Quote: "I saw david copperfield back in I think 1992 and thought it was cool"
He was amazing. And let's be fair here, magicians can do some amazing things, but 99% of the time the trick is really simple. 1% of the time the trick is really complicated. But 0% of the time is it actually real magic. Cos it doesn't exist. Amazing how some people sort of believe it though.
I remember the great wall of China trick Copperfield did, and worked it out as a kid. I normally am rubbish at working out the tricks, but I got that one. First bit was getting away from everyone unnoticed. Well if you can't do that then might as well quit being a top magician. Then on the other side of the wall they had a fabric flat against the wall and two men holding it. Copperfield then appeared to come through the wall. You could see his arms stretching the fabric and his face. Seemed obvious at the time that the arms were the blokes holding the fabrics arms, and the "face" was a mask attached to one of their arms by a wire or somesuch. Easy. They then raised a curtain and Copperfield then ended the trick by appearing when it dropped. But the last bit is again a simple trick you see all the time. Not hard. The immovable Great wall of China was the extra bit to make it a huge trick.
As for the other trick he did, making the statue of liberty disappear, I didn't work that out, but a lot of people come to the same conclusion online. He rotated the stage slowly so the statue hid behind an object near them. Bloody brilliant. Probably cost a load of cash to do it, was a huge trick at the time all over the TV, and what did he do? Something so amazingly simple it's almost beyond belief. Gotta love the clever gits...
Although Claudia Schiffer was probably the best trick he ever pulled...
Cheers
I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
Current fave quote : "She was like a candle in the wind.... unreliable...."
