Derren Brown: Archive
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From: aria_da_cap0
Date: Tue Mar 4, 2003 3:57pm
Subject: Re: losing faith.....
re the mention of vinyl, when E4 showed the series Derren did a few
intros to each program and he says he guessed about the vinyl and re
the dogs he said he could smell them..
but then who knows what goes on in DB's head?
aria x
-- In , mrb_bailey wrote:
> Well It was it as part of the effect. A nice bit of cold reading.
He
> just made a small mention to vinyl and the man went away and
grafted
> his own reference on it.
> He might have said.
> "Yes I've got a huge record collection."
> Or "I was playing some old tunes just before I came here. I don't
> like CDs"
>
> Judging by the guy's accent if you took every stereotype and
bounced
> them off of him some would stick.
> His dad is working class.
> His wife is a hairdresser called "Shazzer".
> He drives a powerful car.
> He owns 3 dogs!
> He owns 1 but his mother own a dog and so does his best mate.
>
> "Wow I don't know how he knew they had dogs."
>
> I think getting the subject to go away and spend ages filling in
the
> blanks is great. Plus as they've thought of it, it feels more real.
> Which makes you a better mind reader.
>
> Do you not see what I'm not saying? --- In a previous message darren_de_bruin wrote:
> >
> > Just saw the new material for the first time on friday.
> > Does anybody know the difference in smell between 2 and 3
terriers?
> > Also the guy said he worked as a DJ years ago so he shouldn't
have
> > any clues as to that job on his hands?! Its this kind of stuff
> thats
> > making me lose faith in Derren as a psychological mentalist.
Surely
> > some trickery or research of some sort was performed by the Mind
> > Control crew about that guy ( probably got to his friends via an
> > innocent 'survey' or 'application form' earlier).
> > Did anybody else notice his great impression of Hannibal Lector
> (one
> > of his idols, yes he has idols too!). It was when he kept
> > saying 'closer' to the guy who he couldn't persuade in the first
> > experiment.
