Derren Brown: Archive
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From: choobus
Date: Tue Mar 11, 2003 12:50am
Subject: Occam's razor
Having been amazed by the lifting, or non-lifting feat and watched it
closely, I think it's an anatomical party trick, brilliantly
presented. I'm not a magician or mentalist and don't know much about
it, so I'm not speaking from any inside knowledge, just what I saw.
Forget Derren totally and watch the young woman. Especially her
hands. And don't tell anyone else or Derren will have your liver with
a nice Chianti!
--- In a previous message mat_2001mat wrote:
> When derren does an effect he is definatly not lazy. He will go out
> of the way to fill it with distractions and anything to make it
look
> more stunning and make the audience bealive.
>
> From all i can make out, he puts all of the boxers into a trance.
And
> as you rightly say he takes on the role of the Coach. He adds more
> than one element to ever trick to make it more likely to sucseed.
>
> I think if you were intrested in making this technique to a friend
or
> whatever you should read up about NLP trance. I have heard Trance
> formations to be an exellent book to read in the area.
>
> Hope this help, im sure after you do the home work you will be able
> to spot the hypnotic langauge and the other traits of the act.
>
>
> --- In a previous message dan_peterson2 wrote:
> > I gather from Derren's comments in the past that he uses
> suggestion,
> > that he did in fact use suggestion here.
> >
> > If I was to create this effect I would think along the lines of
> doing
> > things like the Hand-clasp test, not being able to open eyes,
hand
> > levitation etc... I suppose that he just took out any direct
> > suggestions, to me it seemed significant how he seemed to take on
> the
> > role of their trainer/coach.
> >
> > --- In a previous message darren_de_bruin wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone any idea how Derren got that girl in the boxing ring so
> > heavy?
> > > I have read something ages ago in this group about the girl
doing
> > > some Aikido thing which makes her seem heavy but this seems
> > > ludicrous. The last guy could pick her up really easily but
> > couldn't
> > > later on (albeit after several attempts of Derrenism!) He has
> said
> > on
> > > Richard and Judy that all he does is look in their eyes and
make
> > them
> > > believe that they cant lift her. I dont really believe this
> either
> > > and I think hes saying this to get an effect and make it even
> more
> > > baffling for us. Do you think he hypnotised the group somehow
> > earlier
> > > on for them to respond when he taps their shoulder and that the
> > > looking in their eyes thing is just for show???
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