silverclaws
Senior Retro Guru
The Hollywood blockbusters that seem to come out on a regular basis, the more and more stunning visual affects that delight the audience, but has anyone noticed what is happening with these movies we seem to clamour to watch.
Yes very effective advertising gets the bottoms on seats and there makes the money the production and financial backers see, but what else is happening, does anyone see it ?
All these stories, all these story lines, what do they seem to have in common, good battling evil, the usual approach the unofending belittled minority being the target of the powerfully offensive minority who become a power that equals a majority through their power and influence.
Just look at what comes out at the box office, are we being educated ? The latest special effects, nought but pretty packaging to entice the viewer and it works, but is anyone learning what is being said via the storyline.
Are story writers trying to instil hope in a world that thrives on cynicism.
Remember though, writing is an art just like music and dance, and any other form of creative expression, writing stories that do or don't become movies is communication of ideas, hence my question are we being educated and a counter question to that, are we listening, or are we too far immersed in the cynicism of our lives ?
Art and creative expression is a language for us to hear and understand what is being said.
Yes very effective advertising gets the bottoms on seats and there makes the money the production and financial backers see, but what else is happening, does anyone see it ?
All these stories, all these story lines, what do they seem to have in common, good battling evil, the usual approach the unofending belittled minority being the target of the powerfully offensive minority who become a power that equals a majority through their power and influence.
Just look at what comes out at the box office, are we being educated ? The latest special effects, nought but pretty packaging to entice the viewer and it works, but is anyone learning what is being said via the storyline.
Are story writers trying to instil hope in a world that thrives on cynicism.
Remember though, writing is an art just like music and dance, and any other form of creative expression, writing stories that do or don't become movies is communication of ideas, hence my question are we being educated and a counter question to that, are we listening, or are we too far immersed in the cynicism of our lives ?
Art and creative expression is a language for us to hear and understand what is being said.
