Infamous Illusions: Derren Brown on Amaze 

Spot on

you have to be like that and do that if you are performing... not just him. Hes just finest in acting, but you need acting for doing this magic tricks and illusions. Most of them ARE actors on the side.

Did you notice that when he said he wasn’t wearing an earpiece and asked 2 people to look and check he showed each of them the same ear?

It goes beyond just being a great actor, he also has a phenomenal memory. He's not lying when he says he's not wearing an earpiece, there's nobody feeding him information; for the most part he's rattling off information he memorised just prior to coming out on stage, either before the show or during the interval, something he had to do literally hundreds of nights in a row for this particular show, a different set of "predictions" every night over the entire run. That's an amazing skill, on top of his other abilities. He really is the greatest showman of our generation, his spin on what is, at the end of the day, very common mentalism techniques is just sublime.

@@angelaglanville9377 What are you smoking? He showed two people one ear and another two people the other. He also clearly said it wouldn't matter if he in fact did wear an ear-piece.

he is seeking help of devil/satan

@@syedadil1012 how can you be sure?

@@mircea3006 some people here(india) can do the same thing. they can tell you what's in your mind. but, unlike him, they don't hide the fact that they seek devil's help. its nothing scientific

@@syedadil1012 Hi, I think you have it the wrong way around. In India you have performers who pretend to be devil magicians and use psychology and science to get their effects. Like the 'devil magician' who gets into 'boiling' water which is pretty obviously dry ice scattered on room temperature water.

@@danielsteadman4210 you are right, but there is a difference b/w them. we know who uses psychology and who uses supernatural

Myth Tree It’s like when you’re a kid and you say I just ran to the moon and back but I was so fast you didn’t even see it. And other kids will believe it

@@lacari0805 the kids you hung out with were real dumb

yeah what a dickbrain right?

@@lacari0805yeah I used to do street magic and it's an amazing feeling. Seeing the look of amazement. And the funny thing is that you're doing it so fast that you can't even see how you did it. So how could they. Even cameras couldn't catch what's happening right in front of them. Something special about magic. Good magic I believe can stand up too all but the most strongest tests. If it requires the audience to con themselves it's not good magic. They should be genuinely befuddled.

@@shanescott5847 I'm a layman in magic here, so please be forgiving in your answer :p But isn't the whole point of magic, in general, to depend on the human brains' fallibility and our tendency to find patterns and answers, sometimes even when there aren't any good answers besides "I don't know"? I'd say that pretty much in line with "the audience conning itself".

* their

@@petegiant thank you grammar police.

@@pepernst you're welcome :)

funny huh, when you have identity issues like he has its not that simple sometimes

Same sort of thing Houdini did. It's absolutely brilliant.

I'm tempted to buy a print. I'm saving up

yes! his art is gorgeous. he is an exceptionally talented individual, I'm a big fan!

When I first read your comment I assumed that he must have done something to you guys at the end but then I tried to recall it and I can’t wtf

-Missy- i recon he did some suggestive conditioning subtly throughout the show. Only explanation for it. The experience was so great my friend went and became a magician 😄 the magic marine i believe he is called

@@MrTakeshi763 That's awesome! I'll look him up.

-Missy- totally recommend it. He’s actually really good and has become friends with A list celebs & appeared in loads of tv and movies. I hear he is killed by gerald butler in the new angel has fallen movie 😅

@@MrTakeshi763 maybe this dude is a psychic/ medium and doesn't even realise it.

he's a magician. not a genius. they're called magic tricks, and they take time and effort to master, not intelligence.

z arguably they require both time and intelligence to not only understand but master the skills

z Check out his art work and tell me he’s not a genius at excelling at anything he wants to.

@@MultiCheeseLouise its science and psychology not magic

No he ain't. He has sold his soul

You believed it?

And people pay to see Madonna!

The real Sherlock Holmes

Don't me wrong, Derren is brilliant & I'm a huge fan, but to call him - without argument - the greatest performer of our lifetime? Its a bit over the top.

Totally agree

Clearly you haven't seen the performances on public stage by Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau!

@@detailingshed8130Not really; they just think he’s the best

Mystery performer, perhaps, but any kind of performer? Nope.

You would get a lot from his book 'Happy' it really helped me and started an interest in techniques and exercises like this that help with wellbeing.

Well but you 'd worry enough about what they think when their thoughts about you make them harm you and threaten your life. Ppl are so unaware what they are saying: It is only true a so long as things are OK and you are strong enough to self-protect and as long as bad things don't happen.

I wish you well in life… good for you.

@@PKWeaver74 thanks Phillip, I heard about his new book but I haven't had a chance to read it yet but if it helped you then I will definitely make time to read it.

@@davidfalconer9281 thank you David, that's very kind of you. You took the time out of your life to actually think about me and send your message and that kindness isn't lost on me and very much appreciated.

Muggle.

clever

He did have the guy flip to a random page number and read that too. Look online for video of derren brown memorizing the dictionary

You missed the part about the phone number

why 36 pages tho? with dice you can roll 6 twice so the highest possible number would be 66, 1 through 66.

