Derren Brown: Archive
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From: ganetauk
Date: Fri Dec 6, 2002 6:15pm
Subject: Re: the blind athlete
Or is it more simple?.......
JazzMEN......picture a band in your mind....a jazz band....playing
piano, drums, sax, bass.....got the picture?....you see em all...?
good
I bet moooost of you see them as MEN......
:o) .....of course this might be too simple a concept and might not
have worked on YOUUUUUUUUU ...i bet it did though :oP
--- In a previous message happany wrote:
>
> 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
