We need not only bread and circuses, but also a little bit of a fairy tale. And while there are still interruptions in bread and we are holding on here, there is no shortage of fairy tales. The TNT channel regularly shows a program that helps to believe simultaneously in magic, miracles, God, justice and just human happiness - "The Battle of Psychics". We figure out how the program is arranged, where the miracles come from and why the viewer is "glad to be deceived."
"The Battle of Psychics" is a TV show, which, like many others, was invented by the British before the Russians. Programs of this kind are popular all over the planet. In Great Britain they show Britain's Psychic Challenge, in America it is America's Psychic Challenge, in Bulgaria - Clairvoyant, in Azerbaijan - Ekstra hiss. Even Mongolia has its own show - "Zun bilgiin tulaan" (Yandex.Translator calls it "emotional battle"). So we touch the paranormal that beckons us, but through the centimeter glass of the TV - in the end, the viewers are in order, and their desires are satisfied.
Grandma and miracles
Sofia is a native Muscovite, she is seventy-six years old, she worked for thirty years at a radio engineering research institute, and now she is retired. Last years she sat with a sick sister who had recently died. Sofia spends her leisure time, like many other grandmothers - does household chores, and sometimes does nothing.
But she also watches TV, although not often.
“There is not even a specific program that I follow,” says Sofia, “which one I get, I’m watching. I do not watch the "Battle of the psychics" regularly, but I still love this program. "
Sophia does not trust medicine: according to her, the doctors have never been able to diagnose her correctly, unlike psychics.
Twenty-six years ago, Sofia first came to a psychic. Then she realized two things about the supernatural: firstly, it is interesting, and secondly, it works. Since then, Sofia has repeatedly gone to psychics with her sister. They were helped to solve health problems and personal difficulties. But Sophia does not trust medicine: according to her, the doctors could not give her correct diagnosis never - unlike psychics.
Sofia believes in "Battle". He says that there are real psychics there, although they are all a little dishonest: those who are decent will not seek fame - they will just do their job.
Psychic hairdresser and esoteric perfume
Julia Wang, the winner of the fifteenth season of "Battle," in an outfit that resembles modern vampire attire, walks through the cemetery. Off-screen voice: "Julia Wang does not yet know that she is approaching the grave, the plaque on which is covered with cloth." Another voice says that she does not know that there is a gallows in this grave. They greet her. She, in a voice tired of life, greets in response. She is asked to tell everything she feels about the deceased. Like an Alien sniffing before the attack, Julia turns her head and laments: "We did not ask permission from the cemetery." She sits down at the grave, lights a candle. At this moment, music plays, after which the Baskervilles dog should howl. Julia, with white hair like the witcher Geralt, begins to mutter something and call on some kind of mother. The psychic begins to sway, mumble more and more diligently, the camera approaches her face so that it can be seen with what difficulty it is given to her.
Like a ghost, Julia gets up and slowly moves towards the gallows' relatives. She looks at them intently, without blinking. And she says, says something that makes the young brunette cry - it looks like Julia is voicing the sad truth that the brunette was trying to forget. How does the psychic know the details of life and death that are in no way connected with her?
Radio host Katya Gordon would answer that this is just a hoax.
“She was my hairdresser. Believe me, she has no ability. Unless she was exorcising demons with perhydrol. "
“These participants in the Battle of Psychics are real charlatans. They are not psychics at all, ”she said to one yellow publication, which, in general, is not very decent to refer to.
Then Gordon said that she knew Julia before The Battle: “She was my hairdresser. Believe me, she has no ability. Unless she was exorcising demons with perhydrol. "
But we will not completely trust the ladies of society who can deceive us for the sake of gaining fame. However, this opinion is worth keeping in mind.
Wang nude as a fashion model and filmed in the series "All the men are good ...". Her fellow psychics - Vlad Kadoni, Georgy Malinovsky and Ventslav Vengrzhanovsky - participated in "House-2". By any means, these people were looking for an opportunity to become famous. And they got it by discovering in themselves "paranormal abilities".
After the broadcast, the most talented participants conduct receptions. Marilyn Kerro has a schedule busy clients for three months in advance. Alexander Sheps opened a store and gives a magic seminar every two weeks. Julia Wang sells VKontakte perfume. Psychics charge tens of thousands of rubles for a meeting. Even an ordinary expert on the jury of "Battle", Mikhail Vinogradov, a psychiatrist, receives 15,000 rubles for an appointment - three to five times higher than the average psychiatrists in Moscow receive.
