David Blaine: Street Magic (1997) - full transcript
In this show David Blaine amazes people with his magic and use of optical illusions. There are no gimmicks, rules, or tricks just pure talent.
♪♪ [hip-hop music]
Just give me a quarter.
I got a quarter right here.
You know how people change
the consistency of metals?
- No.
- What? How people change what?
Consistency. Like,
if you squeeze something.
If you squeeze
a piece of metal it heats up.
That's obvious.
- Yeah.
- But, look, watch.
[screaming]
He broke my quarter!
[laughing]
Mm. Mm. Watch. Look.
- [blows]
- [squealing, laughing]
[muttering]
I'm going home.
I'm going home.
I'm going home.
I'm gonna have my baby
right here.
He bit the quarter off
and said phew,
and it went back together,
in front of our face.
[Announcer]
There are 52 cards
in a deck.
Choose one.
An amazing new talent
will astound you
with what he is about to do.
He's a man without smoke
and mirrors,
ushering in a new era
of magic.
His name is David Blaine.
David has traveled
across the country,
sharing his special skill.
A talent of wonder
and intrigue.
The mystery of magic.
The street is his stage.
David's magic
is in your face,
pure and undeniable.
No admission charge,
no rules, no bounds.
[chattering, laughing]
Ordinary people,
extraordinary magic.
Dre, Dre, Dre,
what are you doing?
[laughing]
[Woman]
He's reading your brain, dude.
[laughter]
[David]
Here. Grab it real quick.
Check it out.
[laughter]
The whole deck.
Prepare yourself.
It's time forDavid Blaine,
Street Magic.
Hey, look.
I have a deck of cards.
What I want you to do is,
from in this deck,
I want you to try
to see one card.
Not this one,
but look closely.
Try to see one inside.
Did you get one?
Here. I'll do it again.
It might have been too quick.
Try to see a card inside,
if you can.
Did you see one?
You think you did?
Don't say it.
Just hold it in your mind.
I know this is not it,
but visualize
your card right here.
This is Times Square.
Here, there's no boxes,
no stages, no sets.
Nothing.
Just people, and me.
Let me just try this thing.
I don't even--
To be honest with you,
I have no clue.
Hold this box.
I honestly doubt
that I'll be able
to even do this one.
No, look. Take one.
Take one out.
Okay.
Show it to them.
- You got it?
- Yeah.
All right, look.
Put it back.
- Put it just right on top?
- Yeah, you can put it here.
Look, we'll cut it
inside, okay?
- Like this, all right?
- Yeah.
And then we'll put these
into the box.
- Just like this, all right?
- Okay.
Right in the box, okay?
Hold the box lightly
towards the bottom.
Right here. Lightly.
Just think of your card.
Hold it looser, but don't
let it fall to the ground.
Just looser. Yeah.
Let go even more.
Just don't let it
fall to the ground.
Keep thinking. Okay,
hold it on the sides even.
- [whimpering]
- Yeah, keep thinking.
Keep thinking.
- Look, one card--
- No way.
Look at the one card
that's protruding the most.
- Looser. Even looser.
- [laughing]
- And looser.
- [muttering]
- I'm going into labor.
- Look.
Look. Look. Take it out.
Don't drop it.
Aaahhhh...
- That's your card?
- Yes.
[David]
Okay. From in the deck,
any card that you want,
you're gonna be
allowed to take.
Take one.
Good. Show it to them.
Let everybody see it.
- [laughter]
- You got it?
Oh, do me a favor.
Write your name on the face
of it also.
- Here?
- Uh-huh.
[laughs]
Good. Great.
Now, you could put the pen--
Or, actually, here.
Just say-- say "stop."
- Stop.
- Stick it in there.
Here's part number one.
Ready? The first part.
Even though you put your card
in the middle,
and you wrote your name on it
so I could not cheat.
Hold your hand out.
Part number one is
your card jumps up.
[laughter]
Stop that!
Here's part number two.
Part number two is your card is
the two of clubs with your name.
There was a reason that you took
this card, am I right?
Yeah.
Um, you also
wrote your name on it.
I mean, we have to go
back in time for a second.
Let's do something with it.
- Let's just rip it up
a little bit, okay, Brandy?
- Okay.
- Look. Across your name,
at least, right?
- Yeah.
- Just like that.
- Uh-huh.
Here it goes. Ready?
If I just rub it...
Hold the deck.
I'll try to just do this
just right.
Squeeze. Squeeze tight.
- What? Squeeze what?
- No. Like this. See?
- Where'd it go?
- I have no clue.
It's the top-of-the-deck card.
[Women squealing, laughing]
[muttering]
Torment somebody else
for a while!
You can keep the deck.
It's for you.
- It was nice meeting you, guys.
- Thank you.
- Bye.
- Take care.
- Bye.
