Page 1 of Derren Brown Seance

Anyone else see it?

Was brilliantly done I thought, and very entertaining to watch. :)


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I didn`t watch it, what happened?

I have to say that I think Derren Brown is a total con artist. I watched the Russian Roulette thing a few months ago and it was a complete joke! He is right up there with Uri Geller as being the master of making money out of deceiving the public!

Me and the mrs watched it. After the `Choose a photo` section me and the Mrs both turned to each other and and `Jane, Right?`. After that it sort of took the suspense out of it all.

We actually had an argument as to whether the students were genuinely duped or whether or not they were actors. I said they were in on it, as the `Mediums` eyes during the night vision sections were the only ones (except Derrens` not to have the light reflecting off the back of their eyeballs.

I saw it. I had to laugh when at first he was saying that he picked 12 students who were very susceptible. They were given tests beforehand to ascertain this. I thought the people who phoned in were either fake or suckers. Someone said they saw their dead relative, someone said their wardrobe jolted.
When the pic selection came up I figured it was a fix as it was engineered that you`d land on "jane". In the actual seance, Derren said to the medium/spirit "you have a cat, whats its name?" and this prompted the spirit for a name. Now I know he plants the answers subliminally (couldn`t spell subconciously) but I don`t know how!

Derren Brown is amazing!!

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Why is he "amazing?" He is a con artist!

This item was edited on Tuesday, 1st June 2004, 14:13

I watched it. I picked Jane. He stated from the start that he didn`t believe in it and was going to trick the students. It was obviously a trick because "Jane" never existed and therefore never died, we met her at the end. It doesn`t explain how the medium knew the cat`s name or the father`s job...

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Why is he "amazing?" He is a con artist!

erm.........surely thats the point.

He has never claimed to have any kind of supernatural powers, but he can get people to say and do virtually anything he likes.

Yeah, hes a `Conman`, but he makes no bones about it. He is amazing at what he does and for me, being able to do things like that, with scientifically proven principles is actually more impressive than `Fake` Real Magic, if you see what i mean?

I didnt watch yesterday so I can`t comment on that. I was referring to the Russian Roulette stunt, and in particularly the selection process that preceeded it. At one stage, he sat at the front of a class blindfolded whilst all the volunteers in front of him drew a picture. He then took his blindfold off, picked one of the volunteers, then drew EXACTLY what he had drawn! Forgive me for being cynical, but I don`t believe this to be possible!

Well it is possible. You saw him do it.

Heh, dear oh dear, how can you compare Derren to Uri?

Uri claims he has genuine psychic powers, can bend spoons with his mind, start broken watches and read people`s minds.

Derren clearly states he is a psychological illusionist, and achieves everything he does using a mixture of psychology and techniques used by many other magicians.

To say Derren is a conman is exactly the same as saying a magician is a fake, of course they are a fake. They really don`t claim to genuinely be supernatural, they just claim to be entertainers.

Anyway, the seance was WAY better than the russian roulette.


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