David Copperfield, formerly known as David Kotkin[1], was born in 1956 to a Russian immigrant family in New Jersey, USA. He has been interested in magic since he was a child. This introverted and shy man found his intelligence won the admiration of his peers and his confidence doubled. At 12 years old, David is already able to perform magic skillfully, comparable to professional magicians. Soon he joined the National Society of Magicians, becoming the youngest member of this world-renowned magic organization. Beginning in 1972, at the age of 16, David began teaching magic courses to art students at New York University.
In 1974, after graduating from Mason High School in New Jersey, David entered Fordham University. At this time, Chicago's "Magic" operetta invited him to lead a new musical magic drama. Only three weeks after David dropped out of college, he devoted himself to the creation of "The Devil". Not only did he design and create all the magic required in the show, he also created the style of cabaret magic that made this musical comedy unique and became the longest-running musical comedy in Chicago history. After the show ended, David returned to New York. On the basis of further summarizing his experience, he perfected and developed his own magic style and became a magic star who stood out from his peers. At the age of 20, David was invited by CBS President Silverman to serve as host of a new television special for ABC. The show, titled "ABC's Magic," stars David and 14 other stars from the ABC Television Network. The novel was well received by all walks of life and became a highly rated program. From then on, David Copperfield's extraordinary magic performances were introduced to audiences across the United States. Later, David collaborated with CBS to film a series of special programs called "The Wizarding World of David Copperfield." His superb magic skills shocked thousands of television viewers.
Where does his inspiration come from? In David Copperfield's own words, inspiration "came not only from other magicians" but also from people in the entertainment industry, such as rock bands or visual artists. David said: "I once wanted to be a songwriter, and I admire those songwriters because they can put their own experiences of life into songs, and at the same time, they can also use songs to express themselves." I always wanted to Creating a timeless rock song, but now, I’m creating magical “stories” that I hope to touch listeners with. I can express myself through what I create now. "
David Copperfield is the greatest magician of all time. For 30 years, he has exceeded people's imagination time and time again, turning seemingly "impossible tasks" into reality. Big With his outstanding performance, Wei has won 19 American Television Arts Emmy Awards. The box office and revenue of his performances are far behind classic programs such as "The Lion King", "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera". His large-scale performance "Dreams and Nightmares". ” still holds the Broadway box office record.
In 1968, 12-year-old David Copperfield emerged in the magic circle and became the youngest member of the American Society of Magicians.
< p>In 1972, when he was only 16 years old, David taught magic arts courses at New York University.From 65438 to 0974, David played the leading role in the musical "The Devil" and began to create his own. Magic.
From 65438 to 0977, David started his TV show career, gradually making the name "David Copperfield" a household name.
65438-0979 In 2001, David played a role in the movie "Terror Train" and demonstrated his acting skills.
From 65438 to 0980, David became the first person ever to be awarded the title of "Magician of the Year" by the American Association of Magical Arts. The youngest artist ever. In 1981, David made a 7-ton jet disappear in plain sight. In the same year, the American Society of Artists awarded him the "Entertainment Star of the Year" award. p>
From 65438 to 0982, David launched a "magic project" to treat diseases and improve body sensitivity through magic.
In 1983, in front of numerous live audiences and 50 million people. In front of the television audience, the Statue of Liberty in New York suddenly disappeared under David's wand.
From 65438 to 0984, David became the first magician to sign a long-term performance contract with the world-famous Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
In 1985, David was elected as one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Persons in the United States".
In 1986, David crossed the Great Wall in "Ten Thousands of People Cannot Force". David and his crew were the first American production team to produce an American television special in the People's Republic of China.
Since 1987, David has become the first person to escape from Alcatraz Prison in the United States.
In 1988, David represented the United States and gave a speech at the Seoul Olympics.
In 1989, David successfully escaped from a building that was being demolished.
In 1991, David caused an 85-foot-long, 70-ton Orient Express to disappear instantly.
In 1992, David created the classic magic "Fly" and became the first magician to fly without ropes and camera skills. At the same time, the show was hailed by critics as the greatest magic show of all time.
In the 1993 TV special "Fire of Passion", David broke free from the burning rope tied to his body and escaped from a height of tens of meters. Then, in front of a man
A famous ice hockey star tore up and repaired a collectible card worth $654.38+0 million.
From 65438 to 0995, David became the only contemporary magician to receive a shining star on the Walk of Fame.
In 1996, David's large-scale performance "Dreams and Nightmares" broke the Broadway box office record.
In 2000, David was named the FISM Magician of the Century and named the "Legend of the Century" by the Library of Congress.
In 2001, he accurately predicted the winning numbers of the German National Lottery...
