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I Recently saw David Copperfield at a local performance, and he was not impressing at all. There was a few good tricks but other than that, every thing was either filler or boasting himself. What an ego I'll tell you that.

I've always thought he was a bit "Look how good I am" "I am the magic"
Magicians should be a little humble I think, or they become too detached from the audience.

I saw him at Butlins once..... no, hang on, that was the other david copperfield.

I heard David Copperfield is all TV tricks and really low-blow illusions [edited] I do not even know if they are right about how he does his stuff, but that's what I hear. Anyone know if this is true?

JAlexBrown

JAlexBrown wrote:I heard David Copperfield is all TV tricks and really low-blow illusions I do not even know if they are right about how he does his stuff, but that's what I hear. Anyone know if this is true?

JAlexBrown

No it's not true. He really did make the statue of liberty disappear for a short while. Why do you think he's on the telly if he doesn't really do magic?

JAlexBrown wrote:I heard David Copperfield is all TV tricks and really low-blow illusions . I do not even know if they are right about how he does his stuff, but that's what I hear. Anyone know if this is true?

JAlexBrown

Sure, that's why he's the highest paid magician in history. Second to him was Siegfried & Roy (by just a couple of million a year) followed fairly close by Lance Burton.

Bear in mind, David's FLYING illusion had over a half-million dollars tied up in the R&D side of it... the Statute of Liberty came in at just under a quarter million dollars

None of your current Tv icons even make close to what David use to pay in Taxes each year.

He's also invested mindboggling sums of cash in that private Museum of his, full of original props by the great and the good of yesteryear. You can't do that on minimum wage !

Mandrake wrote:He's also invested mindboggling sums of cash in that private Museum of his, full of original props by the great and the good of yesteryear. You can't do that on minimum wage !

Don't remind me

Last time I was in Vegas and went through the Museum Dave kept poking me in the ribs and saying, "Didn't that use to be yours?"

He's still a big prancing cheeseball at the end of the day though.

As long as you add 'successful and extremely wealthy' in that phrase you'd be getting close !

Well yes, that goes without saying.
I've never liked his flying around business though. It's too obvious to everyone how he's doing it, it's just you can't see the strings (well not always, hehe). Where's the mystery and magic in that? All it proves is he has more money and a big research department. In my view, it's fooling no one, and just showing off.

beeno wrote:In my view, it's fooling no one, and just showing off.

LMAO

beeno wrote:Well yes, that goes without saying.
I've never liked his flying around business though. It's too obvious to everyone how he's doing it, it's just you can't see the strings (well not always, hehe). Where's the mystery and magic in that? All it proves is he has more money and a big research department. In my view, it's fooling no one, and just showing off.

Ahhh... no strings bubba!

And it's so "obvious" that many people think it's real and swear he flies out over the audience and even out of doors. In fact, it's such a poorly made effect that John Gaughan only gets between $50,000.00 and $80,0000.00 a unit for them and he's made close to a dozen I believe.

I really think you need to be careful in your expressed opinion here, it's either a matter of personal jealousy or you're pumping for info... I'm not certain which.

I know quite well how the Flying works and even knowing it, I've never seen a single flash on any of the technical workings.

If you do a good coin routine, or card trick, or a mentalist routine, the audience say "I've no idea how he did that"

If you ask "How does David Copperfield fly?"
They say "Well he's on strings, it's just that you can't see them"

I was under the impression he used a mixture of magnets and hair dryers ponted upwards