This was my first video, and by my evolved standards, my worst (I mean, do you HEAR that commentary?!?!?). Please check out my channel page for more video essay/documentaries presented in a much better and less annoying way! There's another one about Derren Brown, I think it's good. Thank you for watching though! Is it real or fake....
He's a great actor and performer, his head backing up and preparing for the gun to fire at 4:15 as if he has not practiced this exactly 100 times really adds to the realism. The fake hesitation after and explosive display firing quickly was also brilliant.
6:43 Blanks can absolutely kill someone, and unfortunately it's already happened on a set. Jon-Erik Hexum was an actor who jokingly played Russian Roulette with a blank, shooting himself in the temple. The expanding air from the muzzle blast, even without a projectile, was enough to send a chunk of his skull into his brain, leading to his eventual death.
no 10 minute intro, no pretending to be the most analytical and smartest man on earth, just 7 minutes of pure information and entertainment. what a video essay should be.
I loathe videos where it's hard to find the info mentioned in the title because it's filled with so much nonsense and needless over analysis. Much appreciation for the uploader, totally worth a sub!
what I find funny is, Darren even tells people that what he’s doing is a trick yet some people still think that his acts are real magic/telepathic powers.
I remember the story about some bloke accosting him and going "Alright, you can drop the act and tell me- you have powers don't ya?" and refusing to hear otherwise.
@@gonufcthe most concerning part of humanity. That wonderment has gotten us pretty far at times, but also holds us back in situations like that lol everyone wants everything to be a conspiracy or the result of some greater power so bad.
@@Dan-hh5pk believing magic is real(which is just the ability to tap into higher dimensions and manipulating yourself or the world around you, physically or mind-wise/soul/energy) has nothing to do with being an absolute moron and thinking the earth is flat. Magic can be explained, I wouldn't even call it magic, just super-human abilities of people who understand how to tap into the framework/system of creation, something that apparently certain organizations can do, and it is all about training your mind and energizing yourself in energy points on Earth.
What fascinates me is that even knowing that it was acted, I could STILL feel the tension and discomfort, the fact that it ended without music reinforces this more to give a reflection We need more stories like yours, keep it
I swear, any video that deviates 1% of the typical RUclips video structure has people saying "Straight to the point" or something like that regardless if that's the case.
though you didn't know until it finally happened. It was only a logical guess that he wouldn't die because of his history of tricking people - he could have put a blank into the gun, but then again, if you fire a blank at such close distance then you will be badly wounded, if not out-right killed.
@@MrSqurk How would he stage a gun that is completely harmless so that it creates a loud bang each time it fires and lets out a cloud of smoke and sparks that accelerates just like a regular firearm?
My dad said he remembered watching this and he just felt the room drop. No music, no speech, no nothing just the video and "Live". He said the live added so much but he cant put his finger on it, adds a layer of creepiness. He said he felt like he was watching a horror movie. And he said he knew he was going to live, but there was that lil bit of him saying "what if he doesnt"
3:02 had me dying 😂 Derren's confidence in the writing of the word "Cow", as he's usually right, just to hear the contestant respond in the monotone voice: "Sheep."
Pure showmanship. He knew exacly what was going to happen and which bullet was which, but played it for the entertainment value. The "pause" after the "mistake" was the most rivetting piece of television I've ever seen. Amazing stuff.
If he did know he would walk out of this alive, he intentionally messed up his guess with five to prove there’s “real” danger of him messing up, then he stalled on the next one to let the silence build tension for him. How quickly he fired the next two shots is interesting because the viewer barely has any time to recognize “wait, that was empty. That means the next one is the bullet” and feel that sense of relief before he fires it. Then with the bang of the gun all the emotion comes flooding in, and his performance showing his relief really sells it. The guy in the back really thought he was about to die, though. (the way he talks about the gun in his collection gives me a feel he either recalls it as his greatest trick or the only time he could’ve actually died during a stunt. I can’t determine which through his tone.)
I mean you'd have to assume he did this without a bullet in the revolver and having the answer given to him afterwards hundreds of times before going to a live round scenario. But even if he was 99.99% sure he was correct, he's still human. Everyone in that scenario would have their intrusive thoughts about "fuck what if this is the one time I somehow made some minor error and I might actually die?"
The setup around this trick was absolutely masterful. It builds so much tension and suspends our disbelief, because if you just only watch the part where he shoots the gun you can instantly tell that it is fake. A real revolver shot would be incredibly loud, this sounded like a cap gun. And also the big giveaway is that there was no recoil. Shooting a revolver with one hand would have sent his arm flying up at least a little bit no matter how hard you try to control it. And thats exactly why the setup was so important! Because in the moment, you don't notice nor care about any of the things that are obviously fake.
Thought the same. Also, nobody would be as stupid as to play russian roulette on TV and even if someone wanted to - no channel in existence would take the risk of actually broadcasting someone shooting himself in the head for thousands if not millions. It was clearly a blank gun. Sure it goes *PENG* but nothing else. Even if it exploded in his face, his ear would just ring a while.
you should watch more shooting videos on youtube and stop assuming everything will sound like it does in movies- where specialized microphones are used to capture the sound. your phone would have done a similar job catching the audio from a gun. this doesn't go anywhere for or against it being a blank, i'm just saying you can't assume based on the audio. recording close up gunshots accurately and not having them just sound like a pop is actually really hard.
@@thescatologistcopromancer3936 it may very well have been a blank, and considering the stunt, probably was a blank. i'm saying the audio we hear isn't sufficient to determine if it is a blank or not. i've heard recorded .22 and 9mm gunfire on microphones of varying quality that sounded exactly like this. this is physics and the nature of high decible/high pressure waveforms.
I’ve seen this guy perform live, and let me tell you, his live shows are just as good if not better. I’ve never seen a show hold a room like that. And the things that happen are just mindblowing
he gets you do put a side human decency so that is't becomes ok for alot of ppl to not only watch it but so that no even trys to stop it.. yeah it was trick so the odds of him dying are zero. but if the odds are zero why were you watching? did you expected him to die or wanted him to?
The ear protection was a nice touch, but everyone who'd ever heard of insurance or producers knew the gun would never go off with someone standing in the line of fire. Should have moved him out of the way to make it more convincing.
@@HeckmanBrad77 He was also behind a very thick sheet of bulletproof glass. If you look closely, there's a reflection when Derren gets up and walks over to him, and also a long thick vertical line, which is the edge of the bulletproof glass. Given the fact that there was no chance of any harm coming to either of them, it's easy to miss, but the attempt at realism is still there.
Rust shooting incident was using real live round, not blank. and a blank at point blank still produced extreme force from the powder charge, strong enough to fracture skull and causing brain damage, a blank only safe at a certain distance, there're incident of actors died from shooting blank point blank at their head, and there're also ballistic test videos from youtube.
American actor Jon-Erik Hexum got his big break in 1984, starring in his own network TV show, the spy adventure Cover Up. On a delay on set Hexum unloaded all but one of the blanks from his revolver and--as a sort of joke about the unpleasantness of the interminable pause--played Russian Roulette with it. He lost. Blanks are only safe at a distance where the gases have room to dissipate; pushed up tight against his skull, they pressed a disk of it into his brain and killed him. Remembering what tornadoes can do to brick walls might have helped him. Hexum's death resulted in changes to protocols on set; you don't leave live weapons for actors to play with between takes anymore. But his, along with Brandon Lee's, seem from a quick Google search to have been brought up a lot by the press after the recent Rust incident.
a better choice would've been brandon lee, bruce lees son. he died on the set of the crow because a projectile was stuck in the barrel and acted a bullet when the blank went off, killing him.
It doesn't matter. There was never any chance of anything going wrong. He could have put that gun to his head and pulled the trigger six times and walked away, as could anyone else. Because that's how mentalism works. You're only selling the IDEA, that it's a learned skill and you could be wrong. You can't be wrong, because it was NEVER about "reading" anyone. There's nothing mental about mentalism. It's just illusions under a different name. Many of the tricks Derren does are straight off the shelf. Yup...you can go into a store and BUY the trick
With no recoil from the gun🫣, and a gunshot that sounded more like a bible being dropped on a desk🙄, I’d say the guy sitting in the direct line of fire behind him had the second safest seat in the house. 😂
Is it weird that this is one of my favourite moments of the 2000s? Like I don't think there's been a single piece of TV I've watched that has filled me with so much tension. Even though I know how it all ends, but it still gets me. ...goddammit, I love Derren Brown.
watching that was anxiety-inducing, even though i knew he obviously didn't shoot himself lmao. Great video: you're commentary was great and perfectly matched the vibe of what was going on. Looking forward to seeing more! Think I'm now gonna go down a rabbithole of Derren Brown clips.
