Does anyone know how this trick is done?

I think it is a little person on top of some fake legs that they can control and that the feet of the little person fits into when placed on top of them, just an idea????????? neat trick
 
Only guy I know who might have the answer is Joe Porper, of Creative Inventions. He is a master magician also. Joe invented many magic tricks that are used by magicians the world over.
 
MY guess

Just a wild guess, I truly do not know. Perhaps it is two contortionist, one atop the other. I notice the top of the bottom half has a green 'cap' so I guess that could be used to hook the two folks together. The top half has a very large 'chest' area where the legs of that person could be tucked. The bottom half has a large "waist" where that person could be folded up.
 
looks like 2 midgets. The top half is sitting indian style and the legs on the other side is another one. The legs on the left dont look normal.

Also when he puts them back together and sits them up it was more like a direction so they knew what to do. the way he kicked his legs at the end also looked like 2 separate people.
 
There's no blood when the chainsaw cuts him in half. Chainsaws make a lot of blood when you cut them up.
 
Not sure how its done, but I wouldnt want to play the person(s) that got cut in half any pool....they would never have a problem keeping one foot on the ground....there ya go, now its pool related :p

Southpaw
 
I have done close up magic for 20 years, but I have never really studied stage illusions. It is a great trick. The fun in magic is the suspension of disbelief. Enjoy the magic.
 
fan-tum said:
There's 2 black guys-one's a bilateral amputee. The switch is done perfectly-I didn't notice(of course).
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Yep. The surgical mask helps conceal the fact that they don't look alike, other than skin color. Here's what I can piece together:

Before the "cut in half", the black guy is actually two men: one with a normal body, who is bent over at the waist with the top half of his body hidden inside the table, and one who has only torso, head, and arms (I've seen people like this as the subject of TV documentaries before, so apparently they exist), who is sitting on the lower back of the bent-over guy.

The "cut" happens, and the torso-guy hops forward onto the table. He can be moved around and lifted up as much as they need, because what you're seeing is really his entire body. Guy who's bent over and hidden in the table can moves his legs to prove they're not fake.

Then comes the part you don't really get to see because of the way the video's edited. They move the torso guy forward onto the lower table, and somehow get the guy with the full body laying behind him so you can still only see the legs. I can't guess how they did this without it being obvious, because this video doesn't really show it.

Then they flip the torso guy back onto his back, or so it appears. It's surely no coincidence that there are two of them standing right over him to do this, and that the large magician is standing in front of the action so you don't see what's going on very well. This is where they somehow (again, can't guess how due to the video editing) conceal the torso guy so he can get off stage unnoticed. Then we're left with a guy with a normal body laying there on his back, waiting to be "stapled" together and prestige it up.

At least that's how I'd do it.

-Andrew
 
agreed... guy with only top half of body.

they put the camera on the spectators long enough to switch.
 
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Did you notice the legs part doesnt have any buttcheeks? Look closer it's like flat, no butt. Wierd.
 
how it was done

Cutting him in half was easy if they were using a good high revving saw like a Stihl or Husky, I'd like to get my hands on that stapler though!

Hu
 
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