- [laughing]
[Leonardo DiCaprio]
Yo, David, you remember
when you did magic for me
for the first time?
- Yeah, at some party?
- Yeah.
Well, at that point
I was particularly
uninterested in magic.
I mean, it really
did nothing for me.
I mean, I'm so used to seeing
these big special-effect shows,
you know, where they make
some huge object disappear,
or they do some, you know,
ridiculous stunt.
But when you did magic to me,
you know, at that party,
it was right
in front of my face.
Was, you know, one-on-one.
I couldn't help
but be interested again.
So, why are you now
doing a TV special?
I mean, I'm curious.
How do you think your stuff
is going to translate?
It's so different
than what's been done before.
I wanted to present
a different kind of magic
than people are used
to seeing on TV.
I don't work
with fancy props.
There's no beautiful showgirls.
There's no elaborate sets.
I work with people.
That makes
the magic spontaneous.
♪♪ [hip-hop]
So, here we are.
We're in Dallas, Texas.
[Southern accent]
Dallas, Texas.
We're going to go find
as many cowboys as we can.
Not cowboys like you think.
You'll see. Come with us.
[laughs]
Did you see that, Jason?
Did you see that?
That's good action
right there.
- Here. I'll show you
another one. Look. Watch.
- All right.
Let's take, uh...
- You ever see the guys that do
that three-card monte?
- Yeah.
- All right. Cool.
This is based on that.
- Can I have your attention?
- Please double-check your bagsand make sure you have--
- Let's see.
- ...everything for the game
for tomorrow.
- [muttering]
- What?
- He just didn't
want them in there.
That was just dynamite.
Do you ever see the guys
that do three-card monte?
- No.
- Now watch
This is based on that.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, the three-card--
I used to mess with them
with two cards.
I didn't use three.
I would use two.
And I'd mess with them.
- Hold your fingers like this.
- Let me take the glasses off.
Cool. So, the other hand,
I guess.
Now, look, this card.
Remember,
queen of diamonds, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- Queen of diamonds. Hold it
parallel to the ground.
- So what card do you have?
- Queen of diamonds.
You can look and make sure
I didn't do any funny moves.
It's cool?
- Queen of Diamonds.
- All right. So I'm gonna
teach this to you first.
- This one's the queen
of hearts, right?
- Right.
Watch the queen of hearts.
Here's the way I do it.
- See the switch?
- Mm-hmm.
Hold it tight
to make it impossible.
- 'Cause now I got
the diamond ready.
- Right.
Without looking at it,
what would you bet on it?
- Without looking.
Just pretend bet. Here.
- Oh, I'm going with you.
Would you be impressed
if this was a diamond
and that was a heart?
- Uh, yeah. No, 'cause that's
what it's supposed to be.
- Or sort of...
So what would impress you?
If it was reversed?
- Now I got to work hard. Watch.
- It's supposed to be
a diamond and a heart.
Check this out, Emmitt. Ready?
To impress you.
- Now, look, if I wave my hand--
- Bottom's supposed
to be a heart, right?
Ready? Watch this.
Turn your hand over.
[laughter]
♪ My mind is playin'
tricks on me ♪
♪ This year, Halloween
fell on a weekend ♪
♪ Me and ghetto boys
are trick-or-treatin' ♪
♪ Robbin' little kids
for bags ♪
♪♪ [continues]
- You know the guys that do
three-card monte, right?
- Right.
All right.
This is that game
for you right now.
- Not for me, bro. I--
- No, no, no.
No money, no money.
- This is just pretend.
Instead of three cards--
- [muttering]
Hold your fingers
like this, though.
Hold your fingers like this.
Look. Watch.
This card, right?
Remember, diamonds.
Forget ace, just diamonds.
Hold it parallel--
What card do you have?
- What?
- What card is that?
- Can I look at it?
- Yeah. Yeah, but name it.
Name it. What is it?
- Ace of diamonds.
- Diamonds, just diamonds.
Look, show it to them.
Make sure it's all right.
- Bingo bango.
- All right.
Show it to them too.
- Bingo bango.
- Bingo bango.
Cool, man.
Hold it like this. Look.
Lower, lower, lower.
Watch.
This one's same thing.
Just remember hearts.
- Forget ace. Just hearts.
- Right. Right.
- Watch this switch. Ready?
- Uh-huh.
See? I switched it.
Look, I'll do it again.
See? It switched back.
It just switched twice so quick
you didn't see it.
- There goes my shoe, homey.
- Sorry. Sorry.
- It got switched?
- Yeah, it switched twice.
Look. I'll do it slow
so you can see it.
Look. Here's the move.
See how the borders line up?
Don't put it on the bottom.
Don't do it
with your finger, man.
I'm teaching you right now.
That's how I do it.
- Hold it tight, though,
to make it impossible.
- I got it tight.
- 'Cause you know the move.