Brilliantastical?

looks it!!

Lol

Yes. All of that

"give me the name of one of your dogs" *EBBEH*

@@yalikebe3ns797 How old are you? *Twentehh*

Hmm it blows my mind that people can't. I can very easily conjure any image in my head but the clarity of it varies. There does seem to be distinction between imagistic thought and semantic thought, which makes sense because I rarely think in words and when I do it's very vague and not explicitly coherent

I was going to say that I can't imagine what the world must be like for people like you but I think I can imagine it. I remember thinking that things were real when they were actually just tv commercials or performances, or stories that people told me with emotion and emphasis. But that was when I was a child! It breaks my heart to think of how many stupid people there are in the world and how terribly vulnerable to exploitation they are. I no longer think there is any way to fix it. People are stupid and they just can't see that they are. Please don't be convinced by me. I convinced someone once that they were stupid and it caused them to be humiliated. I felt like I'd vandalized a person's self respect. I don't want to do that again but if you don't know how a magic trick was done, don't claim that you know it was accomplished by means other than simple tricks.

@@MarkLucasProductions can you read? I said trick,look it up,it doesn't have anything to do with believing it's real. You're condescending and quite frankly you apparently don't comprehend English. I was saying most ppl don't know how he does his tricks or the average person would do it. There are many ways of accomplishing the many affects in many different shows and I bet the majority of the public don't know how it's done,including you unless you're a magician.

@@MarkLucasProductions Calling other people stupid yet you can't comprehend basic English. Moron.

There's knowing how, and there's being able. Even if I knew every step of his act, I will never be close to the level of showmanship. His career came together around his particular skills and interests. It would be very odd indeed if someone else could perform exactly the same tricks as well as he does.

that's called research on people/psychology

@@w_szon3115 No. Derren Brown is amazing for a lot of reasons, but he doesn't have supernatural insight. (Or any supernatural abilities that other people don't have) What is special about him is he is extremely creative, more so than most other people alive. And I'm not going to tell you I know how he did that trick. But I can think of possible ways to do it. Almost everything you see Derren Brown do, over 90% of the world's population could do it as well if he were to tell them the exact method and help them practice. There is no form of psychology that would allow you to guess or intuit that somebody got bit by a monkey in Gibralter. I realize he does all kinds of real amazing psychological tricks in a lot of his performances, but that was too spot on. My best guess is that came from some sort of pre-show work, possibly well before the show. But I honestly don't know. Don't have a clue. I'm willing to stretch my belief that he could actually have a crazy memory, and that it was a memory trick (like having people fill out a survey when they buy their ticket), though I doubt it. But I'm not at all willing to believe he can look at a person and intuit that they got bit by a monkey in gibralter, or anything else that specific. He would be able to win James Randi's million dollar prize if he had that ability, and winning that would make anybody so notorious; there is no way Derren Brown would turn that down.

@@TheDobstopper stfu punk

@@TheDobstopper When Derren decides to retire, I hope he does one last tour teaching audiences a quarter to a third of his techniques, including the very best one but not the next two. (not that specific; just an example) By teaching only a fraction, other people in a similar line of work will have to be more imaginative by an achievable amount. Edit: or a Master Class instead of a tour

Possibly done by researching some of the people attending or recording conversations in the lobby. You could find this information easily if it’s on their Facebook profile for example. Commonly done by ‘psychics’ and exposed by derren before now... so I’d bet that’s a technique he uses often.

He even says at the start of the show that he was sent to NLP nutcases to "cure" him of his gayness, and realised that NLP was BS. Then he proceeds to pretend to be using NLP, among other such nonsense, for an hour, and people think there's something to it. At least he's more honest about it now than he was when he first got big, and seemed determined to make people think that he was using phychological skills and body language and NLP and subliminal suggestion and all that bullshit

People dont understand what he really does

Well the point is not if it's real or not, as he admits it's not. The point is, how is the trick performed? If it's simply actors payed to say what he wants, which is the most likely scenario, that's pretty lame. If not, that would be very interesting.

not a big deal after the show, more like now that's online.. well, she's fucked.

i'm thinking about calling her right now.....

I'll bet that number was not her actual phone number.

Enough for a quick slay or 3

@@mrmustangman call her and ask her if she’s keen to give you her nickers and socks… the ones she wore at work all day. Then sniff them.

Joe certainly, but also mixing in two other Liverpool fakes, the late Derek Acorah, and the totally fake Billy Roberts.

You must be a genius

It's not an impressive coincidence. Many people live along many bus routs. Since Derren was going to name 'some' bus rout, a significant proportion of all of the people who lived along whatever bus rout he was going to name would have seen this show. When they saw it they would think wow, what a coincidence! It's a coincidence for 'you' just as it is a coincidence for everyone who wins the lottery each week.

@@MarkLucasProductions Not quite a coincidence as such. The bus route chosen was very close to where he grew up which is where I live. He actually went to a school 5 minutes away from mine. The only coincidence here is that I live in the same area that he grew up

or do you?

is it really you?

