The best, hard making, hard moving producers are those who've spoken to you in advance. So what i think first f all with guns. Part of it is we've habituated to guns. They're not ascare because they're we see them so often a and it's also to be a very quick death right? Get shot, you die. These other forms of death that they tend to use in horror films kind of drag it out. But outside of that, even, you know, the're there psychological aspects of this,. particularly classical conditioning.
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