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From: happany
Date: Wed Dec 4, 2002 4:24pm
Subject: Re: Ghost Punch...An interesting point.
Anyway - what was the point of inviting on a 'Grand Master'
of Kung Fu if he wasn't going to be involved in the stunt - i.e. be
the subject of Derren's ghost punch ? They didn't even let us hear
what he had to say about it.
- Fionan.
--- In a previous message highroller entertainment casting wrote:
> I've just noticed something in the Ghost Punch
> segment in MC2, which has become more evident since
> watching The Devil's Picturebook. After Derren asks the
> kung fu master to select someone, he turns away to
> allow the kung fu master a view of the lined up
> students, which Derren was partially obscuring. Thus,
> Derren turns to the left of the screen, meaning the
> students are revealed right to left by his turn, which if
> I'm not mistaken is the preferred way of reading by
> the Chinese.
Basically, I think Derren has
> probably sized up Archie beforehand (remember, Derren saw
> them demonstrating kung fu before the segment started,
> so he would have been able to see which students
> were more expressive and therefore better/more
> suggestible subjects.) and positioned him, or had one of the
> crew position him at the end of the line to increase
> his chance of selection....meaning he would be the
> most obvious selection for a right to left
> reader!
Of course, I could be on an Oliver Stone here, but I
> think there could be more than meets the eye here,
> which is usually the case with Derren.
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