TNT on guard of the otherworldly
GITIS student Ksenia is hiding in the attic. This is not an episode of a Russian horror film, but the shooting of "Battle". The test for psychics is to find Xenia.
Swami Dashi, who discovered his gift after living in India for several years, enters the mansion where the shooting is taking place. The presenter hands him the ring of Xenia, and Swami asks for a few minutes: he needs to get ready. Suddenly, out of nowhere, bells appear in his hands - he gently strikes one against the other, and everyone is fascinated to listen to how the otherworldly motor of Swami's superpowers is gaining momentum.
The clairvoyant looks back. Before him are the students of GITIS and the presenter. Swami approaches one of the students and gently asks, "Tell me right away or later?" Obviously, the conversation is personal. So psychics of "Battle" do often. Swami says that the guy was born correctly, to which he responds with satisfaction with frequent nods.
"My friend" found this scene strange, so we contacted a former student, now an actor, and talked about filming.
"I want it to be true, so I believe."
He said that he did not know by what parameters the students were selected for filming. It's just that the university management chose them - and that's it. There was no agreement on where to hide. The students themselves chose which room to go to, and then the psychics actually looked for them.
“The shooting impressed me a lot because I was faced with the energy of extraordinarily strong people. For example, when Dashi looked at me, I sank directly into the floor. At the same time, I had a conversation with another psychic of the program, and he did not say anything sensible about me, ”says the interlocutor of“ Batenka ”, who wished to remain anonymous. - Everything that was said by psychics about the guys is all true. We were really crying for some things. The information that the psychics said was nowhere else to take. True, after the shooting, the guys and I discussed what information about us can be found on social networks, and one guy said that what they said about him was on Facebook. Truth or untruth is shown in The Battle - a matter of faith. I want it to be true, so I believe. "
After that, "Batenka", trying to understand how the transmission works, sent a request to the TNT press service. Here's what they answered:
“Participation in the program is free. Our team has been looking for psychics for a whole year - and having found, we still need to persuade them to participate in the project. You cannot buy participation or any place: we are only interested in the rating of the show, and for this we need real psychics. The "Battle of Psychics" has nothing to do with the esoteric business. Moreover, we advise viewers not to go to paid appointments with psychics.
Everything that happens on the screen is true. Of course, we use editing: out of thirty hours of filming, a half-hour test is broadcast. It looks more impressive on the screen due to the music and good editing work. In reality, everything is much slower and more boring.
We have no script. This is not a staged, but a real reality show. All its participants are real people with real problems, often with grief. We cannot make them cry or laugh. We do not control the actions and words of psychics, which is why we often have to shoot late, because they need a very long time to immerse themselves in the situation.
We never know who will win. We can only guess about it. Sometimes leaders are immediately visible, but they can change. Often a frontman has such outstanding talents that you can predict that he will at least make it to the finals. But the audience decides who wins by voting. We cannot falsify its results. And we do not have any benefit from the victory of one or another participant: we do not care who wins, the winner is always the favorite of the audience. So, for example, in the seventh season, we assumed that Ilona Novosyolova would win, and Aleksey Pokhabov won. In the sixteenth season, it was completely unclear whether Victoria Rydos or Marilyn Kerro would win - the gap was only a couple of percent of the audience votes.
After the end of the show, the only commitment of our participants is not to act in other projects for three years, because at this time there are reruns of the Battle of the Psychics. "
Kaldy Bulldogs and the paranormal scenario
Some argue that everything is a little different, as the press service of TNT says. For example, Mikhail Porechenkov, who was the host of the program for several years, said: “I worked with them for a long time. Kaldy-baldy, as they said in childhood. All lies! Yes, completely. And what is there not to disclose? I speak the truth. Have I upset everyone? "
As serious people, we don't have enough "kaldy-baldy". We need proof that we are being deceived. Unfortunately, they are.
People turn to the channel with their real problems. They send letters to TNT, and the editors of the TV channel select those topics that will be of interest to the viewer.
“After receiving the letter,” explains Mikhail, “the answer comes to people in two months: during this time, you can learn everything about a person. Everyone has social networks - this is the main source from which you can learn a lot. Filming will begin two months after the agreement has been made. During this time, TNT editors travel and collect information, and then psychics look omniscient. They walk through the cemetery and supposedly cannot find their way, but they seem to be led out by an insight. Guys, in fact, the editor visited this cemetery a long time ago and chose the most ominous path to the desired grave, and the psychic just learned the way.
