I think that introducing part for the movie audience and then it jumps into the their final trick and makes sense.

it's amusing yes but it makes sense

I believe they mention or elude to it briefly at some point that it's part of the hypnotic trance that meritt did

@@itsjustme1020 Makes sense. I’m going to have to watch the whole movie again to listen for that. Poor me. 😉

He was never in paris It wasn’t a real bank etienne was in

@@Lelo.Machaka they're talking about after the show was done how they got him from the fake vault back up to the venue without giving away that there was a fake vault underneath the stage

@@Lelo.Machaka I got that part - during the show he was under the stage, and I assume he didn't notice that he plunged downwards like that because he was in a trance at the time, from the moment Merritt slapped his chest when he came onstage. What I'm wondering is how they got him to not notice where he came from when they brought him up from under the stage. That happens off camera, which is mighty convenient, but I still wonder.

Or a massive crowd crush resulting in hundreds of casualties due to everyone in the stadium trying to pick up the millions of dollars

@@johng5617 people are more civilized in movies lol

They're meant to do it quickly so you don't get to look at the ball. Also forcing a ball is basic manipulation so there's tons of solutions.

brother its a movie cmon

​@@gabrielgamez576 I'm not saying it's a bad movie (I actually like it overall), and what's wrong with pointing out when something in a movie doesn't make much sense? If the horsemen really wanted to convince the audience, they'd do whatever they could to make this not look set up. But Jesse Eisenberg wasn't in the "bank," so he couldn't confirm the money's authenticity, and you'd have to already know what a few million euros looks like in cash to say that so quickly. The line just doesn't fit the fact that they're trying to make it look like they aren't faking it.

Showmanship and confidence are keys to a good show.

@@iliya1933 yes! They are also all let go after due to 'no evidence' when the police question them, yet they had played a clear video feed of an exact replica of the inside of the bank vault during their performance in front of thousands. At the very least the police know they had an intricate knowledge of the inside of the bank vault. No cop investigating a bank robbery would be like ' yeah they knew exactly what the vault looked like somehow but they claimed magic so gotta let them go.'

because they already stole the money and they know how much is in there. the place where the guy was, was right underneath them not in Paris.

Who says it isn’t?

@@joewhitehead3harry potter

​@@joewhitehead3Actual magic is cool. This is just...basic editing.

Not movies have to have a strong story telling structure

Euros in las Vegas

Yeah that seems plausible and magicians can be good at card counting and memorization

Forcing a card on someone is a very basic magic trick. Just type "card force" into youtube. There are dozens of ways to do it.

This is actually a very standard thing to do in magic even without a trick deck. It's called "forcing" a card.

A card force is a basic trick. If you've ever seen Penn & Teller, they give a nod to their longtime fans by (nearly) always using the 3 of clubs as an indication that they're forcing a card.

The more perplexing thing is how would they know in what direction he would write his signature

I can, but forgot most of. Was long time ago. After watching the scene, I want to watch the whole series again.

Actually he was, he appeared at the interrogation scene. Where he then started playing the piano because of the hipnosis

well, think of it this way. when you know how a magic trick is done it may stop being magical but does the idea or concept and method stop being cool? for some maybe. In this same sense, If you didn't know what CGI was and you thought this was real recorded footage like some of us used to, wouldn't it be magical? The movie is about what makes something Magical and how people took for granted the beauty of a secret or method in a trick and because of that it always had to be bigger and more complicated until it cost someone dearly. So yeah we know it's fake, but why not treat it like literally any other movie which are all fake and attempt to just enjoy the idea that some of the methods are real mixed with exaggerated ideas that someone had to think of. I mean we know hypnotism may not be real so didn't you wonder if all the people that were "hypnotized" in this movie were paid actors within the movie narrative? All movies are about the story they tell, so it's not how did the film makers make the magic. It's how would these magicians have performed this if they were to use a mix of known methods. Wondering about how the impossible is done has always been the magic, so I'd dare argue that some of the exaggerated outcomes were necessary in ANY movie about performance magic. If they were to perform real world magic tricks in a movie then it has EVEN LESS entertainment value as a magic movie haha

Not like the dude changed his signature Either they forged it or made him sign another card The one you see they drop in the truck

It's explained in the movie, but they already robbed the bank and forged his signature before the show. They manipulated the ping pong balls to pick the seat of a man they had been tailing for a while and already knew the bank of.

I think it was a joke. Since they revered to him as a great man, well, in front of the public at least.

@@joshuaamadeusishak1887 maybe

Yes. Once a truck with many crashed on the freeway spilling money. Many grabbed that money,most were arrested that could be seen in various recordings.

@@creaturetransylvania8943your honour my client pleads finders keepers

You must be talking about: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/hJl2qqWmno6HuGg.html Probably one of the best OSTs in all of film and television!

Why does this have 7 likes? They dropped euros

Until the next morning when they wake up and find out the bank was actually robbed

yeah and whinch idiot rich is okay with paying thieves