In 2001, David performed the large-scale stage show "Entrance" in China for the first time, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong and Guangzhou There was an unprecedented magic craze, and 50,000 tickets were sold out.
In 2002, David came to China and performed in Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, setting off an unprecedented magic craze in China.
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The novel "David Copperfield".
"David Copperfield" is the eighth novel by the British novelist Charles Dickens. Known as "his favorite child." From 1849 to 1850, this book was published 20 times a month in a first-person narrative voice, incorporating many of the author's own life experiences. Dickens came from a lower-class family, and his grandfather and grandmother had long been servants in Lord Crewe's house. Father John is an employee of the Navy Quartermaster's Office. When Dickens was twelve years old, he was unable to repay his debts and lived with his wife and children in Marshal West Debtors Prison. At the time, Dickens was working as a child laborer in Warren Blake's shoe polish workshop on the banks of the Thames, while his sister Fanny, two years older than him, was studying at the Royal College of Music. Only two members of the family are not living in prison. After his father was released from prison, Huggins went to Wellington School, but soon dropped out of school permanently because of his poor family. At the age of 15, he became an apprentice in a law firm. Later he learned shorthand and was employed by the London Civil Bar Council as a case reporter. From 1831 to 1832, Dickens served as a reporter for the "Parliamentary Mirror" and "Zhenyang" in Parliament. These experiences will help him embark on the path of writing in the future. He received less than four years of schooling in his life, and his success depended entirely on his genius, hard work, and hard life. In 1836, Dickens finally became famous with his novel "The Pickwick Papers" when he was only 24 years old.
In 1848, Fanny died of tuberculosis. Her death deeply saddened Dickens, for among his many siblings, they were the only ones who were very close in talents and interests. Both have excellent acting talents. As children, they went to Rochester's Myrtle Hotel with their father and wowed everyone by singing and dancing in front of the big dinner table. After Fanny's death, Dickens wrote a 7,000-word memoir documenting their difficult childhood together. Behind Dickens, his friend Forster disclosed Dickens's early life and novels to the public for the first time in "The Life of Dickens", which was based on this memory. Dickens wrote this memory in preparation for writing an autobiographical novel. The hero of his novels was given many names, and the last one he came up with was "David Copperfield."
Foster immediately cheered because the acronym D.C. was the author's initials inverted. So the name of the protagonist of the novel was decided.
Most of Dickens's early works were loosely structured "tramp romances" inspired by improvisation, while this book is his mid-term work, with appropriate restrictions paying more attention to structural techniques and art. In Chapter 11 of the book, Dickens summarizes his creative method as "experience imagination and integration". When he writes novels, he does not stick to copying what actually happened, but gives full play to his imagination and uses life materials to create new creations. Although the scene in the book where David studied his mother's letters as a child was his own personal experience, after his mother remarried and in an extremely lonely environment, David read exactly the books he read at that age. After his mother was tortured, David was sent to child labor, the same age as Dickens. But the novel is completely different from the fact: Dickens is not an orphan, the David in the work is a "posthumous son". Meanwhile, Dickens introduces some of the characters of David's parents to Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, David's landlords and salesmen.
The chapter "David's Early Life" shows us a childhood world that has long been forgotten by adults from a child's psychological perspective, which is very real and touching. For example, David is hostile to Maud Hiiragi, a cold, cruel, greedy businessman who pursues his mother with the sensitivity of a child. When Maud Hiiragi reached out and patted David falsely, she found that the hand touched her mother's hand wantonly and pushed it away angrily. David told his mother about the time when Hyundai Hiiragi took him out to play. When he said that one of Hyundai Hiiragi's friends always mentioned a "beautiful little widow" in conversation, his mother laughed and asked him to recount the scene over and over again. The narrative is entirely from the point of view of an innocent child. The child does not know that the person speaking is his mother, but the young widow's ardent yearning for a happy life emerges vividly on the page. Another example: David tells Nanny Peggotty to go to her brother's house. Her brother, Mr. Peggotty, is a fisherman. When David was washing his face after working at sea, he felt that he was somewhat similar to a shrimp and crab, because his dark face turned red as soon as he was scalded by hot water. This strange association is full of childishness and Dickens' unique humor.
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Excerpt from David Copperfield:
So, before I went to bed, I sat in my bedroom and wrote her a letter. I told her I had met him and he begged me to tell her what I had written in the right place in the book. I repeat faithfully, even if I have the right to exaggerate, I have no need to exaggerate. Those words were so sincere and kind that I didn’t need anyone to polish them. I left the letter outside to be sent early in the morning; and I enclosed a line for Mr. Peggotty, asking him to forward it to her. After that I went to bed and it was almost dawn.
