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- [Narrator] Illusion, the art of tricking the brain,
distorting the senses, challenging perception.
You can't trust what you see even with your own eyes.
Meet the Masters of Illusion.
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- Are you ready for a night
of nonstop thrills and surprises?
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Perfect.
I'm Dean Cain, and welcome to "Masters of Illusion."
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Now, what makes magic so compelling
is its ability to create a sense of mystery and intrigue.
Our magicians use their skills to create illusions
that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Get ready for a night of mystery and magic that
you will never - Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean
- Forget, Anna DeGuzman, ladies and gentlemen, okay.
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Anna, oh, you turned that into that.
Yeah, but it's just burning.
- Oh, yeah!
Did it, did I get your eyebrows?
- No, they're, they're, they're bushy,
but they're good now. (audience laughs)
- Oh they're good.
No, they, they look great.
Can I try something with you?
- Yeah.
Use my hands. - Use your hands.
They're big and strong.
Perfect for this. - That's right.
I have a $1 bill and a $20 bill.
Okay, can you hold out both of your hands?
- [Dean] Hold 'em both out?
- I'm gonna place the bills in your hand.
Close your hand tightly.
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Now I'm gonna reach in, grab one.
Oh! (upbeat music)
Kind of sweaty, am I making you nervous?
- Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous.
(audience laughs) - Okay, I got one.
Ah, okay.
I got the $1 bill, which I, I was gonna say
whichever one I don't get, you get to keep.
- I get to keep the 20?
- Yeah, but watch, I can easily...
One, two, three.
Now if I have the 20, what's in your hands?
- Another 20? (audience laughs)
A one dollar bill. (upbeat music)
- Souvenir, you get to keep that, Dean.
That's for you.
- I'll take it. (audience applauds)
It's better than nothing.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Anna DeGuzman, ladies and gentlemen.
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This performer has been hailed
as one of the most innovative magicians of our time.
He creates fascinating illusions
that will leave you wondering how he did it.
Please give a warm welcome to Christian Mascia.
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He has been wowing audiences for years
with his incredible feats of magic.
He really, truly has got it all.
Please, let's give a warm welcome to Joel Meyers.
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- What's up?
What's going on?
Thank you very much.
Okay, so in order for this to work,
I want to try and create
two impossible moments with you guys.
In order for this to work,
I need to borrow somebody, maybe somebody in the front.
Let's see who we got down here.
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Hi, how are you? What's your name?
- Nicole.
- Nicole, big hand for Nicole, everybody, come on.
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Come on Nicole.
Come on over.
So Nicole, we're gonna do the first one
with a deck of cards.
Okay, deck of playing cards.
You play cards, Nicole?
- I do.
- Perfect, check it out.
Brand new pack cards.
Nicole, I'm gonna give these little shuffle a little mix.
We're gonna show the camera nice and slow.
You see every single card is totally different.
Nicole, you can see they're all totally different.
They come that way so I can tell 'em apart.
High five.
(hands slap)
Hand hug.
Okay, awkward.
Okay, cool. (audience laughs)
We're gonna take a card out, okay.
So I'm gonna do this really slow.
Maybe like this here,
we'll mix these up a little bit.
I'm gonna spread 'em out like this.
You take out any card you want, it's totally up to you.
Go ahead, Nicole.
Take one out.
Good.
Yeah, look at it, show it to the camera.
Make sure everybody else sees it
and knows what it is, Nicole,
you look at it too.
You got it, Nicole?
Awesome sauce.
Here's the plan.
First, we're gonna use the magic marker here, okay?
We're gonna get a closeup shot on the marker here.
Okay, now Nicole, I want you to notice
what the logo looks like on both sides.
Can you see that? - [Nicole] Yes.
- Logo on both sides.
On both sides.
Check it out.
I'm gonna do this really slow.
Imagine your card here where the logo is,
Nicole, and watch what happens.
Do you see it kinda morph like that?
Nicole, can you see that?
We'll get a tight shot on that.
You see that?
You see that, Nicole?
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Show the camera right here.
Do you see that? (audience applauds)
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Nicole, we're gonna slow this down, okay?
Because you haven't blinked once.
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Nicole, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna take the pen.
Do me a favor, sign your name, nice and big,
name, social security number would be great.
It's just a joke. (audience laughs)
Just your social, your name, Nicole, your name.