I have diamonds. Ready?
- Right.
Without looking at it,
what would you bet on,
hearts or diamonds?
- I ain't betting.
Ain't got no money.
- All right, but pretend bet.
Would you bet hearts here,
or hearts here?
Or could I impress you
if the heart was on top,
diamonds on bottom?
Heart's on top,
because you had the heart.
- Turn your hand over.
- No.
Go ahead.
Turn your hand over.
[shouting, laughing]
You're a clown!
You're a clown!
[chattering, shouting, laughing]
You're a giant clown.
You understand me?
- What is that?
- It's stupid. You look--
- Wrong! Wrong!
- You look stupid!
[laughing continues]
- Whoo!
- Whoo!
- You know what.
- You know what, though--
Shake his hand and apologize,
'cause you look so stupid.
[laughter, chatter]
[screaming, laughing]
[Announcer]
Coming up, David Blaine
will levitate.
Floating.
He's floating!
We're in Haight-Ashbury.
See the famous hippie scene
of the '60s, '70s.
San Fran, California.
Magic everywhere.
Here's what I do.
Watch this.
You know, if you heat
a cigarette to a quarter
you can make
the metal heat up.
The metal starts to get hot.
Feel the side of it gently.
Feel it warming? See it?
- Feel it warming,
even with the wind?
- Yeah.
Watch this.
If it gets hot enough,
you can stick
the cigarette like this,
right through it.
- Whoa! Whoa!
- See that? Look, look, look.
- Go ahead. Check it out.
- Whoa!
Look. Watch this. Ready?
Watch. Look, look, look.
Watch this. Watch.
You're going to see it
melt right out. Look.
There it goes. Look.
See it melting?
Watch.
It melts right over it.
- Oh.
- Take it.
Wow!
Excuse me.
- Excuse me.
You have one second?
- Uh, yeah.
I want to show you something
I haven't been able
to understand.
Uh-huh.
It's very-- Look.
Could you just--
Just like this--
Just come down with me
and put your-- Come--
Yeah, come down with me.
real quick.
- Look, look, look.
- Okay.
- And put your hand down.
- Uh-huh.
Put your right hand down,
like mine.
- Yeah, yeah,
your right hand, like mine.
- Right hand? Okay.
No, no, this way,
facing towards you.
The other way.
Turn to the left.
Yeah, yeah. More to the left.
Twist it so it's straight.
All right. Now move
your foot back a little bit
so you can see this.
- Yeah?
- Twist your hand inwards
a little bit.
- Uh-huh.
- Like this. Go ahead.
- Inwards a little bit. Slowly.
- Uh-huh.
- A little bit more.
- All right.
Here's where it starts
to get painful.
With your left hand,
can you grab my right hand?
My fingers?
- With my left hand?
- Yeah, grab my fingers and
twist them a little bit more.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
[grunting, groaning]
[faintly]
Keep going.
Keep going. Oh!
Keep going.
A little bit more.
- Oh!
- David, are you all right?
Yeah. Keep going.
Ow! No, no. Aah!
- [mutters]
- No. Keep going. Keep pushing.
Keep going. Yeah.
[groans]
I want to-- Keep going.
- [Man speaking indistinctly]
- Keep going. No. Keep going.
Yeah. Keep going.
[inhales sharply]
- [groaning]
- [bones cracking]
Oh!
Did you hear that crack?
I don't know.
Oh, my goodness!
Terrible, man.
That was awesome, man.
- Does it hurt?
- [David] A little bit.
[siren wailing]
[groans]
[mutters]
Aah!
[inhales sharply]
See that?
- Get outta here!
- Pull up your sleeve. Oh!
- Lou, check this out.
- [Woman laughs]
- Show-- Show--
- [bones cracking]
Oh!
- [Man speaking indistinctly]
- [Woman laughing]
Oh, man!
Hold both your hands
out for me.
Okay, get rid
of your right hand.
Make a fist
with your left hand.
Not too hard. Make a fist.
- With my left hand?
- Not too hard, though.
Let me see the cigarette.
You know the guys that used
to do-- I won't touch you.
I won't burn you.
Remember the guys
that used to do the voodoo?
Look.
Tell me if you feel that.
Do you feel anything
right now?
Do you feel anything?
- No.
- Look. I'm going to rub it in.
- See how it looks
like it fades away?
- Yeah.
Right? You see how it looks
like it's fading?
- Mm-hmm.
- Tell me if you feel this.
Ready?
[snickering]
- You feel that?
- No, not yet.
Look inside of your hand.
[yells]
It's not right!
You're not right!
- What is that?
- [Man] Let me see that.
What is that?
[laughing]
No, I don't-- I don't--
Wait.
[laughs]
Don't laugh.
It's ashes in the palm
of my--
You saw it, right?
You saw it, right?
[laughing]
The quarter's
still in my pocket.
