Derren Brown: Archive
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From: ganetauk
Date: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:23pm
Subject: Re: setting up people before the show kind of (stevenage)
Its a typical priming for cold reading effect
--- In a previous message trentretro
wrote:
> okay, heres how it went, I don't really understand what or why it
> happened which is why I'm posting.
>
> right, we get to the theatre fairly earlier and are standing in the
> bar with drinks, we over hear a conversation this couple behind us
> are having with this guy with an ear thingy and a clipboard, we
hear
> him saying he's the producer and also the woman telling him they
> bought their tickets in January and came all the way from grimsby.
> After the producers bloke wanders off I ask the couple what he said
> and they told me this;
> the producers had said the second half was about 'contacting the
> dead' and the woman should think of some dead person she knew and
> jot down a few details about them on a peice of paper (which she
> kept and never showed the producer).
>
> So at the end of the first half derren tels us not to come back if
> we are uncomfertable with 'contacting the dead' and in the break to
> think of someone we know who has died.
>
> so the second half begins and near the end he comes up with (in a
> very spooky mind cotrol way but I'm not saying how) a row letter
and
> a name, who, yes you've guessed it, turns out to be the woman I
> spoke to earlier, who the producers also spoke to. So she goes up
> on stage and he gives the name a details of the dead person she'd
> written down before the show (but derren never mentioned her
> writting this down and neither did she).
>
> so after the show we're back in the bar (honestly, I'm not a heavy
> drinker, I was just waiting around for derren to emerge) and I see
> this woman again, so I go up to her and tell her I have to know
what
> happened. And she tells me derren was spot on pretty much about
who
> she was thinking about and showed me the bit of paper she'd written
> it down on which had been up her sleve the whole time of the show
> (both halves) and she had never shown the producer or told him
> anything of what was on it.
>
> so . . . they'd obviously planned to get her on stage in teh second
> half and it was no coincidence (she was the only person I saw the
> producer talk to) but she wasn't a plant and she didn't tell anyone
> who this dead person was so derren did manage to get that on his
> own, surely? And the talking to her before hand was becuase? . . .
> perhaps to establish where she was sitting for when derren asked if
> there was anybody in that row with that name, or for some other
> reason? I'm confused why the producer spoke to her beofre the show
> and asked her to write the stuff down (but like I keep saying, she
> says he never read it - and she was slightly freaked out that
> derren 'read' her mind). Anyone got any ideas on this?
>
> like I said on my other post about the show this woman, and all the
> others up on stage that I spoke to or heard talking, were convinced
> that they hadn't been set up in any way and what happened to them
> was just as the rest of us saw it, so derren wasn't cheating (too
> much anyway, he always cheats which is why he wins most of the
time!)
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