Hopefully this won't get demonitised as YT acts like a very old lady. And as you mentioned, people who think there was even a 0.01% chance of this going any other way, are not familiar with Derren Brown and his work ethics. The fact that the whole thing is a trick however, doesn't take anything away from the magnificence of his performance.
i dont get how its any kind of magic or trick... they just use a "blank" but it wasnt even a blank it had the power of a cap pistol.. they could of ran that scene 20 times if they wanted.. he also could of just been told which chamber it would be in ahead of time more of a lie than a trick to me but some people dont have the subtlety to know the difference
Darren Brown has always acknowledged that some of what he does is real, and some of what he does is faked. The fact that he's able to blur that line to the point where it's impossible to tell what is and what isn't is what makes him such an extraordinary entertainer.
Had a friend who had a kid with a guy who decided to play Russian Roulette a for fun with his friend. Needless to say, everyone in his apartment building heard a sudden shot at 2am from within the building. Next day a friend who lived in the building told me he heard a gunshot inside and it woke him up terrified. Found out the next day Player 1 of 2 was found dead, self-inflicted gunshot wound. Stupid and senseless death. I went to visit the friend who’s BF did this, and her distress was palpable. But the child- she knew nothing. And she kept coming up to me calling me daddy (seemed like he was never around much) seeking attention. You could tell they had little to no support. Was a horribly sad situation.
@@abdou.the.heretic lmao I’ll never put a gun to my head, glad you think that way though, although I heard it’s bad for your mental health to wish harm upon others and yeah that story did make me laugh a little bit because I get the feeling it’s not true, if it is, I’ll eat my words but until then it’s funny if it’s fake and a tragedy if it’s real
He pretends to be a materialist, but he’s an occultist. He practices mind control by making use of demonic entities. UK is infested with witches, and most of your famous atheists are secret occultists.
Darren's really good at distracting people with irrelevant information - his tricks are generally quite basic and almost seem like cheating but that's kind of the idea... the real trick is to make people believe there's a complex explanation when in fact it's laughably simple and dishonest, which is the true essence of trickery 😆- always helps to remember the most basic rules of magic - there is never any real danger, and no good magic performance is capable of failure - ie no room for chance to impact the intended results. You can be 100% certain there is no round in the revolver (edit: to be clear - this means no blanks either) because that would be insane, so just think about what has to be the case to explain everything else and it's not that hard to figure out.... provided you have some familiarity with video composition and what's possible with some fixed camera angles.
He means there was a small explosive device where he pointed the gun and supposedly shot. It looks like he shot, but he really didn't. The guy he selected was wearing ear protectors so he wouldn't have been able to discern whether the sound came from the gun or from the end of the room.
Also, I would like to add that there must not have been any real danger because of the way the guy was seated behind him with no shielding or protection. there have been cases where the bullet of a gun can change direction after passing through a body. There's risk of being shot just being in the same room. They were really confident that there was no bullet. It's one thing for Derren Brown to accept the risk of shooting himself but to put another life in danger is another thing entirely.
It is genuinely impressive that a channels first video can be so well made, and cause the channel to get such a following. I was very hooked throughout the entire video. Well done, and keep up the good work, and I’m looking forward to your next upload!
I’ve seen this man live once, and somehow despite all my skepticism, my mum fell for every single one of his hypnosis tricks. Would really love to see more Derren Brown stuff covered. A shame he’s not as well known internationally as he is here in the UK…
My Mother and Father went to a Derren Brown show recently after my late sister's death. She was called Ellie. Towards the end of the show, Derren ended it with "I have one last thing to say, and what I am about to say won't mean a thing to many of you, but to some, it will." He just stood there and said "Ellie." My Mother just broke down into tears and my Father was dumbfounded. They said it's the most profound thing to ever happen to them. Especially seeing as they went to the show to take their minds off it and it wasn't very long after it happened. Damn bruh, I do miss her.
@@gaugehoughton2403Presumably he didn't and just said a random name because it would mean something to someone, and if it didn't, then nobody would be able to tell
‼PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT‼️ It's a stunt by a magician. Before commenting "FAKE!!! FAKE!!!", yes, it probably was. Please watch the full episode of this because I cut out a lot for pacing, it's available on RUclips :) Thank you so much for the overwhelming support. A new video is out now!
I actually DO know of a case where a blank killed someone, I don't remember it exactly but it was on an episode of '1000 ways to die' in which a jackass father decided to "prank" his daughter and her boyfriend by loading his revolver with blanks and then barging into her room and "shooting" her boyfriend, he laughed at them and went "they're blanks!! hahahaha see? they can't hurt you" then put it to his temple to prove a point only to kill himself because blanks still contain gunpowder and cause a gun to recoil. essentially what happens when a blank is shot as point blank as it gets right up against someones skull is exactly what a bullet would do just lacking the entry wound, it caused the area around where the barrel was placed to completely fracture and break his skull and it also resulted in obviously his brain being severely damaged and either almost instantly or outright instantly killed him, blanks are not safe at all regardless of if a real .357 or a blank cartridge was used in the stunt had the round been placed in any chamber other than 1 or 5 and presuming nothing was truly rehearsed and everything was pure chance then he would've been dead moments after pulling that trigger
The entire video is really good but just the last 2 seconds made me subscribe instantly. Really, I watch just two of your videos and they are really good, straight to the point, without anything extra. I love them
Mate, I was blown away (pun intended) when I realized this is your first video un this channel. What a wonderful start! You really put effort in making quality content, so keep it up! You have our support
I believe it was a trick but still the way Derren Brown fired a blank at the sand bag before the final two shots really made that ending what it was. Without the fake out it wouldn’t of been as mesmerising
Not quite. The bullet was in either one of the last two chambers, which supposedly makes it 50/50. He could've either pulled the trigger against his dome and then pulled the trigger to the bags, or alternatively he could've pulled the gun against his head and then turn it to the bags and shoot it to reveal that the next chamber housed the bulled
@@birddaddydetta there's no rule which says that he should point it at his head every other shot, so if he shot at the bag and it didn't go off he could do that again
@@venomshot2815the point was that he would point it at his head if he thought it was empty and away when he thought he guess the bullet right He thought it was the 4th so he aimed it away expecting it to fire but he was wrong, leaving him with a 50/50 remaining guess (the excitement of the stunt is that he is still in danger). So he was trying to figure out if it was in the last or the 2nd last, he figured it was the last so he pointed the first at himself and the one that now ofc had the bullet away and fired and he was correct (doing it quickly, because it's a guess and could be the other way round and got him killed). You're right that if he pointed the first away he would know (and then he obv wouldn't shoot himself after, realistically, -tho russian roulette does imply he would), but that would mean that he was entirely wrong and the stunt failed. He needed to guess, correctly The only reason he pointed at the sack and nothing happened the earlier time was that he messed up (supposedly). Making it more exciting because you think wait he was wrong already now what's he gonna do he could mess up and die Yeah I guess the idea is that he would have to shoot himself with the bullet, maybe. That is a kinda dumb idea. Clearly he was committed to guessing it right tho so what you say isn't something he would do (if it wasn't a hoax)
proper warnings in the beginning, providing context for anyone who doesn't know the main man of the video, subtitles, getting right to the point, damn! instantly subscribed. It's not often that one sees a RUclipsr who ticks so many boxes right off the bat. thank you for the high quality entertainment!
@@armingleiner5292 it's easier to explain with an example. like there should be warnings for flashing lights to prevent someone from having a seizure, and such
You have been definitely doing RUclips for years. This style of editing and writing is so simple, professional and original on an actually interesting subject on a video. I don't know what made you make a new channel, (assuming you had an old one) but I will definitely subscribe for more of this type of content! Literally better than 90% of video essayers already.
@@NrettG Making a video in your own home is different to performing in front of people. You can pace yourself while at home, it could take you a couple months to record everything and put it all together while on stage you only have a couple of hours not including all the preparation you’d have to do beforehand.
