EXERCISE: Movies to Words?

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Original Posting 2022/2/12

So, here we go. Take your favorite movie, or maybe put pick a number from one to one hundred and go over here https://www.filmsite.org/momentsindx1.html (although they seem to have them listed in alphabetical order, which makes it hard to pick number 43 out? Oh, well, pick one!) Heck, visit Rotten Tomatoes or one of the other movie review sites, and see what they have that catches your eye and attention.

Then, try writing it up, other as a short story or longer. Remember, one of the fun pieces of translating from film to writing is that these different mediums have rather different strengths. Somehow, you've got to convey the setting, the background music, all that fun and games of film, in words!

Or at the very least, write up a review, and tell people why they should see that favorite movie of yours. What makes it resonate with you?

Then you might consider what you might change, if you were writing that story? After all, people complain all the time about how films change the story when it goes from writing to film, so feel free to make some modifications going the other way, too.

So, lights, camera, action... write!