You're good, nice and big on the face.
- [Nicole] Anywhere? - Yeah, anywhere you want.
Nice and big, cool, you got it.
Sweet, so now, Nicole.
Now no matter what happens with this card
we know it's the same one that we started
with from the beginning.
So I got a plan. (upbeat music)
Nicole, do me a favor, place,
just take your hand, place it out, palm up just like this.
Awesome, cool here's what's gonna happen.
We're gonna take the card that you picked.
You're the six clubs.
I'll do this nice and slow,
from the top in the middle, just like this.
And I'll show you it really is in the middle.
You see the five of clubs there on top?
Watch the five goes from the top into your hand.
Put your other hand on top of it, Nicole, so I can't get it.
Perfect, five of clubs there.
Watch the king of hearts.
Here's where it gets really weird.
If I take the king and I just pull, see now I got the five.
Did you see that?
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Nicole, check it out.
Look in your hand now. (taps cards)
Did you see it go, Nicole? (upbeat music)
Just like that.
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Nicole, I told you we're gonna create
a couple of really crazy moments together.
This is the craziest moment. (upbeat music)
Okay, you ready for this?
Because she like doesn't trust me at all.
She's like, eyeing me up and down.
This is good. (audience laughs)
Watch the six of clubs, Nicole.
Watch if I take the card
and I give it a little bit of a shake like this,
you'll actually see it disappear completely.
Did you see the six vanish completely?
It's gone.
It's no longer in the pack.
The crazy thing is I could show you
each and every card here, Nicole,
I can show you that six is not here anymore.
It's completely vanished.
Every single card, the six is not there, Nicole.
Right down to the last one,
'cause what happens, Nicole, is the card disappears.
It vibrates around the room,
and it lands inside of your left pocket,
Nicole, check it out.
The signed card inside here, is it there?
Is it there?
That would've been cool.
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Doesn't stop there, it keeps going.
Nicole, check this out.
You see my shoe down there?
Watch this.
Y'all I'll get rid of these.
Watch this, Nicole.
I'm gonna open, open up my shoe a little bit
so you can see this.
Can you see something folded up in there, Nicole?
You see it right there? - Yes.
- Folded up inside of my shoe.
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Nicole, check it out, one card.
We see it's a six,
but there's only one six with Nicole's name on it.
You guys see that? (upbeat music)
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- This performer is a closeup magician
with a unique style that creates unforgettable illusions.
Please put your hands together for Jeffrey Wang.
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- Hello, hello everybody.
Today right here we have Donia.
Nice to meet you, welcome on stage.
Okay, so first of all, do you like card trick?
- Yes.
- Yeah, let's do a card trick.
Do you happen to know which side
of the card box is the face of the car box?
Like this one or this one?
- That one?
- This one, do you know why?
- No. - No?
Like this one for me, there's a face.
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That's why I call it the face of my card.
But look, look closer, look closer.
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Just kidding.
So let's really do a card trick.
Okay, do you like card tricks?
- Yes. - Yes?
Oh, sorry.
I prepared a coin trick for you.
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The coin, right here.
I put it in my hand.
I put it in my pocket.
It'll come from between my legs.
But I'll do it one more time, one more time.
This time, the coin into my hand, into the pocket.
It'll come from your ear.
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I can not only pluck a coin from the ear.
I can also pull out the ear from the coin.
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Feel it, feel.
How do you feel about this ear?
- Rubbery.
- It's a good ear?
- Yeah. - What?
What, I didn't hear you.
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I have a jumbo ear.
I can pull out a jumble coin, from the jumbo ear.
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Thank you very much.
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laughs, and the unbelievable talent of Lios, next.
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Get ready to witness some of the craziest
and most unconventional magic you have ever seen.
Running all the way from his Las Vegas show,
please give a warm welcome to Lios.
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- First, I need a volunteer from the audience.
You got to be chosen randomly.
I will close my eyes,
and I will throw a magic wand to the audience.
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So everybody put you your hand like that.
You can grab it.
Everybody.
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Why you put your hands down?
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Okay, let's use the traditional way.
Let's use the ball.
You throw it to someone (upbeat music)
that you never met before.
Throw the ball.
Pass the ball.
Throw the ball.
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Yeah, throw the ball.
Yes.
Yeah, pass it over there.
