Words and Pictures
This is the year of movies—at least for me. Is it a plethora of good movies or am I am in the mood to be transported visually?
There's something about a visual representation of a story that totally envelopes you, but there's something about a book that makes you an active participant.
Read a book and enter into the story—if the writer knows how to create those places of entrance. See a movie and be moved by the story, empathize with a character—hope for an ending that makes sense, not Hollywood sense.
Sometimes the way a landscape is portrayed in words makes me yearn for the place and I don't need or want to see it in anything but words. The words create such a visceral image that the reality may even blunt my picture.
Then there are scenes in a movie that portray a landscape so deeply that words would crowd out the scene.
It's good that it doesn't need to be an either or —
There's something about a visual representation of a story that totally envelopes you, but there's something about a book that makes you an active participant.
Read a book and enter into the story—if the writer knows how to create those places of entrance. See a movie and be moved by the story, empathize with a character—hope for an ending that makes sense, not Hollywood sense.
Sometimes the way a landscape is portrayed in words makes me yearn for the place and I don't need or want to see it in anything but words. The words create such a visceral image that the reality may even blunt my picture.
Then there are scenes in a movie that portray a landscape so deeply that words would crowd out the scene.
It's good that it doesn't need to be an either or —
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