This man ain't right.
He ain't right.
He ain't even right.
- You have a quarter?
- No.
Anybody have a quarter
I could use?
Quarter?
I'll give you $5.
- I got $5.
- No, I need a quarter.
[chattering]
Cool. Thanks.
- Here.
- Cool.
All right, Stymie,
watch this. Watch--
Stay right here.
Look, look.
Mm. Mm.
Mm, mm, mm?
- [man laughing]
- [spits]
Hey!
- What's up?
- Hey, Dre, Dre, Dre.
- What are you doing?
- [laughing]
- What'd he do?
- What'd he do?
- What'd he do?
- [laughing]
What did he do with that?
Huh?
He bit the mother-- [bleep]
in half, and then he [bleep]
blew them out.
That's bull-- [bleep].
[Woman]
I can't believe this man.
[blows]
Okay.
It's so freaky.
So freaky.
You don't have any--
You don't have any tools?
Nothing?
No device, though, like,
popped out of you somewhere?
- Oh, no!
- Oh, no!
- [Man laughing]
He eats quarters.
- [spits]
Oh, no. No, no, no,
no, no, no.
[chattering]
[laughing]
[chattering continues]
Let me see
your teeth, man.
Eat a quarter!
[laughing]
[muttering]
- [David]
Do you have a quarter?
- [Boy] Uh...
- You'll get it right back.
- I don't have a quarter.
- You don't?
- Uh-uh.
I have one.
Can you examine it
and make sure it's okay?
- Yeah, it's pretty cool.
- Hold your hand out like this.
The other way, palm down.
You might feel this.
Come over this way.
What's the best
place for you to be?
Here.
Let's shoot it here.
You might feel this.
Hold your hand right here.
Watch.
Here's my idea.
If I just wave. See.
Did you feel anything?
Now watch. Ready?
Cool.
[Man speaks Chinese]
[speaking Chinese]
[Men chattering]
[blows]
[laughing]
[speaking Chinese]
[David]
I never liked how hard it was
to speak to people
that you don't know.
I mean, it even breaks
through language barriers.
[speaking Chinese]
[laughing]
[laughter]
Do you want to see a very,
very good trick?
- [Women] Yes.
- Ready? Here. Look.
Take one.
Go ahead.
Show it to everybody.
[speaking Chinese]
Doesn't matter. Here.
Good. Now, I couldn't
know it, right?
I'm going to find it
without looking.
Right behind my back. Look.
I'm not looking at anything.
I'm going to find your card.
You understand? Yeah?
Uh, it's hard, though,
because I can't see.
I think... this one!
[Women]
No!
Oh. Oh.
[blows]
No!
[spits]
No!
[blows]
No!
[laughter]
[blows]
No.
- [coughing]
- [laughter]
[Women]
Aahhh!
[Women exclaim]
[man]
Good job!
[Women cheer]
[chattering]
[laughter]
She's beautiful.
[Woman chuckles]
Um, let me ask you
something, all right?
- Listen to me.
- Okay.
Just think of a number
between one and 50.
- Okay.
- But listen.
Before you do that,
to make it interesting,
use odd--
odd digits for each digit,
but use different digits.
- Okay. Done. I got one.
- So think of a number
between one and 50,
- ...odd digits, for each digit
a different digit.
- Got it. Done.
- You got it?
- Got it.
Wait. Does it have to
fit on a card?
- No, no. Just-- Yeah.
- Oh, no, you can't.
You can't.
- You have it?
- Yep.
Uh, it's difficult
with all this noise.
37?
You're really incredible.
That's really weird
that you can--
Are you psychic or what?
Because I totally believe
in like, you know,
that there's a lot of stuff
we don't understand,
and we only use three percent
of our brain, and...
Wow. I really feel
like you're reading my mind.
Now you're freaking me out.
37. Wow.
- Think of a number
between one and 50--
- Okay.
...but use odd digits
for each digit,
but use different digits.
So, a number from one to 50,
odd digits for each digit,
but different digits.
All right. Done.
- 31.
- Wrong.
- What was it?
- 39.
39? You want to know
the weirdest thing?
- What?
- Watch this.
You thought of 39?
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm willing to bet my life
that you have exactly 39 cents
in your pocket.
Take it out and count it.
Let them see.
Come here.
See how much change she has.
Change.
I don't know
how much I have.
25, 30, 35, 36, 37,
38, 39.
- How did he do that?
- [laughing]
Think of a card.
Think of a card.
Not the ace of spades.
You have a card?
And think of a card.
Not the ace of spades.
But think of any card
you want.
Come here. Stand next
to each other right here
so I can just pick up--
Ready?
You're thinking of a card?
Yes.
- Jack of clubs.
- [bleep]
- [laughter]
- Watch. Ready? Hold on.
You're thinking
of a card also?
Oh, my God.
