How do they "cut people in half" in magic tricks?

Question

Have you ever seen that magic trick where a person goes into a box then the magician "cuts them in 2. How do they do that?!?!?

Answer 1

I figured this one out by watching Chris Angel's work.
They use two people. In Angel's show the woman who made up the top half of the body was one of those people who is missing the lower part of her body; you know like those people you sometimes see on TV rolling around on skateboards and such. The other person is one of those twisty people who can hide their upper half between their legs. On Chris' show he cut himself in half in front of witnesses. This took a lot of work. Someone was bent down and hiding in the pants half while Chris had his legs tucked and restrained tightly behind his back. In the video I could see his feet sticking out near his armpits. The two people are held together and one is sitting on top of the other. It must take a lot of work to make it look seamless as the one walking must know how to walk around not seeing where they are going. This is how I think it is done.

Answer 2

The illusion can be created many ways.

The old traditional, well-known version is to use two women or a woman and some sort of toy or puppet for the feet.

A lot of the illusion is how the people fit- which can be done with optical illusions (making a big space look smaller), contortion, or just careful psychology, making you think one thing is happening when something else is going on.

Chriss Angel does a rather odd version using what looks like two people- a unique approach that would not work in most situations.

Many big stage illusionists have taken to more and more elaborate versions, trying to eliminate the boxes, or make everything more visible and harder to figure out.

That is part of the fun of magic- trying to stay ahead of the guesses!

Answer 3

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How do they "cut people in half" in magic tricks?
Have you ever seen that magic trick where a person goes into a box then the magician "cuts them in 2. How do they do that?!?!?

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Answer 5

The most popular way to do it is to have another person in the lower half of the box. That way they can move the legs and the person you see get in can move the head. However, most magicians now use variations of the trick which make the above impossible. Look at Criss Angel for example. He knows that's what the common thing is so he goes out of his way to prove that's not what he's doing.

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Answer 8

the person in the box folds up, they are contortionists. what sticks out is someone elses legs or fake ones. But they do it so well don't they?

Answer 9

its an age old secret, there is 2 compartments are 2 people