RE: Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge
January 23, 2016 at 5:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2016 at 11:12 pm by Tiberius.)
I didn't feel like the lottery episode was a "charade". Sure, he said he'd predict the lottery, but this is Derren Brown, someone who is the first person to come out and say he doesn't have any magic or "psychic" powers. Of course he wasn't going to actually predict the lottery, I don't know why anyone really expected him to do that. It was always going to be a trick.
The trick was actually pretty good too, but the main reason it fell flat (if I recall correctly) was the special effects used to change the numbers on his "prediction" balls. In the age of YouTube and people dissecting footage, it would have to be perfect live editing, which it wasn't.
I think the real entertainment honestly came from the "explanation" show, which was hilarious.
The trick was actually pretty good too, but the main reason it fell flat (if I recall correctly) was the special effects used to change the numbers on his "prediction" balls. In the age of YouTube and people dissecting footage, it would have to be perfect live editing, which it wasn't.
I think the real entertainment honestly came from the "explanation" show, which was hilarious.
