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does he freak anyone else out?
sorry to derail.
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So he predicted the numbers after the draw had happened?......I could do that.
this is what I saw:
he had 6 balls with the predicted outcome printed on em, all facing away from the camera while he watched
the live lottery draw and wrote down the outcome.
After the draw ended, he turned off the TV and went to his 6 balls and turned them to face the camera
while holding up the numbers that he wrote down.
They matched.But one thing I don't get...why couldn't he show his predicted numbers, right as the draw was happening...?
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this is what I saw:
he had 6 balls with the predicted outcome printed on em, all facing away from the camera while he watched
the live lottery draw and wrote down the outcome.
After the draw ended, he turned off the TV and went to his 6 balls and turned them to face the camera
while holding up the numbers that he wrote down.
They matched.But one thing I don't get...why couldn't he show his predicted numbers, right as the draw was happening...?
because it's a trick, it's not real......this would be possible to stage in a live theatre scenario, then add the TV element and all the possibilities of editing, pre-recording and special effects....
I would be impressed if he predicted the numbers before the draw, then got them right...but this is not possible, if it was he would've. (would of)
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'would have' ;)
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because it's a trick, it's not real......this would be possible to stage in a live theatre scenario, then add the TV element and all the possibilities of editing, pre-recording and special effects....
I would be impressed if he predicted the numbers before the draw, then got them right...but this is not possible, if it was he would've. (would of)
you know...come to think about it, there was a shot when his predicted balls weren't in camera view, and it was at that very moment the live draw happened..
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Sadowitz ! The bloke is brilliant.
If you ever wonder into the place you will see he has stuck a sign up near the counter (on the right hand side) offering his services as an instructor for those wanting to get into card trickery, I am sorely tempted to take a few lessons just to meet him.
I did wonder about that too, his show was brilliant, like a drunk and bitter Tommy Cooper.
Derren Brown amazes me, not necessarily the big illusions such as these but some of the mind trickery shows such a deep understanding of the human psyche. One of my favourites is where he is talking through a shopping centre's pa system, fakie adverts iirc, and by the end of it manages to say something that makes everyone in the centre stop and put their hand up, and they all look at each other completly bemused and a bit sheepish.
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Did the numbers he wrote down on the piece of paper match the actual lottery numbers? I'm thinking this was some kind of mis dierection trick where he switched the numbers so that when his balls were turned round (yikes!) he matched them with the numbers on the paper rather than the tv, ie different numbers. But because you so fixated on HIS balls (double yikes!) you don't notice.
I think switching his own balls (yikes again!) would have been to easy to do.I didn't see any of it on tv though, i fell asleep halfway though shooting stars so forgot to turn over :(
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He's not a fraud! It's a trick! It's entertainment! He does illusions. He even calls himself a "psychological illusionist" in order to point out before he starts that a: It's an illusion and b: He often uses pshychological trickery and programming to either make the trick work or help it along. It's not magic. He can't read minds. He can't talk to the dead or bend spoons with the power of his mind. No one can.
He's never claimed to actually do "real" magic, in fact he's gone to great pains to point out that he feels very stronly anyone who does claim to have these "powers" is a fraud, a liar and that he finds it amoral and ugly. Especially with regards to mediums and psychic healers etc.
A lot of people get riled because often when he claims to be using psychological skill to maniuplate people, he's actually doing plain old sleight of hand, or some other more tradional trick and often when he's pretending to so some other basic looking things he's manipuating his targets and or audience using psychological techniques. That's part fo the overall act, part of the confusion and entertainment. I don't see how that's cheating. It's all part of what makes it maddening, confusing and fascinating. His schtick is that he claims to have come clean about one big part of act (the psychological manipulation thing) only to use that very fact as a kind of misdirection occasionally. Good magic has always been like that. People pay to be confused, baffled and wowed.
Personally i think he comes across as a bit of a cock but I really like his stance with regards to psychics and mediums. I really enjoy most of his stuff (I particularly enjoyed "Seance") and I'll check out tonight's thing with interest. Although I have to say "predicing" the numbers after they were drawn does seem like a bit of a pointless trick...[/
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I think he's great. I love all that 'magic' stuff - well not Copperfield flying etc, but sleight of hand, close-up stuff and Browns psychological stuff. Also liked the early David Blaine out on the streets stuff, before he started sitting in boxes.
Magic is proper entertainment. Like ventriloquists and mimes.
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He's not a fraud! It's a trick! It's entertainment! He does illusions. He even calls himself a "psychological illusionist" in order to point out before he starts that a: It's an illusion and b: He often uses pshychological trickery and programming to either make the trick work or help it along. It's not magic. He can't read minds. He can't talk to the dead or** bend spoons** with the power of his mind. No one can.
(cough) Uri geller (cough)
Fact.
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