Derren Brown Live: Hero at 30,000 feet, C4 10pm

Unrealistic things:

1. The pretend policeman got home and pretended not to notice the car parked outside
2. The plane flight was in daylight, even though the programme was advertised as being live
3. Everybody - even gullible suggestible people - knows that planes have a co-pilot
4. The band appeared out of thin air in the middle of the party
 
Just to add to the growing list of non-credible events (apols if been mentioned): when the steward asked if there was someone, anyone who could land the plane (I'll gloss over the utter ridiculousness in itself of that), Matt says about three ot four times 'I can't do it'. Now, faced with any situation where a volunteer is called for, no-one spontaneously says 'I can't do it'. You do what everyone else does, which is to stare at your shoes and desperately try to avoid eye contact. The only reason you would pre-emptively rule yourself out is if someone has asked if you can do it. This wasn't shown of course, but if that did happen, it makes you wonder what else was said to him at the time? Maybe it was strongly suggested that he should do so and it would be to his advantage?

And what was the 60 seconRAB all about? Matt (supposedly) didn't know he only had 60 seconRAB to volunteer. This was surely just a plot device to ramp up the tension for the viewer? It had no relevance to anything.
 
more about hypnotizing a sleeping person.
from a book entitled- Open to suggestion by robert temple(not to be confused with a hypnotist of the same name)

back cover- open to suggestion is the first popular book this century to convey the full range and potential of hypnosis for good and for ill. it sweeps away the popular myths about the subject and presents the facts- many for the very first time. best selling author robert temple, whose 10 years of investigation have taken him all over the world to come to know the foremost reaearchers in the field, has collected the evidence and countless case histories never before made available in book form.
''you cannot be made to commit any act against your moral principles under the influence of hypnosis''..............if anyone knows anything about hypnosis they know this.
Unfortunately it is not true, it is a statement born out of the fear of those who say it. there are some people who can be made to do almost anything.
page 45- it is a common assumption of nearly everyone that when one is unconscious, one is 'out'-that is,sealed off from the environment,unaware of one's surroundings, and in a state of suspended animation. but we will see that this is not true when in the next chapter I give a description of how a patient in a coma was successfully hypnotized. this proves that patients in comas can sometimes, and perhaps always, hear what is going on around them, or at least what is spoken their ears. and yet a coma is meant to be the most inactive of unconscious states, where the parient is hopelessly out of touch with his surroundings.
 
Thanks for the insult - I really appreciate the time you took to comment.

How much do you think Network Rail spend on advertising to stop people doing similar stupid things? Sitting on the edge of platforms, running through red lights, running along the tracks....yes I know some people just are stupid.... but I believe some people really are *that* stupid to do things they see on TV!
 
To give him his dues, he was a master at making people believe total bulls**t. And parting with their money.

If he can convince people that his sci-fi fantasies were real then I'm pretty confident he could convince people he was a hypnotist.

LoaRAB of people think Derek Acorah is a genuine, gifted "psychic". It ain't necessarily so.
 
It must be true then. :D

I'm not at all certain that Matt and family were/are professional actors, but I am certain that they were acting up for the cameras.

Having said that, they all - especially the girlfriend - had the poise and mannerisms of trained but not very good actors.
The mother was the only one who looked half-way natural, IMO.

Anyway that's largely beside the point.
Every scene was clearly staged and carefully framed, and it was much closer to soap opera than fly-on-the-wall documentary.

I suppose it might be excusable as a form of cinema verite.
 
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