuver in different ways in order to escape. The effortless use of such weights is something that fitness like authorities like Lorna can attest to.
One other trick that should be mentioned is the Chinese linking rings. These rings are attached to one another and the task is to free them from the binds which keep them together. There is a true method behind it, though who's to say that the trick could not apply to kettlebells as well? Along with the right amount of illusion, there is also the smartest of motions to take into account, which only serve to help make this trick come to fruition and, thereby, wow the viewing audience.
There is also one other strategy shown in the cinema that I thought was both dazzling and suspenseful. Alfred Borden, who is Bale's fictional character, makes use of the bullet catch trick. The trick goes like this: the bullet is put into the gun but it never reaches the point where firing it off would be terminal, or even painful. Delusion is also used in order to mimic the sound and appearance of a gun going off so that the viewing audience is left impressed. It's a trick that only smart magicians can pull off.
As someone who was only a little interested in magic at first, "The Prestige" definitely opened my eyes to a world that I knew very little about. Not only did I learn about the secrets of these tricks - at least to some degree - but I saw just how zealous these people can become when it comes to their own work. Sometimes they can downright vicious, which is something that I suppose goes for any job where the public eye is present. I still have faith that these free weights could come into play.
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