Heist - Derren Brown

[Mistopheles]

Anyone else watched this tonight? I'd be interested in what you thought. Also, did it have an odd effect on anyone?

[emsey]

I watched it and thought that it was very good

It did leave me with the that i wished that that happened to me... but never get caught lol.
Nah, i would have probably have been like the last man, wouldn't have done anything to nick that money.

But it was still very good!

[Robinia]

Yes, I now have an overwhelming urge to pull a surgical pop-sock over my head & go and steal Twix bars. :-)

[Mistopheles]

That wasn't quite what I meant Robinia! :-)

The bit where they thought they were giving electric shocks - I had a panic attack (and no, I'm not prone to them). I'm a bit odd about electric shocks anyway, but I think it was more the whole idea of it - how can ordinary people do that??? It really shook me up. Daft I know.

Apart from that, I thought it was great. Interesting idea certainly.

[Robinia]

Sorry Mistopheles I couldn't resist being daft!
Yes it was actually interesting & I'd very much like to think I wouldn't have given anyone an electric shock, even a small one, and neither would I have stolen anything - I feel guilty in shops if the security person so much as looks my way! I've no idea how people can be brainwashed either, but these are a certain type I suppose who are ambitious & not over sensitive about what they have to do to succeed. Along with hypnotism their boundaries were stretched - I wonder how they'll fare at any future interviews if they are recognised?

[bernardo]

He just did his usual trick of choosing the most suggestable and gullible people.

[orange-gnome]

I have to say that I LOVE Derren Brown..his cheeky little smile, the naughty/amused look in his eyes! Could judt be a mind trick but I think he is loverly!
You know they weren't really giving the shocks don't you Mistopheles?
I think that somewhere in their brains something would be going " this is England, not Iraq, this wouldn't be allowed here, not for any reason, it must be a trick". Dontcha think? I know I would think that and carry on with it!!
I wanna learn those memory tricks though!! Oh and snog Derren...hehehe : )

[chinadoll]

I think he stretched the whole proceedure just for the sake of the show....I believe he could have planted the suggestion in a few minutes..... anyway ....thought the robbing sweets was more peer pressure than anything else......

[spaced]

very good. i love all his stuff. The only thing that bugs me about The Heist is, if you were given a gun and then were told to bring it with you to the final meeting, wouldnt you put it in a ruck sack or bag, rather than having it in your jacket or pocket, ???? Eespcially in london

[xrayspecs]

It is a TV programme afterall. The outcome is pretty much a certainty. No TV company would pay for a programme that clearly didn't work! and I'm sure there's an awful lot of kidoligy on the part of the "random selection of participants".

[kazza12345]

I have to say i ddint watch it - i'm convinced all derren brown things are a complete hoax. They were all actors, its not real

[Supernick]

What was the name of the experiment where people gave out electric shocks? Can't remember, and it's bugging me..

[Robinia]

The Milgram experiment Supernick.