Derren Brown

[bridgegael]

just after watching one of his shows there tonight,  how does he do half that stuff??  its  baffling!!

[ONeill]

Mostly a fantastically fast-acting memory, good backroom team, well practised scenarios and percentages.

Good showman though.

[heganboy]

the book is brilliant...

[SidelineKick]

I would be sceptical about that sort of thing, but at the same time would like to believe what he is doing is real.  A friend of mine was at one of his shows one night and to pick a member of the audience he threw a frisbee into the crowd, now unless he is unbelievably accurate, it is a great way to show he is picking people at random.

Would really like to see one of his shows for myself.

[ONeill]

I would be sceptical about that sort of thing, but at the same time would like to believe what he is doing is real.  A friend of mine was at one of his shows one night and to pick a member of the audience he threw a frisbee into the crowd, now unless he is unbelievably accurate, it is a great way to show he is picking people at random.

Would really like to see one of his shows for myself.

Catch a feckin grip of yourself. It's all trickery and he's open about it.

[mylestheslasher]

I was watching him a couple of years ago. He went walking down the street and stops a guy and asks him directions. He has a chat with this guy for about 2 minutes. Just as they are about to go there seperate ways he asks the guy for his wallet, cash and anything in his pockets. Yer man just hands them over and walks off. About a minute later  the guy comes running after Derren and explains he just handed over his belongings and is not sure why but he'd like them back. So Derren gives them back. Chats for another minute and then tells your man he'll have all them belonging again. The man just hands them over and walks off. Camara follows him down the street 100 yrds when he stops and starts scratching his head looking around him for Derren.

Could have been all a set up I suppose but I expect it was some sort of hypnosis. Unreal power to be yielding on people if it was hypnotism.

[SidelineKick]

I was always of the opinion that the thing he does would be too ridiculous to be a set up.  Seen him hand in a losing ticket at the dogs too and convince the woman at the counter it was a winner and she paid him out.  She said afterwards she had no idea why she did it!  Is he not banned from the casinos in Las Vegas?

[5 Sams]

Some of the stuff David Blaine does is hard to figure out as well.

I was impressed by the one where he takes the girl watch off her in the street and the next thing its on a mannequin's arm in a (locked and closed) shop window.

[Maguire01]

Caught the end of last night's show - looked pretty convincing. Hard to know what to think. He involved that many people in the audience that if they were all planted, there would have only been about 10 paying customers! It's hard to comprehend how he had the 4 digit number right, given that it was the sum of what should have been a selection of random numbers.

[SidelineKick]

I would be sceptical about that sort of thing, but at the same time would like to believe what he is doing is real.  A friend of mine was at one of his shows one night and to pick a member of the audience he threw a frisbee into the crowd, now unless he is unbelievably accurate, it is a great way to show he is picking people at random.

Would really like to see one of his shows for myself.

Catch a feckin grip of yourself. It's all trickery and he's open about it.

Some of the stuff he does can not be classified as trickery.

[Hardy]

Christ almighty - what do you think it is? You surely don't believe in magic at your age? If you do, give me a shout. I have a large bridge in New York for sale.

[Orior]

the book is brilliant...

I've just ordered it, but if this is some kind of trick Heganboy then you're in a lotta trouble mister.

[SidelineKick]

Christ almighty - what do you think it is? You surely don't believe in magic at your age? If you do, give me a shout. I have a large bridge in New York for sale.

How do you know what age I am?

[Hardy]

I don't. Do you believe in magic at your age?

[SidelineKick]

No 

But some of the things he does have no logical explanation, yes like some "magic" ticks ok ok.  I still find him highly entertaining and alot more impressive than your normal magicians.

My da did once pull a 10p from my ear though, explain that one