Derren Brown: Archive
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From: Blue Chip
Date: Fri Dec 6, 2002 4:42pm
Subject: Re: the blind athlete
>i.e. ' WAY - WAY - WAY - WAAH - WAY - WAAY ' ( Jazz )
I have GOT to ask, why does "way way way waah way waay" make someone think
of Jazz??
Another theory I have heard on this is that you will not get a waitress in
an expensive resteraunt, and you are most likely to hear Jazz in an
expensive resteraunt.
So Long,
Bc
>Here's the real reason why ' a waiter not a waitress '
>led to Jazz -
>
>'. . . the WAI-ter comes over and takes your order,
> now it's a WAI-ter not a WAI-tress and as he WA-lks
> a-WAY you are a-WA-re of . . .'
>
>i.e. ' WAY - WAY - WAY - WAAH - WAY - WAAY ' ( Jazz )
>
>Or has or has everyone noticed this already ?--- In a previous message highroller entertainment casting wrote:
> > Derren was using phonic ambiguities to subtly
> > suggest the answers he was looking for. For
> > example....
And I would like you to be aware
andle would
>like
> > you to be aware
andlewood like you to be
> > aware
Sandalwood like you to be aware
This is why Bob
> > replied 'Sandalwood' as opposed to candles (the answer
> > that Derren was trying to suggest)
Other
> > examples were disguising 'Hereford' in 'Nowhere that you
> > think I might guess' and 'Jazz' in 'And as the waiter
> > walks away'.
The bits about the cat and the
> > emphasising that it is a waiter not a waitress are merely
> > used to distract Bob's conscious so that Derren can
> > slip in the suggestion to his subconscious, much like
> > the trivial questions he asked Chris Ryan about
> > Slippers or Moccasins, or what his father's maiden name
> > is. These are simply used to distract and mentally
> > wrongfoot the subject.
Remember, Derren said he
> > chose Bob because (being blind) he knew he would pay
> > more attention to subtle shifts in his voice tonality,
> > and Bob simply responds with what pops into his mind
> > first, which is Derren's phonetically cloaked
> > suggestion. Notice how suprised he is on Sandalwood....he
> > says 'For some reason I've got Sandalwood'. It is
> > entirely likely that he does not know what sandalwood
> > smells like, or couldn't identify it if he were to smell
> > it, but that is still the answer that pops into his
> > head.
Another easily identifiable technique is the
> > 'let's HOME IN on...' line Derren uses before asking him
> > whether it is indoors or outdoors. Both Home and In will
> > prompt the subject to knee-jerk response 'indoors' as
> > opposed to 'out'.#
Let me know your thoughts on
> > this!
Daniel
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| 1802: Re: the blind athlete | mjm710 | mjm710 | Fri 06/12/2002 | 2 KB |
| 1803: Re: the blind athlete | happany | happany | Fri 06/12/2002 | 5 KB |
| 1806: Re: the blind athlete | ganetauk | ganetauk | Fri 06/12/2002 | 5 KB |
| 1811: Re: the blind athlete | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Sat 07/12/2002 | 5 KB |
| 1813: Re: the blind athlete | ozric | klisher | Sat 07/12/2002 | 2 KB |
