Derren Brown: Archive
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From: Blue Chip
Date: Wed Dec 4, 2002 7:51pm
Subject: Re: Ghost Punch...An interesting point.
There is a very definite answer to that - I suggest you find yourself some
high ranking martial arts students from and expensive club and ask them how
they would feel if a grand master was flown in from china for a
demonstration... That will certainly point you in the right direction.
>Anyway - what was the point of inviting on a 'Grand Master'
>of Kung Fu if he wasn't going to be involved in the stunt - i.e. be
>the subject of Derren's ghost punch ? They didn't even let us hear
>what he had to say about it.
>
> - Fionan.
>
>
> > I've just noticed something in the Ghost Punch
> > segment in MC2, which has become more evident since
> > watching The Devil's Picturebook. After Derren asks the
> > kung fu master to select someone, he turns away to
> > allow the kung fu master a view of the lined up
> > students, which Derren was partially obscuring. Thus,
> > Derren turns to the left of the screen, meaning the
> > students are revealed right to left by his turn, which if
> > I'm not mistaken is the preferred way of reading by
> > the Chinese.
Basically, I think Derren has
> > probably sized up Archie beforehand (remember, Derren saw
> > them demonstrating kung fu before the segment started,
> > so he would have been able to see which students
> > were more expressive and therefore better/more
> > suggestible subjects.) and positioned him, or had one of the
> > crew position him at the end of the line to increase
> > his chance of selection....meaning he would be the
> > most obvious selection for a right to left
> > reader!
Of course, I could be on an Oliver Stone here, but I
> > think there could be more than meets the eye here,
> > which is usually the case with Derren.
