Why I Love Movies....

I thought I would conclude Day 1 with a special post..why I love movies.

Ok, so who doesn't love movies? But I will tell you some of the main reasons why I love them.

Seeing and Believing
As a writer, I love to tell stories, I love the written word, fiction is where my heart is.
With writing, you can take yourself anywhere and do anything you want. Nothing is impossible.
Logic goes out the window. You create your own world.
When you read, you picture the characters and world around them with your own imagination.
That's one of the beauties about it. It gives you a sort've mystery.
But a movie? Movies are a whole nother class all on their own. But are no less magical.

Movies provide you with the chance to actually SEE the characters. To witness it all before your very eyes. Movies make things all the more real and not just a story. What was once a set of a thousand words can turn into a single scene. There's so much you can do with a movie.
It's taking books to visibility, but still providing you with a sense of wonder.

Emotional Investment
Movies can impact people. They can effect you emotionally, personally, or make you think about things. The ideas within the film can be very influential. Watching the characters, witnessing all that they go through, makes you build a connection with them. You get to know them as people. You're caught up with their lives, as if they're real people. And when something happens to them, it hurts. Because you have grown to have general care for them. Movies further personalize characters and makes them more human.

Immortalized
Over the many years, we have grown to care about the actors, too. They've become some of the most influential people. But is it really the actors we care so much about..or the love of the character?
Depending on our feelings for a particular character, those feelings can spill on to the actor itself and sometimes, it can seem as if they ARE that character. That's why we react whenever the actor does something wrong or something happens to them. Almost as if it was the character itself.
We come to hold them by the standards of the character and expect them to follow them.
Which is why it's so important to remember that to them, it's only a job. Do what I do and love who they play. It's ok to love the actor, but be sure to separate the two; because they aren't their characters.

One of the amazing things about movies is that, even when an actor dies, they live through their roles.
So when you watch a film, everything almost becomes timeless. And they're alive all over again.

Movie Night
We all know how fun it is to not only enjoy the films for ourselves, but share the experience with our loved ones, too. One of the best ways to make a celebration memorable is by going out to the theater, or having a family movie night. You can sit back, eat a bunch of snacks, laugh and bond with the people you care about.
Movies are a great way for bringing out our emotions and feelings on things, and get conversations going.
It can truly help you connect.

Inspiration
People like me love entertainment of various formats, because the imaginative world is so beautiful and wondrous and it inspires us to be who we are. Films can change one's views or opinions, but to others, it can change a life, such as who we want to be. Peter Jackson himself credits King Kong as his inspiration to be what he is today. (and in turn, PJ helped inspire me!)
While one story or character can be one thing for a person, to another, it can spark ideas within them that encourages them to create. To build. To make something better of this world.
So many people in the past were influenced by eachother's works. Like how Bob Kane was inspired to make Batman after seeing Zorro, one of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions and a movie titled, "The Bat Whispers". Pretty neat, eh?
Our minds work differently. You may see something and not find anything special about it, but to another, it can unlock whole new possibilities.

There are millions of other reasons why films are amazing.
And they're perfectly good ones to justify our passion. Of all the things we have done as the human race, films are one of the greatest achievements. They stick with us and bring us joy. They inspire us and can turn a bad day into an enjoyable one within minutes.
They can change thoughts, possibilities, moods, dreams, careers, anything.
In fact, I'd even go so far as to say they can change the world.
It all depends on the story. On the message.
Who knows? You might be a simple fan, watching Star Wars today, and be traveling through the stars tomorrow.
It doesn't matter what the plot or style of a film is. When it all comes down to it, movies are beautiful.