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

And another thing - I'd hate to be Derren Brown's mate.

Can you imagine how much fun he has, tormenting them, 'transforming their lives' by setting up fake armed-robberies and getting them to break into policemen's homes?!
 
Don't give DB ideas for his next show. We'll be here forever.

Was it really shit or just double-chocolate chip? Did he recruit fecophiliac's in advance?

Lets get back to somethign more wholesome - like bramly's evil sex hypnotist.

Bramly, you've got me hooked now.

What happened when you twigged what was going on?
 
The options to me are that he is just an actor being himself (doesn't have to be professional full time actor at all), everything was specifically scripted and directed to be exactly everything we saw on the show. The bit in bold is the other option which is a kind of improvised acting, he went along with it knowing 100% all that was going on, it wasn't fully scripted to the dot but if they didn't like what Matt did to something they just reshot.

My guess is the former, I don't think Matt was under any illusions (literally and metaphorically) about what was going on.
 
So, you're about to be crushed by a train (that looked like it was borrowed from the set of the Flintstones) yet you dont start panicking or screaming?!! It gets worse as the show goes on
 
I think peolple are missing the point. The film was using positive imagery - Weeping mother, FrienRAB cheering, gorgeous GF, buying a house, getting a career... ending up a hero.The kind of thing advertisers do all the while.

It was a motivational film aimed at introverted/low confidence viewers. I think the show next month will find out what affect the film had on those watching.

There is usually a wider point to Darren Brown's shows. This was highlighting motivational techniques. I reckon.

Otherwise... that was b*ll**ks!!! :)
 
Oh come on , again with the desperate stretching.

The girl in question put her own mark on the ballot slips to get picked.

Its amazing how folk like you will accept the "she was hypnotised" excuse every time a stooge is used.

The girl in the Seance was a stooge despite the huge disclaimer up front so, no matter what Derren says, he uses Stooges.

The taxi Driver was more pre-prep for the stage show than stooge but my point was more that the selection of him couldn't be and wasn't as random as you made out.
 
Probably - but I think his mind tricks are being directed at the public rather than TV execs. I just find it hard to believe that Derren Brown would have looked at that edit (which he would've) and thought "yeah, people will believe this is real" for one minute. And, TBF, I'm surprised that so many people on here seem to believe that he wanted us to believe it was anything other than staged.
 
The biggest problem I had with it was that it was a crap, unentertaining programme.
Fake or not, just supposed to stir people into doing new things or not it was BAD tv.
 
Keelboots: I appreciate you feel very passionate about the subject we're talking about here but I have to agree with Dizzy. I've been to two live shows and I'm pretty sure he has assistance from his back stage crew. Doesn't mean the people who walk up on stage are stooges, but he has to have help.

The example Dizzy talked about, the carRAB in a hat, that is impossible to perform the way it's shown. I mean just step back for a moment and think about it. Sealed carRAB, in a hat, he pulls them out and can tell whats on them even with a blind fold?

It's a trick. And DB's point with his historical tricks such as the medium curtain etc is to show that they're frauRAB, but very convincing ones.
 
Oh my God.

Forget landing a plane, escaping from a train or wrestling a croc.

He's bought a house in 2 days !!!

Ginger Geek ...you are Derren aren't you ?
 
Is anyone else not really bothered whether it's fake or not? I'm not fussed, I just really enjoy watching Derren, and find his ideas very interesting. He's pretty inventive if nothing else.
 
They should throw the book at him and the production company, not to mention the private railway they used.

Then make them all go, with a bag and pick up the bits at a real fatality.

:mad:
 
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