When McQueen was having dinner with Christian and her parents he showed an amazing card trick. I was wondering how he did that. Is there anybody who can do that trick?
shareIt's a movie. There was no card trick. The first time the whole deck was the three of hearts, so no matter which card he picked, it was the three of hearts. Similarly for the second time.
You want to see some real card tricks that will blow your mind? Watch the first 5 minutes of Shade.
I don't think it was a trick deck because it was an old deck that the family happened to have around and he performed the trick twice with two different cards. Remember, at the beginning of the trick he had them all turned over face-up. I think he just had some kind of sick photographic memory that transferred to his poker skills. Poker legend Stu Ungar may have had a similar talent.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
Umm. It is a movie. The deck was made for the movie. There were two decks. One deck was all of one card, the second deck was all of the second card. You talk like it was an actual family with an actual deck of cards laying around in a drawer somewhere.
shareIf you go to any Magic Store or Store that sells Magic Trick and buy a Magic Deck of Cards
Or better yet go to the Library and pick up a book on Card Tricks and you to can Lean how to do this Trick.
Serious it is a great Magic Trick when you can pull it off.
I'm not suggesting it is impossible. Rather that as it is a movie, there is no reason to suspect an actor can do it, and there is no need to require him to.
shareRight, but they also probably wouldn't use editing to show a trick that is impossible to do in real life. Not in a movie that tries to be realistic like this, at least.
shareYou too can learn this trick here is how you do it.
1.) Get up off your Rear.
2.) Find the nearest Library
3.) Go to Library
4.) Ask Librarian if they have books on Card Tricks
5.) Check out Book on Card Tricks
6.) learn Card Trick
7.) Practice
8.) Practice
9.) Practice
10.) Amaze your friends and Family with Card Trick.
Or
1.) Go on Google
2.) Type in Card Tricks
3.) look for card trick you like to learn
4.) Practice
5.) Practice
6.) Practice
7.) Amaze your Family and Friends with Card trick
Or
1.) Pick up a deck of Trick cards at the local Novilty Store
2.) Learn Trick
3.) Practice
4.) Practice
5.) Practice
6.) Amaze everyone you meet with a cool Magic Trick.
And I am sure that this poor farmer family in the middle of the depression had enough money lying around to be able to go to the Magic store and buy a deck of trick cards.
shareI read the book about 40 years ago and I believe it mentioned that Eric had a photographic memory. That's why he lays the cards out face up first.
It also helps him with the poker. Knowing what cards are out and then what the odds are that a certain card will come up or is already face down.
Yeah, Cincinnati has memorized the sequence of the cards when they are face up, when they are flipped over he still knows which card is which.
Exactly. I don't know if its a photographic memory as much as it is simply an incredible awareness of know which cards are where in the deck and as it implies his awareness of cards played during the game. Even with an photographic memory it would be a difficult trick.
shareHe memorized the lay of the cards before flipping them over - the purpose of the scene was to show how the Kid was able to 'win over' Christian's backwoods family, who were kind of cold to him up to that point. (Mabel: Dat dere card-playing city fella is sleepin wit oor dotter)
If you want to see amazin card tricks, watch Ricky Jay - look him up on Google. Jay has acted a bit - he appeared in the film 'The Spanish Prisoner', a movie about a swindle involving another kind of 'sleight of hand'.
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Yea, I'm not really sure what the point of this scene was. It's not explained at all and serves really no purpose to the movie. Did he memorize them? Did he play a trick? Is he psychic? But besides all that, Why do we care? It has nothing to do with poker or the character development between these parental characters of his gf, or even his gf and his relationship.
It's just some BS filler scene.
PS- I suppose back in the 60s people thought maybe he was 'reading' their faces as someone suggested. But that is just ludicrous, even if he was good at reading people there is no way in hell he could guess the exact rank and suit of a card twice in a row unless he's a freakin witch doctor. bleh
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There's no way to tell what a random person's reaction to cards is, so no, he didn't read their faces and psychologically deduce their cards. We see him reciting a mental arithmetic training book before he leaves for the game, so we can assume he's highly intelligent and mentally apt. The only way to do the card trick he pulled without cheating (without looking in a mirror) is to memorize the cards, which is why he flips them face up before turning them face down. Like someone else has said, he probably has a photographic memory. The card trick scene and the arithmetic book scene are there to show us that he's got a brilliant mind. It's the same thing as in Rounders where Matt Damon is shown with a library of poker books and attends law school, the director shows that he's an intelligent player.
As for reading players' hands, you don't have to be a genius psychoanalyst. It may seem weird/mystical to non-poker players when somebody "guesses" a player's hand exactly, but the game has many patterns and it's sometimes possible to know precisely what a player is holding just by the situation. Plus he's a very experienced/smart player, so he can do that more often and deduce the opponents' steps "deeper" so it'll seem more odd when he does it.
That's the whole appeal of the game to intelligent players and the reason it's so popular with the business and finance crowd. It's about evaluating situations and assessing your hand values, and that's not based solely on the cards. The bluff is one example of a way that alters the value of your hand, and it's just the lowest level of the game's complexity.
It's atrick! if everybody knew it. it wouldn't be a trick anymore.
shareYeah just like in Rounders, only difference is Rounders sucks.
No connection to the thread, just wanted to say that out loud.
I think the scene is very important. It shows how astute his observational skills are. Fantastic for poker.
"Seriously, lighten up, if you don't like it, just let it go and move on to the next film."
It is supposed to show that he has a great awareness for what cards are played and when in a game. If one guy folds a 4 of hearts right away you have to know that the guy against you can't have 4 fours during the showdown. It helps to show one of the reasons why he is so good (and why I stink) at poker.
shareUnlike the idiot above, I'm aware how important this scene really was. When you're playing stud poker, whether it be 5 card, 7 card, etc., it is EXTREMELY important to remember what cards have already been shown (i.e. other players' upcards). If someone folds a hand, you can no longer see what they have, therefore it's important to remember every hand as best you can.
For instance, let's say you're playing 5 card stud and you have a pair of 9s (either split or showing). You're going to call down someone's bet who doesn't have a pair showing until you remember that two other people folded 9s, thus eliminating your chance of hitting your third 9.
The point of this scene was to show The Kid's fantastic photographic memory (as the book talks about) which can instantly memorize the cards on the table. It's a hell of a skill and not an exaggerated one. I've seen people who can do stuff like this.
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He places all the cards face up and then turns them over and the parents pick a card, he then knows the card.
He has memorised every card while they were face up, he is a gambler.
Of course the easier answer and the one that is more common today is that the cards are marked.