Setanta wrote:material girl wrote:I heard on the radio that he is considered a hero in America.Why?
Nonsense.
Its true!! I heard it with my own Britneys!
Good god...who thinks he's a hero?
I think he's probably the best illusionist but a hero?
I doubt it.
That reminds me, a presenter also said the water bubble stunt was an illusion!!How on earth is it an illusion?
The Penn and Teller version of this was much better.
They did it in the living room of a suburban house, not some public spectacle. Teller was supposed to escape from the chains while underwater but no divers there to save him if things went wrong. Teller drowned. Penn escaped out the front door. You don't hear anything about that, do you? What suburban housewife wants to admit she has a 500 gallon tank with a drowned magician in her living room?
material girl wrote:Setanta wrote:material girl wrote:I heard on the radio that he is considered a hero in America.Why?
Nonsense.
Its true!! I heard it with my own Britneys!
I don't doubt that you heard that, i'm just saying the contention is nonsense.
He was cheered by the people who watched him emerge from the tank. At least that's what I perceived when I watched a bit of it on the tube.
Let's face it, a lot of us are Pavlov's dogs when it comes to emoting on cue when there's a TV camera in the vicinity...
David Blaine is not a hero in America.
Paulie Shore, however...HUGE hero.
Slappy Doo Hoo wrote:David Blaine is not a hero in America.
Paulie Shore, however...HUGE hero.
Let us not forget Carrot Top.
Hmm... David Blan on the one hand... George Dubya Bush on the other...
Well I can see why Mr. Blane could be a hero, in that he has boldly done what the world wished Bush had tried before...
Naj.
Well, at least making a heroic effort to achieve that tranquil state...
He reminds me of this short story by Franz Kafka called "The hunger artist" about a guy who starves himself in a cage as an art form. In the end of the book they ask him why he does it and he says "Because it's all I can do."
OmSigDAVID wrote:Lord Ellpus wrote:Bella, when he did his stunt in Trafalgar Square (living in a box, suspended in the air) he expected to get nothing but admirers flocking in to see him.
Instead, crowds of people turned up to lob things at him, other people took turns to shout obscenities
He probably cud not understand
because of the weird cockney accents.
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and everyone thought that he was a self publicising wanker.
What the hell is a wanker ?
When he was there, HE had the weird cockney accent.
That was all I was trying to say. His form of showmanship may not be your cup of tea, nor mine, but in the world of art and mystery and romance, it has it's place.
Of course he has a place in society! His deed can of course be qualified as bold, courageous, audacious. No one else would dare it, and he does. This shows guts and may even inspire others to reach for hitherto unreachable heights.
That being said, it's also quite senseless and dangerous to perform stunts like this. Both sides hold merit.
I guess his actions today might make him worth mentioning in the historybooks of the future... But only as a funny footnote.
Naj.