@@captainghost7044 I wasn’t saying that this specific person didn’t upload any videos before, I was saying that you don’t need a visible timeline of uploaded videos to improve.
This is the most brilliant display of acting I’ve ever seen, we all know that he survives but we still get pulled into the atmosphere he created and are every bit as anxious as those who have no idea what will happen next.
My friends and I have played "range roulette" for years. The only danger is faced by the piece of paper on the other end of the range. Even so: The more times you hear "CLICK!" the more nervous you get. Even though you are safe from doom... ....a part of you is convinced that the paper and you are one. That part of your brain doesn't want you to pull the trigger.
@@zakguitar2359 1 shooter, 1 revolver, 1 round. If it goes "CLICK!" you live to try again. If "BANG!"..well, you're out. Ideally you actually want out early. The tension is hard to describe. [We usually have 3 participants. Each has his own round of ammunition. Load, spin, shut, (aim) "fire".] The further along you get, the more you start to identify with the target. In the case of a 1st try "BANG!" {In this range game} you can be afforded a second chance.... ...unlike the real game.
With some practice and the right revolver, you can get a very good idea which chamber a round is by rotating the cylinder in your fingers and feeling the shift in weight. It looks like Brown does exactly this, completely rotating the cylinder three times before settling on the final position to have the gun in before starting the shots. I'm sure the gun/round was chosen to make this as easy as possible and he just practiced. Everything else is a misdirection.
@@danielaviladeoliveirasilva1872 It wasn’t a loaded gun, but it was still impressive, I like how they showed the barrel for the shot when it’s empty but conveniently cut it off when it ‘shoots’ for real and disguised it as not being able to change angles since he shot in quick succession.
I remember watching this live and it was super tense! Looking back now I suspect he knew which chamber had the bullet but the showmanship was top notch! :)
Darren Brown is a perfect PSA for how easily you can be scammed. You think you’re immune, you think you’d outsmart whoever has targeted you, but he shows beyond a shadow of a doubt, you’re more vulnerable than you think you are.
Most people are literally scammed everyday legally. Its called sales. Marketing and advertising can even do it on their own. Most people willingly chose to be scammed out of their money, because life is boring and they want to believe in fantasy, "buy this product and I will change/my life will change for the better".
Even if it was an elaborate trick, gosh darn it is one brilliantly well executed one. Like what even would be the trick there? Who knows! No matter what, absolutely brilliant.
Derren tells people that he's doing a trick and people still believe him... The thing is that's the whole "reverse psychology" trick. Unless you believe it, you can safely assume that the people on screen are _acting_ like they believe it. That's the whole point of his show. It's not the magic, it's the "dumb" people believing the magic is real.
That was a masterstroke of acting. The fake "oh shit" face, the implication that the stunt may have gone array due to an error, the hesitation to the eventual shot. It's fucking amazing. We all know it's fake and he'll be okay afterwards, that's why he put in the point and click part to make us think this is where the fuck up will happen. Even long time fans would be worried even if only for a moment after seeing him do that.
@@sneeky6869 a blank would still produce recoil since there would be a pressure coming out the barrel. Just cause no bullet leaves doesn't mean that the energy produced by the blank doesn't go anywhere, just that it can dissipate and spread out after the pressure wave leaves the barrel, but as you should realize this does mean that energy is still moving through and coming out the barrel.
@@Xezian Recoil force is opposite the force imparted on the projectile. With a blank the projectile is... the air in the tube. Because the air in the tube is considerably less dense than a bullet there is little/no recoil.
No fucking about with the intro. No making the video over a certain length of time for monetary reasons. No messing around with sponsors or patreon accounts. No stupid over the top ads. Great content. You sir just earned yourself a sub! P.s. I just realized this is your first video. Keep up the great work bro and hopefully you'll come up with your next video soon!
I think his fear was real because a blank can still kill you. And even a staged performance can go wrong. But yeah, no way there was a round in there. The sandbag had squibs
This video is great. Short, digestible, with an interesting premise and snappy, funny editing. It pains me that this sort of stuff isn't the majority of youtubes recommended or trending. Keep it up.
British reality TV can be so much better than American reality TV cause everything is far more subtle and subdued. If that were from the US and it came down to the final moments, we would hear strings and percussion blasting all over the soundtrack, and the conclusion would be drawn out for 5 unnecessary minutes. Also from a video essay standpoint, this is simply excellently made. Glad this video blew up (and not Darren Brown’s head!)
even though i knew youtube would take down this video if it showed him dying i was still sick to the stomach with how terrified I was for his safety. i looked away for the last two shots and when i heard it go off i looked back slowly and was relieved to see him ok
Derren did a trick where he asked a member of the public to collect something from a supermarket, he used suggestion on his volunteer and listed some examples, one of the examples being crisps such as 'salt and' he didn't finish the sentence. I instantly knew that they would go and fetch vinegar for him, but to add another layer Derren guessed the exact route the helper took through the store to get there, the route had been on display since the beginning of the trick.
Judging from the relatively low volume of the revolver being shot indoors, he would've been fine even if the gun went off right in his temple. That blank cartridge was probably filled with substantially less gunpowder than what was shown when he fired on a bottle. Worst case scenario: he wouldve ruptured his eardrum and singed a bit of his hair.
Damn, this is one of the best "review" about The Russian Bullet by Derren. It's like I'm watching Oppenheimer movie for 7 minutes. It also has pretty good humour. I can't belived that this is the first content on this channel!
Maybe it's an experiment from another RUclipsr, to find out, what it need to make an almost empty channel popular. (like Ludwig or so, did it last year)
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This is one of the reasons I really like Penn and Teller, is because when they open their shows and do "seemingly" dangerous stuff, they make it very clear that they're bullshitters and they're never in any real danger because they don't want anyone replicating it and the entertainment should be in trying to figure it out, not getting off on "this person might die".
Yeah same, the whole vetting people for finding "the one" is kinda losing the spirit of "magician", I would have loved to see a follow up episode where he does his show, but starts by saying "The last trick was 100% safe, I leave it up to you the viewer to figure out how I did it"
I was going to say this. Penn and Teller actually have a huge set of ethical objections to acts like this. IIRC, Penn’s take is 1. if you’re lying to people about the danger, it gives people the wrong idea about what you’re doing, and 2. if you actually are putting yourself in danger, that’s just unethical on its face.
Remember this vividly, his stuff was appointment viewing for me around this time. Channel 4 gave him the scope to do this sort of thing, and him and his team could be trusted to do it responsibly and to be honest about it. He was a great antidote to all the David Blaine nonsense that was also popular at the time, whilst still providing the showmanship and craft that's needed to do this sort of thing well.
Derren Brown is one of the goofiest magicians of all time. Aside from the generally ludicrous premises of his tricks there’s an absurd contrast between his pop-psych doofiness and the gravitas he invests in his shows. This special was so tense because you get the impression as a viewer that he really might kill himself out of incompetence.
It takes many years of study and a decent level of experience but you’d be surprised how easy it is to predict what people with certain personality traits are going to do or how they will react. When I first saw Derren Brown I thought what he did (that was just the early stuff) was amazing. But it’s really easy when you know. People in general are THAT easy to manipulate and predict. And the more a person denies they are, the higher the likelihood they are that person by the way. We all are too a point. Governments have the art of doing it em masse otherwise to this day they probably wouldn’t exist. A few people usually are telling us how to think, making us fear going against them etc and making sure we don’t all band together etc. Most people might not like a government but they’re happy to go along with it anyway. Derren is excellent at what he does, but when you learn how simple it really is once you know, it is even more astounding. Oh and I’m talking about the selection process and tricks he plays on his audiences etc, not the Russian roulette part. Probably important to point out, that is a trick nobody should ever think they’re competent to do. A masters in psychology won’t get you there, so don’t try.
