Derren Brown: Archive
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From: killerb_0187
Date: Tue Dec 31, 2002 9:09pm
Subject: Re: stooges,..etc.
It's fairly obvious that you didn't understand my point!
--- In a previous message Rob Dobson wrote:
> I think I've finally managed to work out how to post to the board..
>
> Thanks for the chat transcript killerb - nice to see Derren refer
to
> what he does as 'psychological manipulation'...I don't personally
> think it matters too much what he claims; at the Mind Magic
> convention last year he, and a panel including the producers and
> Andy Nyman, discussed the claim at the start of MC1 that 'there
> are no more magic tricks', or words to that effect, and Derren
> stated that he hadn't wanted to do that, hadn't wanted to make it
> that blatant.
>
> Certainly the approach is better than that of a turbanned mystic,
> who uses his uncanny extra sensory powers to reveal the
> contents of envelopes, (rather than predicting the lottery
> numbers and retiring), or an 'apologist' magician who removes
> all elements of mystery from a performance by not allowing the
> possibility of magic to breathe.
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