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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-01-31 08:20 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-01-31 08:20 am
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The Contract Allows Us To Do Whatever We Like With You.
Okay, I have seen only two episodes, but Derren Brown's Trick or Treat is absolutely terrifying. I cannot believe there is a second series. The first I can understand, because people didn't know what they were letting themselves in for, but a second series means that people must have watched the first and thought, 'Yes! I want that! I want to be kidnapped and stranded in an unfamiliar country! I want to be abused in the street and made to think I am trapped in a box! This sounds exactly like my idea of a good time.'
Does this really sound like your idea of a good time, Trick or Treat applicants? Does it really?
I am also rather disturbed by Mr Brown's apparent willingness to offer his guests Mini Rolls containing delicious chocolate and cream and razor blades. I mean, I'm assuming there was some sort of trickery involved, and he didn't just stick the blade in one of them and hope, but I cannot see where this trickery can have come in. And he's breaking into people's houses in the middle of the night, and he's leaving people in enormous mental distress, and I feel he may have gone past 'so scary it's hot' and hit 'so scary it's really freaking scary'.
Not that I don't still find him hot.
I wish that, rather than just saying 'BY THE WAY THIS GUY WAS FINE AFTERWARDS OKAY' on the screen, the episodes would actually show the participant being fine afterwards. 'HE WAS GENUINELY PLEASED TO HAVE TAKEN PART, PLEASE ENJOY THE CREDITS AS WE PLAY THEM OVER FOOTAGE OF THIS POOR MAN SOBBING IN AN EMPTY THEATRE' is not, I have to say, entirely reassuring.
I tried to find clips from the ventriloquist's dummy episode, which was one of the most disturbing things I had ever seen, but alas I could not, so here is a clip of Derren Brown being rather charming on stage instead. He wants you to touch his goatee!
Also, Derren Brown paying for things in America with blank paper. I particularly enjoy 'Can I buy some of your sole?', and it's always fun when they show the attempts that don't work.
(I told a Real Life friend that I was alarmingly attracted to Derren Brown, and she thought I meant Dan Brown. I was horrified. It's like telling a friend you once stole a can of cat food and having her respond with 'YOU EAT KITTENS?')
Does this really sound like your idea of a good time, Trick or Treat applicants? Does it really?
I am also rather disturbed by Mr Brown's apparent willingness to offer his guests Mini Rolls containing delicious chocolate and cream and razor blades. I mean, I'm assuming there was some sort of trickery involved, and he didn't just stick the blade in one of them and hope, but I cannot see where this trickery can have come in. And he's breaking into people's houses in the middle of the night, and he's leaving people in enormous mental distress, and I feel he may have gone past 'so scary it's hot' and hit 'so scary it's really freaking scary'.
Not that I don't still find him hot.
I wish that, rather than just saying 'BY THE WAY THIS GUY WAS FINE AFTERWARDS OKAY' on the screen, the episodes would actually show the participant being fine afterwards. 'HE WAS GENUINELY PLEASED TO HAVE TAKEN PART, PLEASE ENJOY THE CREDITS AS WE PLAY THEM OVER FOOTAGE OF THIS POOR MAN SOBBING IN AN EMPTY THEATRE' is not, I have to say, entirely reassuring.
I tried to find clips from the ventriloquist's dummy episode, which was one of the most disturbing things I had ever seen, but alas I could not, so here is a clip of Derren Brown being rather charming on stage instead. He wants you to touch his goatee!
Also, Derren Brown paying for things in America with blank paper. I particularly enjoy 'Can I buy some of your sole?', and it's always fun when they show the attempts that don't work.
(I told a Real Life friend that I was alarmingly attracted to Derren Brown, and she thought I meant Dan Brown. I was horrified. It's like telling a friend you once stole a can of cat food and having her respond with 'YOU EAT KITTENS?')
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So far, I have seen two episodes, both tricks. In the first, he broke into a guy's house at three in the morning and woke him up to say 'hi, I'm Derren Brown, pick a card', then, after he picked 'Trick', used a fake photobooth to send him into a catatonic trance and had him wake up on his own in Morocco, without explanation. There was a nice little interlude in this one in which Derren offered four guys a plate of five mini Swiss rolls; they each took one and ate it, and then it was revealed that the fifth roll - the one none of them had eaten, the one one of them had been keeping hold of, so it couldn't have been switched - contained a freaking razor blade.
In the second, he made a guy believe that he was a hypnotist's dummy, then put the dummy in a box, which left the guy panicking and saying, 'Let me out! I can't see!'
There is no way to convey the true creepiness of the second episode through text.
I cannot find any good Trick or Treat clips, which appears to be when Derren is at his creepiest, but here is a video of him being extremely creepy with a voodoo doll (apparently, that YouTube video is no longer available in my country (SERIOUSLY DERREN BROWN IS FREAKING BRITISH WHY CAN'T BRITISH PEOPLE WATCH HIM), but perhaps it is available in yours. If not, give this link a go), to give you some impression of how creepy he is.
(When he is not being creepy, he is, entirely inexplicably, completely adorable.)
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...RIGHT?
I'll just be over here.
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Derren Brown very politely steals a man's watch, wallet and phone (again, not available in the UK, but I'm fairly sure this clip is the one of which I am thinking).
Derren Brown paralyses a woman in the middle of the road (ditto ajfdhahdgdhfgh stupid YouTube).
Derren Brown takes great pleasure in freaking out a film student.
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In the second, he made a guy believe that he was a hypnotist's dummy, then put the dummy in a box, which left the guy panicking and saying, 'Let me out! I can't see!'
There is no way to convey the true creepiness of the second episode through text.
Trust me, you made it sound creepy enough.
*hides*