Jim Morrison said it best when he said “film spectators are quiet vampires.” Go into a movie theater, sit in one of the front seats, and look behind you. People sit and joking happily with their friends, eating snacks and popcorn, and perhaps discussing the film that they will soon be watching. Wait for the lights to go down and hear the incessant chatter fade like someone has the volume control. Turn back around and look at the spectators. Silent. Expectant. Ready to take in the film that is about to be presented to them.
What is it that draws people to the films? Perhaps the stories or the characters? The visual things like the explosions or wonderful colors? The music? The actors themselves? It may be different for various people, but the fact still remains that they keep going back, keep watching the films. The art of film is an art that will never die. And since it is always here, always present, it would be foolish to avoid the celluloid.
Kaylin is a student at Virginia Commonwealth University who is majoring in English and who, among other things, is fascinated and obsessed with the art of the celluloid. It has been her interest since she was a child who use to watch films with her mother, a former theater major who worked on low-budget films before she turned to nursing. Her mother’s taste and knowledge of film led her to college courses about film and it was a snowball effect from then on. She became more immersed in film and hopes to one day write screenplays for films. She hopes her blog is informative as well as entertaining.
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