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Yaniv Deautsch Special user Israel 529 Posts |
Can anybody recommend current literature or routines that deals with the Rashomon principle?
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McCritical Regular user 156 Posts |
Yaniv
There's an illusion where 3 spectators look at the same card, and when asked to reveal the card they saw, the spectators all name different cards. When the magician shows the card to the audience, it's the Joker. I can't recall the name of the effect though---maybe someone out there knows the name of the trick. Is this along the lines of what you're looking for? |
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Andy Leviss Inner circle NYC 1179 Posts |
I think Yaniv is referring to what's also known as double talk, often used in effects involving pre-show work, where the audience-at-large has a different perception of what's going on than the participant who's directly involved. Or am I completely mistaken?
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Yaniv Deautsch Special user Israel 529 Posts |
You could put this in many ways Andy.
more specifically it refers to a situation where spectator assuming that because one item of a group is his the others must belong to other spectators talking part. {quote from Mind Myth and Magick}. Yaniv Deautsch |
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Seance Elite user Talking on the other side with 427 Posts |
I think Eugene Burger's effect 'Ob-ser-vo' deals with this. I believe it's where the mage shows two groups of people the same cards, but the two groups can't agree on the makeup of the cards.
Kind of a neat effect. |
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sweetcarl Regular user Brussels, Belgium 120 Posts |
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On 2002-08-07 21:36, Yaniv Deautsch wrote: The 'Rashomon effect' is, I believe, mentioned in 'Theater of the Mind' by Barrie Richardson. I don't have the book in front of me, but I think I can give an example (my own, not his) of how he used the term: Grab a one-way forcing deck (say Queen of Spades). Tell spec 1 to cut the deck anywhere and to look at and remember the card he cut to. Repeat with spec 2 and spec 3. Magician then says: "I am going to name the 3 cards you thought of. Please sit down when you hear your card name." Magician then says: "Ace of Diamonds, Queen of Spades, Seven of Clubs". Naturally, all three 3 specs sit down because they heard their card named, but what they don't know is that they all saw the same card to start with. I believe that Barrie Richardson used the term when describing a similar effect based on Scrabble tiles. However, just to be on the safe side, I'll look in my copy of the book when I get home from work and let you know. By the way, someone please let me know if this kind of description is not appropriate for the board. As a relative newcomer, I'm still trying to make sure I don't make any commit any flameable offenses.... :0 |
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jerdunn Inner circle 1735 Posts |
Sweet Carl seems to be confusing the requested effect with the Tossed Out Deck by David Hoy.
The effect described by McCritical ("There's an illusion where 3 spectators look at the same card, and when asked to reveal the card they saw, the spectators all name different cards. When the magician shows the card to the audience, it's the Joker") is part of Harry Anderson's Shadow Card routine and is virtually self-working (if you buy the trick). Jerry |
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McCritical Regular user 156 Posts |
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On 2002-08-20 21:40, jerdunn wrote: Sweet Carl's reference to the "Tossed Out Deck" appears to be the sort of trick Yaniv was interested in. Yaniv was interested in the Rashomon principle as a method, rather than an effect. P.S. There's a commercial trick on the market that uses the Rashomon principle in a way that has stumped quite a few magicians...it's a fooler. EFFECT: a writing utensil and set of instructions are marketed as a gimmick-free effect (The writing utensil can actually be given away to the spectator without swapping it for an identical looking item). A number of people buy the trick. Some magicians discover they cannot perform the trick, while others claim that it only took a few hours to master and it works perfectly if "they follow the instructions". METHOD: Each of the magicians believe that they are following the SAME set of instruction, resulting in a lot of frustrating and confusing dialog. Actually, the instructions change with each batch of the product that goes to market. This is basically a "real-life" illustration of what Yaniv is suggesting (at least in how I presented it here) |
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Agathon Regular user 161 Posts |
Rashomon became a westernized term from the movie by the same name directed by Akira Kurosawa back in the early 50's. The movie is about a rape that takes place, but we the viewer, witness it through the eyes of the participants. Thus, I would think the actual meaning would be different spectators see and hear the same thing but interpret it differently. Great movie by the way, as most of Kurosawa's movies are.
