danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
"Is there a Lazarus in the house? Do you repent your sins?"
"OMG! Yes! Yes, I do! How could you possibly know? Amazing!"
Derren Brown - how he does it *spoilers
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"OMG! Yes! Yes, I do! How could you possibly know? Amazing!"
Most of his "guessing what you wrote" games are a version of this:
http://www.fabricedelaure.com/en/clipboard.php
And finally, does this locked chest, remianing in full view of the audience look familiar???
http://www.malloymodernmagic.com/master_prediction.htm
An accomplished magician and excellent showman.
http://www.malloymodernmagic.com/master_prediction.htm
An accomplished magician and excellent showman.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
if he could get Lazarus to answer from where he was when Jesus first met him ,hat would be impressive indeed!
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
I am oddly reminded of the time that I found out that "teleportation" tricks are usually simply performed using a pair of identical twins.
internetstalker
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Lazarus was clearly a stooge!
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
He was an old family friend, so he wasn't dead first time he met him.
But, yes, if I could write that again I'd chose another Biblical name.
fogbat
The Talibum
I'd imagine he was using more than one technique.
For a while I thought he was using the one-ahead trick for some of the written stuff.
I think the card saying "cock" was a set up card - it wasn't matched to any particular person in the audience.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
That was mine too. If you have someone's name and location and a facebook account you're in. In an audience that size, for a man with his memory and cold reading skills, it's a piece of piss.
Not that I'm saying I could do it, of course. The memory skills and cold reading are nigh on impossible to learn to a decent level but for a man at the top of the game like that....
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
Yes, that occurred to me during the show last night. I only saw a tiny bit. People have booked tickets so potentially he has access to their names, addresses and seat numbers. Assuming that a reasonable number of people have distinctive names, you can find a fair bit of information about quite a few of them using the interweb that will bring up stories in local papers, etc.
Wasn't there something about someone winning a house. That would be all over the Interweb.
Edit: reading some more posts above -- Oh, yeah, and Facebook and stuff!
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
If you are trying to get someone to agree with you or open themselves up to suggestion, nodding at them prompts them to nod back, which automatically puts them in a suggestive state - Derren is so used to doing this with people he constantly nods, so it looks like a tic.
The guy who won a competition for the house in France........simply searching on peoples names and locations on google (from their credit card details) to see if they were in the news recently for anything will provide that sort of info straight away. You can see who's been allocated which seat number as well so know where to throw the frizbee so you can hone in on certain people with stuff you've learned beforehand. Having a great memory helps but learning interesting things (rather than boring stuff like their name is John) means they'll stick in your head a lot more as well.
The guy who won a competition for the house in France........simply searching on peoples names and locations on google (from their credit card details) to see if they were in the news recently for anything will provide that sort of info straight away. You can see who's been allocated which seat number as well so know where to throw the frizbee so you can hone in on certain people with stuff you've learned beforehand. Having a great memory helps but learning interesting things (rather than boring stuff like their name is John) means they'll stick in your head a lot more as well.
Oh yeah definitely, I know the tricks are out there but have no idea how they are actually done.
Like that chest with the predictions about the girl at the end (white shoes, stripey top etc). Its obvious he pre-selected her and wrote all that stuff about her on the scroll of paper.
Its also clear that he faked writing that number 23 on the paper till he heard what she said. Probably the way he did this was the paper had some kind of carbon element and he wrote 23 on it after she said 20 using his fingernail behind his back. If you recall, he even said "excuse my writing, its a bit crap" when faking writing his number down to excuse the fact his numbers might look a bit wonky.
How the other stuff gets on the scroll on the box though I have no idea, doubtless if I spend $3K through that link above it'll let me know but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
Alright how the fuck did you just predict my post
Ha ha. Great minds. I think quite a few people watching have rumbled him. I think I read in one of his books about how "psychics" have always scoured local papers, etc. to get details about their audience.
Right. And the being able to get the right people whilst being blindfolded and throwing frisbees into (what for him would've been) darkness?
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
No idea! But, as several people have pointed out, the seat number, names, Internet thing must be one of many tools he uses...
Even when he is on tour doing shows night after night ? It would be mentally gruelling
Surely he'd also need a team of researchers, with the possibility of leaks ?
internetstalker
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agreed shit loads of info on t'internet
I went on a training course once and there was a woman there from Gloucester who hinted that she was known around that area (for something that had been in the papers) but didn't want to allaborate amungst strangers
so when I got home I looked it up
several press stories about her salsa dance teacher husband getting convicted of raping one of his pupils and she (the wife) was standing by her man blaming the ex dance studant for harassment
internetstalker
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If D Brown can manipulate a room full of paying public to do whatever the fuckk he wants
do you really think any of his researchers are gonna dob him in??
internetstalker
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142? Not even the equivelent of memorising 3 packs of cards.
I bet thats no probelm for our Derren
skyscraper101
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I'd personally love to see him do an entire debunking of that twat from Most Haunted. That would be worth watching all on its own.
Mate, that's around 710,000 people!
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
Even when he is on tour doing shows night after night ? It would be mentally gruelling
Surely he'd also need a team of researchers, with the possibility of leaks ?
Dunno. The shows would have been sold out months in advance, so it's not like he would have to be on the Interweb during the tour. Just looking at the notes he'd made and memorising seat numbers for people he had info on. Still an amazing feat just getting to the auditorium and working out where seat numbers are located.
Disclaimer: I've got to say I only saw a bit of the show last night but I bet it's one tool he uses.
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
Some sort of Brown/Brooker collaboration where they destroy those pricks would be awesome, yes.
surely his techniques wouldn't work on 100% ?http://www.derrenbrown.co.uk/tour
check the tour dates, it's relentless night after night with no breaks. Surely he'd just become mentally and physically burnt out. There's just not enough hours in the day to learn that amount of info imo.
fogbat
The Talibum
Some sort of Brown/Brooker collaboration where they destroy those pricks would be awesome, yes.
With hammers
internetstalker
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Him and Dawkins should form a superteam: Superskeptic and the Mentalist!
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