- Queen of diamonds.
- Right.
[laughter]
- You got one in your mind?
- Uh-huh.
- You got one?
- Mm-hmm.
- Good. Hold it in your mind.
- Okay.
- It's in there.
- It's red.
Mm-hmm.
- It's a heart.
- [chuckles]
Mm-hmm.
[laughing]
It's big.
- It's the jack of hearts.
- Right. Whoa!
[laughs, mutters]
- You got a minute?
- Yeah, what you got?
I'll show you something.
Look. Hold this.
- Just think of a card
from inside.
- Okay.
I'm gonna mess with your mind
a little bit, all right?
- All right.
- Not the ace of spades.
Nothing common.
- That's exactly what it was.
- Yeah. I'm going to mess
with your mind.
- Very good.
- I told you that.
Do it again.
This time,
visualize your card
turning over, man.
- See it turning over.
- Okay.
- You did it?
- Yeah.
Name out loud the card
that you tu--
You're holding the deck
the whole time.
Name out loud the card
that you turned over.
- Ten of diamonds.
- Look inside, right?
- Check this out. One card--
- Yes.
...is different from
all the others, right?
If you did this right.
I mean, I don't know what your
potential to move--
Here. Look at that card.
See what that is.
That is unbelievable.
That is just terrific.
How'd you do that?
How'd you do that?
It's so mind-boggling.
I'm going to show you
one that's crazy, man.
I don't even know
what to say about it.
Here. Look, man. Forget this.
We'll take a few of these away.
It's driving me nuts.
I don't know about how you feel.
- We're going to
take a few away.
- You're so relaxed.
How are you relaxed?
Do you know what you're doing?
This is worth thousands
of dollars. That's great.
I gotta go. I gotta go.
Whatever this man's name is--
I think it's Dave?
It's mind-boggling.
It's amazing.
It's real.
I just walked up.
And I came from
the welfare department.
I have nothing.
He's offered me nothing.
He just says,
"I want to show you
something."
What he showed me, to me--
I'm 50 years old.
It's mind-boggling.
I don't care
if he makes a million,
if he starves to death.
It doesn't make a difference.
It's mind-boggling,
whatever it is.
[people exclaiming]
Just levitated.
Coming up, David Blaine
will levitate.
From in here, I want you
to try to think of one.
But you have to see one.
So look at the cards, okay?
- Not this one. Ready? Look.
Try to see one.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Did you see one?
It wasn't too fast?
- Mm-mm.
- Do you have one in your mind?
Yeah.
Look. This is not it.
See? Look.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's not it.
- Mm-hmm.
- I know that. Hold that.
- Okay.
- By your reaction
to that card--
Here. Give me the rest.
By your reaction
to that card alone,
I know that
your card was red.
By the way you looked
at the card,
I know that your card
was a diamond, see.
Now we take it
to the next step.
What if I told you
that when I gave you that card
that I said wasn't yours,
I made you see something
that really wasn't there?
Wow. I would freak out
just like I did there,
-I'd scream again.
-Look at the card
that I gave you.
- Look at it, turn it over.
- Wow, this can't be it!
Oh, my God!
You're amazing.
Are you a guru
of some kind?
Are you a guru?
Am I going to have
success in Los Angeles?
I just moved here.
Excuse me.
Do you work for the hospital?
I'm a medical student.
You are?
You're studying medicine?
Can I show you one thing
that transcends the mind? Look.
Real quick, it's okay.
No, look, look, look.
You'll like this.
No.
Do the people ever think
you're just some freak
when you come up
and do magic to them,
or are they always
really responsive?
No, sometimes I'll walk up
to somebody and just be like,
"Can I show you something?"
And they won't know
what I'm going to do,
so they'll just be--
They'll just be like,
"Get out of here,
I don't want to see it."
[laughs]
- You have one second?
- No, that's okay.
Right, but look.
You don't have
two seconds?
- Can I show you ladies
some magic?
- No, thank you.
Oh, you might like it,
though, it's really good.
I've been doing it
since I was four years old.
We were working in Vegas last,
but now we came
to Atlantic City.
You sure you don't want
to see one thing?
- No.
- It's free.
No, no,
I don't like magic.
[gasps]
Here's a card.
This is-- This is your card,
the three of diamonds.
You wrote a little mark
on it over there?
- Yeah, right.
- Now look,
put your other hand
on top of the three
in a sandwich manner,
just like that.
A sandwich manner?
Yeah, put your other hand
on top. Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, oh, I see.
- Just so I can't take
the three of diamonds
out of your hand,
- even though you marked it.
- Oh.
-And we also use
the four of clubs.
-Mhm.
My idea is to get the four
of clubs to travel. Look.
See the three with the mark?
Just jumped out.
Look inside
of your hand, though.
You had it in your hand.
- I had it in my hand, right.
- Yes.
