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i don't know if anyone agrees with me but to me it seems as if criss angel is to much like blaine. On his dvd for coin through soda can it says he has a unique style of magic, but his whole performance seems very "blaine'y" to me. ALso on the clips for his t.v show it appears the same.
Blaine captivated the spectators attention by being very dark and mysterious and that's why people liked him. But i can't help seeing to many similarities between the two. what does anyone else think?

CriagCox opening a can of worms there

David Blaine is a bit of a marmight charecter, you iether love him or hate him people generaly have very strong opinions.

I think Criss Takes this even further to the extreme, i have an absolute dislike for Criss, and yet I'm unable to define or explain it ... i just dont like the guy ... i love the coin in soda effect, but wished that Wayne Houchin had released it as his own instead oh letting Criss hop on board.

Rob

Criss Angel compared to David Blaine?

A bit like comparing Marylin Manson to Marti Pellow... all they've got in common is singing.

I think you'll find that Criss's style of magic is totally different to Blaine. Whereas Blaine is typically no more than your average street magician (yes, there WERE street magicians before Blaine), Criss Angel (though I don't personally like him) has a unique, contemporary, risque, fresh, black and gothic stage illusion persona.

I can't really draw any parallels between the two I am afraid.

Granted that Blaine performed some rather huge and spectacular event illusions, but Blaine just isn't a stage performer at all. It just wouldn't happen.

Wheras Angel is a true showman, the 'dark' Copperfield. His huge and elaborate illusions are a far cry from a man biting through a dollar, or resurrecting a dead fly.

I am afraid I am in 100% disagreement with Mr Cox!

craigcox893 wrote:i don't know if anyone agrees with me but to me it seems as if criss angel is to much like blaine.

To play Devil's Advocat for a moment, in what ways to Angel and Blaine differ?

Tomo wrote:

craigcox893 wrote:i don't know if anyone agrees with me but to me it seems as if criss angel is to much like blaine.

To play Devil's Advocat for a moment, in what ways to Angel and Blaine differ?

Apart from style and content?

They are VERY different....

Tomo wrote:

craigcox893 wrote:i don't know if anyone agrees with me but to me it seems as if criss angel is to much like blaine.

To play Devil's Advocat for a moment, in what ways to Angel and Blaine differ?

Criss Angel actually had a hit show in a legit Time Square theater for several years... Blaine is nothing other than a street urchant who lucked into a situation... Angel has real money that he's earned actually working as a legit performer; Blaine has a horrid reputation for hustling folks and not paying his bills.

Angel has had an actual paid career as a performer, consultant and illusion designer since the latter 80s, Blaine is a flash in the pan when it comes to public recognition and has proven to be a turn-off when it comes to the "money people" that make things happen.

The one thing the two of them do share in common is ego; something that is destroying either of them and bringing about a major movement from within the industry to no longer support them as part of their creative network.

You will find, as the dust clears around these two and all the excitement they've generated over the past few years, it will be Copperfield and Burton at the top of the list and most engendered to the public... THEY are the thing, legends are made of and the type of performer from whence longevity is proven:wink:

Craig Browning wrote: it will be Copperfield and Burton at the top of the list and most engendered to the public...

I hope you didn't mean to use the term engendered, otherwise thats a really distrubing image.....

What was wrong with his use of engendered?

And while we're at it, what's a distrubing image?

Demitri wrote:What was wrong with his use of engendered?

And while we're at it, what's a distrubing image?

I think he meant to say endeared? Engendered means to procreate.
Now you know why I was so distrubed. I did after all write the post having picked myself off the floor.

EDIT: Craig, please don't take my comments the wrong way. It just struck me as being v. funny.

I fully accept that I will be chastised for childish behaviour, and interpreting words in the lewdest way possible.

Well, I was talking about Copperfield

Actually, I do believe I used the word in an appropriate way... I've heard it used to mean "a closeness" or "fondness"... but then, I've been wrong before...

Endeared works - but engendered can also mean propagate, so both words work equally well.

To defend pdjamez - that word certainly LOOKS creepy!

Craig, your usage may be correct. English is a living language, so I don't doubt that it has a variety of meanings dependent upon where the speaker happens to be standing at the time.

It just so happens that my synapses fired in a particular order, and I found myself laughing uncontrollably. The idea that Burton and Copperfield would put together a mass stunt where they procreate with a large crowd in order to take the limelight away from Blaine, appealed to my schoolboy humour.


EDIT: Sorry about the length of that last sentence. Feel free to breath at any point as you read.