@@punani_slayer4209 before I say anything, your username did a bit of a Derren Brown mind trick. My first sentence was going to be - It depends how deep you want to go, and then I remembered that I had read your username before writing that. So that’s an example for free. 😂 I could have thought to say It depends how advanced you want the books to be, but for some reason I chose that particular sentence. It’s difficult to recommend books because learning kind of happens in stages and you’ve rightly said you want a book to get you started. So I’m actually going to recommend a Derren Brown book to get started with - Tricks of the Mind. He explains how things work in a pretty good way and gives you a few working examples you can use to get started so you can see it does work. He also explains some of the psychology behind it in a bit more detail than he does on TV. So you can put things to the test and it will build your confidence that these things do work. Then look into some of the psychology books he mentions and even Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, because that teaches a healthy way of thinking that many people don’t think like, it will teach you a baseline of rationality then look into personality disorders, and how we are all a bit narcissistic because it is essentially what gives us the confidence to get out of bed and go to work etc (a lot of people throw that word around without properly understanding it). When you’ve learned what healthy thinking is like and the differences in unhealthy thinking, you’ll begin to see that we all are somewhere on the scale and have a kind of baseline for how people generally think. From there you can dig in to how the brain actually works, which I’m sure Derren touches on in his book. So that tells you WHY people are hard wired to do certain things. It doesn’t have to be a complicated book, but it will all add to key areas of knowledge on the subject. Mine came from a combination of books, having quite a messed up childhood surrounded by some people with personality disorders who also attracted them because that’s what happens. Then I went into adulthood and surrounded myself with those types of people because it’s all I knew, it felt natural. Then eventually the penny dropped that something was wrong and I began studying it. You might even want to do a psychology degree where you’ll learn about everything from why clothes shops for young people play loud music that is modern (not just because young people like the music, but to keep old people out). To scientific tests that have been carried out on behaviour etc. And at that time you’re in a better place to read books by famous people like Freud. So it’s a journey, but when you read the Tricks of the Mind book, make a few notes of the books on psychology he says he has read. Hope that helps. Know it’s a bit long winded but it’s always best to do things but by bit, otherwise we tend to give up if we jump into books that just sound ridiculous if they’re read without the foundations of knowledge that allow us to see why what they’re saying makes sense and why they became so famous in their field.
This was my first video, and by my evolved standards, my worst (I mean, do you HEAR that commentary?!?!?). Please check out my channel page for more video essay/documentaries presented in a much better and less annoying way! There's another one about Derren Brown, I think it's good. Thank you for watching though!
Is it real or fake....
This is great for a first video dude, i will definitely check out your channel :)
yo, funny question: is this monetised?
Just found your channel yesterday and your content is stellar mate, keep up the good work!
5 out of 6 people say that Russian roulette is completely safe
@user-oe9xy2eg7x I think you missed the joke
Well if you think about it, it’s 5 out of 5 people, the 6th one doesn‘t exist anymore
@@SolaireSoulshe's just extending on the joke
100% of people who have played Russian Roulette say that they survived!
1 in 6 people find russian roulette to be mind blowing!
"if you ever receive a gun don't shoot yourself"
literally 1984
LOL
"dont tell me what to do!"
"you must do what the deciders decided you must do"
Those last 2 rounds were the most tense piece of TV I’d ever seen in my entire life.
For reaaaal
What? 😂 are you serious? You genuinely thought he was at any point in danger? 😮
Jesus h Christ, you got jabbed 18 times too huh
@@bugsy742whoosh
@@thaneofwhiterun3562 ahhhh 😮🤣👍🤝
@@bugsy742 XD
He's a great actor and performer, his head backing up and preparing for the gun to fire at 4:15 as if he has not practiced this exactly 100 times really adds to the realism. The fake hesitation after and explosive display firing quickly was also brilliant.
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I love how you so confidently assume he is a fake and has practised this 100 times
@@leolimitedition Buddy, he's a magician...
@@joshuam4880 doesn’t mean everything he does in life is staged
@@leolimitedition This was literally shot on a tv set, one could even call it a stage
6:43 Blanks can absolutely kill someone, and unfortunately it's already happened on a set. Jon-Erik Hexum was an actor who jokingly played Russian Roulette with a blank, shooting himself in the temple. The expanding air from the muzzle blast, even without a projectile, was enough to send a chunk of his skull into his brain, leading to his eventual death.
Brandon lee
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
@@PumpyGTI agree
Exactly.
no 10 minute intro, no pretending to be the most analytical and smartest man on earth, just 7 minutes of pure information and entertainment. what a video essay should be.
I loathe videos where it's hard to find the info mentioned in the title because it's filled with so much nonsense and needless over analysis.
Much appreciation for the uploader, totally worth a sub!
I still skipped to the game 😂
Video essays always starts at the History of Television and how TVs are made...
Inside a Mind
he did pad a lot though, had to skip to the last third
what I find funny is, Darren even tells people that what he’s doing is a trick yet some people still think that his acts are real magic/telepathic powers.
I remember the story about some bloke accosting him and going "Alright, you can drop the act and tell me- you have powers don't ya?" and refusing to hear otherwise.
I guess these are the same people that think the earth is flat and the moon is not real :D
@@gonufcthe most concerning part of humanity. That wonderment has gotten us pretty far at times, but also holds us back in situations like that lol everyone wants everything to be a conspiracy or the result of some greater power so bad.
@@sosmooth13that’s the most concerning part of humanity to you? Lol I can think of a few other problems
@@Dan-hh5pk believing magic is real(which is just the ability to tap into higher dimensions and manipulating yourself or the world around you, physically or mind-wise/soul/energy) has nothing to do with being an absolute moron and thinking the earth is flat. Magic can be explained, I wouldn't even call it magic, just super-human abilities of people who understand how to tap into the framework/system of creation, something that apparently certain organizations can do, and it is all about training your mind and energizing yourself in energy points on Earth.
I found it hilarious that the guy was placed in the general direction brain matter would have sprayed had this gone wrong.
I think there was a transparent plastic screen in place, but it still would have been just as disturbing to witness it go all over that too haha
Absolutely hilarious.
I really hope I'd raise my hand in that situation.
There would have been zero “brain matter” he clearly shot a blank
@@xtra_1807 Have you learned nothing?
What fascinates me is that even knowing that it was acted, I could STILL feel the tension and discomfort, the fact that it ended without music reinforces this more to give a reflection
We need more stories like yours, keep it
Ikr!
i love the way this video is formated, no unecessary talking and straight to the point.
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But yet he just completely gave false information about the "Rust incident"
It’s literally over 3 min of talking
I swear, any video that deviates 1% of the typical RUclips video structure has people saying "Straight to the point" or something like that regardless if that's the case.
This is so well made, and although I knew that he wouldn't die, it was still terrifying
though you didn't know until it finally happened. It was only a logical guess that he wouldn't die because of his history of tricking people - he could have put a blank into the gun, but then again, if you fire a blank at such close distance then you will be badly wounded, if not out-right killed.
@@davidfoldberg8004if you rewatch some of his earlier stuff it is obviously staged. The zombie one doesn’t even try.
@@MrSqurk How would he stage a gun that is completely harmless so that it creates a loud bang each time it fires and lets out a cloud of smoke and sparks that accelerates just like a regular firearm?
@@davidfoldberg8004 by knowing exactly where the bullet is being placed. It’s dangerous but he has proven to have a brilliant memory / focus.
@@MrSqurk But then it's not actually staged. It's an actual Russian Roulette.
No matter whether it's fake or not he mastered creating a genuine tense atmosphere for everyone watching
Fake, when he shot the gun he looked at the gun and saw where the bullets are placed
@@riskunknown1325 as I said it doesn't matter because they managed to create a genuine feeling of tension like it wasn't
@@seasuper3402 Fake, when he shot the gun he looked at the gun and saw where the bullets are placed
@@averagerobloxyoutuberr as I said it doesn't matter because they managed to create a genuine feeling of tension like it wasn't
@averagerobloxyoutuberr he can't see the bullet in the cylinder though
My dad said he remembered watching this and he just felt the room drop. No music, no speech, no nothing just the video and "Live". He said the live added so much but he cant put his finger on it, adds a layer of creepiness. He said he felt like he was watching a horror movie. And he said he knew he was going to live, but there was that lil bit of him saying "what if he doesnt"
The reason, “live”, probably did it is because one’s mind has to worry if something could go wrong. Because, it always could.
If it wasn't live it would be obvious he wouldn't die because they wouldn't show it then.
chinese people when the liveleak appears in the corner of their eyes while working in a steel mill
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@@TyrannicalRegimeOfCanadawtf
3:02 had me dying 😂 Derren's confidence in the writing of the word "Cow", as he's usually right, just to hear the contestant respond in the monotone voice: "Sheep."
