Jim Morrison
Smash Authority
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Or so they say.
I love reading. Reading gives me a world of my own to create and give shape to. When the book explains what the surroundings look like, it only stimulates my imagination further. I make things look exactly what I think they should look like.
I love writing just as much. It gives me the oppurtunity to explain what the world looks like to me, to other people. Even more so, I love writing about a person's thoughts. Wether it be a character, me or anyone or anything else. I just love to take a look inside someone's minds and fully know them.
I love watching animated pictures, or movies if you will. It gives me a feeling of comfort to be able to just watch a picture without much thought. However, this makes me extremely lazy and limits my imagination to a near minimum.
Where do these three collide? (two actually, writing isn't really involved.)
When I watch a movie of a book I have read. This is one of the biggest killjoys for me. I haven't had this happen often before, as I'm young and haven't read many books before seeing the animated picture.
The best example I have for this is 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. I read this book (or collection of stories) a few years ago, before the first movie was made. It was one of the best stories I had read (especially the Voyage of the Dawn Trader, but never mind that). Soon, the first Narnia movie came out (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe). Needless to say, I saw the movie. I didn't say A SINGLE WORD while watching. At the end I was so sad. Everything I imagined in the book was null, because the pictures I had seen in real would never go away. (WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN.)
Lucy never looked like such a whiny girl in my imagination, Edmund made me do a :S face. Aslan was a lion? I never imagined him as an ACTUAL LION. I know he is portrayed as a lion, but he was a metaphor to me. (Yes, I know how this is based on Christianity blablabla.) To take my imagination and let it be spoiled by the animated pictures was entirely my fault. I promised myself to NEVER watch a Narnia movie again, to not spoil any further stories.
Now I also had the opposite end of this story. First, I saw the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not too soon after, I found out we have the complete book. I went to read it, which took about a year (I read slow and take my time), and I enjoyed it a great lot. However, I could never imagine things differently than it was in the movies. Frodo was Elijah Woods, Gollem was the... thing he was, etc. The only times where I could use my own imaginations were the parts that were in the book, but not in the movies, like the house of Tom Bombadil and his wife Goldberry. Those parts were also the most beautiful and most impressive parts.
What does this mean to me?
An image spoils your imagination. A thousand words describe something not as accurate as a picture, but they always leave the shape up to you.
Thanks for reading this horribly shaped blog, I hope you can imagine your own view around this. Don't make me include pictures
Or so they say.
I love reading. Reading gives me a world of my own to create and give shape to. When the book explains what the surroundings look like, it only stimulates my imagination further. I make things look exactly what I think they should look like.
I love writing just as much. It gives me the oppurtunity to explain what the world looks like to me, to other people. Even more so, I love writing about a person's thoughts. Wether it be a character, me or anyone or anything else. I just love to take a look inside someone's minds and fully know them.
I love watching animated pictures, or movies if you will. It gives me a feeling of comfort to be able to just watch a picture without much thought. However, this makes me extremely lazy and limits my imagination to a near minimum.
Where do these three collide? (two actually, writing isn't really involved.)
When I watch a movie of a book I have read. This is one of the biggest killjoys for me. I haven't had this happen often before, as I'm young and haven't read many books before seeing the animated picture.
The best example I have for this is 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. I read this book (or collection of stories) a few years ago, before the first movie was made. It was one of the best stories I had read (especially the Voyage of the Dawn Trader, but never mind that). Soon, the first Narnia movie came out (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe). Needless to say, I saw the movie. I didn't say A SINGLE WORD while watching. At the end I was so sad. Everything I imagined in the book was null, because the pictures I had seen in real would never go away. (WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN.)
Lucy never looked like such a whiny girl in my imagination, Edmund made me do a :S face. Aslan was a lion? I never imagined him as an ACTUAL LION. I know he is portrayed as a lion, but he was a metaphor to me. (Yes, I know how this is based on Christianity blablabla.) To take my imagination and let it be spoiled by the animated pictures was entirely my fault. I promised myself to NEVER watch a Narnia movie again, to not spoil any further stories.
Now I also had the opposite end of this story. First, I saw the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not too soon after, I found out we have the complete book. I went to read it, which took about a year (I read slow and take my time), and I enjoyed it a great lot. However, I could never imagine things differently than it was in the movies. Frodo was Elijah Woods, Gollem was the... thing he was, etc. The only times where I could use my own imaginations were the parts that were in the book, but not in the movies, like the house of Tom Bombadil and his wife Goldberry. Those parts were also the most beautiful and most impressive parts.
What does this mean to me?
An image spoils your imagination. A thousand words describe something not as accurate as a picture, but they always leave the shape up to you.
Thanks for reading this horribly shaped blog, I hope you can imagine your own view around this. Don't make me include pictures
