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Originally Posted by jura
I've only caught the first 2 episodes but you guys make it sound like the best is still yet to come.
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Well the Heist, the Séance and Russian routlette were 1 hour specials, the stuff on the TV show is different, as he does loads of quicker things.
The Heist:
After spending time with group of people he determined who would be the most suggestible and took them on a rigorous boot camp style thing, whilst doing this he was trying to empower them to take control, whilst doing this, he would make certain colours, symbols and music link in with that, then he sent them away and thanked them for their time. Giving them a fake gun, can’t remember think it was some kind of souvenir
They then set up a dummy street, with the colour green, an old Micheal Jackson track playing and a guy with a briefcase of money putting it into those security trucks, 3 out of the 4 guys on this test, pulled out the gun, got the ‘Money’ and pegged it.
Séance:
This was brilliant! He got 10 students together and randomly picked out cards from envolopes with details of a person who had died on the premises, they did loads of classic séance stuff, like asking the spirits to move stuff on the table and raise the table and stuff like that, at the end he basically said it was all bullshit and the women who was haunting them was sat in a truck outside, it got a record number of complaints at the time because people at home watching it thought it was real
Russian Roulette:
This was controversial, He got a group of 6 people, spent a week with them, this time to find out who he could manipulate this most, rather than who was suggestible, as the ‘winner’ was going to take a six shooter, put a bullet in one of the chambers, then give it to Derran to play Russian Roulette with, by himself. They did all of this live and yes it could have been staged, but they did a good job of making this one look authentic enough.
He fired 2 clicks into his head
Then fired away (trying to make out it was meant to be the one’)
Clicked at his head again
Then fired away and the shot came out
When you watch it back you can see how he’s being suggestive with it, as he asked the dude putting the bullets in ‘Have you put ONE in yet?’ he asked that question 3 or 4 times.
Turned out the stunt was done using a blank bullet, but from that range it still would have been enough to fecking hurt, plus the eventual shot fired did go through a sandbag, so it would have been enough to do some damage.