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From: Ollie
Date: Wed Dec 18, 2002 4:51pm
Subject: Re: The Models
I also thought the way he got the models to warm to him was
interesting. Did you notice how he kept touching the girl closest to
him (Philippa) after he had guessed her chat up line? He kissed her
and touched her when she was happy and impressed by the mind-reading,
to anchor her responses. My guess is that they did have that drink
afterwards.......
--- In a previous message dsimon9874 wrote:
> Hey Killerb,
>
> Thanks for the confirmation on the screaming thing - Derren's face
in the flash cut is quite funny actually.
>
> As for the models warming to him - isn't the whole point of the
segment notioned in the intro to it? "I'm often asked if I can use my
powers to get incredibly beautiful women into bed ... well, yes I can"
or something similar.
>
> I say that the mind reading was an "added bonus" in that it was all
part of the demonstration. Just watch the way their body language
closes and distances at the start of the segment, when he is being
cheesy, and how it opens up more and more as time goes on, especially
the person nearest to him. By having each of his subjects imagine the
things that they like in an initial approach, he is associating
himself with those feelings. The added bonus is that he then says back
to them what they are thinking, reinforcing the memory and anchoring
it to himself.
>
> And the notion is echoed at the end of the show, on the talking
heads, "I quite fancy him actually!" which always makes me giggle, cos
she was the person most closed to him at the start.