Pure showmanship. He knew exacly what was going to happen and which bullet was which, but played it for the entertainment value. The "pause" after the "mistake" was the most rivetting piece of television I've ever seen. Amazing stuff.
If he did know he would walk out of this alive, he intentionally messed up his guess with five to prove there’s “real” danger of him messing up, then he stalled on the next one to let the silence build tension for him. How quickly he fired the next two shots is interesting because the viewer barely has any time to recognize “wait, that was empty. That means the next one is the bullet” and feel that sense of relief before he fires it. Then with the bang of the gun all the emotion comes flooding in, and his performance showing his relief really sells it.
The guy in the back really thought he was about to die, though.
(the way he talks about the gun in his collection gives me a feel he either recalls it as his greatest trick or the only time he could’ve actually died during a stunt. I can’t determine which through his tone.)
Explained it better than me!
@@reubengv_ I have been noticed by the RUclipsr and my day has been improved dramatically, thank you Mr youtube man
@@bigboibebop the power of youtube!
Yes, he messed up on purpose 100%. That's what makes this scary
I mean you'd have to assume he did this without a bullet in the revolver and having the answer given to him afterwards hundreds of times before going to a live round scenario.
But even if he was 99.99% sure he was correct, he's still human. Everyone in that scenario would have their intrusive thoughts about "fuck what if this is the one time I somehow made some minor error and I might actually die?"
The setup around this trick was absolutely masterful. It builds so much tension and suspends our disbelief, because if you just only watch the part where he shoots the gun you can instantly tell that it is fake. A real revolver shot would be incredibly loud, this sounded like a cap gun. And also the big giveaway is that there was no recoil. Shooting a revolver with one hand would have sent his arm flying up at least a little bit no matter how hard you try to control it. And thats exactly why the setup was so important! Because in the moment, you don't notice nor care about any of the things that are obviously fake.
Thought the same. Also, nobody would be as stupid as to play russian roulette on TV and even if someone wanted to - no channel in existence would take the risk of actually broadcasting someone shooting himself in the head for thousands if not millions. It was clearly a blank gun. Sure it goes *PENG* but nothing else. Even if it exploded in his face, his ear would just ring a while.
you should watch more shooting videos on youtube and stop assuming everything will sound like it does in movies- where specialized microphones are used to capture the sound. your phone would have done a similar job catching the audio from a gun. this doesn't go anywhere for or against it being a blank, i'm just saying you can't assume based on the audio. recording close up gunshots accurately and not having them just sound like a pop is actually really hard.
@@treestuffer no, it absolutely was a blank
@@thescatologistcopromancer3936 it may very well have been a blank, and considering the stunt, probably was a blank. i'm saying the audio we hear isn't sufficient to determine if it is a blank or not. i've heard recorded .22 and 9mm gunfire on microphones of varying quality that sounded exactly like this. this is physics and the nature of high decible/high pressure waveforms.
Firing a blank against your head would kill you as well.
Not only was the program incredibly intense, but this video was super well made too. You're gonna have a hard time topping this but I've subscribed!
Video is releasing on the 2nd August, I know for a fact it won't get this many views but I'm so grateful for it!
@@reubengv_I'm surprised you didn't have a better turnover on viewers to subscribers, this video is impressively polished for such a small channel
@@reubengv_ ngl I thought you had lots of videos already with the level of quality this is
what are you 2 bois doing here?
@@ampharosgames7526 just surfin the webs and findin quality content like this!
I’ve seen this guy perform live, and let me tell you, his live shows are just as good if not better. I’ve never seen a show hold a room like that. And the things that happen are just mindblowing
Hopefully not too “mindblowing”
how is watching a "magician" do fake shit on stage mindblowing?
Thanks for not adding the "no pun intended" crab at the end
he gets you do put a side human decency so that is't becomes ok for alot of ppl to not only watch it but so that no even trys to stop it.. yeah it was trick so the odds of him dying are zero. but if the odds are zero why were you watching? did you expected him to die or wanted him to?
The ear protection was a nice touch, but everyone who'd ever heard of insurance or producers knew the gun would never go off with someone standing in the line of fire. Should have moved him out of the way to make it more convincing.
The other dude was never in the line of fire. He was behind and off to the right
Alec Baldwin would say otherwise.
I think they'd be a little more abject to a decent chance of a guy shooting himself in the head
@@HeckmanBrad77 He was also behind a very thick sheet of bulletproof glass. If you look closely, there's a reflection when Derren gets up and walks over to him, and also a long thick vertical line, which is the edge of the bulletproof glass. Given the fact that there was no chance of any harm coming to either of them, it's easy to miss, but the attempt at realism is still there.
i think you misunderstand what russian roulette is
That was an EXTREMELY low powered blank. Like less than a firecracker.
@@TargunYssboernHence why it was such a tiny load.
@@radosawrudolf4931 That's what she said!!
Yes, @@Michael.Gunner . That was very funny and everyone is laughing.
i thought it was a real bullet, he just knew it was in the 6th chamber.
Which is still pretty dangerous if you screw up.
Who tf cares about the bullet that shit is staged af
Rust shooting incident was using real live round, not blank. and a blank at point blank still produced extreme force from the powder charge, strong enough to fracture skull and causing brain damage, a blank only safe at a certain distance, there're incident of actors died from shooting blank point blank at their head, and there're also ballistic test videos from youtube.
American actor Jon-Erik Hexum got his big break in 1984, starring in his own network TV show, the spy adventure Cover Up. On a delay on set Hexum unloaded all but one of the blanks from his revolver and--as a sort of joke about the unpleasantness of the interminable pause--played Russian Roulette with it. He lost. Blanks are only safe at a distance where the gases have room to dissipate; pushed up tight against his skull, they pressed a disk of it into his brain and killed him. Remembering what tornadoes can do to brick walls might have helped him. Hexum's death resulted in changes to protocols on set; you don't leave live weapons for actors to play with between takes anymore. But his, along with Brandon Lee's, seem from a quick Google search to have been brought up a lot by the press after the recent Rust incident.
a better choice would've been brandon lee, bruce lees son. he died on the set of the crow because a projectile was stuck in the barrel and acted a bullet when the blank went off, killing him.
Bro that revvie didnt even have recoil.
It doesn't matter. There was never any chance of anything going wrong. He could have put that gun to his head and pulled the trigger six times and walked away, as could anyone else. Because that's how mentalism works. You're only selling the IDEA, that it's a learned skill and you could be wrong. You can't be wrong, because it was NEVER about "reading" anyone. There's nothing mental about mentalism. It's just illusions under a different name. Many of the tricks Derren does are straight off the shelf. Yup...you can go into a store and BUY the trick
@@ashscott6068 What the fuck is any of this nonsense you are spewing mate.
With no recoil from the gun🫣, and a gunshot that sounded more like a bible being dropped on a desk🙄, I’d say the guy sitting in the direct line of fire behind him had the second safest seat in the house. 😂
exactly, i call majorly fake
well duh, 6:26 revealed it is a hoax
It's literally stated in the video that it was fake...
Is it weird that this is one of my favourite moments of the 2000s? Like I don't think there's been a single piece of TV I've watched that has filled me with so much tension. Even though I know how it all ends, but it still gets me.
...goddammit, I love Derren Brown.
watching that was anxiety-inducing, even though i knew he obviously didn't shoot himself lmao. Great video: you're commentary was great and perfectly matched the vibe of what was going on. Looking forward to seeing more! Think I'm now gonna go down a rabbithole of Derren Brown clips.
Thanks so much! I'm getting so excited about making more stuff
"you are commentary" lol
@@afrog2666 lmao my bad
Hopefully this won't get demonitised as YT acts like a very old lady.
And as you mentioned, people who think there was even a 0.01% chance of this going any other way, are not familiar with Derren Brown and his work ethics.
The fact that the whole thing is a trick however, doesn't take anything away from the magnificence of his performance.
Surprised it didn't!
