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From: Blue Chip
Date: Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:48pm
Subject: RE: [Derren Brown] Stooges, Actors and Tricks - Th e Exposé
>Please enlighten me. What is the Devil's Picturebook? Video or book?
>
>And
>
>What does it contain?
It is a video of DBs card trick repertoire.
I posted a lengthy review a couple of days ago - that should give you any
missing info. :-)
>
>Kind Regards
>Harry Cannon
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Blue Chip [mailto:]
>Sent: 28 December 2002 16:42
>To:
>Subject: [Derren Brown] Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé
>
>Hmm,
>
>I think you're gonna like this...
>
>If you want the illusion of DB to remain real, then I suggest you stop
>reading here:
>
>
>Exposé follows:
>
>
>At the start of MC1, DB states:
>"...but that's the only TRICK you are going to SEE in the next hour.
>There
>are no STOOGES and no ACTORS in this show. ALL the reactions are REAL,
>and
>EVERYTHING you will see is EXACTLY what you would have seen if you had
>been
>there with me. These are not MAGIC TRICKS, this is MIND CONTROL" <sic>
>
>So now we KNOW for a FACT that there ARE ancient card TRICKS** in the
>show
>which you can SEE clearly. Is it reasonable to conclude that the show
>is
>ALSO littered with STOOGES and ACTORS? Not to mention well chosen
>camera
>angles and editing room mods.
>
>I'm hoping the next series offers some CG Aliens...
>"...a good communicator can even affect your dietry intake. I went to
>LV926 to meet up a couple of veteran face-huggers and gave them a
>mind-blowing fizz-icle <vocal tonality change> when I convinced them
>that
>the Uri Geller they had just been fed was in fact turning into an strong
>
>alkali in their blood streams..." <with hilarious consequences>
>
>** The type of card trick that relies on purely mathematical principles
>and
>hence can be reproduced easily by anybody.
>
>Nothing described below can be found in the Devil's Picturebook. In
>fact,
>in DP, DB decries the use of despicable "self working card tricks."
>
>The Illusion
>------------
>
>See MC1, The Gamblers (Part 2): The losing hand
>
>You may wish to pay close attention to:
>o Where did the deck come from?
>o What cards are on the table?
>o How are they collected?
>o To where in the deck are the 'tabled' cards returned?
>o What are the top 10 cards on the deck?
>
>The Trick
>---------
>
>Take from the deck the following cards: K K K A A A 7 7 7 Q (suits are
>irrelevant - i think)
>
>Actually, pretty much any three prials and odd card will work, but these
>
>cards create quite a big psychological impact.
>
>I say "i think" and "pretty much" as, not being a poker player, I'm not
>sure if you could run into trouble with flushes?? Is there such a thing
>as
>a three of four card flush?
>
>I say "take", it would probably be more convincing to deal them randomly
>
>from the top of a stacked deck.
>
>Part 1:
>
># Shuffle the cards so that the Q is the top (or second card) on the
>pile.
># Draw two cards from the top of the pile and show the BACKS to the
>player.
># Tell him to pick a card
># If he chooses the Queen: tell him he is choosing which cards to keep
># If he chooses the other card: tell him he is choosing which cards to
>discard
># You *may* now stick to this. Ie. Give/Keep every card he points to
># Mathematics will ensure you a winning hand.
>
>Part 2:
>
># Collect the cards, again bringing the Queen to the top of the deck
># Deal the Queen to the player and the next card to yourself
># Present the cards (face down) one at a time, and tell the player that
>he
>make take or reject each card that is offered
># Allow him to keep all cards he selects until he has five cards in
>front
>of him
># You keep all others
># Mathematics will ensure you a winning hand.
>
>Part 3:
>
># Collect the cards, again bringing the Queen to the top of the deck
># Deal the Queen to the player and the next card to yourself
># Present the cards (face up) one at a time, and tell the player that he
>
>make take or reject each card that is shown
># Allow him to keep all cards he selects until he has five cards in
>front
>of him
># You keep all others
># Mathematics will ensure you a winning hand.
>
>NB. There are a thousand ways to get the Queen to the top of the deck,
>but
>anyone with a copy of DP will know straight off how DB achieves it. And
>
>NO, that wasn't what gave it away. I have said before, I will disclose
>nothing of the enigmas presented in DP. The give away was that DB
>always
>got to choose the first card.
>
>Remember, if you perform your trick in a boring manner your audience
>will
>be bored. If you perform your trick in a fascinating manner your
>audience
>will be fascinated. etc.
>
>DB makes £60 on this trick. Now: Go to the pub; win £60 with this
>trick;
>buy a couple of rounds; and spend the rest of the proceeds on a copy of
>The
>Devil's Picturebook or a 1st ed copy of Pure Effect.
>
>
>The Fear
>--------
>
>Having now proven that DB is by no means beyond a bit of bold faced
>lying,
>here is the fear...
>
>Now for this part, I hope that none of my personal friends read this
>group,
>or else I am about to skupper one of my own tricks (heartfully inspired
>by
>(thought not at all stolen from) DB himself)...
>
>I perform a card trick, it is the cheesiest card trick I know - and it
>was
>chosen for that very reason. The idea was, that I would perform the
>cheesiest trick ever in the most obvious way and then steam in with a
>well
>scripted, but =ludicrous= explanation of how it was done (this is
>clearly
>the 'closing' trick). If I sold the explanation, people would think
>that I
>was some kind of master card guru (and they do ;). If my sell failed,
>the
>trick was sooooo obvious that any idiot would see it a mile off and I
>would
>soon hear about it (from a group of highly critical peers.)
>
>A scary thing happened. One friend has atually managed to get the trick
>
>working in the ludicrously implausible way that I claim it is done. He
>genuinely has learned to detect the subtle printing errors on the faces
>of
>his (Piatnik**) cards.
>
>** After much claim to the superiority of Piatnik cards, I bought a deck
>-
>although I was quite chuffed to find a long card in the deck, I have
>made a
>sharp return to Bicycle cards.
>
>The second scary thing is that face/eye/throat reading DOES WORK - at
>least
>to a minor degree - this I state as fact. And you've only got to be
>close
>for people to get veerryy scared of you. Have I just performed the
>second
>impossible task? Is DBs plausible descriptions more real than even he
>suspects?
>
>Interesting!
>
>Bc.
>
>
>
>
>
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