In the developing world, Urban life is a hieronymus Bosch-like vision of tangled traffic, crumbling infrastructure, overcrowding and crippling economic inefficiencies.

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Although del Toro makes suspenseful movies, he often seems less like a disciple of Alfred Hitchcock than of Hieronymus Bosch.

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Majewksi is drawn to bringing art to life: he wrote the screenplay for 1996 film " Basquiat, " about the life of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and directed 2004 film " The Garden of Earthly Delights, " which follows an art historian entering into Hieronymus Bosch's famous triptych.

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