[laughing]
Gee, how did you do that?
That's the magic.
- The whole deck?
- The whole deck?
The whole deck.
Do not drop the whole deck.
Hey, do the one with--
where I had a--
when you changed
them two aces.
All right.
All right, so who's
going to go with me?
- Now do him.
- George.
Go ahead, do George.
[all speaking at once]
What are we doing?
So, what you're going
to do is
you're going to take
one card out, right?
- I'm going to take a card?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- So go ahead, take a card out.
Show it to everybody,
let everybody see.
[all speaking at once]
Let him see it.
Let him see it too.
He don't want
to mess with me.
My cousin Guido's out here.
- You got it?
- Yeah.
Say stop.
It doesn't matter.
Here, I can see the eight.
I mean, it doesn't matter
that I saw it.
It doesn't make a difference,
eight of spades.
Hold your hand out,
like this.
Here's where
it gets important. Look.
You can see the card?
Here's what we'll do.
Put your other hand on top,
like a sandwich,
like that.
And watch, remember
this card, as well.
Ten of hearts.
Watch the ten, ready?
This one's good.
If you just rub it.
See? It changes.
There's the eight.
Look in your hand,
look in your hand.
Turn it over,
open it up.
[all cheering]
I give up.
Excuse me.
Can I sit here?
Look. Take one out.
Don't let me see it.
Show it to mommy,
and show it to the camera.
Good. Take it.
Yeah. Show it to them,
show it to them.
Just what I was thinking of.
That's the one
you were thinking of?
All right, Peyton, look.
Put it back into the deck.
- In, in, in.
- Inside, in the middle.
Ready?
- Okay, ready for this, Peyton?
- Uh-huh.
Here's what I want you to do.
I want you to watch closely.
I'm going to get
your card to leave.
Your card's going to vanish.
Do you believe me?
- No. I don't believe you.
- I think it will.
Look, I'm not sure if it will,
but I think it will, hold on.
I think this is it,
but let's see if we can
get it to go, hold on.
Oh, that's not it.
Watch this, ready?
Boom, that becomes it.
Oh, no. Wait, wait, wait.
Peyton, watch.
Look, look, look,
here it goes. Ready?
Your card is going
to vanish again, ready?
I shake it.
See? It's gone.
You know where it went,
Peyton?
[Peyton's Mother]
How did you do that?
Did you feel me touch
anywhere on your body?
- No. Right?
- No.
Not your hair,
not your seat, nothing.
No.
Reach into your back pocket.
Go ahead.
- Do you feel anything?
- Oh!
[laughing and screaming]
Oh, my God!
Let's take out-- No, let's
take out two aces, okay?
Right here, these two,
these two, these two.
Forget this one.
Hold those.
Look, touch the back
of any card that you want.
- Which one? This one?
- Yes.
Right here? Do you want
to keep it or change it?
- Keep it.
- All right, you can all see it?
You can see his card?
Look, watch what I do.
Right away I know
where it is in the deck.
It's 24th. I'm not holding
any funny breaks, nothing.
Here's what I do.
I take these two aces.
Watch closely. Look.
I'm going to try to cut.
Where did I say it was?
24? So, look, I cut
24 cards like this, right?
It comes out.
Shoots to here, and it lands.
[laughs]
[Man]
What the-- What?
That's it.
That's the card.
- I get to write my name on it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I'm going to go
like this.
I'm just going
to go like that.
[David]
I'll tell you what.
Just, can you snap?
You know how to do it?
Yeah, okay, every time you snap,
your card's going to jump
from the middle of the deck
right up to the top.
So which card do you want?
- The nine of diamonds?
- Yeah.
Put it face up here,
so you can write big.
Write your name big
on the card. Yeah.
- Cool.
- "Froot Loops."
Now, this is your name.
I mean, I couldn't possibly
replicate that.
Is that your name?
That's perfect.
Yeah. Hold it?
No, no, look.
In the middle, right?
- Is that the middle?
- Now, well, I mean
I'm estimating,
but let's give or take a few,
that's about middle.
Would we agree on that?
About?
- I guess so, yeah.
- Look. Here it comes, ready?
Snap your fingers
right over it.
- Done. See?
- Wow.
He's good, right?
He's good, right?
Watch, watch again
look here.
His card, your card.
Look, pick up
about half of the deck.
Go ahead.
"Fruit Loops,"
pick up about half.
Your card in the middle,
the rest go on top.
- [laughs]
- Done.
Wait a minute,
let me put that card
in the deck.
No, watch again,
I'll leave it. Watch.
Look, look, look.
Here's his card with his name,
I promise, look. Now look.
I tell you right now,
I'm assuming-- Look,
here's his card,
I'm assuming this
is about middle,
but this time,
so you know what's going on,
I'm going to leave
it sticking out, so
you can see his name.
