Lights! Camera! Action!
Welcome to wonder world where impossible is nothing. We sit dazed and watch the performers do superhuman acts, which were next to impossible.
Before we go ahead, let’s shed some light on the word Theater/theatre. In The Queen’s English ‘theatre stands for place where plays are staged. Theater is more famous as cinema. In the now more famous and adopted form of English i.e American English, the word theater can mean either.
We could in a way say that theater is an ancestor of our present day cinema. One of the greats of theater in my opinion is W. Shakesphere. Oh! Don’t worry I’m not going to bore anyone or myself with Shakespere’s works. No offenses meant but personally I don’t understand any his works. During my high school days, his works were forced on me as a part of syllabus. (Thank god my scores weren’t affected.). I mean, thou cometh, blah-blah... how can this be understood by anyone. No wonder they call him a genius.
Ok now back to our cinemas/movies as you may wish to call them. We could associate movies with fun & frolic, magic, fantasy, fiction so on and so forth. In any language, a movie is made to capture the imagination of the viewers. To understand a movie you need not be an expert in that language or understand every word said to get the central idea.
From English to Hindi, French to Tamil, you name it, in every language the person in the lead role, most of the times, does almost next to impossible tasks. Especially towards the end, when he beats the bad guys blue black. Hey one more thing that I missed mentioning till now. He does all this barehanded when the bad guys have complex ammos. Oh! And yes of course he is out numbered 1- 100. Need I mention that too! Some of you movie buffs would point out movies like terminator, Rambo, Robocop, et all were not barehanded fights. Ok, fine, every rule has an exception.
Let’s come to the point as to why he fights the bad guy. Don’t be so naïve, to save the beautiful damsel in distress. And finally the movie say 99.9998877999% has a ‘and they lived happily ever after’ ending. Can’t we accept the disappointments life throws at us? Oh now don’t say Titanic was not a happy ending… The hero dies; heroine lives a full life or the vice versa. Yes I’m talking of such things. They should be more in number. Per-say the hero dies fighting the bad guy the heroine lives long to tell her story…
Ok coming to the point of aliens in movies, why do we have to make them so dumb looking? Yes, we haven’t seen an alien till date but we can do without the dumb looking tentacles & huge size. After all size doesn’t matter? Ok It does in the right place & at right time. How is it possible for a common man to break thru alien code when the world’s top guys couldn’t? Ok here comes the best part. This guy plants a simple virus into a more advanced system than ours; this virus is so strong that it can bring the whole alien system down!
Let’s move on… coming to point of shipwrecks; why is it that a guy & girl are always the ones who happen to survive? Can’t it be an old couple for a change? Ok whoever survives why do they always get stranded on a remote island, not even on the world map? If there happens to be a tribe, why is there always a guy who knows a common language? Can’t we have some fun? Like killing the guy & gal gets married to big bad chief of tribe and they lived happily ever after? Uh?
If there are two foreigners in a movie why should they always speak in common language in front of people & suddenly change to common language that accidentally happens to be the language in which the movie is?
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