Guillermo del Toro
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Guillermo del Toro
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Why Does Jack White Stand Out as a Live Guitar Player?
Jack White is so worth seeing in your lifetime because he forms a piece of metal into something by being at war with a guitar and manhandling a guitar in a wild way. No one has seen anyone play guitar like he was doing.
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Why Does Guillermo del Toro Share Failures With Actors?
Guillermo del Toro shares personal failures before collaborating with an actor to enter a project as imperfect beings. Guillermo del Toro requires the actor to be flawed while he admits that he does not know how to proceed. The next few months are spent with both telling each other everything done wrong in life to arrive imperfect to the movie.
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How Do You Keep Life From Becoming Taxidermy?
Imagination is better than knowledge and more important than knowledge. Living the moment as the moment wants to be is wisdom and is more important than any of the other things. Preconceiving so much leads to living with a piece of taxidermy instead of a living animal. Life becomes taxidermy. Life is so alive and is not domesticated. Life is what life wants to be. The same principle applies to a movie because a movie tells a person what a movie wants to be.
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Why Does Guillermo del Toro Prefer Darkness to Sharpness?
Guillermo del Toro says controlling black levels matters more than resolution for film quality. People are enamored with 4K, 6K, 8K but 2K with really controlled black levels looks much more beautiful. Dolby laser projection is incredibly beautiful because whites are pure and black levels are deep. Good black levels provide perfect color saturation. Gold and cyan are incredibly hard because both gold and cyan become green really easy.
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Why Does Ultimate Balance Arrive in the Last Three Minutes of Life?
Ultimate balance gets evaluated in the last three minutes of life when no professional role matters anymore. One reflects on accumulated actions and realizes whether one was a good brother, a good father, a good son or a good friend. Clarity arrives perhaps due to biochemical reasons after DMT release. One should pay attention to how new technology launches the next incarnation of humanity.
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Why Does Veering Towards Secondary Gains Leave a Person Hollow?
Veering towards secondary or tertiary gains leaves a person hollow if not careful. Secondary gains are the things that you have to replenish constantly such as attention, money, and wealth. The primary is the person that hugs you and loves you exactly as you are. The most intense primary gain moment is when kids are four, five, and you open the door as Ultraman and they run because you are home. Primary gains never go away and are bedrock.
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How Do You Negotiate With Monsters in the Closet?
Lucid dreaming caused presences to appear in a bedroom and enter the brain. A child peed in the crib after seeing fingers wave from the closet and the rug. The child offered friendship to the monsters if they allowed a bathroom visit. The monsters withdrew after the offer of friendship forever.