I mean, I couldn't cheat
and duplicate that.
- That's his name.
- That's his name.
Here it goes, This is--
I'm counting now.
This is about 12 cards down,
plus another ten.
So 22, here it comes.
No, no. Snap, snap it up.
That's the move, see?
- Nah, you're a bad man!
- He's good, right?
You dangerous!
Come here, stay here.
I want you to see it
one more time.
[all speaking at once]
One more time.
Stay here, look, look, look.
Let's bend his card, right?
Like this.
It's bent,
now you can see the card.
I mean there's a pretty
major bend in it, look.
The cards go right
on top of it, ready?
Watch this. "Froot Loops."
- Oh, you psychopath.
- That's awesome.
[all laughing]
I have a brand new
deck of cards for you.
I want you to open the deck.
I want you
to thoroughly examine it.
I want you
to shuffle it face up.
Remove the jokers.
Can I have a sharp knife
to cut this open, please?
[Man]
Give me a sharp knife, please.
Like a steak knife. Good.
[Man]
Oh, thank you.
Perfect. Oh, you
opened it already?
- No, not really.
- Okay, you can just cut it.
- Like that.
- Okay.
Open up the box.
Take the jokers out.
Get rid of them.
Examine the deck.
Good.
Get rid of all of them.
Yeah, that's perfect.
Shuffle them face up,
so everybody can see--
- Face up?
- Yes, face up.
Shuffle them thoroughly.
Good.
Great.
[chatter]
That's fair.
What I want you to do is
I want you to spread them
on the table,
just like this.
- Here, I'll do it for you.
- Okay.
I'm going to turn my head.
I want you to reach in,
and remove any card that
you want from the deck,
any single one.
Take it out.
And then you're going
to show it to them,
and show it to everybody,
and then shuffle it
back into the deck.
I'll turn my head.
- Hold it steady?
- Show it to them.
Let them see it too.
Let everybody see it.
Let everybody see it,
and shuffle it back
into the deck thoroughly.
[Man]
Let me see it.
Yeah. Let everybody see it.
- I didn't see it.
- Let me see it.
Good.
And shuffle
the deck thoroughly.
Mix it up.
So there's no way
that I can follow your card,
shuffle it face down.
- There's no way.
- Perfect.
I don't know
where your card is.
Spread the cards over
the surface of the entire table.
Mix them all around,
everywhere.
Everywhere.
Good, big.
Bigger. All across
the whole table.
I don't know
which card is yours.
But just to make it
even more difficult,
I'm going
to cover the cards.
Can I have a menu
or something?
Is there-- can I have a menu?
[Man]
Can we have the menu?
Yes. Good.
Just to make this
more impossible,
we take a menu,
one of the menus,
pull it out like this.
We don't need the plastic.
But here's what happens.
The menu goes over the table,
just like that.
Watch. Ready?
This knife.
Ready? Look.
[screams]
Ugh!
Look.
See? There's a card there--
See that card?
- See there's one card?
- Yeah.
- Look.
- That's it?
What name your card?
- [laughs]
- That's it.
Wait, how did you do that?
Let me do it again. Hold up.
Let me try it with you.
Now watch his wrist.
Hold this.
Hold this.
All right, ready?
Name a number.
Make it bigger, though,
'cause his was too hard
'cause I--
- All right. 13.
- All right.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve. See?
As soon as you connect
them, that's what happens.
Where's the cards?
- Oh, they switched up.
- See what I'm saying?
It switched
from hand to hand.
Yeah. What he do?
Look, check it out.
Watch, like this.
Ready? Look, look,
look, watch.
Watch this move.
Just watch this move.
- Look. No, no.
- [speaking indistinctly]
Look, look, look. Watch.
Here's the switch, right?
- It's right here, right?
- All right.
See the--?
That's the move, right?
Yo, I'm going to give you
something. Hold this.
I got something
for you, man.
I got a little--
Here, a little treat.
Like a present for you.
[all laughing, clapping]
Thought you lost it.
[all laughing, chatting]
I hope this time works, sir.
Oh, my God.
Give me my watch back.
[all laugh]
Out of all of these, right?
Any card that you want,
you can have, right?
It's fair to say?
Here we go. Watch.
Take one out.
Take one, don't let me see it.
Which one?
Show it to them,
show it to them.
Here, take the deck.
Mix it into the deck.
Mix it up into the deck.
[Man]
Oh.
[Woman]
That's it.
That's it, man.
On the other side
of the glass, bro.
[woman laughs]
- How is it?
- Oh, my God.
[laughs]
Okay, now, wait.
First of all,
the first one that was
in my mind, he really guessed.
That was real. I think
he's not natural. For real.
I think he--
I never believed in psychics,
and this isn't a commer--
[laughs]
I don't care.
I don't even care.
I'm telling you.
He picked the card
that was in my head,
and... that was real.
