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I have a complaint about movies.
We see someone
shoot a gasoline spill which in turns blows up the gas station. We see a young
girl beat up three grown men. A man hurls himself off a building and survives
to beat the hero another day.
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If we wrote those scenes into our books, why is
it not acceptable and why is it that viewers of motion pictures are more
willing to suspend belief?
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We authors get lynched for not connecting the dots
to logic’s dictation and I find that very annoying.
Anyone else noticed the
same? Or feel the same?
4 comments:
I'm sorry! This just showed up in my Feedly Reader today.
I think a lot depends on the genre (movie or book) and audience expectations. In an action/adventure movie, for example, you expect outrageous action. In fact, I think movie makers are being pressed by audience expectations to bring on ever-more-spectacular scenes that defy reality, otherwise people will leave dissatisfied. They get a pass precisely because that is what audiences demand.
Books don't have that same pressure (which is probably a good thing) but correspondingly have to stick closer to reality.
It's my fault--I've been all over the place but on blogger. I need to keep up!
I don't like it very much. x(
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