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saw this special in my mid teens and it has been the most impactful 45 minutes of entertainment ever on my life. changed the way I thought about the world and introduced me to critical and objective thinking. Still come back to it every once in awhile for nostalgia purposes, there are a lot of valuable life lessons in this special.
41:45 I love how Derren's reaction is like 'well damn I'm not the one who put 4 grand on this horse, you crazy for putting that type of money on this. Nothing to do with me'
Another creative performance depicting how limited and narrow one individual's view or perspective of reality is, and how it can be used to trick someone or even change his/her strongly held beliefs. You're the greatest illusionist! Thank you Derren Brown. I'm from the Philippines btw
Aside from the video and great content Derren produces, those poor horses... I have watched a documentary that goes into what buying a racehorse is like and how they train them and it is absolutely grueling. They get whipped, slapped, spurred, kicked, anything you could imagine that involves punishment vs reward happens. Some racehorse trainers are more gentle than others but my gosh.. Not to mention if a horse, especially a racehorse, breaks a leg they are often killed due to the lengthy healing process and work involved in rehabilitating a horse... It's absolutely horrible, no animal should be used for sport.
Thank you!!! I absolutely DESPISE horse racing, and so many people don't want to believe the truth! At work once, literally the whole office were going to some big horse race, all showing off their posh outfits and silly fascinators, so I anonymously created a simple poster with a picture of a race horse with a broken leg, and some simple facts about horses that had died in recent races, together with the sources. It had about 5 facts on it, no accusatory language, no ''think twice'', no ''This is horse racing'', literally not a single thing anyone could find offensive. My own manager, (I overheard her when she saw it on the noticeboard next to the betting sheets) went ape shit. "Someone's doing this to spite me!!" she screamed. They had me in the office when they found out it was me who put it there. It was 'fun' explaining to her that no, it really wasn't about her. SMH. 🤦♀People go crazy to defend animal abuse because they want to pretend it doesn't exist.
James Baker well he didn’t murder any horses for his show he just had film of horse races that were already going on regardless of him. They are horrid but derren didn’t make them do this for sport.
I agree. My logic on this is that, very few people are interested or curious enough to watch videos which are mainly about psychology. Just look at the trending tab and see what interests people most.
If you're in the UK, then of course people would know him and watch him (albeit on their tv subscriptions, not necessarily on RU-vid) I lived in Scotland for five years, and I knew about him from watching him on TV, but here in the US people just haven't heard of him. Although I think I read that he's now just done some of his shows in the US this past year so that should increase interest in Derren Brown
@@GaeiusGutierrez psychology is a brilliant genre. Human behaviour, outdated experiments, too unethical to be carried out now, human reactions etc. Recently discovered the channel, ‘what would you do’..[WWYD]it’s an American abc presentation that shows people’s reactions, I recommend.
What i love about this episode, that derren was successfully made me believe that there was a system that really works. This was the trick derren made that would remind us that the interpretation of our own realities wether to accept if or not might be from the fruit of the lies of others. Thanks darren! Such a great work!
My guess... he placed 4 bets, one on each of 4 horses to win. I don't know which ticket he gave her initially, but even if he gave her a losing ticket, he could easily switch it at the end. So, the Derren Brown show pays for the bets, and the show loses probably about $15K. No clue on how he did the middle part... unless he did the same experiment 1.4 billion times!
Hi Derren, I watched this video in 2011 for the first time. Loved to watch again on RU-vid now. Please come up with more new videos. You are an awesome trickster.
*_This is honestly fantastic content. Derren you are a legend. I'm so happy you upload these full episodes to RU-vid or else I would never have been able to see it. Half of my family lives in England and my Dad is English but I was born here in the States so I'm watching from Sacramento, California. I'm looking forward to your next show! -Tremain Hayhoe_*
In the end, he bet on her behalf 4000 pounds on all the horses. This guarantees she will win the last round. Initially she thought she has lost because she picked the wrong horse, but if she thinks Brown has magically picked the right horse, disregard her choice, so to let her win, then she obviously hasn't learned a thing from this experience.
@@RampageG4mer She held the betting slip for Moon Over Miami. Derren held the other 3 betting slips in his pocket. In the event she won (a 1 in 4 chance), she would've celebrated. In the more likely event she lost (far better for tv entertainment purposes), he asks to see her betting slip, shakes his head, confirms her loss and then hands her back the betting slip, except he uses sleight of hand to give her the winning ticket. A simple trick for a master card-sharp like Derren. This last bit was edited out, of course. Watch the race again, watch her reaction, watch the aftermath. The whole thing was heavily edited. We believe what we want to believe, but the simplest explanation is often the correct one.
