Do you think movies imitate real life or rather real life imitates the movies?

Answer 1

If film making and film watching is considered to be just two sides of the same coin then I can say that this is an attempt by human mind to reach up to the fantastic realities of our existence. Movies are made when a thought, an idea or a concept is heightened to it maximum and fabricated in form of a story line that we in turn can relate with.

This is an art of aggrandisement of human condition and human existence for human condition and human existence where focus is all that is there. Within that focal point the dramas of human hear, mind and souls are played – what is unexplored and innate is brought to the open, realised and familiarised. The two-way relation is unbreakable and essential for the production of good movies. These heightened experiences are different for different people. For an individual person a movies can be inspirational and life changing, but for the human society as the collective the effects can gradual and trend setting on the long run.

Answer 2

Movies imitate real life because the writers take ideas they get from everyday life and apply it to movies. Real life cannot imitate movies since it is not a single entity like a movie is.

Answer 3

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

Answer 4

It can go both ways... Art generally imitates life, but there have been times where things have happened, and it seems to directly derive from art. Look at Star Trek, and Star Wars where there are tecnologies that were only a dream (at the time of making). But some of the things basically exist. Personal communicators without wires = cell phones, and cordless phones. We can "transmit" informationfrom from one end of the world to the other in a flash, the same with communicating with people in space... These movies were made to imatate life, but have greatly influenced our lifes.
CyberNara

Answer 5

The original idea was for movies to imitate real life, so that people could identify with them. But nowadays people imitate what they see in the movies, so I guess it is balanced, movies imitate life, whilst life imitates movies.....
Hope you understand what I'm trying to say :D

Answer 6

No serious screenwriter or author actually believes that their art reflects actual life. Real life is boring, mundane, and not entertaining. What they do is take fantastic events that are not likely to happen and try to make us take the leap that, yes, this absolutely could happen. It is the desire that movies (books too) be real that makes some people think that they imitate real life or vice versa.

Answer 7

I think the question that these people that you are complaining about are asking what motivates these types of relationships and are these people skilled by each other.They wonder how this World came out like this,most are probably old or disabled and can't get out enough to see the real World.The World has changed a lot and its a big change to swallow.I feel like I was in a coma and woke up to a horrible living nightmare and I most cope and get along with these abnormal dangerous people.I was always taught that perverse people were dangerous and crazy.

Answer 8

If films didn't reflect real-life, in a major way, no one would watch them.

Even the most fantastic story, with the most alien aliens has to show people acting and reacting in very human ways. The characters, on screen, have to live, love, laugh and cry as real people do.

In other words, even most villans have to have humanity in them, and the larger than life has to have his flaws. If they don't, the audience will not feel engaged in what's happening on screen. The most boring stories are those that are entirely one sided.

Even two dimensional animated characters must have some depth if they want to reach any but the youngest audience.

Regarding the other half of the question, I don't believe films influence our lives much more than as temporary distractions. As far as influincing behaviors, anyone MUST recognize that such instances are very, VERY rare.

In other words, not that many kids really tied on a bath towel and jumped off of buildings, pretending to be Superman. And not many people turned into psychopathic killers just because they saw one in a movie.

Drunks and nutcases do stupid things, like drive real fast, lay down on a freeway and ride down a steep hill in a shopping cart.

But not most people.

Answer 9

I think that the movie makers are doing their best to REFLECT real life rather than imitate it...kinda answers the second part of your question at the same time don't you think?

Answer 10

that's kind of a stupid question.

if "real life" is "real," how could it imitate anything?

life is what it is. it doesnt imitate anything. do certain individuals imitate the movies, or model their lives around movies? sure. but that doesn't mean that life itself does.

movies are man-made, so of course they imitate whatever the creator wants them to imitate.