Derren Brown

Derren Brown: The Gameshow

I watched a T.V programme with my mum about a fake game show that involved the audience on the game show to decide a young man’s fate. Derren Brown is most famous for his amazing illusions, mind games and experiments towards the general public. Derren Brown used a young man called Kirk (27) the victim of the game show called “remote control” the audience had to decide Kirk’s fate on weather a good or bad thing happened to him, for example during the course of his night out he was arrested by police and fired from his job, obviously this was all not true but the only person who didn’t know that was Kirk himself. The maturity of the audience every time chose to make Kirk’s life more hell than heaven, with at least 60% of the audience choosing to laugh at young man’s misfortune, after the fake game show realising how twisted the idea really is. “The Gameshow” concerned the social psychological concept of deinviduation (the idea that normal people can make monstrous decisions while anonymous in a large group).

Derren Brown uses mostly the power of suggestion to manipulate members of the public to do reveal their thought or do particular actions. For example Derren brown a few years back played Russian Roulette but chose a man who he believed was brave enough to decide Derren Brown’s bullet of fate but also shaky enough to just about reveal the true bullet that was supposed to shot at Derren but didn’t.   

Derren Brown’s work is amazing but is it too far?