Darren’s talent is using misdirection, and sleight of hand, to make his impossible feats seem possible. Whenever he explains a trick, there’s always something he’s not telling you. Sometime he outright lies. Even though I guessed the method to the solution immediately he was still very entertaining to watch. He’s a showman and an entertainer for sure, but can never be trusted.
Considering how the first batch was recommended to not bet at all and the second and third were slowly increasing because they were testing waters, I highly doubt it was that expensive. The problem were the last 5 that lost.
I remember back in 2011 I downloaded 24gb in Derren Brown's videos! Watched them all with great pleasure as I'm an illusionist myself, love psychology and showing how things work x) - btw, how did you guys come to know him??
I just love this guy...just think about how many people he saved from "system's"...just...the bad ass Brain always works, just use it...! Thank You Darren !!!
I saw this years ago and have been thinking about it ever since. I use to fall for subjective bullshit all day long... until Derren Brown trick or treated me.
I remember there was an old "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode that centered around a man winning a series of bets by following this same "system." The memory of that episode spoiled the big reveal at the end of this video for me, but I will say that it's a brilliant concept and that it really caught me by surprise the first time I heard how it works!
I wonder why you removed the part in the original broadcast where you revealed you bet the same bet on all the horses, it doesn't take away anything from the episode.
Makes sense. I initially thought they chose a black woman for marketing purposes. Haven't seen the end yet. Would have been funny if she lost it though.
The piece that I still don't understand is with the photos and the racing officials - did he just set up thousands of stunts like that one until one worked? That seems absurd. So it must have been an illusion or a misdirection (and a great trick) but then what does that have to do with the point he's making in explaining the system?
Derren bought 4 tickets for the 6th race, the winning horse ticket with a swift hand movement he gave to Kadisha, £12000.- of his own and £4000.- her money.
I am in love with this episode. And I always wondered, did Derren do the exact same thing with the end bets? Bet 4k on all the horses and slip her the winning ticket? We'll probably never know, but I think he used the system in the system :P
Same here. not actually started because of he's videos, had heard and had interest in it before, but he's videos showed me it actually works, time and time again and gave me confidence to try it for myself. (After watching many other more educational videos and reading a book or two, of course).
So, I guess he invited 4 people who knows how many times, until the order in the envelope, the photos, the initials and number in the back matched...outsanding. Awesome documentary by the way, one of my all time favorites.
I think he did something else for that segment. Like they demonstrated, the odds of that segment were 1 in 1.5 Billion, which is soooo much more difficult to achieve than the 1/1024 for the coin flip and the process of elimination used for the horse racing. By the process he created for "the system" it was guaranteed that there would always be one person for that final race.
So it's similar to the saying "ask 100 girls for sex, and at least 1 will agree". It doesnt matter how many times you fail, it's only necessary to highlight when you succeed
The system is a metaphor for success under capitalism. Just because you see people who "worked hard and made money", doesn't mean that people who didn't make money didn't also work hard
That is how those investment newsletters work.. people, or personS rather, think they are all subscribing to the same newsletter. And are encouraged to bring in new subscribers ...
Fantastic. I don't speak english so good but i understood the most of the video. If you'll Think to come in Italy, maybe one day, you'll must come to have dinner by me and my wife, at home. Promised.
She managed to say “That’s not right doing that” inbetween her squeals of joy 🤣 She didn’t like you winding her up and she was going to let you know. Reality stays cold hard cash
That is possibly the most magnificent, most maddening, most frightening thing I've ever watched. So, in the end, Darren put six 4K pounds bets and gave the 'winner' that ticket. That's quite a production budget. If I had a dime for every time I said, Wow, I'd be rich. Incredible.
I love the this. What I wondered at the end was, if the race ‘cannot be predicted’, did they only actually put 4K on one horse to win? Was the winning ticket slipped into her possession at the end? Was the one most likely to win, the one they gave her? I can see that at the end, this is a bet, were they just lucky or not?
This doesn’t really explain how he predicted the people in the room though, right? Because he would’ve had to have tried that scene a crazy amount of times in order for that to be the same method.
