Es difícil imaginar que Kurt Russell se acerque al área de tensión cuando se trata de actuar en una película. Sin embargo, cuando esta película está dirigida por el legendario director Quentin Tarantino, incluso el actor detrás de Snake Plissken comienza a sudar un poco. En una entrevista de 2007 con IGNProtagonista de películas como “The Thing”, “Escape from New York” y “Tombstone” (Uno de los mejores westerns jamás realizados.) explicó que a la hora de conseguir su papel en “Death Proof” ya sabía de la potencial competencia que enfrentaría gracias a una llamada de Freddy Rodríguez.
“Creo que Quentin vendrá a ti con esta película”, recuerda Russell que le dijo la estrella de “Planet Terror”. “Creo que se suponía que era Mickey Rourke, pero no creo que eso esté sucediendo. Hay otras personas hablando de ello, y sé que Ving Rhames fue alguien a quien presionaron mucho”, dijo. “Pero no sé si Quentin lo ha pensado seriamente o no”.
A partir de ahí, comenzó un juego de lo que Russell describió como “etiqueta telefónica”. Esto llevó a Tarantino a proporcionar la demostración perfecta de por qué un actor debería ponerse al volante en “Death Proof”, una historia llena de acción sobre un doble asesino que da un giro cuando es perseguido por un grupo de sus víctimas potenciales. Puede sentarse en la parte inferior de La mayoría de las clasificaciones de películas de Tarantinopero “Death Proof” sigue siendo un camino difícil.
Tarantino quería agregar al especialista Mike a la galería de estafadores clásicos de Russell
Películas de dimensiones
Después de algunas idas y venidas y de pulir los detalles, Russell recordó por qué el director de Pulp Fiction era uno de los mejores. Las mejores películas jamás realizadas.Lo quería en su próximo proyecto:
“Así que lo llamé. Nos comunicamos y él dijo: 'A lo largo de los años, has tenido una galería de pícaros con grandes personajes que me encantaron, y realmente me gustaría ver al especialista Mike convertirse en uno de esos tipos. .'” Estos tipos, uno de esos personajes que cuelgas en la pared cuando terminas .'”
Tarantino finalmente convenció a Russell para que se pusiera gafas de sol negras y se convirtiera en un conductor de acrobacias de un asesino en serie. “Dije que me encantaría hacerlo. Lo leí y pensé que era exactamente el tipo de película en la que me encantaría trabajar con Quentin, y en el entorno del que hablaba, no había razón para no hacerlo. hazlo. Simplemente salta y di: 'Vamos a hacer esto'”, agregó Russell. Y nos divertimos”.
Definitivamente fue divertido. La película marcó la primera colaboración entre Russell y el venerado director, quienes eventualmente se reunirían ocho años después en The Hateful Eight. Russell también jugó un papel importante en la película de Tarantino “Érase una vez en Hollywood”. Actúa como narrador de la película e incluso aparece en persona en un momento. Como dijo Tarantino en una entrevista de 2019 con Semanal de entretenimiento“Kurt es definitivamente la persona más joven con la que podría trabajar y que realmente vivió esa vida”. Bueno, seguro que ya no son lo que solían ser.
Puede que el escritor y director Quentin Tarantino no sea fanático de su película “Death Proof”, que según él fue la peor jamás realizada, pero aquí en /Film creemos que es una película clásica de Tarantino. no hablamos lo suficienteHay mucho que amar en esta precuela de “Grindhouse”, que sigue a un tipo de sicario llamado Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) que acecha y mata mujeres hermosas usando su coche de acrobacias. Hay persecuciones de coches salvajes y Movimientos increíblemente peligrososHay una banda sonora espectacular. Están los increíbles actores que interpretan a las víctimas y luego las reinas que se vengan de Mike. Y luego, por supuesto, está el propio Russell, posiblemente uno de los mejores actores que jamás haya aparecido en la pantalla grande.
Tarantino es muy conocido por Saludos y referencias. En cuanto a las películas que inspiraron su trabajo, no dudó en añadir también algunos huevos de Pascua. No solo hay algunos huevos de Pascua de las películas que inspiraron “Death Proof” en la película, ¡sino que también hay un par de huevos muy divertidos de la carrera de Russell!
Huevos de Pascua en la filmografía de Stantman Mike
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Tarantino y Russell han trabajado juntos varias veces desde “Death Proof”, por lo que parece que ahora no es gran cosa. Pero inicialmente el director tuvo que utilizar Creed dice para reclutar actor Pero la admiración de Tarantino por Russell no se limitó a convencerle de colaborar con él, sino que incluso hizo referencia a algunos de sus primeros trabajos. En una escena en la que está en un Texas Chili Parlor comiendo unos deliciosos nachos de aspecto grasoso, Mike termina entablando una conversación con una mujer llamada Pam (Rose McGowan). Ella le pregunta sobre el papel de suplente de su nombre y él menciona algunos de sus trabajos, que incluyen las series de televisión “The High Chaparral” y “The Virginian”.
