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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Marie Myung-Ok 명옥 Lee

      The story of The Prestige was loosely based on the story of Chung Ling Soo, one of the most famous stage magicians of the 19th century and an utterly shameless race faker (he has a brief cameo in the first act of the movie)https://twitter.com/MarieMyungOkLee/status/1301607543538683910 …

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      Marie Myung-Ok 명옥 LeeVerified account @MarieMyungOkLee
      How come no one ever fakes being Asian?
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      It inspired The Prestige because it was just such a truly elaborate and offensive scam He and his wife were both in on it and both pretended to be Chinese at all times in public, wearing yellowface makeup and "exotic" clothing, speaking in a thick accent, etc

      2 replies 2 retweets 111 likes
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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      He wasn't just a fake Chinese guy He was *specifically* ripping off another magician, Ching Ling Foo, who actually was Chinese Stealing his whole act, top to bottom, including his ethnicity

      2 replies 6 retweets 126 likes
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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      Ching Ling Foo had offered a $1,000 prize to anyone who could figure out the secret of his famous disappearing goldfish bowl trick (which is referenced in the movie) A young white man named Bill Robinson tried to claim the prize, but Ching ignored him

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      And, as often happens with white men in the performing arts, he took it kind of personally

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      But yeah another way in which it inspired The Prestige was this became a full on feud When Ching Ling Foo became aware of Chung Ling Soo and realized who he was he became obsessed with exposing him

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

          Which Bill Robinson/Chung Ling Soo responded to amazingly dickishly, including firing back that maybe Ching was attacking him because *he* was the impostor in yellowface makeup stealing his act It got ugly

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

          The only reason the whole story came out to the general public is that Chung Ling Soo died onstage due to a botched bullet catch trick (also referenced in The Prestige) Not, as a melodrama would have it, at the hands of his rival, just some random asshole

          3 replies 3 retweets 85 likes
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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

          (Ching Ling Foo had given up on the feud and moved back to China He got shot because he was doing a bullet catch trick and the person in charge of loading the fake bullet fucked it up It's why the first rule of magic is you don't fuck with tricks involving firearms)

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

          And as a result his whole act became a matter of a police homicide inquiry, which is the whole framing device The Prestige uses

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