@@redandwhitewizard77 Nope. I was just being sarcastic.

his enigma show is must watch especially the finale

​I'd forgotten about this I'll check out the enigma 👍 ​@@craigbliss6748

@@craigbliss6748 I can't find it on RU-vid it seems you have to buy or rent it.

AMANDAAAH

Dog's name? EBBEHHHH

Yes - that's the accent from a strange place called "The North". Now, go and have a BAARTH before you SAPPAR.

@@JMUDoc what are you trying to say ? These aren't words

@@TomDeLaCruz LMAO

I have a challenge for you, take that gimmick and try to teach it to 5 people and see how successful you are....then get back to me

frott scost I have already taught it to three, and they regularly perform the same trick. Derren is all about presentation, and the double bluff of him telling you how it’s done. Incidentally I taught those people as I refined the gimmick a little bit to improve it.

There's nothing for $2 in a magic shop. Seriously, not even incense are $2.

@@ASMRyouVEGANyet Indeed......www.amazon.com/Swami-Gimmick-gimmicks-Lead-Book/dp/B00OZN86VS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=13E68R4W1CDNF&dchild=1&keywords=swami+gimmick&qid=1588172771&sprefix=SWARMI+GIMMICK%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-1

Good Luck....

well said. i say don't watch it if your gona moan i think derren is an amazing person nd hate when people call him out like you said its only for entertainment purposes

he is seeking help of satan/muwakkil and hiding this fact in name of science. many people, sadhus, Molvis here (in india) can do it. its nothing scientific.

@Majowh its not scientific, he is seeking help of devil

@@syedadil1012 which devil? I would say the zoroastrian one.

@@informitas0117 devil mentioned in bible, the same devil mentioned in quran and yes the same devil mentioned in Zoroastrians Zend Avesta

Well then Derrens did his work :)

Psychic reading is done every day by so called "mediums" and "psychics" in their stage shows and online. It is an act, which can be done by anyone with training.

I think he split up from his boyfriend recently. Sad. I bet his boyfriend never saw him much, as he was always touring.

i never actually realised he was gay till today i seen his interview with jonny depp where he said "his partner at home" and then "his (partners) mother sitting down"

Yeah I'm so confused as to why that happened for no reason and wasn't question after by the audience or by most of this comments section

you'd be amazed how many "psychics" have that accent. lol

I think you're mistaken; that's clearly the Serbian warlord Ratko Mladić.

he clearly shows that it isn't an ear piece and just a mic

@@redandwhitewizard77 I'm not sure where in the show he would actually 'need' to be fed audio information but your assertion that "he clearly shows that it isn't an earpiece" is ridiculous.

Brian Burnett that’s a microphone, you small brain😹😹

Bone conduction

@@romshes77 WTF is bone induction?

I picked up on that too!!!

I thought that too.❤

Ray Perry I was lucky enough to meet him once after one of his shows and he is such a charming, likeable person. I'm amazed by how he understands the human mind!

greenkitty82 He is one smart cooky for sure and seems very nice . Lucky you

Ray Perry yeah honestly he is, very polite and friendly and not a single ounce of arrogance or pretentiousness. Very humble. I really wish more people were like him but I'm a huge fan. I'd love him to do more stage shows!

If you don't want the trick spoiled, don't read ahead. ... ... ... Any time a mentalist or a magician asks someone to write something down on a piece of paper or a board, you can be 100% certain they're using a gimmicked pen that looks like an ordinary pen but which transmits everything you write to a remote receiver. There are dozens of them available from all sorts of magic suppliers. From there it should be obvious how a lot of Derren's stage magic works.

He even says so himself. These people haven't read his books. They're soooo desperate for the "body language" and "subliminal suggestions" nonsense to be real. Derren is a fantastic showman, and he's actually a really, really good card magician, but this whole mentalism thing is extremely dishonest. Illusions never used to act like their tricks were real, but now we have Derren pretending to bu using secret psychological skills (which he does NOT possess), we got Blaine pretending to be doing extreme physical feats, we got Chriss Angel and Dynamo using camera tricks, actors, post production effects, etc. I don't like the way it's going. It's not its own skill anymore. It's just acting by another name

Ash Scott I couldn’t agree more, I wish every one agreed that mentalists = magicians. Period. Even when Derren says he lies blatantly all the time, a lot of people end up believing his subliminal influencing claims. The guy tells us NOT to believe him. Can’t we just enjoy the show, which is great, and all agree at the end that it was fiction?

Yeah

Ash Scott Derren makes it very clear that he does not possess psychic powers. In fact, he doesn’t like psychics and publicly works to disprove them. He is showing the audience that psychics are not real and that they should not go and see one or pay them.

same thing basically, 'cold' and 'hot' reading if I'm remembering correctly. He talks about it somewhere; 'cold' is general information, educated guesses, and 'hot' is the reaction to that cold information, and body language and whatever clues only he and a handfull of ppl can see

I won't say as it would spoil for others but it isnt hot and cold reading as the hits are far too exact. How he does it is quite obvious and if you listen he says "these isn't a controlled environment". He isn't playing fair 😂😂

They don't hurt people. They just *look* scary.