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Historical and fictional figures mapped to the sixteen values.

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director 20th century

Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick's documented hundreds of takes for single shots, his learning of every technical aspect of filmmaking, and his refusal to release a film until it met a standard that the available technology often could not yet achieve, reflect a Mastery orientation applied to cinema.

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director 20th century

Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock's systematic study of audience psychology - his documented storyboarding of every shot before filming, his stated belief that the actual filming was merely the execution of a plan completed on paper - and his decades of technical experimentation with camera movement, editing rhythm, and sound reflect a Mastery orientation applied to suspense.

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