Derren Brown
He befriended Psychic Magic when he was studying law and German at the University of Bristol in Taylor, when he participated in a show by the hypnosis magician Martin, which sparked his passion for turning to the development of magic and hypnosis, and he fell in love with the cause.
As magician Darren Brown shocked the world's move was:
On October 5, 2003, Darren Brown shocked the country by playing "Russian roulette" with a pistol in his head;
On September 9, 2009, the lottery prediction results were challenged in front of millions of viewers across the country
Author of "Not Mind Reading, Not Psychology, Not Magic"
Changing a piano, losing an elephant, and making a Boeing 747 disappear are all tricks.
Darren Brown can turn middle-class white-collar workers into bank robbers, change the faith of faithful, and predict lotto numbers.
Darren Brown, the world's most mysterious and dangerous master of consciousness control, teaches you the skills of never-ending, revealing the core secrets of consciousness control and psychic magic.
"It's not mind reading is psychology or magic", it is from the most basic awakening of mind magic, card games, to hypnotic suggestions and consciousness control. The learning methods and scientific analysis of psychic magic are elaborated.
Darren Brown's language is witty and playful. In a relaxed language, he gives the reader some simple but psychologically deceptive magic tricks, while he explains that all his magic tricks are scientifically based and fundamentally different from those of mystical alternative therapies.
During his time in bristol, choosing whether to live here for a long time was a risky question for him, because during this period, his life was very tight, and he did not even have the money to feed himself. In the end, Brown decided he would never leave Bristol until he graduated.
So, from the mid-1990s, he worked as a magician, practicing traditional techniques to improve magic, and he began performing magic tricks in bars and restaurants, where he would occasionally perform hypnosis.
In addition to his main part of his work, Brown was also a well-known artist for painting satirical portraits. His work has also been exhibited.
Later, Brown later changed the direction of his performance, focusing on psychological deception.
In 1999, he became known to the public for a performance highlights on British television 4 that reads the hearts of others. On Christmas Day 2000, "derren Brown: Mind Control" was introduced, and it quickly became popular, earning Bron quite a bit of acclaim. But Breun felt that this was not enough. Subsequently, the "Mind Control" 2 and 3 came out. Immediately after that, the series also came out.
The most famous of these was the October 2003 "derren brown plays russian roulette live" (Darren Bron's live Russian roulette show). The show attracted worldwide attention and earned Bron a notorious title and a large apartment in London.
Breun then made his first attempts at spiritism (psychicism) and supernatural abilities, and it was also the first show in which Breun conveyed his theories. At the scene of the performance, Bron said: "Now, there is no doubt that I am already famous. I can buy almost anything I want."
Since then, he has received letters of complaint from spiritualists as well as Christians. Brown is very sensitive to everyone's opposition. But he believed that at least later groups would forgive him.
He works 52 weeks a year, and the amount of work he does often makes him feel exhausted and irritable. He still lives in London, accompanied by his extensive collection and two parrots.
His performances do not have traditional handkerchiefs to pigeons, nor modern trucks and tanks to disappear, nor do they have to spend dozens of days in glass boxes. His performance is somewhat similar to the "street magic" that was popular a while ago, but the similarity ends here.
He calls himself a "psychological illusionist" and performs most of the "mind-reading techniques", how to guess other people's decisions in advance, how to influence other people's decisions in a short period of time, and so on.
He used to be a magician of the art, and later decided to specialize in psychic magic, he was called a psychic magician, perhaps influenced by the strong academic atmosphere in Britain, Brown's psychic magic used a lot of professional psychological knowledge, in a sense, he really realized the mind reading skills, he was really trying to see through the mind of the audience.
roulette
Brown's previous most shocking magic show was "Russian Roulette" that aired on The British Channel 4 tv on October 5, 2003. Brown selected a volunteer from 12,000 men who loaded a bullet into a repeating revolver with 6 chambers, each with a number marked in advance, and only the volunteer knew which chamber he had loaded the bullet into. Brown then asked volunteers to count from 1 to 6, and he tried to predict which chamber the bullet would be loaded by listening to the other person's voice. Finally, Brown pointed the gun at his head and pulled the trigger, but he fired an empty gun, and it wasn't until the shot that hit the load of the bullet that he fired the deadly bullet elsewhere. After the magic show was broadcast on television, it was strongly condemned by the British police because they feared that ordinary people would imitate Brown's deadly magic trick.
Due to the restriction of firearms in the UK, the show will take place in a secret location outside the UK. It is reported that the performance stage will be selected in an abandoned building. Brown's performance included 40 television crews, an ordnancer, a psychologist and 2 paramedics.
Most of the nearly 2-hour show showcasing his selection of the volunteer. He explained during the program that he must be 100% sure of the psychological activities of the finally selected volunteers, so that he can absolutely judge the truth or falsity of his words. He first asked interested participants to send him a videotape of his self-singing, selected 100 volunteers, and then called them to an auditorium at Westminster University in London.
In the first step, he asked the volunteers to walk into the auditorium with several rows of chairs in the center, and asked the volunteers to find a chair to sit down as soon as possible. Volunteers rushed in and found that there were only 90 chairs. He immediately weeded out 10 people who didn't find a chair because they were "too playful"; then 10 people in the first row because they were "too active to kill me"; and 10 people in the last row because they were suspected of "evading responsibility". Then there are many similar games and tests, and finally there are 5 left, concentrated in one farm. After several more rounds of play and testing, the final volunteers were tasked with checking the guns and loading them.
