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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-02-02 09:26 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-02-02 09:26 am
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Can You Feel It?
I watched Derren Brown's The Heist yesterday, and it was excellent. For those who do not know the premise: Derren Brown offers a motivational seminar to a group of respectable businessmen and women. The seminar is a cover for manipulating them into robbing a security van. It is a fascinating study of what people can be persuaded to do, and of the little-known danger that the song 'Can You Feel It?' by the Jackson Five poses to society.
I think my favourite part was the shop assistants becoming increasingly frustrated by the endless parade of people in suits coming in and stealing sweets. Hee! (I can't believe people did that. Derren Brown says 'steal from this shop! :D' and people - people who clearly haven't been hypnotised, although they have been manipulated somewhat - actually do it? I would probably have assumed he was joking.)
The replication of the Milgram experiment was just disturbing. HUMAN BEINGS. WHY SO CREEPY?
Here is a Heist-related quote from Tricks of the Mind that I rather enjoyed:
Had the final armed robberies not worked - though I had no doubt they would - I had a very vague plan B and C up my sleeve to ensure that the show would come together in some form. But I didn't need to go down those routes. (Let's just say that I had a lot of dancers tucked around corners, waiting for a signal.)
It looks as if you can watch the entire awesome thing here! It is fifty minutes long, and it is so interesting, so please do watch it if you have a spare hour right now. If you enjoy it, you could consider buying Derren Brown's DVDs.
Alternatively, if you do not have the time to watch the entire thing, here is a two-minute cut-down, speeded-up version set to 'Yakety Sax'.
I think my favourite part was the shop assistants becoming increasingly frustrated by the endless parade of people in suits coming in and stealing sweets. Hee! (I can't believe people did that. Derren Brown says 'steal from this shop! :D' and people - people who clearly haven't been hypnotised, although they have been manipulated somewhat - actually do it? I would probably have assumed he was joking.)
The replication of the Milgram experiment was just disturbing. HUMAN BEINGS. WHY SO CREEPY?
Here is a Heist-related quote from Tricks of the Mind that I rather enjoyed:
Had the final armed robberies not worked - though I had no doubt they would - I had a very vague plan B and C up my sleeve to ensure that the show would come together in some form. But I didn't need to go down those routes. (Let's just say that I had a lot of dancers tucked around corners, waiting for a signal.)
It looks as if you can watch the entire awesome thing here! It is fifty minutes long, and it is so interesting, so please do watch it if you have a spare hour right now. If you enjoy it, you could consider buying Derren Brown's DVDs.
Alternatively, if you do not have the time to watch the entire thing, here is a two-minute cut-down, speeded-up version set to 'Yakety Sax'.
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Ooh, Derren Brown would be a wonderfully ambiguous character on Avatar. Is he a hero? Is he a villain? And he is a mindbender, which is probably not a common bending technique in the world of Avatar.
(With everyone as the world as his Othello? It makes sense! ...possibly!)
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Iroh is brilliant! Ridiculous amounts of love for Katara from me. It's just crazy. And, um... now I'm insanely crossing Derren Brown over with multiple fandoms. Death Note! Avatar! The World Ends With You! The Dresden Files! Supernatural!
Especially Death Note. And now, "Can You Feel It?" has become Nighmare Fuel. >_>