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From: killerb_0187
Date: Wed Dec 18, 2002 7:03pm
Subject: Re: The Models
--- 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 found that quite funny when he said that...proud of his abilities
eh? I must admit though, he was good!!
I do see what you're getting at now. A part of MC3 (I think) if you
watch it, he says "A good communicator effects our
physiology...etc...etc...", then he manages to stick a needle through
someone without them feeling any pain, suggesting to us indirectly
that he is indeed A GOOD COMMUNICATOR...
Heh, made me laugh when I thought about it. Wonder if that was
intentional..??
> 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.
Yeah, very impressive, not even I've been able to do it that
fast....make someone feel attracted to me I mean...not read their
mind!! :)
