So it’s coming up on the two-month anniversary of my last day at work. I confess, I have come a long way. A long way from the hippie credo of my no-tv family.<\/p>\n
There is a lot of choices on my cable network. It took at least a month to be totally sick of everything on TV. At last, I am availing myself of my boyfriend’s DVD library. And when I want to see something in color, the LA library let’s me have them for free.<\/p>\n
So I’ve been watching a lot of movies. The trick to watching movies, for me, is to watch ones that you’ve seen before. Because I just want it on while I’m doing other stuff. Folding laundry, writing, emailing, taping packages.<\/p>\n
But that means I have to see them the first time. So here are the movies I’ve watched lately:<\/p>\n
Meet John Doe
\nNetwork
\nOne Fine Day
\nLust for Life
\nIntruder in the Dust
\nMuppet Movie
\nBabe<\/p>\n
When I list it out like that it seems like a lot. I don’t usually watch that many movies.<\/p>\n
Movies are a lot different from writing on paper. And paper writing is what I’ve been doing. So, I want to appreciate the movies and understand them for what they do.<\/p>\n
I want to understand what they do, so I can learn to do that do, but also to do what only writing can do.<\/p>\n
People are very used to movies, and they expect excellence from them. That’s changed what people expect from books too.<\/p>\n
I think movies show external action, dialogue and visual images very well. Obviously!<\/p>\n
But books can pop open the heads, show the thoughts and the psychology of the characters in a way that movies cannot. And books can carry a scope that is much larger than the two hour time frame of a movie.<\/p>\n
Even if I were the master she was, I can’t write like Jane Austen. Things have changed. The dendrites and synapses of readers have realigned themselves and I have to use a new roadmap.<\/p>\n
It’s exciting, I tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So it’s coming up on the two-month anniversary of my last day at work. I confess, I have come a long way. A long way from the hippie credo of my no-tv family. There is a lot of choices on … Continue reading