Hold on, wait.
[rock music]
- How did he do that?
- I gotta see that again.
Oh, my God, dude.
- Wait, do that again.
- All right, wait.
[Announcer]
Stay tuned to
David Blaine Street Magic.
David will perform
a real levitation.
[people speaking and laughing]
Yo, I want
to see that quarter.
[all speaking at once]
Do you levitate
and all that?
I don't know if I could--
You know what?
I was once able to do
a levitation, but I got
sick out of my--
Let me try this.
Stay right there, don't move.
Let me just try this.
Stay right there.
I don't know if I'll be able
to get off, man.
It's kind of hard to.
Ready?
♪♪ [reggae music]
- Yo!
- Dude! Dude!
He just levitated.
Did you miss that?
No way.
[all speaking at once]
[David coughing]
[Man]
Levitate, levitation.
He just-- he levitated
off the ground.
[Woman]
I wanna see it.
I wanna see him do it again.
I know I saw his feet up,
but I didn't know if...
- Thanks so much, man.
- I'm gonna tell y'all
something.
The brother's into-- He's into
that spiritual stuff, man.
- That-- Seriously, man.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I seen a movie on it, man.
[all laugh]
No, I'm dead serious.
Can you see my feet?
Don't move. Watch.
[women screaming]
[chatter]
Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
- My God.
My heart is pounding.
Ooh, I'm scared.
Mm. Ooh...
[Leonardo DiCaprio]
Some of the biggest
reactions I've seen
have come
from your levitation,
and I know it's my favorite
stuff, because you can
simply do it anywhere.
I mean, you don't use wires
or rigging of any kind.
It's a spontaneous thing,
you know?
That's the strongest way
to affect somebody with magic.
You just show them something
they cannot fathom is possible.
Just hold. Come over here, X.
Hold your hands like this,
just in case I come back.
- Like this?
- Just stand, stand--
Yeah, but maybe
closer over here.
Together, yeah.
Just like that.
Yeah, just stay kind
of close. Ready?
Here we go.
All right, I don't think
I'll land on you, guys.
Hold on. Watch.
Here we go.
Be careful.
I don't know. I don't know
if I'll be able to get off, man.
Ready?
Just if I fall,
just catch me, man.
[thud]
[laughing]
- Come on, brother.
- Come here, Lisa.
- Yeah, he played it off.
- You all right, man?
[Man]
What'd he do, Deon?
What did he do?
He came off the ground,
but I can't believe that, man.
I'm going. I got
to get home and take a nap.
[Man]
But how high?
I-- I got--
I got to go and take a nap.
Mike got to see
this one, man.
- Hey, you got my money.
- Hey, that there--
How was the magician?
He coming
off the ground, saying...
That was it for me, man.
I got to go home
and take a nap after this.
Do you want to see
something that I find
a little bit strange?
- Sure.
- You don't find this strange?
- This isn't--
- I do.
What I find strange
is an ability--
Stand closer together,
in case I fall over.
[all laughing,
speaking indistinctly]
Watch.
Oh, my God!
[all laughing and screaming]
Oh, my God.
I saw that movie...
[laughing]
Let me tell you,
he just rose himself
off the ground.
He's floating.
He was floating.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
I could see if I had
a few drinks, but--
He floated.
He got up in the air.
His feet lifted
off the floor.
His feet just
left the ground.
We didn't know what
he was going to do.
All of the sudden,
he just popped up.
Trust your new friend joke
where you just fall backwards.
He just lifted.
[Man]
Can you tell
how high off the ground?
- I'd say like that, yeah.
- Six inches, at least.
[Man]
What did he want you to do?
[all scream, laugh]
This man is not--
He's not right.
He floated.
- He's not right.
- He floated.
That's all.
He floated.
That's all.
Did you see him float?
Did you get him float?
'Cause he floated.
It wasn't no TV scam.
He floated.
I think it's, like,
you just get a gut feeling,
and like-- 'Cause I've read up
on this stuff, some of it.
And it's just like,
he came back and I was like,
"Are you all right?"
He was like, "Yeah, I'm fine."
He's from somewhere else.
He's probably an alien.
- This ain't right.
- He's from another planet.
This ain't right.
I guess he's very gifted.
To me, like, spiritually,
very gifted, but, like,
I think meditation wise,
he really, like, he can do it.
I mean, that was unbelievable.
I mean, there was, like,
no strings attached.
And he just, all of the sudden,
he came up off the ground
and he came back down,
but he was like--
That's just-- Wow.
He didn't have nothing
to hold on to.
There's something wrong
with this picture.
I can't believe this man.
This is a shock. That man
made my heart beat fast.
That's-- that's-- that's nice.
I'm never going
to forget this day.
And it's my 18th birthday.
A man floated
on my 18th birthday.
I'm never forgetting
this day.
[laughter]