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mysterium New user Baltimore, MD 100 Posts |
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METHOD: Each of the magicians believe that they are following the SAME set of instruction, resulting in a lot of frustrating and confusing dialog. Actually, the instructions change with each batch of the product that goes to market. So that's what happened!
Mysterium
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xersekis Special user 591 Posts |
I believe Bob Cassidy references and makes use of the Roshomon principle in some of the effects in his latest releases.
You may wish to check with Bob about this. Enjoy! Rex |
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Andy Leviss Inner circle NYC 1179 Posts |
Am I the only one seeing a bit of irony in the fact that we're having a discrepancy in what is actually being referred to when one uses the terms "Rashomon Principle"? :o)
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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
From the perspective of a general-purpose magician who only dabbles in mentalism, let me add that the first mention I have ever seen of the "Rashomon Principle" was the very specific and detailed analysis that Richard Kaufman used to describe that certain feature of much of Brother John Hamman's card magic. It's probably in "The Secrets of Bro. John" but it might be in that elegant little set of lecture notes that were sold separately.
That being the case, I would suggest the best source for tricks using the principle would be the Brother John Book. The best example would be "the Pinochle Trick" in which the maximum amount of changes are wrought from four ordinary cards. In it, you remove four cards from a normal deck. You then show the cards one at a time, and the audience sees two pairs of cards. The "Rashamon" part is that some people (assuming the cards just came from the deck and therefore cannot be duplicates)will see, say, the 6C, 7S, 6S, 7C. Others in the audience, being of a more critical bent, see two sets of exact dupicates: 6C, 7S, 6C, 7S. Others see other things. Now, this happens all the time. Bro. John's gift was the ability to manipulate and exploit it. His patter is especially well designed to be definite, yet vague, allowing enough room for each spectator to see what he expects to see. I know for a fact that once, when I performed "Pinochle Cards" the spectator swore he saw three different 7's. I had shown him the same 7S each time, but what he actually SAW was his business, and that's the insight Bro. John was trying to bring to all of us. So it is characteristic of the "Rashamon" principle that each spectator will experience the same situation uniquely. In that respect it is different from the examples given earlier, i.e. the tossed out deck and variations, in which the situation is misinterpreted by the audience, but the entire audience gets the same (albeit mistaken) impression. I believe the common name for the "tossed out deck" misscall is the "Smyth myth" ploy. Or maybe some of our more theoretical bretheren have found a common name for both?
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sweetcarl Regular user Brussels, Belgium 120 Posts |
I have just returned from a 2-week holiday and will now check Theater of the Mind to see if I can find the reference to the Rashomon principle. I may of course be mistaken about seeing it there, but I definitely saw it mentioned very recently so I will do my best to find the reference.
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sweetcarl Regular user Brussels, Belgium 120 Posts |
Well, I have so far been unable to find the alleged reference to the Rashomon principle in Theater of the Mind. It seems that -- quite ironically, as Andy pointed out earlier -- my perception of what I have read is at odds with reality.
Perhaps I saw it mentioned in Mind, Myth & Magick...? |
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liormanor Regular user Israel 114 Posts |
Hi sweetcarl
This is exactly what happenes to you... You are going through the Rashomon effect... Lior |
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sweetcarl Regular user Brussels, Belgium 120 Posts |
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On 2002-08-29 07:52, liormanor wrote: Tell me about it! Despite all this talk of the Rashomon principle, I have never actually seen the movie. Maybe I'll run down to my local video shop here and see if I can find it. |
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Vision Veteran user London 395 Posts |
I got home like five minutes ago from a friend, he owns all the Kurosawa movies, so I borrowed Rashomon
I just have to ask, what's the principle called when e.g. three spectators believe they all selected different cards and the mentalist tells them to sit down if they hear their card being mentioned. The mentalist names three different cards and the spectators sit down. What's that called?
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liormanor Regular user Israel 114 Posts |
Tossed deck
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Vision Veteran user London 395 Posts |
Tossed deck is the effect, but the principle? I've heard it referred to as the "hoyploy", don't know if that's right though.
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