Oi! Derren Brown! NO!

[carmonk]

durbster said:

carmonk said:

erdnase said:

durbster said:

And in my opinion, the wallet on the ground is a perfect example of him using a psychology trick, proving it is part of his arsenal.

I think I remember Derren doing two wallet type tricks - one was the wallet in the street with a yellow circle painted around it, and the other one was using his jedi mind tricks to have a guy hand over his wallet?

I'm sure the wallet in the yellow circle relied on a degree to psychology, and most likely a bit of favourable editing too.

Yep, 90% editing, 10% psychology in that the odd person will think, "Ah, there's a line around that wallet, it must be a trick."

I work in video production. I know how easy it would be to set that up, but I also have enough imagination to see how it works as a psychology trick? I am enjoying your complete ignorance of the other video where somebody recreated the trick successfully btw. Convenient

Not really, it's been pointed out more than once that the video was not a single take and was comprised of several edited sections.

durbster said:

When I was at Uni, we put a sign up at the bottom of the stairs saying, "out of order". We didn't think anybody would pay attention, I mean how can stairs be "out of order", and yet almost everyone looked at it, thought for a minute and went elsewhere. That was exactly the same trick, played in a different way. It just exploits our acceptance of authority.

I wouldn't walk up the stairs if there was another way. There could be something spilled on them or they're being repainted or whatever. I wouldn't stand there pondering the likelihood of a workman not expressing themselves with perfect grammar, I'd just take another route. In the same way a person might look at a wallet with a circle round it and think, Hmm, obviously someone's playing a trick, and leave it. Hardly cutting edge psychology and not even slightly representative of the outrageous credit DB expects us to give it.

durbster said:

Have you ever seen a show called The Real Hustle? That also relies heavily on psychology to affect people's behaviour. Some of Brown's tricks are exactly the same.

Haven't seen it, but I presume you can prove that's all un-edited and precisely as described?

[Speculatore]

Update:

Not that lucky afterall.. A sad loss to the town

Butcher

At least they arrested the two drivers

[RemyMartin]

Wtf???

[Silver Smudger]

RemyMartin said:

Wtf???

This report has the missing link to Derren Brown, in case like me you were WTF-ing that bit!

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11859731...