Curiosamente, Russell apareció en ambos programas cuando era un actor joven. Coprotagonizó dos episodios de “The Virginian” en 1964 y 1965, casi al mismo tiempo que Andar en patineta por el set de MGM Con Charles Bronson. (Mira, Russell tiene el vivioTambién apareció en un episodio de “El Alto Chaparral” en 1967, como se muestra en la foto de arriba. Ninguno de los papeles es importante, pero es interesante que Tarantino estuviera dispuesto a profundizar en la filmografía de Russell para ayudar a dar forma al especialista Mike.
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Películas dimensionales
El otro huevo de Pascua diseñado por Russell es más obvio, pero también difícil de detectar si no prestas atención. Entre las diversas decoraciones en las abarrotadas paredes del bar se encuentra una camiseta sobre la mesa de Jungle Julia (Sidney Poitier). La camiseta es del clásico de John Carpenter de 1986 “Big Trouble in Little China”, protagonizado por Russell como Jack Burton, un camionero tranquilo (y no exactamente diligente) que ayuda a su mejor amigo a rescatar a su prometida de un antiguo mago chino. Aunque es probable que la camiseta sea una réplica, claramente lleva la firma de Tarantino en varios lugares y podría ser una pieza de recuerdo que Tarantino trajo a la escena.
Otra alusión a Burton es un momento en el que Mike usa un acento de John Wayne mientras le dice a Arlena (Vanessa Ferlito) “Estás bien en mi libro”, mientras Burton también habla con un fuerte acento, emulando al famoso actor occidental. Si bien es muy poco probable que veamos Russell vuelve a interpretar a Jack BurtonAl menos pudimos vislumbrar un poco su voz como un hombre mayor en “Death Proof”. ¡Gracias por la nostalgia, Quentin!
What I hate most about smartphones is Settings. It’s hard to organize a Settings menu, and today’s phones prove that. Even the best phones have terrible Settings, and because it’s such a challenge, I like to make Settings the focus of my argument to explain how Samsung’s OneUI software has gotten so terrible, and why Apple’s iOS is better. Buckle up, because I’m opening Settings, and it’s about to get ugly because Settings are bad everywhere, but especially on a Samsung phone.
What’s the best I can expect from a Settings menu? Nothing. Really. I hope to never use Settings. On an ideal smartphone, Settings wouldn’t exist. The AI revolution in smartphones is leading to this point. Eventually, AI is going to manage Settings. You’ll tell the AI what you need, and it will make the adjustments.
(Image credit: Future / Philip Berne)
To that end, Samsung could end up with the BEST Settings on any smartphone. Bixby, Samsung’s much-maligned digital assistant, is built to manage Settings. Most of what you want to do with your Galaxy phone, and what I’ll complain about below, can be simplified using Bixby.
Hold down the Bixby button and ask your phone to “turn on the Wi-Fi hotspot” or “change the screen mode to Vivid” and Bixby will do it. Bixby knows Settings better than any human. That’s part of the problem. The Galaxy’s Settings are so complicated they need to put an AI in charge.
What I want from Settings is as little as possible
(Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)
Back to what I want: the least effort possible. I don’t want to use Settings, so the more time I spend with Settings open, the bigger the fail.
The most common Settings on a phone should be available with one swipe. On my iPhone 15, I swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen, and I get instant access to not just brightness and Wi-Fi, but also I can quickly tap Do Not Disturb, activate Power Saving, open my AppleTV remote, or even create a new reminder.
On my Samsung Galaxy S24, I swipe down from the top of the screen, and I get six Quick Settings buttons, as well as a litany of notifications. To find all of Quick Settings, I need to swipe again. That’s the difference between Apple and Samsung. Too many tasks require an extra step on my Samsung phone.
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Even the faster way is slower
Samsung fans are screaming at me, because you really only need to swipe once to see all the Quick Settings buttons, but that’s a Setting you need to enable. Where do you enable this option? After you swipe down twice, you’ll notice a tiny little ‘customization’ pencil icon. If you tap that icon, you can activate a few useful features, like seeing all the Quick Settings after just one swipe.
You can also set up a hot corner to show all of the Quick Settings buttons at once, just like Apple uses. Of course, good luck finding this option, even though it should be turned on by default. Good luck finding any of these options, in fact.
(Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)
See, these Settings are not actually in the Settings app. Want to see the Quick Settings buttons with a single swipe? That option is not anywhere in Settings. It’s only found under that tiny pencil menu, the one you find by swiping down twice. Suddenly my Galaxy S24 Ultra feels more like a quest through Legend of Zelda than a modern smartphone.
Putting the Settings to the real test
As for the Settings app, Apple and Samsung have very different philosophies. On your iPhone, ALL of your Settings are in the Settings app. All of them. All the settings for every app you use, as well as all of your basic phone settings, are in the same place. The Settings list is therefore very long, since it includes every app on your phone.
On my Galaxy S24, like all Android phones, there are Settings in each separate app. That would be fine if Settings were well organized. My Gmail settings are in Gmail and my Facebook settings are in Facebook, but all of the other settings on my phone should just be in Settings. Sadly, this isn’t how Samsung phones are organized, and it doesn’t seem like there is any consistent organization at all.
Sometimes settings are in the Settings app. Sometimes they are hidden under strange little icons, like the ‘pencil’ example above. If you see an enigmatic set of dots anywhere on your Galaxy phone, a cairn of pixels stacked atop each other, that is probably a hidden settings menu.
All the AI features, buried in the Settings (Image credit: Future / Philip Berne)
Worst of all, Samsung’s Settings app is a big mess. While Apple’s Settings is a very long list, once you start digging, there isn’t very far to go. Whatever feature you want to find, you’ll get there in one or two steps.
To test this, I chose 10 common reasons why I use the Settings menu. Without using any advanced shortcuts, like a long-press on a Quick Settings button, and without simply searching for the Settings I wanted, I mapped how many steps it took to accomplish my Settings goals on the iPhone 15 and the Galaxy S24. The results were clear.
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Function
iPhone/iOS 17
Galaxy/OneUI 6.1
# of steps: iPhone / Galaxy
Winner
Turn on Wi-Fi hotspot
Settings: Personal Hotspot: Allow Others to Join
Settings: Connections: Mobile Hotspot and Tethering: Mobile Hotspot toggle (or tap text for even MORE settings)
3 / 4
iPhone
Change wallpaper
Settings: Wallpaper
Settings: Wallpaper and style
2 / 2
Tie
Turn on power saving
Settings: Battery: Low Power Mode
Settings: Device care: Tap “Battery”: Power saving
3 / 4
iPhone
Add a Bluetooth device
Settings: Bluetooth
Settings: Connections: Bluetooth: Tap “Bluetooth”
2 / 4
iPhone
Enable Dark mode
Settings: Display & Brightness: Select Dark
Settings: Display: Dark
3 / 3
Tie
Free up space in storage
Settings: General: iPhone Storage: Recommendations; or Sort apps
Settings: Device care: Tap “Storage”: Review old files; “Unused apps;” “Duplicate files;” “Large files”
4 / 4
Tie
Check for a System Update
Settings: General: Software Update
Settings: Device care: Software update
3 / 3
Tie
Change my lock screen password
Settings: Face ID & Passcode: Change Passcode
Settings: Lock screen and AOD: Screen lock type: PIN/Pattern/Etc.
Settings: General: Transfer or Reset iPhone: Prepare for New iPhone / Reset / Erase All Content and Settings
Settings: General management: Reset: Reset … all settings / mobile network settings / Wi-Fi and Bluetooth settings / accessibility settings / Factory data reset
4 / 4
Tie
The Galaxy phone is never faster. For half of these Settings, the iPhone took fewer steps than the Galaxy. For the other half, the Settings took the same number of steps on each phone. Nothing was ever faster on the Galaxy phone.
Samsung can have a faster processor, more megapixels, and all the specification wins that it likes. It isn’t beating Apple if the phone isn’t better to use. Here’s the proof, Samsung, that your phones are verifiably more complicated to use. More steps means slower. It’s time for Samsung to improve its software dramatically if it wants to be the best and the fastest phone around.
Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It’s a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus enough to have a conversation. A new study by researchers at Brown University’s Carney Institute for Brain Science provides some of the most detailed insights yet into the brain mechanisms that help people pay attention amid such distraction, as well as what’s happening when they can’t focus.
In an earlier psychology study, the researchers established that people can separately control how much they focus (by enhancing relevant information) and how much they filter (by tuning out distraction). The team’s new research, published in Nature Human Behaviour, unveils the process by which the brain coordinates these two critical functions.
Lead author and neuroscientist Harrison Ritz likened the process to how humans coordinate muscle activity to perform complex physical tasks.
“In the same way that we bring together more than 50 muscles to perform a physical task like using chopsticks, our study found that we can coordinate multiple different forms of attention in order to perform acts of mental dexterity,” said Ritz, who conducted the study while a Ph.D. student at Brown.