" YT acts like a very old lady" not really
i dont get how its any kind of magic or trick... they just use a "blank" but it wasnt even a blank it had the power of a cap pistol.. they could of ran that scene 20 times if they wanted.. he also could of just been told which chamber it would be in ahead of time
more of a lie than a trick to me but some people dont have the subtlety to know the difference
@@AndrewBrownerlies and tricks are the same buddy
@@captainjames4649 if you have no nuance sure, but people with nuance know when theyve been lied to and when theyve been tricked
Darren Brown has always acknowledged that some of what he does is real, and some of what he does is faked. The fact that he's able to blur that line to the point where it's impossible to tell what is and what isn't is what makes him such an extraordinary entertainer.
Had a friend who had a kid with a guy who decided to play Russian Roulette a for fun with his friend.
Needless to say, everyone in his apartment building heard a sudden shot at 2am from within the building.
Next day a friend who lived in the building told me he heard a gunshot inside and it woke him up terrified. Found out the next day Player 1 of 2 was found dead, self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Stupid and senseless death. I went to visit the friend who’s BF did this, and her distress was palpable. But the child- she knew nothing. And she kept coming up to me calling me daddy (seemed like he was never around much) seeking attention. You could tell they had little to no support. Was a horribly sad situation.
Shut up liar
Lmao I reckon he was not all there upstairs lol, most people don’t shoot themselves
@molotov6792 "lmao" I hope your life turn south enough dor you to try.
Shame he was able to reproduce first.
@@abdou.the.heretic lmao I’ll never put a gun to my head, glad you think that way though, although I heard it’s bad for your mental health to wish harm upon others and yeah that story did make me laugh a little bit because I get the feeling it’s not true, if it is, I’ll eat my words but until then it’s funny if it’s fake and a tragedy if it’s real
Derren brown is one of my favourite people. Good to see such a high quality video made about him
He pretends to be a materialist, but he’s an occultist. He practices mind control by making use of demonic entities. UK is infested with witches, and most of your famous atheists are secret occultists.
Darren's really good at distracting people with irrelevant information - his tricks are generally quite basic and almost seem like cheating but that's kind of the idea... the real trick is to make people believe there's a complex explanation when in fact it's laughably simple and dishonest, which is the true essence of trickery 😆- always helps to remember the most basic rules of magic - there is never any real danger, and no good magic performance is capable of failure - ie no room for chance to impact the intended results. You can be 100% certain there is no round in the revolver (edit: to be clear - this means no blanks either) because that would be insane, so just think about what has to be the case to explain everything else and it's not that hard to figure out.... provided you have some familiarity with video composition and what's possible with some fixed camera angles.
Well, those last two trigger pulls happened consecutively without any apparent video cuts.
He means there was a small explosive device where he pointed the gun and supposedly shot. It looks like he shot, but he really didn't. The guy he selected was wearing ear protectors so he wouldn't have been able to discern whether the sound came from the gun or from the end of the room.
When the gun finally shot, it was clear there wasn’t a real gun going off
Also, I would like to add that there must not have been any real danger because of the way the guy was seated behind him with no shielding or protection. there have been cases where the bullet of a gun can change direction after passing through a body. There's risk of being shot just being in the same room. They were really confident that there was no bullet. It's one thing for Derren Brown to accept the risk of shooting himself but to put another life in danger is another thing entirely.
@@collander7766 Yeah it totally sounded like a cap gun. That's what I suspect he used in the gun chamber to create the smoke effect.
It is genuinely impressive that a channels first video can be so well made, and cause the channel to get such a following. I was very hooked throughout the entire video. Well done, and keep up the good work, and I’m looking forward to your next upload!
This is amazing, I love how you did the video. The straightforwardness is something that I really enjoyed.
I look forward to seeing more videos!
Thank you so much!
I’ve seen this man live once, and somehow despite all my skepticism, my mum fell for every single one of his hypnosis tricks. Would really love to see more Derren Brown stuff covered. A shame he’s not as well known internationally as he is here in the UK…
he’s pretty well known in the USA, imo
My Mother and Father went to a Derren Brown show recently after my late sister's death. She was called Ellie.
Towards the end of the show, Derren ended it with "I have one last thing to say, and what I am about to say won't mean a thing to many of you, but to some, it will."
He just stood there and said "Ellie."
My Mother just broke down into tears and my Father was dumbfounded. They said it's the most profound thing to ever happen to them.
Especially seeing as they went to the show to take their minds off it and it wasn't very long after it happened.
Damn bruh, I do miss her.
How did Darren know
@@gaugehoughton2403Presumably he didn't and just said a random name because it would mean something to someone, and if it didn't, then nobody would be able to tell
where is that
@@xxfillex Jesus Christ that ratio
@@naskiviknot anymore! 😂
‼PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT‼️
It's a stunt by a magician. Before commenting "FAKE!!! FAKE!!!", yes, it probably was. Please watch the full episode of this because I cut out a lot for pacing, it's available on RUclips :)
Thank you so much for the overwhelming support. A new video is out now!
A better example would be the death of Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow. Thank you for having the stones to make this correction!
wow the day this aired I was born!
I actually DO know of a case where a blank killed someone, I don't remember it exactly but it was on an episode of '1000 ways to die' in which a jackass father decided to "prank" his daughter and her boyfriend by loading his revolver with blanks and then barging into her room and "shooting" her boyfriend, he laughed at them and went "they're blanks!! hahahaha see? they can't hurt you" then put it to his temple to prove a point only to kill himself because blanks still contain gunpowder and cause a gun to recoil.
essentially what happens when a blank is shot as point blank as it gets right up against someones skull is exactly what a bullet would do just lacking the entry wound, it caused the area around where the barrel was placed to completely fracture and break his skull and it also resulted in obviously his brain being severely damaged and either almost instantly or outright instantly killed him, blanks are not safe at all
regardless of if a real .357 or a blank cartridge was used in the stunt had the round been placed in any chamber other than 1 or 5 and presuming nothing was truly rehearsed and everything was pure chance then he would've been dead moments after pulling that trigger
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@@lsixty30oop
The entire video is really good but just the last 2 seconds made me subscribe instantly.
Really, I watch just two of your videos and they are really good, straight to the point, without anything extra. I love them
Mate, I was blown away (pun intended) when I realized this is your first video un this channel. What a wonderful start! You really put effort in making quality content, so keep it up! You have our support
I believe it was a trick but still the way Derren Brown fired a blank at the sand bag before the final two shots really made that ending what it was. Without the fake out it wouldn’t of been as mesmerising
This was his whole premise. He looked at humanity in a whole, even the ones watching now.
The thing is, the last two shots didnt have to be tense. If he fired it at the bag it either shoots or he knows with 100% certainty that it's loaded
Not quite. The bullet was in either one of the last two chambers, which supposedly makes it 50/50. He could've either pulled the trigger against his dome and then pulled the trigger to the bags, or alternatively he could've pulled the gun against his head and then turn it to the bags and shoot it to reveal that the next chamber housed the bulled
@@birddaddydettabruh what?
He did it in the other order, first head and then bag. There's no entertainment in firing the last three shots at the bag
@@birddaddydetta there's no rule which says that he should point it at his head every other shot, so if he shot at the bag and it didn't go off he could do that again
@@venomshot2815the point was that he would point it at his head if he thought it was empty and away when he thought he guess the bullet right
He thought it was the 4th so he aimed it away expecting it to fire but he was wrong, leaving him with a 50/50 remaining guess (the excitement of the stunt is that he is still in danger). So he was trying to figure out if it was in the last or the 2nd last, he figured it was the last so he pointed the first at himself and the one that now ofc had the bullet away and fired and he was correct (doing it quickly, because it's a guess and could be the other way round and got him killed). You're right that if he pointed the first away he would know (and then he obv wouldn't shoot himself after, realistically, -tho russian roulette does imply he would), but that would mean that he was entirely wrong and the stunt failed. He needed to guess, correctly
The only reason he pointed at the sack and nothing happened the earlier time was that he messed up (supposedly). Making it more exciting because you think wait he was wrong already now what's he gonna do he could mess up and die
Yeah I guess the idea is that he would have to shoot himself with the bullet, maybe. That is a kinda dumb idea. Clearly he was committed to guessing it right tho so what you say isn't something he would do (if it wasn't a hoax)
He fired a blank.
There was no slug that exited the barrel. Don't tell me he didn't know where the blank was placed.
proper warnings in the beginning, providing context for anyone who doesn't know the main man of the video, subtitles, getting right to the point, damn! instantly subscribed. It's not often that one sees a RUclipsr who ticks so many boxes right off the bat. thank you for the high quality entertainment!
