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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#942138 added September 28, 2018 at 8:06pm
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Good Literature and Movies
Prompt: We've all watched movies at some point or another. Have you ever studied a movie from a writer’s point of view and broke the movie down? With this in mind, what two aspects make it a film versus a book? What's your favorite movie? Why? Remember we're looking at this discussion from a writer's eye.

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I neither like nor watch movies all that much anymore. I am foremost a reader, always.

There was a time, though, when we went to the movies every week, which I am talking about a few decades ago. Among my favorite movies of long ago are Casablanca and Dr. Zhivago, and if I jiggle my memory more, I may come up with several others.

I don’t think I have studied a movie from a writer’s point of view, except for Casablanca, and I am sure what I liked was the direction, filming, and the actors. This is because between the movies and books huge differences exist.

If I read any book, I don’t want to see its movie because I expect to be disappointed, for I know how most movie makers mess up perfectly good books. On the other hand, they usually do better if they adapt a short story to a movie. Yentl comes to mind in this category.

Then, if I see a movie, I stay away from reading the book as chances are I’ll be upset at how the movie industry messes up perfectly good art. Among the good books I read that they made a movie of is Emma Donoghue’s Room. I have refused to see that movie because I loved the book.

Most of the time, in my opinion, when people adore a movie, it is the actors’ perfection they take notice, not the script or the original book. For example, Tender Mercies, Terms of Endearment, and Steel Magnolias were the movies I loved when I first watched them. I will not read them now in book form, after watching them as films, even if some of them were novels first.


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