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Why didn't Kubrick respond to a letter of admiration from Kurosawa?

Stanley Kubrick was noted for his meticulous directing and always demanded to shoot a large number of takes of one scene. His assistant, Anthony Frewin, spoke about Kubrick receiving a letter of admiration from Akira Kurosawa in the late 1990s. Kubrick himself was a great admirer and follower of the Japanese, so he thought for a very long time about the correct answer, writing down many drafts. And when the letter was finally ready, the news came that Kurosawa had died.

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Do animals see colors?

Everywhere we look, the world seems so colorful and beautiful to us, and it's hard to imagine that someone sees it in a completely different way. But how can a person determine whether animals see colors if they cannot tell about it?

Scientists have conducted many experiments to answer this question. Bees have been the subject of hundreds of such tests because it would be interesting to know how a bee finds a flower, if not by color. The following experiment was carried out: a little syrup was poured on a blue card, and a red one was left empty. Released bees flew blue. Then everyone did the opposite: they poured syrup on the red one, but not on the blue one. But the bees still flew to the blue one. So it was proved that they distinguish colors.

Two strange features of the perception of flowers by bees were soon discovered. First, they do not distinguish red. They see it as dark gray or black. Secondly, they perceive ultraviolet rays as color, although for a person it is only darkness!

Male birds are often brightly colored. Does the female perceive these colors? In experiments conducted with chickens, it has been proven that they see all the colors of the rainbow! But here's what's amazing: a man's friend - a dog - does not distinguish colors. For a long time it was believed that the dog is as perfect in perceiving colors as in distinguishing smells, sounds, sizes, and so on. But true dog lovers were not very disappointed after this discovery, as the flair completely compensates for this shortcoming. By the way, cats also do not distinguish colors.

Monkeys have a very good sense of color, but most other mammals, including the bull, do not see colors!

The reason for this phenomenon is that most of these animals hunt at night, when they do not need to distinguish colors at all, moreover: they themselves most often have a dull color, so this ability is of little importance in their life.

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