The card trick at the beginning

A little late to the party, but....

I've done this trick a few times and am able to get it to work most of the time. However there are multiple ways of doing it. The multiple sevens being one of them, however you don't need to do it this way. You can also cut the card right before it to make the seven stay just a bit longer, or alternatively just pull the card right before it down so it isn't even with the with the rest of the deck making the seven stay a bit longer. There is also a method where you glue a couple cards together.

If you want to do this yourself here are a couple tricks;
- Practice - when you run through the deck you want it to look as natural as possible
- don't give the person you are doing it to that much time to think about their answer (the card they picked), if you do it right there will be multiple cards they could have seen, but the point is they know for sure they saw the forced card.
- don't make the forced card an ace of spades or something people won't want to pick
- if you are going to do the quick change for the reveal at the end (like David Blaine), it will help to have at least two of the same card. (This movie actually shows you how to do this as well, it's when jesse is being interrogated near the beginning of the movie)but isn't really necessary.

David Blaine does the same trick in this video. Extended exposure is the main factor I guess.

https://youtu.be/Kn1D0SiCQRM?t=799

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Last movie watched: Pacific Rim (5/10)

There are plenty of ways to do that trick in real life, as others have pointed out. Add some movie editing into the mix and you could easily make the 7 of Diamonds very distinct and the rest of the cards blurry or quicker.

It was an awesome way to start out the movie though. I picked that card too, and when it lit up on the skyscraper it got me excited about the movie real quickly.

It's actually really simple. All the card except 7 of diamonds were black and as the shuffling speed was fast, our mind only picked the card which was not in order. Our mind can easily see things that are not in order ,which is useful but sometimes can be decieving

I picked it both times, so yeah.