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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Mitch Hurwitz, creator of Arrested Development, actually is also a stage magician, and created the character of Gob to roast his fellow magicians as hard as he could "We Demand to be Taken Seriously" is way too accurate a burn to ever live down
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For my sins, I used to be really into stage magic and harbor thoughts of being a magician someday I remember reading a book by Derren Brown that just goes into hilarious self deprecation about what kind of person makes magic their career
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