The show culminates in Brown sitting at a table with a loaded revolver on it, and the volunteer sits not far behind him, being asked not to leave his seat regardless of what happens, and brown asks him to report the numbers for the 1-6 chamber in order and "try not to give me any clues, because it will interfere with my judgment." Brown then had to use the volunteer's six words from one to six to determine where to shoot—his own head, or a sandbag on the side—until the bullet came out. He aimed his head at the 3rd and 4th chambers and pulled the plate machine, and in the performance, he also misjudged once, he pointed at himself in the 5th chamber for three or four seconds and then pointed at the sandbag and fired, but this chamber proved to be empty, at which point he paused for about 1 minute, needing to regain his mind to continue. The 6th chamber was then quickly fired at himself and fired at the sandbag, which turned out to be in the first chamber. He managed to escape death!
This one-off show attracted many viewers and caused some controversy, with many people believing that "live broadcasting is not true" and "there are no bullets in the gun". But this performance undoubtedly made him famous in one fell swoop. He went on to do many TV shows and live performances. His shows are always unique and entertaining.
He always stressed that his performance was not a peculiar function, but a psychological cue and magic.
Forecast number
On 9 September 2009, the UK Lottery Jackpot was rocked out on time at 10.35pm, and the entire Brown Prediction lottery process was broadcast live by five channels under the name of the UK 'Channel 4' television network and one of the BBC's. This is the first time that the Uk's "Channel 4" has had all of its TV channels cover the same event at the same time. British magic guru Darren Brown challenged the lottery predictions in front of millions of viewers across the country.
During the invoicing process, the lottery numbers were opened one by one in the case of Brown's sweaty palms and nervous silence: 2, 11, 23, 28, 35, 39. Exactly the same card number brown was holding in his hand. Brown exclaimed, "Unbelievable! Unbelievable! He then said he would also fully declassify his "prediction method" on September 11, 2009, in the form of live television.
Afterwards, a spokesman for the British lottery company said that Brown could not interfere with the lottery results, and 70% of British adults said they were willing to imitate Brown's "prediction method" to buy lottery tickets after he revealed it.
Famous programs
BBC Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock) Season 3 Episode 1
At the beginning of the first episode of the third season of the tv series Sherlock Holmes (Roll Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and Chaoye Martin Freeman as Watson), derren Brown appears as himself, hypnotizing Watson for a few seconds in the theory of "Shenxia is not dead" in the theory of "Shenxia is not dead" who was fired and gave Sherlock a precious time to cover his own suspended death (of course, This is Anderson's false theory, sherlock's real method of suspended animation is not like this)
。 Derren Brown's name also appears in the last line of the final cast list as "as himself—derren brown."
Mind control
Since his performance on Channel 4 television, the "mind control" of 2000 has given him "mind reading" has become more widely known. He has the knowledge and techniques to predict and influence people's thoughts with sensitive information, and uses body language to manipulate and read sensitive psychological information.
Derren Brown's live Russian roulette show
On October 5, 2003, Bron played Russian roulette on British Channel 4. Because British law prohibits pistol ownership, the magic is performed in a secret place, allegedly outside of the UK. The volunteer with the gun was selected from 12,000 people, the volunteer loaded a bullet into a six-chambered revolver, then Breun asked the volunteer to count from one to six, trying to predict the position of the bullet, he aimed at his head on the 3rd and 4th chambers and pulled the plate machine, slowly, he pointed at the 5th chamber three or four seconds after pointing at himself and then pointed at the sandbag to fire, but this chamber proved to be empty, at this time he paused for about 1 minute, and then quickly shot the 6th chamber at himself and fired at the sandbag , it turns out that the bullet is in the first chamber. He managed to escape death!
messiah (messiah)
Under pseudonyms, he showed the supernatural powers to the experts of the Superpower Training School, Christian priests, alien abductors, New Age scholars, and psychics that he had some supernatural powers, and used his skillful magic and psychological skills (mind reading and misleading thoughts) to show these supernatural beings. As a result, he was deceived by five of the identifying authorities and expressed their desire to access and recommend him in their magazines or television programs.
The most controversial part of the show was Breun's display of his "superpowers" in front of a Christian pastor, which made more than a dozen atheists acknowledge the existence of God on the spot and the pastor admire him. There is a subtitle at the end of the film that reveals the truth to the theists present after that performance, allowing them to return to their atheist stance. Breun once said that he was still an avid Christian missionary in his 20s, but then began to realize that all beliefs, including Christianity, superpowers, new age and channeling, were actually no different, and his personal beliefs were not much stronger than the outlandish new century theory.
psychic powers
Brown had a large number of participants and television viewers try to sense and draw a picture that had been sealed by the original author in the case of live broadcasting. The show claims to be a way for all participants to feel the power of psychic mind-reading
Trick of the mind
"The Trick of Thought" is Breun's second-largest work, unlike the show "Thought Control", which is a completely new performance. On April 11, 2005, it was shown on Channel 4!
the gathering
The show "Gathering" is a special performance featuring students, celebrities, psychologists, witches and magicians from Roehampton University. He addressed the audience and told them that when they left, many of them would forget about the performance. The word "forget" appeared on screens all over the scene and flashed very quickly, and finally when the guests were interviewed after the performance, some of them only vaguely remembered the performance process. Because during the performance, "forgetting" was used subconsciously—Darren's hypnosis convinced a group of listeners that, for about half an hour, after they left the room, they had no memory of magic. Many of the guests were interviewed, and some of them were unable to recall everything that appeared in the course of magic (however, the things they remembered vaguely did indeed have in their impressions!). ）
the heist （抢夺）
A psychic trick to instruct to steal money! Hypnotic cues "persuaded" 3 law-abiding Citizens of the United Kingdom with no criminal record to participate in a "street robbery".