Harry Keaton at Fool Us: "Greatest Act" — Transcript

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1. 0:01hi I'm Eric Heaton I'm from Germany and
2. 0:04I'm doing brain magic I'm fascinated by
3. 0:07the brain it's the most complex
4. 0:09structure in the universe I love to show
5. 0:12that the mind can transform objects even
6. 0:15destroy them
7. 0:16brain magic has little like hypnosis I
8. 0:20try to make people see the world like I
9. 0:24want them to see it
10. 0:25this piece is a very unique piece of
11. 0:28brain magic you cannot trust your senses
12. 0:31Penn & Teller have never seen something
13. 0:33like this and I think it will explode
14. 0:36their minds
15. 0:38[Music]
16. 0:38[Applause]
17. 0:43Harry Keaton
18. 0:49matric is about reception no even better
19. 0:53it's about the ability of the magician
20. 0:57to alter your perception can you trust
21. 1:00your senses can you maybe can you trust
22. 1:04me I know the following experiment
23. 1:09requires a test subject Ellison would
24. 1:12you please be so kind
25. 1:17now you you and I have never met before
26. 1:21this moment correct correct good so we
27. 1:24have perfect scientific test conditions
28. 1:26please stand over here facing the
29. 1:28audience now you cannot see inside this
30. 1:31box from here right right but you can
31. 1:34reach inside go ahead okay don't worry
32. 1:40the box is empty
33. 1:42okay no I will put something inside you
34. 1:47look straight ahead
35. 1:48leave everything in here just rely on
36. 1:50your senses what do you see what could
37. 1:53it be
38. 1:53it's a glass pop a glass of bottle have
39. 1:57a look you're absolutely right it's a
40. 2:00bottle
41. 2:03please move that your senses are truly
42. 2:05reliable okay no I will close the box
43. 2:10you can take your hand out close the box
44. 2:14put a new mystery object inside and
45. 2:18demonstrate how you perception can be
46. 2:21influenced by advertising today I will
47. 2:25clean my windows name I love it when
48. 2:28they are clean clean once they are clean
49. 2:30they shine so beautifully do you feel
50. 2:36how the advertising influences you sure
51. 2:40great reach inside tell us what you feel
52. 2:44is it hard is it soft what kind of
53. 2:47material could it be seems like a sponge
54. 2:51sponge yeah a cleaning product yeah
55. 2:55Alison feels a sponge
56. 2:57okay leave everything in here take your
57. 2:59hand out in reality it's stone
58. 3:05[Applause]
59. 3:14that's weird hey that's my job now
60. 3:21let's see next let's demonstrate how
61. 3:27your perception can be altered by your
62. 3:31own brain to make you see things
63. 3:35differently okay
64. 3:39reach inside and describe what you feel
65. 3:43what could it be Ellison it just feels
66. 3:47like a stuffed animal a stuffed animal
67. 3:50yeah like a teddy bear oh yeah okay
68. 3:58interesting with your right hand you
69. 4:00feel the stuffed animal take your hand
70. 4:02out let's change place please stand over
71. 4:05here it's in the way all right here all
72. 4:07right perfect now let's use your left
73. 4:09hand okay
74. 4:10okay careful okay relax relax
75. 4:13reach inside what do you feel with your
76. 4:16left hand
77. 4:17Oh like a hairbrush a proper hairbrush
78. 4:22now you felt with your right hand you
79. 4:25felt a stuffed an email with your left
80. 4:28hand you felt okay you sure about this
81. 4:33take your hand out take your hand out
82. 4:36which side is right neither I would say
83. 4:39it's a cactus
84. 4:42[Music]
85. 4:44[Applause]
86. 4:55now finally finally I will change your
87. 5:01perception I will change your perception
88. 5:04using hypnosis please concentrate on the
89. 5:09spiral see nothing else you're receiving
90. 5:13a hypnotic transmission directly to your
91. 5:17prey directly to your noodles yes
92. 5:24now do you feel how you were influenced
93. 5:30sure reach inside what do you feel oh
94. 5:40well it's up to you grapes and grass
95. 5:44great and dress okay is this a result of
96. 5:48hypnosis is it um you can take your head
97. 5:52out take your hand out now
98. 5:53Ellison what would you say if there are
99. 5:56no grapes at all but there is a glass
100. 5:58and not just any glass but one filled
101. 6:01with wine take the slider pull it up all
102. 6:06the way out all the way and it is
103. 6:12[Applause]
104. 6:19[Music]
105. 6:20[Applause]
106. 6:23I don't know it just happened maybe
107. 6:26something in your mind that's good
108. 6:27breezy that was absolutely insane
109. 6:31because everything that I felt I really
110. 6:34there was no doubt in my mind yes that
111. 6:36what I touched I touched
112. 6:38okay like it was a sponge it was
113. 6:40definitely a hairbrush on that side so
114. 6:42how did you do it well let me tell these
115. 6:45guys hotel but it's a secret like
116. 6:50pissing people off you can't put it this
117. 6:55way but in a way as a magician we show a
118. 6:58world of wonders
119. 6:59so hopefully you these guys are not
120. 7:02pissed off but they enjoy a new
121. 7:04inventive
122. 7:05yes about three men involved but I've
123. 7:07asked you to my initiative that in its
124. 7:10final form it looks like this and I was
125. 7:13able to amaze you so yes let's see if
126. 7:15you invented a way to fool Penn & Teller
127. 7:18let's see patent teller oh man well this
128. 7:21is the this is the inventor show we're
129. 7:23all having stuff on that's that's
130. 7:26invented by the people performing it and
131. 7:28we this is the greatest act I've ever
132. 7:33seen well I just
133. 7:35[Applause]
134. 7:40teller loved it the audience loved it
135. 7:43but I was in a whole other level for the
136. 7:45moment we started talking I just I just
137. 7:48dug everything it was just the whole
138. 7:50performance is just beautiful and the
139. 7:53other thing is that magic is is almost
140. 7:57entirely visual and conceptual you never
141. 8:02get magic that's really tactile it's the
142. 8:04whole act the the backbone of it being
143. 8:06tactile is it's just mind-blowing it's a
144. 8:09whole different way to see it the prop
145. 8:11looks clean and simple and there's just
146. 8:14nothing to it and a lot of people who
147. 8:18invent a they they stand on the
148. 8:21shoulders of giants
149. 8:22but you're not you stand on your own we
150. 8:26[Applause]
151. 8:30so consequently we got nothing to go on
152. 8:34we got no way to figure out anything
153. 8:37because you invented the damn thing so
154. 8:39all the knowledge we have all the things
155. 8:42we build on does not help us and because
156. 8:45you invented it from scratch you fooled
157. 8:48us from scratch
158. 8:49[Applause]
159. 9:02[Music]
160. 9:03[Applause]