It's another boring day at a magicians casting until an unheard of trick is shown.It's another boring day at a magicians casting until an unheard of trick is shown.It's another boring day at a magicians casting until an unheard of trick is shown.
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Unexpected, and all the better for it.
I saw this short almost before I was aware short films existed. Back in the days when cinemas still screened shorts before features (I could have sworn it was earlier than '97), I happened upon this little gem quite by accident at my local.
Although my memory of it is rather sketchy, the fact that I remember it at all well is testament to its power as a short. Bereft of dialogue, The Trick is set at an audition for magicians. After an amusing opening effort involving a raw fish (if memory serves), the next audition comes in with no props at all.
Or so it seems.
He pulls a small pen from his breast pocket, and in a succession of clicks, twists, and peels he produces a door. From the pen. He walks through the door and leaves the jury waiting for him to emerge from the other side. He does not, so one of them goes up to investigate, but finds that the magician has vanished. he tentatively opens the door, and... ..I won't spoil it any more than I already have, but the short reminded me somewhat of the milkman sketch by Monty Python, not just in plot but also in tone. Very haunting.
And the props master deserves an Oscar for what he did with that pen.
Although my memory of it is rather sketchy, the fact that I remember it at all well is testament to its power as a short. Bereft of dialogue, The Trick is set at an audition for magicians. After an amusing opening effort involving a raw fish (if memory serves), the next audition comes in with no props at all.
Or so it seems.
He pulls a small pen from his breast pocket, and in a succession of clicks, twists, and peels he produces a door. From the pen. He walks through the door and leaves the jury waiting for him to emerge from the other side. He does not, so one of them goes up to investigate, but finds that the magician has vanished. he tentatively opens the door, and... ..I won't spoil it any more than I already have, but the short reminded me somewhat of the milkman sketch by Monty Python, not just in plot but also in tone. Very haunting.
And the props master deserves an Oscar for what he did with that pen.
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- kpbtm
- Jul 26, 2004
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