If you had to take your pick from all the contemporary magicians and performers working today and choose the one with the most elaborate repertoire of illusions, chances are you'd opt for David Copperfield. From making the Statue of Liberty vanish into thin air to appearing to teleport members of his audience to another country, Copperfield's list of intricate and grandiose trickery is seemingly endless. It's perhaps no wonder that his shows have grossed more than any other solo performer in history, raking in a whopping $4 billion. One of his most impressive tricks is a wonderfully grim variation on perhaps the most classic of all stage illusions - sawing a man in half. Copperfield himself lies on the table as the huge death saw comes down from above, but when the trick appears to fail we get to see his actual body sawn in two as he happily obliges the request of an audience member to wriggle his feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SefD84fbEE
