10-28-2012
Economos
Entertainment Mirroring Reality
Humans love to be entertained, especially by stories. If we didn't, we wouldn't have so many forms of this amusement - movies, plays, televisions shows, books. A common theme in our well cherished entertainment is good and evil. It doesn't seem to matter what the genre is, or what era it was created, or who or what the characters are. Whether the guy gets the girls or losses her, the hero saves the day or tragically dies, governments rise or fall, communities begin or end, among other common plots; these events are fundamentally a result of human choices.
In the real world, we don't have things like super heroes and heroines, witches and wizards, or other things shown in modern entertainment. But, ultimately, films, books and television shows mirror real life. Our struggles we face day to day make the characters struggles more relatable. Every choice we make in our personal lives are similar to the choices made by the characters. We love the drama of watching the poor unknowing character's downfall or rise to fame.
A piece of entertainment is not "entertaining" if you don't make some kind of deeper emotional connection with the character. And how do the creators of our entertainment do create this profound connection? Writers make the story relatable, by making it similar to real life. This has been the reason for appeal of our entertainment for centuries.
A piece of entertainment is not "entertaining" if you don't make some kind of deeper emotional connection with the character. And how do the creators of our entertainment do create this profound connection? Writers make the story relatable, by making it similar to real life. This has been the reason for appeal of our entertainment for centuries.
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