There was a discussion here a few years back about his “trick” to make a train car disappear. It’s obviously uses stooges. Hardly impressive. It all seems to be like that.
In searching for the vid, I saw there seems to be a “David Copperfield Channel” with him doing audio commentaries, etc. But it hasn’t posted a “new” video in 4 years.
Jeff from Coupling (2000):
“… so why did Claudia Schiffer bleep David Copperfield? …There’s a supermodel who shags total prats and I don’t know where she lives.”
And, I suspect it’s not owned/run by Copperfield, either. Youtube channels that are “official artist channels” have a little icon by the name, and that channel doesn’t. I suspect it’s just run by a fan, posting videos of Copperfield from various sources.
In the story I linked to from yesterday’s episode of CBS Sunday Morning, the correspondent mentioned YouTube videos that attempt to explain how David Copperfield is able to do his tricks, but some of these videos are actually red herrings, or false explanations, that Copperfield himself posts.
The size of Copperfield’s tricks make them less impressive. The flying illusion showed him flying through a ring at the beginning. That was very impressive. But after that there was nothing, drawn out to long.
Similar, the Statue of Liberty trick was pretty obvious, like something from Banacek.
He could be good when he stuck with smaller tricks, but more is less.
Note that he showed a model of a new trick on CBS Sunday Morning.
Huh, the only version I’ve seen has his Lovely Assistants twirling the rings as they pass over him. I guess it’s supposed to look like an impressive flourish, but to me it just screamed “be careful to avoid hitting the wires”. He’d have called less attention to the wires by not using the rings at all. Or, you know, with the usual magician standard of rings with small gaps in them.
And the rest of his flying has him either hovering in place and striking poses, or moving through three-dimensional space while just “standing” there. It looked like he hadn’t mastered the art of swooping while flying.
The one I saw was his crossing the Grand Canyon. He went straight through a simple ring at the beginning. That was impressive. The flying after that was not.