“What is the difference between Dom-2 and the Battle of Psychics? Virtually nothing. "
One friend of mine was casting and approached by type. The producers offered her second place for 2,000,000 rubles. She didn't have that kind of money, so the producers said that they could contribute money for her, and then she would work it out at receptions. That is, you work off your money - and only then you go into free swimming. There is a story about Mehdi, who tried to escape, but TNT employees stopped him in Sheremetyevo and returned him to the salon. The first place is more expensive: a few years ago it cost about 5,000,000 rubles. This is solved at the initial stage, and psychics are led to victory. "
If the shooting is about solving the problems of the heroes, says Mikhail, then the psychics are one hundred percent prepared, they should not be wrong, because people who leave the shooting must believe in what happened.
“My friends convinced me that everything is for real. I began to argue: well, after how long did they come to your shooting? After two months. Do you think they couldn't find out everything about you during this time? - Mikhail laughs. - What is the difference between Dom-2 and the Battle of Psychics? Virtually nothing. Both there and there should come people who know how to lie so that everyone will believe them. You can come up with any story for yourself, the main thing is to make it look realistic. Psychics don't get paid to fight. The main thing is fame and the audience, which in the future will be ready to pay tens of thousands of rubles for admission. In "House-2" there is no clear script, where people come off, improvise - and earn money. Here are two differences from the "Battle of Psychics". Otherwise, everything is the same. "
On August 18, 1995, the film "Mortal Kombat" was released (Russian viewers are more familiar with it by its original name - Mortal Kombat). The action adventure based on the fighting game of the same name was extremely successful, despite the fears of the creators of the game.
About skepticism
June 1993. Midway Games, the developer of the sensational Mortal Kombat game, is testing the next installment. Producer Larry Casanoff walks into Midway's office, plays Mortal Kombat II for half an hour and, shocked, tells then-company executive Neil D. Nicastro that this isn't just a game, it's a phenomenon.
Kazanoff asked Nicastro for the rights to film Mortal Kombat, and in response he heard: “You went? It's just an arcade game! " For the next three months, the producer tried to convince the developers that they did something more.
Midway's skepticism has been reinforced by the failures of other game-based films such as Mario Bros. But Kazanoff tortured the developers and persuaded them to give him the rights. At the same time, no one believed in the producer's idea, everyone was sure that his career would end there.
About the director
The filming of the film was thought to be entrusted to some of the eminent directors with a long list of successful films. But the choice of Laurie Apelian, the assistant producer, fell on the unknown Paul Anderson - at that time the future creator of Alien vs. Predator and the film series Resident Evil had only one film behind him.
Anderson says he grew up in the British industrial town of Newcastle upon Tyne, where there was no film industry. The director had to travel to London for meetings. Often meetings were scheduled for the morning and afternoon, and he spent his free time in gaming clubs - in particular, for Mortal Kombat. Therefore, Anderson reacted with great enthusiasm to the proposal to make a film based on one of his favorite games.
About the script
The first version of the script for the film turned out, in the opinion of the game developers, too fun. Raiden was constantly joking about it, and Ed Boone, one of the creators of the fighting game, once said: "This is a very serious character, not a clown." A significant contribution to the reworking of the script was made by the actor Linden Ashby, who played Johnny Cage. After the film's release, he met screenwriter Kevin Drowney at a party - he introduced Ashby: “This is the guy I was talking about. This is the asshole who ruined my script. "
Assistant Producer Apelian recalls that the film had to fit into the PG-13 rating (children under 13 are allowed to watch only with their parents), despite the fact that the game was extremely brutal. The creators of Mortal Kombat worked closely with the rating committee to clarify how much foul language and blood can be in the film.
It turned out that the killing of a person could not be shown on the screen, but the killing of other creatures was allowed. Therefore, for example, in Mortal Kombat, Goro's death is shown, and this did not prevent the PG-13 rating.
About Goro
A doll of Goro, a four-armed prince serving Emperor Shao Kahn, cost a million dollars to create. The monster was controlled by 13 to 16 people - one was responsible for the eyes, the other for the eyebrows, and so on. However, he often broke down and the film crew had to wait. On the set, they joked: "Goro doesn't want to get out of his trailer."
Paul Anderson recalls that he tried to film Goro as creatively as possible. The appearance and the synchronization of the movements of the character's lips were finalized using computer graphics.