The findings provide insight into how people use their powers of attention as well as what makes attention fail, said co-author Amitai Shenhav, an associate professor in Brown’s Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences.
“These findings can help us to understand how we as humans are able to exhibit such tremendous cognitive flexibility — to pay attention to what we want, when we want to,” Shenhav said. “They can also help us better understand limitations on that flexibility, and how limitations might manifest in certain attention-related disorders such as ADHD.”
The focus-and-filter test
To conduct the study, Ritz administered a cognitive task to participants while measuring their brain activity in an fMRI machine. Participants saw a swirling mass of green and purple dots moving left and right, like a swarm of fireflies. The tasks, which varied in difficulty, involved distinguishing between the movement and colors of the dots. For example, participants in one exercise were instructed to select which color was in the majority for the rapidly moving dots when the ratio of purple to green was almost 50/50.
Ritz and Shenhav then analyzed participants’ brain activity in response to the tasks.
Ritz, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, explained how the two brain regions work together during these types of tasks.
“You can think about the intraparietal sulcus as having two knobs on a radio dial: one that adjusts focusing and one that adjusts filtering,” Ritz said. “In our study, the anterior cingulate cortex tracks what’s going on with the dots. When the anterior cingulate cortex recognizes that, for instance, motion is making the task more difficult, it directs the intraparietal sulcus to adjust the filtering knob in order to reduce the sensitivity to motion.
“In the scenario where the purple and green dots are almost at 50/50, it might also direct the intraparietal sulcus to adjust the focusing knob in order to increase the sensitivity to color. Now the relevant brain regions are less sensitive to motion and more sensitive to the appropriate color, so the participant is better able to make the correct selection.”
Ritz’s description highlights the importance of mental coordination over mental capacity, revealing an often-expressed idea to be a misconception.
“When people talk about the limitations of the mind, they often put it in terms of, ‘humans just don’t have the mental capacity’ or ‘humans lack computing power,'” Ritz said. “These findings support a different perspective on why we’re not focused all the time. It’s not that our brains are too simple, but instead that our brains are really complicated, and it’s the coordination that’s hard.”
Ongoing research projects are building on these study findings. A partnership with physician-scientists at Brown University and Baylor College of Medicine is investigating focus-and-filter strategies in patients with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers in Shenhav’s lab are looking at the way motivation drives attention; one study co-led by Ritz and Brown Ph.D. student Xiamin Leng examines the impact of financial rewards and penalties on focus-and-filter strategies.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (R01MH124849, S10OD02518), the National Science Foundation (2046111) and by a postdoctoral fellowship from the C.V. Starr Foundation.
Designed to adapt to a wide range of climates and conditions, these outdoor clothes offer an impressive array of features that make them suitable for everything from casual city strolls to arctic expeditions. The pants, in particular, are a marvel of adaptability. They are designed to transform into shorts, making them suitable for both hot and cold climates. This transformative feature allows users to adjust their clothing to match the weather conditions, adding a level of versatility that is rare in traditional outdoor wear.
Early bird discounts are now available for the cutting-edge project from roughly $102 or £87 (depending on current exchange rates), offering a considerable discount of approximately 36% off the MSRP, while the Kickstarter crowd funding is under way.
Complementing this adaptability is a specialized waist system that ensures a snug fit, regardless of the wearer’s movements or activities. This system is designed to provide comfort and prevent the pants from slipping, a common issue in outdoor clothing.
Outdoor adventure pants and shirt
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Integrated into the design of the pants are compartments for protective pads, offering an added layer of safety during more physically demanding activities. These compartments double as hidden pockets, providing ample storage that could potentially eliminate the need for a backpack. Additionally, the pants have adjustable waist and hems for a custom fit and removable suspenders, adding to their versatility.
If the outdoor adventure campaign successfully raises its required pledge goal and the project completion progresses smoothly, worldwide shipping is expected to take place sometime around May 2024. To learn more about the outdoor adventure everything proof pants and shirt project appraise the promotional video below.
The shirt, meanwhile, is a testament to the potential of high-tech fabrics. It is made from Graphene-integrated fabric, a material that is known for its strength and heat-conducting properties. This advanced material, combined with a state-of-the-art ventilation system, ensures that the shirt can regulate body temperature effectively, keeping the wearer cool in hot climates and warm in colder ones.
But the shirt’s features don’t stop at temperature regulation. It also has six concealed pockets, providing extensive storage options for gear or personal items. A high-neck design offers protection against hazards and can convert to a standard collar for a more casual look, making this shirt suitable for both outdoor adventures and city escapes.
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