Why are warnings important? Why do we have to cater so the oversensitive all the time?
@@armingleiner5292 it's easier to explain with an example. like there should be warnings for flashing lights to prevent someone from having a seizure, and such
@@armingleiner5292 Unironically leave and never come back
@@reubengv_ Unironically I couldnt care less about the feelings of the oversensitive.
@@armingleiner5292 Your proud declaration of this makes me think the opposite.
this is so goddamn well put together man. crazy seeing how far youve come.
Could easily say the same thing about your stuff, thank you for being along with the ride for so long!
@@reubengv_ :D
You have been definitely doing RUclips for years. This style of editing and writing is so simple, professional and original on an actually interesting subject on a video.
I don't know what made you make a new channel, (assuming you had an old one) but I will definitely subscribe for more of this type of content! Literally better than 90% of video essayers already.
You assume the only way for people to get better at youtube is to upload videos.
@@Max_The_Flower ...yeah? You expect a musician to be ready for a concert full of 1000's just by only doing performances in front of a mirror?
@@NrettG Making a video in your own home is different to performing in front of people. You can pace yourself while at home, it could take you a couple months to record everything and put it all together while on stage you only have a couple of hours not including all the preparation you’d have to do beforehand.
@@Max_The_Flowerhe did have a channel beforehand though
@@captainghost7044 I wasn’t saying that this specific person didn’t upload any videos before, I was saying that you don’t need a visible timeline of uploaded videos to improve.
i love that you put so much into these vids without spending half of it promoting yourself or sponsors, it makes them really addictive to watch.
This is the most brilliant display of acting I’ve ever seen, we all know that he survives but we still get pulled into the atmosphere he created and are every bit as anxious as those who have no idea what will happen next.
4:58 - "Any normal person's heart rate would be fumping."
My heart has never fumped even once.
I really appreciate the straight-to-the-point video. No BS. Pure content. 7 minutes felt like 1 minute :) Great stuff
My friends and I have played "range roulette" for years.
The only danger is faced by the piece of paper on the other end of the range.
Even so: The more times you hear "CLICK!" the more nervous you get.
Even though you are safe from doom...
....a part of you is convinced that the paper and you are one.
That part of your brain doesn't want you to pull the trigger.
can you elaborate on that "range roulette" game please I've never heard of it before
@@zakguitar2359 russian roulette where you don't point the gun at your head
@@Shrek_Has_Covid19 Yhup!
@@zakguitar2359 1 shooter, 1 revolver, 1 round. If it goes "CLICK!" you live to try again. If "BANG!"..well, you're out.
Ideally you actually want out early.
The tension is hard to describe.
[We usually have 3 participants.
Each has his own round of ammunition.
Load, spin, shut, (aim) "fire".]
The further along you get, the more you start to identify with the target.
In the case of a 1st try "BANG!" {In this range game} you can be afforded a second chance....
...unlike the real game.
@@schrodingersgat4344 oooh okay thank you for explaining I guess it's the kind of experience you have to try yourself to know how it feels
this was genuinely FIRE reuben, great job!
"Potential trigger warning" 0:01
good pun
Darren Brown is so good. I oftentimes go and watch some of his old specials still.
Ah yes an entertaining under 10 minute video essay. Excellent work, this is how you do a RUclips debut, I can't wait for the next video 😊
Ending message was truly brave so proud of you for saying it
With some practice and the right revolver, you can get a very good idea which chamber a round is by rotating the cylinder in your fingers and feeling the shift in weight.
It looks like Brown does exactly this, completely rotating the cylinder three times before settling on the final position to have the gun in before starting the shots. I'm sure the gun/round was chosen to make this as easy as possible and he just practiced.
Everything else is a misdirection.
If this was an actual loaded gun, that is impressive. I wouldn't try it even if the chamber was transparent lmao
@@danielaviladeoliveirasilva1872 It wasn’t a loaded gun, but it was still impressive, I like how they showed the barrel for the shot when it’s empty but conveniently cut it off when it ‘shoots’ for real and disguised it as not being able to change angles since he shot in quick succession.
There is no way he would rely on things like feeling the shift in weight.
@DM-rc4yu it seems like it was also a fake round in someway. But he still needed to pull off the trick. When he sets the cylinder he isn't guessing.
I remember watching this live and it was super tense! Looking back now I suspect he knew which chamber had the bullet but the showmanship was top notch! :)
I love how you explain how your giving context and proceed to talk abt smt completely unrelated giving no context to the video
Darren Brown is a perfect PSA for how easily you can be scammed. You think you’re immune, you think you’d outsmart whoever has targeted you, but he shows beyond a shadow of a doubt, you’re more vulnerable than you think you are.
Most people are literally scammed everyday legally. Its called sales. Marketing and advertising can even do it on their own. Most people willingly chose to be scammed out of their money, because life is boring and they want to believe in fantasy, "buy this product and I will change/my life will change for the better".
6:14 “Like the viewer is, Sisyphus,” *Me and the birds by Duster begins to play and the narrator’s voice drowns out*
Even if it was an elaborate trick, gosh darn it is one brilliantly well executed one. Like what even would be the trick there? Who knows! No matter what, absolutely brilliant.
The gun had blanks
@@willatano1464watch the video again, thats not a trick
I mean if that guy was a plant and he knew it would be the last round.
@@willatano1464 A blank would still kill him, so that has no bearing on whether it was or was not "real".
@@platyhelminthes2877 All u really need is a guy to be planted which was super easy to do since this guy was picking who will do it.
the fact this is your first video this is insane man its so well structured and put together, please keep them coming
Derren tells people that he's doing a trick and people still believe him... The thing is that's the whole "reverse psychology" trick. Unless you believe it, you can safely assume that the people on screen are _acting_ like they believe it. That's the whole point of his show. It's not the magic, it's the "dumb" people believing the magic is real.
That was a masterstroke of acting. The fake "oh shit" face, the implication that the stunt may have gone array due to an error, the hesitation to the eventual shot. It's fucking amazing. We all know it's fake and he'll be okay afterwards, that's why he put in the point and click part to make us think this is where the fuck up will happen. Even long time fans would be worried even if only for a moment after seeing him do that.
notice how there was no recoil when firing the weapon.
Because it was a blank... He never claimed it was a real bullet- Blanks can also kill especially at point blank to the head lmao
@@sneeky6869 a blank would still produce recoil since there would be a pressure coming out the barrel. Just cause no bullet leaves doesn't mean that the energy produced by the blank doesn't go anywhere, just that it can dissipate and spread out after the pressure wave leaves the barrel, but as you should realize this does mean that energy is still moving through and coming out the barrel.
@@XezianI can assure you, blanks don't produce any recoil. At least not the ones that I've shot before
@@Xezian Recoil force is opposite the force imparted on the projectile. With a blank the projectile is... the air in the tube. Because the air in the tube is considerably less dense than a bullet there is little/no recoil.
@@Xezian as someone who has shot a blank, there is zero recoil
No fucking about with the intro. No making the video over a certain length of time for monetary reasons. No messing around with sponsors or patreon accounts. No stupid over the top ads. Great content. You sir just earned yourself a sub!
P.s. I just realized this is your first video. Keep up the great work bro and hopefully you'll come up with your next video soon!
I remember binging all his specials when I was younger and it’s really some compelling stuff.
I think Derren was very irresponsible with this stunt. He should've worn ear protection just in case the gun went off right next to his ear.
This video was an amazing example of what video essays should be. Congrats lad, and I wish you well on your future ventures.
Yeah, the title was "_____ is genius and heres why". He didnt make a 2 hour video about the life story of this dude, he just went to the poijt
This is Fucking LEGENDARY! The Empathy, the tension, the stakes and the surreal experience of witnessing that must be insane.
me trying to comfort depressed people on reddit and in youtube comments: 7:11
This was amazing man! genuninly loved watching every second am very exited to see what youll do next!
Hopefully if I get popular then we can all make Big Fat Quiz 2
100% total fake yet 200% entertaining. even without having to bare through the entire filler leading up to this point, that was intense.
May have been 3.3 million views before, but you've brought that up to well over 5 million. Thanks for sharing.