About Liu Kang
For the role of Liu Kang - the main character of Mortal Kombat - they decided to take Robin Shu, an actor who was engaged in martial arts. Shu recalls that it was the most grueling casting. It was auditioned seven times, from producers and director to New Line, which produced the film.
According to the actor, a friend-agent advised him to star in the film: “They select people for the film Mortal Kombat”. Shu laughed — he thought Mortal Kombat was a very silly title. He also did not believe in the idea of \u200b\u200ba video game adaptation. But my friend insisted.
About Sonya Blade
It was originally planned to take on the role of Sonya Blade the unknown Cameron Diaz - the doubts of the creators of Mortal Kombat disappeared after the release of The Mask with her participation. Diaz began training for action scenes, but right before filming began, she broke her wrist and had to abandon the actress.
Sonya Blade ended up playing Bridget Wilson - she, like Shue, recalls a very long casting process with seven auditions. While the creators of Mortal Kombat were thinking, Wilson managed to star in the movie Billy Madison.
The actress herself performed all the stunts and participated in all the fighting scenes of her character. She didn't have enough time to train, but the filmmakers rescheduled the shooting of Sonya Blade's fight with Kano for the end so that Wilson could get ready.
About Raiden
The filmmakers wanted to call Sean Connery for the role of God Raiden. But at that moment Connery didn't want to act - just play golf. Therefore, Paul Anderson and Larry Kazanoff offered the role to Christopher Lambert, at that time already an accomplished actor.
Lambert watched Anderson's first film before agreeing to it and was impressed. In addition, it was the only action movie in which the actor did not need to train for filming - because Raiden is god.
About Tom Cruise
Mortal Kombat was filmed in part at Santa Monica Airport (USA). Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage) recalls that the film crew had a cunning medic who should have got a job as a security guard, not a doctor - so he kept order.
Not far from the set was Tom Cruise's hangar. He came up and asked what they were filming and if it was possible to watch. The doctor did not let the actor in: “You are not participating in this film. I don't care who you are, get out! "
About injuries
When the first version of Mortal Kombat was shown to the test audience, they as one said: "We like everything, but there are not enough fights in the film." Therefore, Kazanoff and Anderson returned to filming, spent much more money than they wanted, but filmed additional combat scenes: Liu Kang's fight with the Reptile and Johnny Cage's fight with Scorpio.
Anderson recalls that Robin Shue measured each fight scene on a three-point scale - the number of ribs he broke. The fight with the Reptile got three points.
Shu himself recalls that he broke two of his ribs when Reptile threw him into a post on the tenth take. The actor did not tell anyone so as not to interrupt the filming process, but asked his opponent not to hit on the right side of the body.
Linden initially did not want to act in a fight scene and demanded a stunt double, but in the end he was convinced. During the fight with Scorpio, the actor recalls, he broke through his defense and hit the kidney - for some time Linden urinated with blood.
According to Anderson, when Linden complained to him about pain, he replied: “How many ribs did you break? Shu broke three! "
Film success
Paul Anderson was very afraid of the day of the premiere, so he decided to run away with his girlfriend away from Los Angeles - to Hawaii. There he opened the press and saw that the film was leading the box office. The director urgently wanted to go to Los Angeles, but the trip to Hawaii had already been paid for, so he stayed. Mortal Kombat led the box office for three weeks.
After the release of the film, Anderson was offered to shoot the second part of Mortal Kombat, but he refused: the director wanted to try something new. So he shot Through the Horizon, but later looked around and thought: “Maybe I should have shot [the sequel to Mortal Kombat]."
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"The Battle of Psychics" is a TNT television project filmed in the format of the British TV show "Britain's Psychic Challenge". The first season was released in 2007. Numerous sources say that the show is staged in nature with a pre-written script. In February 2017, the project received an anti-award from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for popularizing pseudoscience. Attempts by individual participants to pass independent tests and receive the Harry Houdini Award have ended in complete failure. The actions of some of the participants were found to be fraudulent.
about the project
The first presenter was Mikhail Porechenkov. He spent the first seven seasons, after which he was replaced by Marat Basharov. All participants are selected. To do this, it is proposed to determine what is behind the opaque fabric or in the casket. Based on the results, no more than 40 people are selected. Those who pass further must find a person hidden in one of 30 places. Only those who have coped with this task can take part in the show.
