An Explanation of Magicians
While magic can be used
as a pondering spectacle, magicians take
a trick, and turn in into entertainment.
You have probably heard of the Magicians
rule, also known as the magicians oath.
These rules, which usually vary in different
contents, help guide magicians, beginner
or otherwise, in their entertaining abilities
as it pertains to magic.
The Magic Hall's Magicians
Rules
1. Be an entertainer
2. Never give away
a tricks secret
3. Never make the audience
the fool
1. Remember that when performing
in a show, that you are entertainment. That
means that the audience likes you, and your
show entertains them. Even before or after
the show, it is important to be pleasant.
You do not have to be entertaining, but
it helps, but you should be polite and courteous.
This should be done simply for morality,
if not the aspect of repeat customers.
2. Magic is interesting
in that people hire magicians to, as Teller,
from Penn and Teller, has said, to "suspend
their beliefs." This means that people
usually do not believe that the magician
is actually flying, but people do ask magicians
to try to make them believe. Magic has also
been described as the show casing of a puzzle,
as if saying, " here is something cool,
can you figure out how I did it? Either
way, if you give away the secret of a trick
to your audience, you will ruin the magic
for them. But this is not to say that you
can not teach others magic, just make sure
that they want to be a magician, not just
know the secret. It will be better for both
of you.
3. Being an entertainer,
it is important not to make the audience
fell bad. There are some tricks, like the
trick "Confusing Crayons" that
may make a volunteer, or victim, to be the
fool. Usually tricks like that are in the
format, do as I do, where the magician can
do the task, which is usually simple, while
the fool cannot. This can make the "fool"
feel bad, which may also be a case of morality--
sacrificing a persons feelings to entertain
others. But these kind of tricks express
the image of showing off, which can seem
amuaterish, and less as a performer.
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