Magic is universally appealing. Regardless of age, everyone can enjoy a good magic trick, making magicians a suitable entertainment choice for events with a diverse age range of guests, like a wedding.

“I gallantly took the opportunity for the better good of the art of magic, when all other magicians backed away.”

He said he was afraid magic had taken a backseat to movies and video games and was in danger of being forgotten. He said he wanted to let the viewers in on the magic to increase their appreciation of the art and force magicians to reinvent, letting go of “old and tired tricks.” Far Val has given three different noble reasons for telling other magicians’ secrets.

Many magicians can tailor their performances to the couple, incorporating their story or aspects of their relationship into the magic act.
1. Inspire children to learn magic.
2. Increase the spectator’s appreciation of magic.Interactive Experience
3. Force other magicians to reinvent.
Unlike some other forms of entertainment, magic is interactive and participatory, allowing guests to feel more involved in the event.

None of those reasons seem valid, however. Children have always wanted to learn magic. When a group of spectators sees a magic show, some people in the group want to learn how it was done—even more if the tricks aren’t explained throughout. You don’t increase a spectator’s appreciation of magic by indulging them when they say, “How did you do that?” Often, even usually, the method is disappointing, leaving the spectator with less appreciation. Forcing other magicians to reinvent new methods? That’s probably the lamest excuse. There have always been innovative magicians, and there always will be. If “old magic” were a problem, then the noble magician wouldn’t sell out on national TV and then claim he was only trying to encourage other magicians to do new material. The right thing to do is to invent new magic. That would be like Miley Cyrus making 20 million of copies of a new Taylor Swift album and selling the 20 million copies. When the judge asks Miley, “Why have you done this?” She answers, “I did it to encourage Taylor Swift to come up with new music.” That doesn’t fly. ‘Breaking the Magicians’ Code’ gave Leonard the chance to do an act he otherwise couldn’t do, complete with big, expensive illusions and lots of scantily clad female assistants. One thing to his credit, he never revealed the secrets behind any contemporary magic tricks. He made it all up! In our era, magicians do magic in new ways. His “explanations” were garbage, except for Sawing a Woman in Half. He did explain the way that one was done… back in the late 1800’s. We use different techniques these days. The explanations the magician did report were amusing and entertaining, but a clever method is not what a professional magician looks for when crafting a magic trick on the level . The true zoom magician couldn’t care less about the cleverness or intrigue of the method. He is concerned with the effect of the trick on an audience, who will never see the technique (it is hoped).

In 2012, the same publisher tried to make an action/adventure movie in which a masked magician fights crime using illusions, but that movie didn’t happen.

What happened to Val Valentino?

• We’ve given Valentino one year to get his things in order.