A jury is necessarily formed, which decides which of the psychics will go to the next round. The program also has co-hosts. In different seasons, the role of "skeptics" has been played by criminologists, entertainers, psychiatrists, magicians and pop stars.
In an interview, Mikhail Vinogradov repeatedly said that patients, swindlers and various outrageous personalities come to take part in the tests. Nobody gives guarantees in their professionalism. The only exceptions are three winners in each season. According to a forensic expert, such individuals really prove their abilities.
Truth or lie?
Each season had its own stars. Famous members earn significant sums. One hour of their work costs an average of 15-40 thousand rubles. Mikhail Porechenkov gave an interview on the air of Our Radio. He said that at first it was really interesting to work, all the members of the film crew believed in what was happening. Gradually the awareness of the technology of work came. There are people who give tips to psychics. This is done on the basis of contracts concluded before filming. However, there were also moments when the participants understood something.
Information about paid tips appeared back in 2009. Information from friends and relatives of the participants began to appear on various forums. They note that there are real psychics among them, and there are those who pay for the correct answers to the questions posed. The opinion has been repeatedly voiced in the communities that the task is real, but the winners "pay" for their victory.
There are also positive reviews, but they relate to visits to individual psychics outside the program. Indeed, many of the participants have become highly paid professionals, but among them there are also those who have never received a reward for their prophecies. For example, Julia Wang immediately said that she does not provide services to the population.
Stars about the "Battle of Psychics"
Singer Danko says that everything is montage. He once had an affair with Julia Wang, the season 15 winner. He himself took part in the filming. The singer notes that Wang did not show her psychic abilities in any way, she was an ordinary glamorous party girl. Danko told how the shooting takes place:
- Each participant is filmed within an hour.
- The psychic pronounces various answers.
- Editors choose the right ones from the footage.
Ekaterina Gordon notes that in the entire history of the project there were only 2-3 real psychics. She notes that colleagues working on the television project do not hide - miracles do not happen on it, all the show.
Alena Vodonaeva was "Mr. X" in one of the episodes. She says that everything is for real. She notes that after returning from filming, she started bleeding. According to Alena, this is how the participants acted with their energy.
The actress Nastasya Samburskaya also had a positive response. The participants shared details about her life that she never mentioned.
Vera Sotnikova acts as an expert in many tests. She notes that sometimes miracles happen on the set. Sometimes psychics say things about which information was very carefully hidden. Therefore, it is very difficult not to believe what is happening.
Sergey Safronov has been conducting some tests for many years. In his opinion, most of the participants are excellent psychologists. Only once did he really feel like they were "getting into his head." Sergey is convinced that viewers do not care whether the show is real or staged.
Rossa Voronova said that those contributors who fit the editors get help. All others are tested by themselves. She claims that the information is provided in a metered fashion. certain people... This is done so that it does not work out like this: one came and guessed everything.
What do the winners do after the project?
You can understand whether the program is a divorce or whether the help was really provided to the applicants if you study how the winners live after the show. It has already been noted that many of them decided to do business.
First five seasons winners:
- Natalia Vorotnikova. He is engaged in healing, gives lectures and makes exclusive predictions for a glossy magazine.
- Zulia Radjabova. She has written three books and constantly reminds people not to turn to scammers and swindlers working under her name for help.
- Mehdi Ebrahimi Wafa. He left extrasensory perception, took up psychology. According to some of his clients, the ability is gone. You can buy “charged” paintings on the official website.
- Toursnoy Zakirov. She has published the book How to Become Happier, and is hosting a reception at the Magic Power Center.
- Lilia Khegai. Provides services to the population, but does not consider himself a psychic.
Season 6-10 Winners
- Alexander Litvin. He has written several books, conducts online consulting.
- Alexey Pokhabov. Conducts seminars and personal consultations. He believes that everyone can develop abilities.
- Vladimir Muranov. He continues to practice healing, is the author of books, discs with records for meditation.
- Natalia Banteeva. He is the creator of the Northern Witches Coven. She opened a school in which students are allowed to immerse themselves in the "life of a wizard."
- Mohsen Noruzi. He is very popular, makes predictions for famous personalities, receives clients in one of the prestigious business centers.
Winners from season 11 to 17:
- Vitaly Gibert. He writes books, conducts seminars on the Black Sea coast.
- Elena Yasevich. Offers esoteric services in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Refuses techniques related to witchcraft.
- Dmitry Volokhov. Popularizes neo-paganism, conducts seminars.