Yay, great, now back to me.
Back to me.
Great, later we can play more games.
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I feel the energy from you,
let's give a round of applause.
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What's your name?
- Tommy. - Tommy.
Here out the linking rings,
a very classic trick. (suspenseful music)
Try to link the rings together.
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You cannot do it?
It's okay.
Also, I cannot do it.
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Here I have a prediction.
I want you to imagine an animal.
Which animal do you imagine?
- The tiger.
- A tiger.
Imagine that a tiger has an occupation.
What's the occupation of the tiger?
- Hmm, he's a tailor.
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Now imagine that the tiger is wearing something.
What the tiger is wearing?
- An underwear.
- Underwear? (audience laughs)
So you imagine a tiger tailor with underwear, right?
These pills will help your delusions.
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It's mine, give. (audience laughs)
Now put your hand up, and make a number with your fingers.
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I'll try to guess the number.
The number is, the number is three.
Yeah, thank you. (musical trill)
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Now put both of your hands up and make a number.
The number is one.
No? (audience laughs)
Keep your fingers up.
I'll fix it.
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Make one, or you have none.
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Now, here I have a clock.
The clock is set to 12 seconds.
Hold the clock.
Try not to touch any buttons by mistake.
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I'm gonna put a blindfold.
You walk around me,
when the time reach to zero I want you to stop.
I'll try to guess where you're standing around.
12 seconds.
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Walk around. (dramatic music)
If you want, you can change directions to confuse me.
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Here! (audience laughs)
Thank you.
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watch the astounding skill of Alexandra Duvivier.
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And this performer Is one of the most skilled magicians
I have ever seen.
She's sure to leave you speechless.
Please give a warm welcome to the incredible
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- Hello!
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I would like to tell you a story.
Little story, and I love, yeah,
you love them too, of course.
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But you know that story doesn't relate on the Beatles, no.
It's a movie that I really love.
I don't know if you have seen it.
It's a French movie a few years ago now.
I don't know if you have seen it already.
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- Yeah, I love it.
Years of research I'm telling you.
And if we look closely, well, this is the box.
It states (speaking foreign language)
It's a little sweet.
And if you look closely, ah!
So in the little box, yes.
Remember we used to play
with these when we were younger.
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Ah?
We knew how to have fun in those days.
(audience laughs) I'm telling you.
Yeah. (upbeat music)
This is a period in life,
more or less long,
as we can hear.
But let's do something else with those.
Let's see what we can do.
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(smacks lips) Okay. (audience laughs)
Well, I know it's so, so, but I, I
I can have a second try,
just for you because you're so sweet.
Hello, second try, second try.
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Let's away.
Watch my little scissors.
Ooh, so cute. (audience laughs)
Let's try to do something.
I hope you will recognize.
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Oh, it's not a hard shape, no.
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Let's see.
Woo, a little butterfly.
You know, a papillon, a papillon in French.
Let's try to have two papillon, two butterflies.
If I start to speak French,
well, I speak French. (audience laughs)
Allo, even harder without the scissors.
Let's try it.
A butterfly, butterfly papillon.
A little butterfly.
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Okay, I'm not done, I'm not done yet.
Wait, oh la la.
My goodness. (clears throat)
No, wait, wait, wait, I have an idea.
Watch, a bow tie.
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No.
Oh it's so sweet, so sweet lady.
No, no, no, I cheat, I cheat.
Let's try to do a butterfly.
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I hope.
Let's cross fingers.
Let's try to do, like I said, a little butterfly, papillon.
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Oui, oui oui oui, voila, as we say...
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You know what?
We try to do something with those two butterflies.
I put that away.
I do some of these things, you know, like, like this.
And now maybe I can try to make them. (gasps)
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Hi, it's butterflies, isn't it?
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But, the goal of the game
is to try to catch all the butterflies.
I mean all the butterflies.
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Merci, mwa mwa mwa!
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amazing is the only way to describe Reza.
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Buckle up and get ready for a thrill ride,
because we have a performer who is no stranger
to absolutely treacherous trickery.
Please welcome the incredible Reza.
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- If you ready for something crazy make some noise!
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- Well, we hope you've enjoyed this evening
of unbelievable illusions and feats of magic,
and we hope to see you again soon.
'Til then, I'm Dean Cain.
Thank you, good night.