WHAT A DEBUT!! I'm in love with the editing style and will definitely be looking forward to future vids, this is awesome~
Another banger of a video Reuben 🔥
4:59 "any normal person's heartrate would be thumping"
My heartrate during the whole sequence: 60-70
any normal person... in james's position aka not sitting behind a screen watching a prerecording with a disclaimer and a narrator 20 years later
0:50 DO NOT EVER DO THAT AGAIN 😭😭
that knocking freaked me the hell out last night 😭
The kick from that revolver was basically non existent for someone who presumably has never fired one. Clearly had a blank in.
I think his fear was real because a blank can still kill you. And even a staged performance can go wrong. But yeah, no way there was a round in there. The sandbag had squibs
Thank god I didn’t get to see this back then. I would have a much stronger intrusive thoughts had this been part of my childhood.
This video is great. Short, digestible, with an interesting premise and snappy, funny editing. It pains me that this sort of stuff isn't the majority of youtubes recommended or trending. Keep it up.
British reality TV can be so much better than American reality TV cause everything is far more subtle and subdued. If that were from the US and it came down to the final moments, we would hear strings and percussion blasting all over the soundtrack, and the conclusion would be drawn out for 5 unnecessary minutes.
Also from a video essay standpoint, this is simply excellently made. Glad this video blew up (and not Darren Brown’s head!)
New Derren Brown-themed video out now. Go check it out. :)
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I came back after watching that video, you level up your skills with each video, keep it up!
even though i knew youtube would take down this video if it showed him dying i was still sick to the stomach with how terrified I was for his safety. i looked away for the last two shots and when i heard it go off i looked back slowly and was relieved to see him ok
That very much did not sound like a real cartridge being fired.
Derren did a trick where he asked a member of the public to collect something from a supermarket, he used suggestion on his volunteer and listed some examples, one of the examples being crisps such as 'salt and' he didn't finish the sentence. I instantly knew that they would go and fetch vinegar for him, but to add another layer Derren guessed the exact route the helper took through the store to get there, the route had been on display since the beginning of the trick.
2:45 shooting an empty water bottle at point blank range to demonstrate how a gun works has to be the most british thing I've ever seen
Derren is the best showman of his time. His set ups are incredible. He uses his intelect and poise to direct every scene. The man is a genius
Judging from the relatively low volume of the revolver being shot indoors, he would've been fine even if the gun went off right in his temple.
That blank cartridge was probably filled with substantially less gunpowder than what was shown when he fired on a bottle.
Worst case scenario: he wouldve ruptured his eardrum and singed a bit of his hair.
I don't know what you're talking about, everyone I talked to so far who played russian roulette survived, so it cannot be that bad.
The comeback we needed
Damn, this is one of the best "review" about The Russian Bullet by Derren. It's like I'm watching Oppenheimer movie for 7 minutes. It also has pretty good humour. I can't belived that this is the first content on this channel!
*Damn, I remember watching this live as if it were yesterday.*
*Nice recap.*
Thank you for actually making subtitles for the video
.22 caliber, damn that might have turned him into a vegetable instead of killing him.
Is this really your first vid? It's really good! Very much enjoyed it and it's really interesting, well done man , I'm now subscribed!
Maybe it's an experiment from another RUclipsr, to find out, what it need to make an almost empty channel popular. (like Ludwig or so, did it last year)
Good Evening, “reubengv” was a 24 month sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
@@reubengv_ Nice, when did you receive your Dr.-Diplom?
This is one of the reasons I really like Penn and Teller, is because when they open their shows and do "seemingly" dangerous stuff, they make it very clear that they're bullshitters and they're never in any real danger because they don't want anyone replicating it and the entertainment should be in trying to figure it out, not getting off on "this person might die".
Yeah same, the whole vetting people for finding "the one" is kinda losing the spirit of "magician", I would have loved to see a follow up episode where he does his show, but starts by saying "The last trick was 100% safe, I leave it up to you the viewer to figure out how I did it"
I was going to say this. Penn and Teller actually have a huge set of ethical objections to acts like this. IIRC, Penn’s take is 1. if you’re lying to people about the danger, it gives people the wrong idea about what you’re doing, and 2. if you actually are putting yourself in danger, that’s just unethical on its face.
Remember this vividly, his stuff was appointment viewing for me around this time. Channel 4 gave him the scope to do this sort of thing, and him and his team could be trusted to do it responsibly and to be honest about it. He was a great antidote to all the David Blaine nonsense that was also popular at the time, whilst still providing the showmanship and craft that's needed to do this sort of thing well.
High quality video, and in all seriousness I broke out laughing when the guy said “sheep”
Derren Brown is one of the goofiest magicians of all time. Aside from the generally ludicrous premises of his tricks there’s an absurd contrast between his pop-psych doofiness and the gravitas he invests in his shows. This special was so tense because you get the impression as a viewer that he really might kill himself out of incompetence.
Wow you're so cool and smart
@@stupidafackinggame What's a matter, did all those words hurt your brain? 😂
Wow you’re so cool and smart
You must be fun at the parties you don't get invited to
What the fuck did this guy do to y'all
It takes many years of study and a decent level of experience but you’d be surprised how easy it is to predict what people with certain personality traits are going to do or how they will react. When I first saw Derren Brown I thought what he did (that was just the early stuff) was amazing. But it’s really easy when you know. People in general are THAT easy to manipulate and predict. And the more a person denies they are, the higher the likelihood they are that person by the way. We all are too a point. Governments have the art of doing it em masse otherwise to this day they probably wouldn’t exist. A few people usually are telling us how to think, making us fear going against them etc and making sure we don’t all band together etc. Most people might not like a government but they’re happy to go along with it anyway. Derren is excellent at what he does, but when you learn how simple it really is once you know, it is even more astounding.
Oh and I’m talking about the selection process and tricks he plays on his audiences etc, not the Russian roulette part. Probably important to point out, that is a trick nobody should ever think they’re competent to do. A masters in psychology won’t get you there, so don’t try.
Can you recommend any good books to start with?
@@punani_slayer4209 before I say anything, your username did a bit of a Derren Brown mind trick. My first sentence was going to be - It depends how deep you want to go, and then I remembered that I had read your username before writing that. So that’s an example for free. 😂 I could have thought to say It depends how advanced you want the books to be, but for some reason I chose that particular sentence.
It’s difficult to recommend books because learning kind of happens in stages and you’ve rightly said you want a book to get you started. So I’m actually going to recommend a Derren Brown book to get started with - Tricks of the Mind.
He explains how things work in a pretty good way and gives you a few working examples you can use to get started so you can see it does work. He also explains some of the psychology behind it in a bit more detail than he does on TV. So you can put things to the test and it will build your confidence that these things do work.
Then look into some of the psychology books he mentions and even Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, because that teaches a healthy way of thinking that many people don’t think like, it will teach you a baseline of rationality then look into personality disorders, and how we are all a bit narcissistic because it is essentially what gives us the confidence to get out of bed and go to work etc (a lot of people throw that word around without properly understanding it). When you’ve learned what healthy thinking is like and the differences in unhealthy thinking, you’ll begin to see that we all are somewhere on the scale and have a kind of baseline for how people generally think.
From there you can dig in to how the brain actually works, which I’m sure Derren touches on in his book. So that tells you WHY people are hard wired to do certain things. It doesn’t have to be a complicated book, but it will all add to key areas of knowledge on the subject.
Mine came from a combination of books, having quite a messed up childhood surrounded by some people with personality disorders who also attracted them because that’s what happens. Then I went into adulthood and surrounded myself with those types of people because it’s all I knew, it felt natural. Then eventually the penny dropped that something was wrong and I began studying it. You might even want to do a psychology degree where you’ll learn about everything from why clothes shops for young people play loud music that is modern (not just because young people like the music, but to keep old people out). To scientific tests that have been carried out on behaviour etc.
And at that time you’re in a better place to read books by famous people like Freud. So it’s a journey, but when you read the Tricks of the Mind book, make a few notes of the books on psychology he says he has read.
Hope that helps. Know it’s a bit long winded but it’s always best to do things but by bit, otherwise we tend to give up if we jump into books that just sound ridiculous if they’re read without the foundations of knowledge that allow us to see why what they’re saying makes sense and why they became so famous in their field.
@@Toxic-Ology wow that was extremely helpful. Thank you