- Alexander Sheps. He opened a store selling charmed amulets, bracelets, and other talismans. Conducts trainings.
- Julia Wang. Does not conduct appointments, does not provide consultations. He is engaged in the creation of perfumes and soaps.
- Victoria Raidos. He is not engaged in healing, but he solves complex everyday problems.
- Swami Dashi. Conducts trainings, published the first book. It is possible to sign up for an individual session.
In conclusion, we note that Marat Basharov himself says that everything that happens on the project is true. He says that the rumors about the leakage of information are spread by the participants themselves, who have dropped out of the project.
The television show "Battle of Psychics" made a splash almost immediately after its release on the TNT channel. The audience's love for everything strange and inexplicable has always provoked interest in such programs, because they seem to be opening a veil of some kind of mystery. A lot of similar programs were broadcast on Russian television, but it was the "Battle of Psychics" that was able to break out into the leaders and capture the attention of most of the population of our country.
Who is real and who is not?
Of course, among all those who trust every witch, there are skeptics who claim that all this is deception and fraud. But if they knew how to shoot "The Battle of Psychics", they would not think so. Today, you can often find ads offering services of this rank, but this does not mean at all that each of the magicians is in fact such. It is for this purpose that TNT TV channel conceived this project, in which ordinary viewers will be able to learn how to behave with psychics, so as not to betray their own story, but to give them the opportunity to demonstrate their strength.
What do they do at casting?
Eyewitnesses who were directly involved in the castings of the show know exactly how the "Battle of Psychics" is being filmed. By the way, quite a few charlatans are eliminated already at this stage. Due to the fact that the program generates a lot of doubts, even ordinary journalists try to take part in the qualifying rounds, posing as fortune-tellers and witches, trying to find out how much of a show it is. However, the creators of the project are far from stupid, and their team has gathered quite a serious one - skeptics, psychologists, professors and other specialists who understand human psyche... It is they who are trying to "see through" the charlatans even before the start of the entrance examinations. Of course, after the latter are held, the question of who is going to Moscow is decided.
What's next?
A logical question, but an invitation to the capital does not mean direct participation in the battle. Here is a more thorough check of those wishing to demonstrate their talents, these fragments we can see in the first issue of each new season. After screening out, a small group of participants from all over the country is determined who, in the opinion of the jury and the hosts, have proven worthy to be. Those who did not pass the last test return home and can already tell with confidence how the "Battle of Psychics" is being filmed, and prove to everyone that everything is for real here! Although there are always those who continue to assure everyone of their dubious abilities, saying that the winner is determined in advance.
Where is "The Battle of Psychics" filmed?
The main place where participants gather at the end of each program, and the winner is subsequently awarded, is on Novaya Basmannaya Street in Moscow. This mansion previously belonged to a Moscow merchant and influential person Nikolai Dmitrievich Stakheev.
How "The Battle of Psychics" is being filmed: tests on the way to victory!
Each new release, selected magicians and sorcerers are subjected to serious tests, the cause of which can be anyone who wishes. That is, if you want to test the abilities of psychics, then you can send a letter to the editor of the program and offer your story in order to find a way out of an unpleasant situation as a result. Of course, the events you describe must be real.
Why should we believe?
No, no one owes anything to anyone, this is everyone's right. But it is worth noting that this show is created not only for the purpose of PR and monetary gain. One of the conditions for the existence of this project is to help people, which is why over the years the program has not lost its relevance, but, on the contrary, is gaining momentum in popularity. If you still could not answer your question about how the "Battle of Psychics" program is being filmed, then go to Moscow and try to witness any of the tests. Believe me, your doubts will disappear quickly!
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Serhiy Parkhomenko tells in this article about how the program was filmed in Ukraine, one of the most popular on television in our time - "The Battle of Psychics" (published since 2007 with subsequent broadcast on the STB channel).
FACTORY OF WOLDERS
On the eve of the filming of the new season, the STB channel announces the casting of psychics, applications come from hundreds of those who imagine themselves as magician-healers-visionaries. The first stage of selection is to answer a dozen questions on the channel's website: what is your connection with the other worldwhat gift you have, your habits, fears, whether your health condition can affect your participation in the project ... Then a few more castings, after which 10-12 psychics will remain for filming.
