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The Power of Hypnosis in the Movies
When I was a youngster, I bought a lot of Superman comic
books (for 10 cents each - it was quite a while back).
Thinking back on those stories, I remember a lot of the bad
guys and what powerful and seemingly magical inventions they
had. They usually got the best of Superman at the first of
the story, but, by the end, he figured out a way to defeat
them.
Now, those devices were not actually real (in the real
world) but in the story they worked perfectly in spite of the
laws of physics. All the writer had to do was make them up
and write them into the story. Then the characters were
affected by those devices and had to deal with them. There
were also aliens and kryptonite, lots of kryptonite.
Most of what we see about hypnosis in the movies is just
like the devices in those Superman stories - made up by the
writer. I have often wished that I had even some of the power
that many movie hypnotists have (evil laugh goes here). But
the fact is, we hypnotists cannot control people. We use the
power of the person's own subconscious to accomplish
everything that we do.
But it is fun to watch the movies and to see how hypnosis is
used (and misused), usually by the bad guy. And there is a
website that documents many, many movies with hypnosis. There
are also many other forms of media such as television,
fiction, and even the comics. It is very well done by Terry
O'Brien at: http://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/