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In Reply to: The trick in The Illusionist wasn't explained either -- and I don't think it possible. Although... posted by clarkjohnsen on March 6, 2007 at 12:04:02:
Everything was explained, at least in my viewing.SPOILER ALERT:
It was accomplished through the experiments that were done with the light projections. Whether you find that plausible or not, that was certainly the method intended to explain the spectral projections. And many of the spectres, such as the little girl, show up in other contexts as real people. So the spectres were optical projections of real people.
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that the film makers presented a picture that did not jive with the explination. I accepted the explination and figured they screwed up the visual.
Wouldn't it be better if it were really doable? And how much different fro sci-fi is unreal magic?clark
but it is a movie after all, and I was willing to buy it for movie purposes.If you are after complete plausibility, you won't find it here anyway; the clockwork precision with which everything had to work would not happen in real life. Many pieces had to fall just right- and they did.
It's a work of fiction after all. And I like these kind of puzzle plots, plausible or not. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and had a good time dissecting it afterward. BTW, the point I brought up about the optical method had to be pointed out to me as well. I did not put it all together myself.
To whatever degree it *might* work, the effect would have been visible from one vantage only -- along the perpendicular bisector, or very nearby. Yet the whole audience thrilled!clark
Far more implausible to me was a potion that would induce a type of false death that would fool a doctor. While the optical technology is at least partially believable based on current technology, this potion is not.But the whole thing is preposterous anyway. These kind of master plans where everyone reacts exactly as the perpetrator expects are complete artifice.
But it's an artifice that is very cinematic, going back a long way. Heist movies, con movies, this is in the long line of such plots. It's fantasy. If I wanted complete reality, I would see a documentary such as An Inconvenient Truth.
It was pretty serious, but clever and exciting. The first half always concerned making the plans, the second was their execution. Then one night... everything that might go wrong, did! It was hilarious, but the characters were shown coping in... characteristic ways.I still have it on Beta.
clark
I would dig it up. Thanks.
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Grins
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