The writers of "Battles" told us who are hired in the show: "The project has a maximum of two people who really have abilities, two or three more are those who need to be dragged through. The rest are just bright characters from the series" shamans with tambourines, priests, fortunetellers on rabbit's feet, followers of genies ... "These are outsiders - they quickly fly out of the project, but they make a show. The strong are needed to amaze the viewer, and also so that during criminal trials they give out the necessary information, which the organizers of the show then leak to their favorites." ...
In the course of the project, psychics prove to the audience their superpowers, and all this in front of the experts (in different seasons there was an illusionist Uri Geller, famous for bending metal spoons with his gaze and stopping the clock on the London Big Ben tower, as well as Alan Chumak, Elena Yakovleva, Alik Smekhova, Dana Borisova and others). Each week they decide which medium should leave the show. And in the final, when three magicians remain, the winner is chosen by the audience via SMS. The strongest psychic in some seasons was paid a prize of 250 thousand UAH.
HUMAN STORIES
Andrey Dubovik, was a forensic expert on the show
The Ukrainians themselves call, send letters to the editorial office and the STB forum, spreading problems with such a message that law enforcement agencies are powerless, because psychics are their last hope. The stories are different: from mysticism (voices are heard in the house at night, or a woman's fifth husband dies) to crime (search for missing people, unsolved murder). The project includes the most resonant incidents, although, as we were told by the forensic expert of the three seasons of "Battles," Lieutenant Colonel of the SBU in reserve Andrei Dubovik, it happens that real stories are embellished: "I can give two cases. The first was a plot in which a five-year-old boy he choked on a button, and the second - with a girl who hanged herself on a tree in the forest. For the sake of acuity, the scriptwriters wrote that the boy swallowed the button, she pierced his lung - and he choked with blood. But I read the expert opinion - a banal mechanical asphyxiation. As for the girl, then I also read materials on her case. Her parents are drug addicts, she was an outcast, she was treated twice in a psychiatric clinic. Not long before the tragedy, in order to somehow attract the attention of her peers, she got tattoos on her face - it did not work, the next step is a loop. Which is quite natural and predictable. No mysticism. But the writers came up with a scary story that some friend gave her a laptop. She found on some sa ate a sect of suicides and, having contacted them, laid hands on herself ... "
COTTON FOR MAGA
On the screen, the work of psychics looks fascinating: as soon as they spread their cards, move a candle around the corners of the house or pick up the victim's personal belongings, an epiphany immediately comes to them - and they begin to tell the details of the tragedy ... They even name such details as a tattoo on the killer's shoulder or where the victim had a birthmark.
But, as Andrei Dubovik confessed to us, there is nothing supernatural here: “Even before the main filming, the film crew comes to the participants. Journalists treat the injured party from all sides:“ tell us about the deceased, his childhood, habits, where they were killed, are there any suspects, where disappeared, the version of the investigation, and what the people say, "they look at the photo, the apartment, the area, interrogate other relatives, neighbors, witnesses ... Then they come there with psychics, although in the project it is presented as if they were going to the crime scene for the first time, communicating with each one separately , ask what they see. Among them there are two or three real seers. They are, and they are needed to tell those facts that are unknown to the investigation, or those that the victims have forgotten. All this is recorded, then a script is written, tips for psychics , which need to be promoted on the "Battle" in order to at least bring to the final. If a strong medium gave good details only during the shooting, then in this case their special They really try to release it to the middle in order to have time to drain the information to the necessary psychics, who, as a rule, come out at the end, some are also given earpieces. And plus, according to psychology, the viewer remembers the last person best of all. "
One of the scriptwriters of the project (asked not to indicate her name) confirmed this: "The scheme is always standard: before the tests, they collect all the necessary information from the heroes of the program, ask about everything they can, and then merge it with their favorites."
OPINIONS OF PARTICIPANTS
Project participant Lyudmila wanted to find the killers of her granddaughter, so she turned to the program: "People from the film crew arrived the day before filming, asked about the circumstances of death: where they found their granddaughter, where things were thrown away, police versions. The next day psychics arrived and did not they said nothing new, simply repeating the facts known to the investigation. "
Another participant, Svetlana, has the following story: “My daughter died, and two years later they killed my grandson. I had only one hope - only for psychics. But only Viktor Aleksandrovsky described how they killed, where, on what floor, in what car he left I even drew a portrait of the murderer ... The rest answered in the standard way - a blow to the back of the head, in general, everything that I said to journalists on the phone and what was known to the investigation.But now all the information given by Aleksandrovsky has been attached to the case - and it has been sent for further investigation ".
