Chinese Face-Changing (Bian Lian)

[mr13579100]

you need amazing sleight of hand. dont know the secret, but i know you need that for most of the changes

[nameno1elsehas]

haha very nice

[svartiske]

Valar Morghulis

[jasonduffey81]

@svartiske  "Valar dohaeris"

[renshengmasituan]

what the song name? anyone?

[llpllpllp]

what is the song name?

[osheen18]

very entertaining, he's got some good kungfu to me. thanks for posting

[Th3RantDoctor]

1:56 how?????????/

[Zanny697899]

@Th3RantDoctor i know how they do it but it is a secret :)

[blackhawk777]

his left hand is trigger something behind his cape. every time he changes face, his left hand is always in his cape at his back.

[joelcantstop]

@blackhawk777 bullshit, see 3:00 minutes

[CoastersUSA]

Song name?

[devilhunterred]

This guy is still an amateur.

If you want to see a real master:

watch?v=Zzy6Xy654u4

Simply amazing.

[emily1993blunt]

nice

[FatSurgeon630]

awesome......cool......nice performance.

[yanto172]

sometimes up 12 silk masks that are individually retracted downward into the costume of the dancer. a trigger is used and can be placed just about anywhere on the body including hands boots ect ect

[devilhunterred]

I don't think it's that simple.

If it is people wouldn't need to beg for the masters to teach them the art.

Once a Japanese TV channel set up a show for a Face Changing master from China, and had more than 12 cameras set up at different angles trying to see how the trick is actually done: They failed. Even with slow motion it's still too fast for the camera.

Also, face changing masters can also chance their costume in an instant, watch this one:

watch?v=Zzy6Xy654u4

[devilhunterred]

Also, most masters of face changing have up to 30 different faces in a performance.

A world master of face changing called Wai Shui-kan broke the Guiness Book of World Record by changing 60 faces in 3 minutes.

He is now working on changing 100 faces in 3 minutes.....

Explain to me how do you store 60-100 faces in a costume.

[killerwaz88]

This is not a human being. This is some supernatural being.

NO WAY IS THIS HUMAN!!

[torentazos]

@killerwaz88 sorry dude but.. it is REAL! and he is human...

[idonknowmyname1]

(Bian Tai)

[anko8aug]

(( (()) (()) ][_ stuff!

[parthman5000]

Anybody know the name of this song? I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out! Thanks!

[jefjays]

I asked a friend a few days ago and she told me it's called Chuan Ju? Can anybody confirm?

[bboybiogrind]

secret is that u must learn how to apply the mask swiftly =D n maybe certain mask which i think is actually a special paper mask

[AnotherAwesomeAsian]

hehhe I know, those mask is very very very very very thin thin thin and could easily blow out, when it is blown, it will be invinsible to see it thought with eye. ( can only see when is in the face) must be some sort of special substance

[IJustEpicFailed]

it costs about how much? 360,000 US dollars to learn it.

But they aren't allowed to give it away.

[FeiLunHairox112]

hahah... andy lau had to pay 3 million RMB to learn it... but he's not a master yet

[Loreny]

SORPRENDENTE O_O!!!!!!!!!!

[raziel899]

just fucking amazing

[sal2577]

hidden string flowing throw inside his shirt he could pull, leaving the masks change and slide under his shirt by jus pulling quickly =)

[KillerNinjaM0nkey]

make up on his shirt?

[asdfxyz1]

i would tip this guy a benjamin

[mr13579100]

@asdfxyz1 i would tip him a ferrai

[clairejinlipurple]

i remember this song from some kind of show i dont remember i just remember the song from when i was in china. what's it from???

[asdfxyz1]

it probably was a show. where else would you hear this song? its a well known song too.

[peterparker820]

i beleiev the masks are made out of some kind of elastic material such as nylon or something along the lines of nylon. but my guess is that these people have layers of this painted nylon pulled over their face from underneath their shirt. so when this guy nods his head the right way, the material very quickly gets pulled underneath the shirt. if you pause and unpause the video very quickly at the 1:57 mark you can make it slow motion and kinda see the mask get pulled down.

[SoCalHerps]

I thought of that too, but this trick has been done for hundreds of years. They didn't have nylon back then.

[asdfxyz1]

but the material would have to go down his face, go at an angle under his chin, and another angle down his neck.

[SoCalHerps]

If only someone took a VERY VERY High definition camera, then put it in slow-mo. Im sure the secret would easily be revealed then.

[SoCalHerps]

I believe I found the concept to this illusion. The only thing i'll say is : Its not his cape, or hat.

Of course I could be wrong, but I'll have to test my theory by actually trying this myself.

Very entertaining!

[Wufnu]

Pause it after a mask change. Then go before the mask change. Look for a hand behind the back. That jerking, when the mask is changed, is caused by the hand at the back moving. Man, that was hard. I can see why this was a secret for so long. ::-) 王变脸没有披风，这是因为他是了变脸的王 ;)

[Wufnu]

Er, forgot to mention: strings from the bottom of the mask go down down his neck and through his shirt, coming out around his back. He reaches back and pull the string for the mask he's wearing. At least, that's how he's doing. Others have done it without having to do that, using other techniques. Some are truly amazing but not this one. I like the ones that show their real face, then switch to a mask.

[wildstyled]

I've seen one that changes while you're looking at him...like he has the mask and then without moving, his real face appears...it's like if you blink, you completely miss the transition. I think it would be SO cool to learn this. I heard Andy Lau convinced one of the people to teach him a little (at least I think it was him).

[blingchachink93]

Actually, I've seen and held a few of these masks that these face changers use and they're actually very hard and there is absolutely no string whatsoever. I think that would be pretty hard to pull down his neck without making it obvious. It should be very complex and not easy to reveal if its a long-kept secret : )

[blingchachink93]

Actually, when i was in china, i took my HD camera and played it back VeRY VERY slowly and surprisingly, even then, it seemed like he could change his mask at an instant. Its a secret that we just might never know : )

[DaKurlz]

best

[CreeXative]

does anyone notice how he opens his cape thingy everytime he changes a mask even when he does the nod like somehow hes throwing them into some kinda hole in his cape and then dances around with it like hes pushing them in the back of him lol

[kensautosurf]

fuck he is quick... love it when he did that nod and the face just change.

[thespeedracer13]

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT SONG?

[kadaj2172]

amazing, I love face changing.

[coolbull909]

what is the name of this song?

[grobo13]

it's his hat

[nightkiller1198]

i saw this guy at sea world it was great

[ninjacow]

They use that song a lot for this stuff... lol

[fireballblast10]

lol asian

[x3riiaa]

what theeeeeeee

whattttttttttttttttt.

[sl1ew]

lol saw this one tv a lot. its pretty cool. nice vid