But I didn’t fall asleep until the sun came up, so I was very tired and weak. I stayed up late the next day and was in low spirits. My aunt came quietly to my bed and woke me up. I felt her beside me as I fell asleep, as I'm sure we all feel.
"Troy, dear," she said as I opened my eyes, "I was wondering whether I should wake you. Mr. Peggotty is here; do you want him to come up?"
< p>I agreed, and soon he came up."Master Wei," he said after we shook hands, "I gave your letter to Emily, Master, and she wrote this; beg me to show it to you. If you think it is not wrong, Please hand it over."
"Did you see it?" I said.
He nodded sadly. I opened the letter and saw:
"I've got your message. Oh, how can I thank you for your kindness and pure kindness to me? I will keep these words in my heart until I Die. Those words are sharp thorns, but also extremely comforting.
I prayed those words. Oh, I prayed a lot. I think God is like that, to whom I can cry farewell. Now, my dear, my friend, in this world we can say goodbye forever, and if I am forgiven, I can go. Thank you very much. May you always be safe.
"Can I tell her what you think?" There's nothing wrong with it. Promise it to her, Uncle Wei? ' said Mr. Peggotty, when I had finished.
"No problem," I said, "but I think-"
"Oh, Master Wei?"
"I think," I said , "I want to go to Yarmouth again. I have plenty of time to go back and forth before your ship sets sail. I always miss him with a lonely heart; this time I give him her personal letter, and then It would be a good thing for both of you to tell her before you go. I accept his commission solemnly, my dear fellow, and the more thoughtful I am, the better it is for me. My heart is very manic and depressed, so I should be more active. "
Although he keeps trying to dissuade me, I know that he agrees with me. My thoughts were not firm, but now they are firm. At my request, he went to the ticket office and reserved a seat for me on the mail coach. That night, I got in the car and walked on the road I had walked before, with endless ups and downs.
“Don’t you think,” I asked the coachman at the first stop after leaving London, “that the sky is special? I don’t remember seeing anything like this.”
“ I don't remember - nothing like that. "It's the wind, sir. I think there's something going on at sea."
The flying clouds were dark, like wet logs. The messy colors of smoke. It sinks and floats into a terrifying pile in the sky, so high that people think that the height of the cloud pile is greater than the bottom of the deepest cave from the sky to the ground; the moon seems to be crazy, ignoring everything, trying to pass through the cloud pile, as if because of nature Due to the surprising changes in the rules, he lost his direction and lost his mind. The wind blew all day; it was still strong and still blowing. Two hours later, the wind became stronger and the sky became darker.
As the night deepened, the clouds gathered tightly, spreading out the already dark sky; the wind became stronger and stronger, and the wind force continued to increase until our horses could hardly walk against the wind. At the darkest time that night (it was the end of September, the night was not short), the leading horse in front of the carriage turned around several times but remained still; we often worried that the carriage would overturn or that a shower would fall like a knife. At this time, as long as there is a wall or a tree to hide in, we will stop immediately because we can no longer hold on.
At dawn, the wind blew harder. When I was in Yarmouth in the past I had heard people on boats say hurricanes were like cannons, but I had never seen such winds, or anything like them. We arrived in Ipswich very late. Since we were 10 miles out of London, we had to move forward inch by inch. We found a group of people in the market who got up at night afraid of having their chimneys blown down. While we were changing horses, some people who had gathered in front of the hotel told us that the iron sheet from the top of a high church had been torn off and fell on a level street, blocking it. Others told us that several people from nearby villages had seen some big trees pulled out of the soil and falling to the ground, and they had also seen entire haystacks blown to the ground by the wind and falling on the road. The storm didn't get weaker, it got stronger.
We pushed forward, and the closer we got to the sea (strong winds blowing from the sea to the shore), the stronger the wind became. Long before we saw the ocean. Our lips were splashed with water droplets from the sea, and we were sprayed with salty water. The sea flowed out and covered miles of plains near Yarmouth; every little puddle, every ditch, lashed against the shore, summoned the strength of their little sprays, and attacked us bravely. When we see the sea, there are waves rising from the rolling abyss on the horizon from time to time, just like the twinkling towers and high-rise buildings on the opposite shore. When we finally arrived in town, swaying people came to the door of the car, the wind blowing their hair high. They were surprised that the mail still arrived that evening.
After booking a bed in that old hotel, I ran along the beach and grass to watch the sea on the splash-filled streets of Haimo. On the way, I had to be careful of falling slates, grab the clothes corners of passers-by at corners blown by the wind, and walk forward with difficulty. When I came to the beach, I saw not only the boatmen hiding behind the buildings, but half the people in the town. Some people go against the wind to see the sea from time to time, only to be blown back again.
