(January 24, 2016 at 10:53 am)Tiberius Wrote:(January 24, 2016 at 10:44 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Personally I wasn't talking about the people he hypnotises but some other bit players who were "supposed" to not be in on it.
Like who? My point still stands. I've yet to hear of a single one of the participants from his big events coming forward and selling their story about how Derren secretly paid them to act this or that way.
The particular incident I am thinking about was on one of his shows when the subject had to control by "thinking" at a person walking down the street, getting them to stop suddenly. The person that stopped did it in a way I would describe as "stage school" over the top lovey acting. Since then I have seen suspicious things time and again in his programmes that make me think that stooges would be the best and possibly only way to do that, but these were not the members of the public but the "random" people they were in some way interacting with if you get the difference. He's still a million times better than dynamo, 90% of whose act is explainable if you've seen any of those magicians secrets revealed programmes.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