There are also people whom psychics helped. So, in 2010, Victoria Sanzharivets was accused of the murder of musician Sergei Zvenigorodsky, she spent a year in a pre-trial detention center. But thanks to psychics, who unanimously declared that it was not her who killed the musician, the girl was released: “I was released on bail by my father, forbidden to leave the Poltava region, and the case was returned for further investigation, which is being carried out by a new investigator. It’s even hard to walk, I could take a couple of steps in the cell. I really want to return to the village stadium and play football as before. ”
SECRETS OF INSTALLATION
The duration of the program is about 1.5 hours, which take place in one breath, it is even difficult to imagine that some episodes are filmed in several takes and even with a break of several days. So, in one of the "Battles" there was a competition in a shopping center of the capital, where Alik Smekhov was "hidden". Psychics had to find her, and along the way, holding the actress's glasses in their hands, talk about her. According to one of the screenwriters, the scandal erupted when one of the psychics began to tell exactly the same thing that Alik had given out to journalists before the test: “She got angry, they say, what kind of circus was this, and left the center. She categorically refused to continue acting. the rest of the psychics could not find her ... This is not strange, Smekhova was simply gone. Then I barely managed to persuade Alik to come a few days later and finish the episode. "
Thanks to the installation secrets from many extreme tests - goosebumps. For example, in one of the "Battles" the seers had to find a bomb in one of the cars in the parking lot. And when it exploded, there was an impression that the entire parking lot could fly up into the air ... As the operator of several seasons of the project told us: “All extreme tests are filmed from favorable angles. Somewhere in advance, light is set, somewhere they put a camera in front of the place where it will be an explosion so that she could take it off. In general, a lot of things are filmed and re-filmed. For example, if they find that the psychic said something unconvincingly. "
One of the psychics who starred in two seasons, Denis Shevchenko, confirmed this to us: "In the first seasons it was like this: I went in - here is an apartment, a hero is waiting there, they give you some thing, you need to tell who owns, about this person Naturally, many psychics, including myself, failed test after test. Because there were no greenhouse conditions for the script and text. And since the ninth season, please note, from psychics almost no one is mistaken. texts, and everyone became visionaries. Gordeev once asked me: "What did you have when you re-filmed the episodes, if you suddenly failed?" I asked: "How did you fail, but you have to film so that you Did you manage? "And another psychic, who also starred in two seasons and who is called the strongest on the project behind the eyes, told us:" The release can be remounted so as not to insert the words that a certain psychic said. For example, if one of the real magicians says something really startling in such a way that the participant will be thrown into shock, it can be cut and pasted as if it was said by one of the favorites. "
QUESTION PRICE
Khayal Alekperov, winner of the 7th and 10th seasons
One of the screenwriters, on condition of anonymity, told us the names of the favorites: “This is undoubtedly the two-time champion of“ Battles ”Khayal Alekperov. Besides him: the two-time champion of“ Battles ”Alena Kurilova, they gossip that she is the godfather of the main screenwriter, Anna Galliers, Ilona Cauldre, Maxim Gordeev, Maya Dzedishvili, about whom they say that she has a rich husband. "
Forensic expert Dubovik gave practically the same names: "Khayal Alekperov, Anna Galliers, Ilona Cauldre, Alena Kurilova, Maxim Gordeev, Zhanna Shulakova - these are the necessary psychics. In December 2010, TOV Nika-info" was registered. is Victoria Mukhina. There is nothing about this company on the Internet, but, according to my information, the psychics listed above work there. "
Victoria Mukhina herself, when asked if she has an agency where psychics work, answered us: "This is all nonsense."
But in any case, the show brings great fame to psychics. Especially those that take off at least not earlier than the middle of the project. On the wave of success, many of them create websites, hire administrators and accept people. So, in Alekperov's reception they told us: "We can enroll you, but only for April ... next year. It costs $ 500". To the finalist Viktor Aleksandrovsky, too, by appointment only: "Hour of reception is $ 300, leave your phone number and we will call you back when he can receive it, because the schedule is very tight." To Maxim Gordeev: registration - a week, admission - 200 euros: "If you are urgent, then another 50 euros." He also opened an esoteric online store (sells jewelry, perfumes, amulets) and an academy, where he teaches people for 3000 UAH per month in such disciplines as "Tarot", "Astrology", "Medium", etc.
In general, the "School of Psychics" is a very good ticket to the big world of occult business.
