Derren Brown
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- Jimbo820
That's pretty cool. You can be the one who catches him then, cos he got everyone else hook line and sinker. I'll supply the rope, stake and petrol, but you've gotta do it on your own, I would be susceptible to his mind control.
Still, the fact he got your name is pretty impressive. What about that guy from Ghana/India who's name was something like Sashman or something... WTF. Or the woman who bought her dress on Ebay... WTF.
Can't deny it, he's good.
- Well we had designated seat numbers so I think its fairly easy to memorise some names/seat numbersset
- I wouldn't say it's easy, there were over a thousand people there.Jimbo82
- Easy may be the wrong word, possible is more apt. He made one guy able to remember a whole library of books, its all possibleset
- ...possibleset
- True dat. I can't remember how old I am sometimes so it impresses the hell outta meJimbo82
- Jnr_Madison0
Is that a tick he's got or is he constantly hypnotising the audience to believe anything he says?
- yea I didn't know he had a tick until I saw him live, could be some devil trick though!set
- Jnr_Madison0
set, did he call you hedge?
- Nah he called me 'Jnr Madison is a weird cunt' if I remember correctlyset
- Horp0
I think its a stage affectation. I used to be totally engrossed in what he was doing, now it all seems so cheesey, and hammy, and badly sandwiched together, and he's a bit of a buttery fucker isn't he. Hmmm, lettuce go and eat something.
- Jnr_Madison0
I've been to one of his shows too and it became clear his stuff only works on certain people. Like in the show last night where he gets them to swing the string to see who is the most impressionable.
- Exactly, some of them were so clearly swinging it its rediculousset
- set0
I personally believe in mind reading, hypnotism, flying lizard men ruling the world etc... But I just think he is a slimey fucker that is just good at tricking people.
- Jnr_Madison0
The show I went to, he made everyone in the audience stand up and hold hands, the guy next to me must of been a bit of a homophobe and he wouldn't hold me hand (LOLZ).. anyway, I digress, the point is we had to follow a series of questions and sit down if we got them wrong. He said the people who were left standing at the end were the hardest for him to fool as they didn't follow normal patterns. He never picked any of them as part of the show.
- Maybe it was because you'd sat there wanking all evening.Horp
- Jnr_Madison0
If you have read all my posts in this thread, next time you see your parents, you will shout 'spunk bubble' straight into their faces.
- Jnr_Madison0
Ok, one last time, £500 or £5000?
- How about you give the money to charity Derren, and I come up on stage and punch your scrotum instead.Horp
- set0
This one is worth watching
- what a pair of clichéd mugs these two weremax_prophet
- I know!set
- it's like a young james whale and his butch gay lovermax_prophet
- I wonder what their QBN usernames arerafalski
- Jnr_Madison0
I'd love to know what he got up to before he sought fame, I think I heard he spent a lot of time in the casino.
- I think he used to go around tricking straight men into ass fucking himset
- ahh, so you have met him before.Jnr_Madison
- hahaset
- i've read people laugh to avoid telling the truth, hmmmversion3
- Jnr_Madison0
neuro-linguistic bumilingus.
- I'm bringing this thread down to my level.Jnr_Madison
- I'm bringing sexy back.
* Gyrates half-heartedly, staring into the middle distance.Horp
- BaskerviIle0
He used to be more fun, now his shows are basically just recreations of victiorian mentalism acts. I don't mind that so long as he debunks them afterwards, but in last night's show he didn't debunk anything, so it was a kind of compromise. On one hand he's showing what the victorians used to believe in and saying he doesn't believe in it, but then he never reveals his techniques.
In his last show, he explained the subliminal cues he used to make people pick certain things (even if that's not truly how he manipulated them), at least that way you feel like you're getting something out of it
- I guess if he gives too much away, he's shooting himself in the foot for his next pay cheque.Jnr_Madison
- Horp0
With regard to what he used to do...
I read his book Trick of the Mind and it was actually a good read in a very disposable way. He was raised in a sort of pseudo-cultish Christian environment. very strict, no mixing with the heathens, and total adherence to the community's rules, beliefs and Dogma. Then he got about 18 or so and suddenly realised the whole thing was an illusion, and in breaking that illusion he became fascinated with the way people can be mainipulated. People just like me, who somnambulated into Waterstones and handed over good money for Trick Of The Mind, By Derren Brown.
- LOLJnr_Madison
- It would have been great if you got home and every chapter was just "Hahahahahaha haha haha ha ha ha. Ha hahahaha"max_prophet
- hahahahahroundabout
- Jimbo820
What about when he played twenty questions and he knew the woman was thinking of a whip without asking anything? Or when he figured out the question that the old guy at the back was thinking was "should I shave my scrotum?".
If he'd explained a few of his techniques, or even hinted at how he did it like in the last of his shows, I would sleep a lot better.
Next time he's in town, I'm going to see him.
- max_prophet0
He's a total fucking weasel with his velvet cloak and contrived, self-consciously theatrical body language. Don't forget that he's simply a confidence trickster and illusionist, he's not actually 'reading your minds' ooOOOOoooOOoohhh
I bumped into him and his camera crew when I worked in soho about 5 or 6 years ago, he stopped me suddenly snapping me out of my floor-watching trance and just sort of looked into my eyes as if he was about to ask me a question, then he just mumbled something about "oh I can see you don't have much time" and fucked off with a swirl of his cape. I hoped he had foreseen my urgent chorizo panini requirement and not detected some kind of terminal illness.
It was only later I realised I'd had a close encounter with the creepiest ginger weasel that ever did walk the earth.
I guess, as ever, my stony poker face gave away no signs of penetrable humanity, compassion or warmth and sent him on his way.
ONWARDS – TO THE SANDWICH MAN!!!
- Horp0
"What about when he played twenty questions and"
What about at the very very start of the show where the message came up on screen that said "No actors were planted in the audience for tonight's show"... Tricks are so fucking dumb once you know how they're done, and the best tricks get the misdirection out of the way long before you anticipate it.
It seems so ridiculous that there might be participants in the audience, but when you look at it statistically, it would take maybe 20 or 30 people planted in the auditorium. All they have to do is convince you those plants are not there, and a television audience of millions will be entertained and mystified.
- Jnr_Madison0
Let's be honest, don't all men have 'should I shave my scrotum' on their minds during a Derren Brown show?