Derren Brown: Archive
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From: highroller entertainment casting
Date: Tue Dec 31, 2002 7:52pm
Subject: Re: Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé
--- In a previous message Blue Chip wrote:
> 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.
>
Firstly, as an Illusionist or Magician or whatever you want to call
him, Derren is by his very nature deceitful and deceptive....but what
do you expect? Even Penn and Teller show the Illusion first before
they explain it...try to imagine one of their TV specials without the
performed illusion first...it would be dull as dishwater (comedic
interplay aside).
I can't believe just how anally-retentive you are being about
this. Would you prefer it if Derren explained the trick to the
participants as he was going along? You know, instead of going
through the whole 'scream the name out loud in your mind' preamble,
he could just say 'Look, I'm going to try and read your lips as they
move' which would turn a moment of fairly mind-blowing magic and/or
mentallism into a very ordinary display of lip reading.
I'd personally love to see you work as a medium...I can picture it
now 'No love, I'm not really talking to your dead husband, I'm just
using fishing and cold reading techniques so that gullible folk such
as yourself can fit my vague statements to your own experience. Your
husband is probably being eaten by maggots as we speak'.....or how
about as a pro wrestling commentator 'Oh my God! What a piledriver!
It's a good job that he stopped it a few inches short of driving his
opponents head into the mat or he could have hurt him!'
Sure, there are people in MC who are in cahoots with Derren, such
as the girl being lifted by the boxers, but I very sincerely doubt
that any of the subjects are 'stooges'. After all, what's the point?
And, yes, I don't dispute that there is more than meets the eye to
some of his tricks...but who cares? Derren has never claimed to have
psychic powers, and if I remember correctly takes great pains in
pointing this out.
Basically, lighten up!!!! Otherwise you're going to be devastated
when you find out that David Blaine can't really fly.....
| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 2138: Re: Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Wed 01/01/2003 | 9 KB |
| 2143: Re: Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé | hipparque2002 | hipparque2002 | Wed 01/01/2003 | 3 KB |
| 2150: Re: Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé | Ria | gilraenc | Thu 02/01/2003 | 3 KB |
| 2189: Re: Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé | marcthomashogan | marcthomashogan | Mon 06/01/2003 | 2 KB |
| 2190: RE: [Derren Brown] Re: Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé | Harry Cannon | cannon8alluk | Mon 06/01/2003 | 3 KB |
| 2172: Re: Stooges, Actors and Tricks - The Exposé | highroller entertainment casting | highroller entertainment casting | Sun 05/01/2003 | 10 KB |