I stood among these people and found that the women were crying because their husbands had gone to sea on fishing boats or oyster boats, which were likely to sink after reaching safety. There were old gray-haired sailors in the crowd. They looked at the sky above the water, shaking their heads and whispering something to each other.
There are anxious boat owners, children huddled together to watch the faces of adults, and strong boatmen who are excited and restless. They use binoculars to observe the sea from behind objects, as if they are observing an enemy.
When I finally got a sufficient break and saw the sea in the blinding wind, flying sand and terrible noise, I was frightened by the sea. Tall walls of water came one after another, and when they reached their highest peaks and fell, it seemed as if even the smallest of them could engulf the town. The retreating waves came back with a bang, as if they were digging a deep hole on the seashore and destroying the ground. Sparkling waves crash toward the shore, shattering before reaching land. Each breaking wave is charged with all the furious power and hastily reassembles into another monster. The ups and downs of the mountains turned into deep valleys, and the ups and downs of the deep valleys (with lonely petrels flying over from time to time) turned into high mountains. The vast mass of water shook and shook the shore with a deafening roar; with every roar the tides converged into an image, then changed, and immediately departed, while at the same time another surge of water was repulsed and driven away; on the horizon , the towers and buildings on the other side of my head were undulating; dark clouds were rushing under the thick clouds; I seemed to see the sky falling. (Chapter 55)
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Summary of David Copperfield
David Copperfield's His father died before he came to this world, and he grew up under the care of his mother and maid Peggotty. Soon his mother remarried and his late father, Maud Hiiragi, was fierce and greedy. He regarded David as a burden and sent him to his brother Peggotty's house before marriage. Peggotty is an honest and kind fisherman. He lived in a shack converted from a broken ship on the seaside in Yarmouth. He lives with a pair of orphans (his sister's daughter Emily and his brother's son Harmony). David lived a poor and harmonious life with them.
After David returned home, his stepmother often beat him, depriving him of her care and care. After his mother died, his late father immediately sent David, who was under 65,438+00 years old, to work as a child laborer washing bottles, leaving him without food and clothing. After going through many hardships, he finally found his aunt, Miss Bessie.
Miss Bessie is eccentric by nature, but kind-hearted. She took David in and sent him to school for further education. While David was at school, he stayed with his aunt's lawyer Wakefield and struck up a friendship with his daughter Anis. However, David was extremely disgusted with a secretary named Heap hired by Wakefield, and was deeply disgusted with his ugly behavior of obedience and flattery.
After graduating from high school, David went on a trip and met his childhood classmate Steerforth. Together they came to Yarmouth to visit the Peggotty family. Emily, who was engaged to Haimu, could not resist the temptation of the rich young master Steerforth, and eloped abroad with Steerforth on the eve of the wedding. Peggotty was very painful and vowed to get Emily back.
David returned to London and interned at Spenlow Solicitors. He learns from Annis that Wakefield has been trapped by the scheming Heap and is in dire straits. This made David very angry. But at this moment, David fell in love with Dora, the daughter of Spenlow's lawyer. Their married life is not ideal because Dora is a beautiful but simple-minded "doll". My aunt was also on the verge of bankruptcy. At this time, David met Micawber, his landlord when he was a child laborer. Micawber is now Heap's secretary. After a fierce ideological struggle, Micawber revealed Shipp's various conspiracies to frame Wakefield and lead to Miss Bessie's bankruptcy. Faced with the facts, Shipp had to admit his guilt. Later, due to the complexity of the case, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Miss Bessie thanked Micawber and gave him a sum of money to make him rich and successful in Australia.
At the same time, Peggotty ran around and finally found Emily who was abandoned by Steerforth and ended up living in London, and decided to take her to Australia to start a new life. On the eve of departure, the sea was rough and a passenger ship from Spain sank in Yarmouth. A dying passenger climbed onto the mast. Regardless of his own safety, Haimu went into the sea to save him, but unfortunately he was swallowed by a huge wave. When his body was recovered, the bodies of the ship's passengers also floated to the shore. It turns out that Steerforth kidnapped Emily! Emily missed Haimu. After going to Australia, she sought peace at work and never got married.
David became a writer. Dora fell seriously ill and died on the eve of Peggotty's departure for Australia. David, grieved, traveled abroad, during which Anis kept in touch with him.
When he returned to England three years later, he discovered that Annis had always been in love with him. They eventually married and lived happily with their aunt Bessie and their maid Peggotty.