Uri Geller Key Bending: An Illuminating Angle

Here you can see Uri Geller bend the key (when he says, hilariously, "It's impossible to bend it like this...it's impossible!"). He then clearly tilts the key to make it appear as if it's bending. See my video "Randi on Geller -- Annotated" for a demonstration of this illusion.

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• Uri
• Geller
• Key
• Bending
• Illustion
• Trick
• Fraud
• Fake
• Unreal
• Psychic
• Superstar
• Mentalism
• Italian
• Television
• Spoon
• Metal

[dawidofff]

i think that is a shape memorizing metal which change shape when it gets warm or cold, when hes rubbing it, ti gets warm and bends, its really that simple ; )

[irritatedbyGeller]

The trick isn't even that complex -- all you need to do is bend the key when no one is looking (or disguise the bending), and then use a technique to give the illusion that it's bending whilst you rub it. It's really that simple.

[maddog050]

you guys are idiots. its not a magic trick. he's giving lesson on how to give keys boners

[GamertownUSA]

LOL! The key's already bent.

The modern day camera is the illusionist's worst nightmare. Unlike people, the camera never gets distracted. It just keeps filming.

[TraceurMeeka]

what i find surprising is that this shitty act fooled so many people in the first place, when you say bend a spoon with your mind, i imagine you hold it at the end and it bends the fuck out of itself like its alive, not grab it with two hands awkwardly so you can barely see the spoon itself and proceed to rub it weirdly whilst grasping 90% of it in your hand.

[WaxItYourself]

You can even see the key already bent when he starts rubbing it. What he does with the hand holding the head of the key is to adjust the plane of the head upward to make the lower section rise so it appears as if it's bending.

[021music]

He bent the key then he started to moving his left hand downwards while rubbing the right hand against it.

Even a 2-year old can understand this better than some stupid people.

He is a great magician but super power for him doesn't exist.

There are people out there with superpower and none of them would reveal it because we hate to be called freaks.

[bigguitar22]

Fraud!

[tavolo22]

Any faster and that key is going to climax.

[YumClock]

@dawidofff

But this is quite fun, as well.

[weavehole]

Its amazing how good the trick looks. Even watching carefully and knowing how its done it's difficult to spot the first time.

Rewind and you see the angle of the yellow bit of the key changes from about 45 degrees to level.

Geller: what a gimp he is.

Rich gimp though.

Gimp.

[MzSkater47]

no, that is when it is intentionally bent with the use of something hard e.g. table or chair, i know - i am a magician

my usual magic channel was 1MadVd, but got deleted so is now MrMadVd but hardly anything is up

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

A method magicians call, "ratcheting."

[Prometheus666333]

@dawidofff No it's not.