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This happened just last night… as it goes…
One of my housemates and I popped down to the offy, grabbed a few bottles of Ernst, popped into Blockbusters for a vid, and had a pizza delivered…
(Speaking of which, I’ve really tried to dislike Blockbuster, they are a fairly nasty large international company, they only really stock recent stuff, and then they fill the shelves with same movie… The problem is that local video shops are by and large so crap that I cant help thinking Blockbuster are the better alternative?) … Anyway…
So the pizzas came, we exchanged slices, uncorked the wine, stuck the video in and started it playing…
About half way through the previews, my other housemate came back from a couple of after work drinks… (Fortunately she had been wise enough to arrive home bearing home her own bottle of wine)…
So were having a bit of a chat through the rest of the previews, up until the point where British Board of Film Classification title comes up and the film begins…
Wherein I promptly stop talking, half way through a sentence, and start watching the movie…
Somewhat perturbed, but in no way put off, my two housemates continue to chat (although shifting into the beginning of the end of conversation chatter)…
Wherein, I remind them that the film is starting, and that talking isn’t always the best aid when attempting to follow the movies plot…
To which, one of my housemates responds that I doing that thing that all guys do when watching a movie… Requiring that the lights be turned low or off, having to watch the movie right from the beginning to end with no chatting, etc.. Attempting to attain the maximum environment for movie watching, and then, even at the very start of the movie, giving the film my complete attention.
Thing is, up until now I thought it was just me … although Id watched vids with male friends before, because they followed the same pattern of actions, I’d never noticed…
I do, always prepare for watching a movie… Now, If I’ve popped round to someone’s house, and a movies started half an hour before, I’ll still happily sit down and watch the rest of the flick from where I cam in… But if I’m at home, and I’ve hired a couple of vids, then I like to get into film watching mode…
Now, my point here isn’t to ask why women seem to prefer to talk and watch, whereas men apply all their attention to the movie. That would be pure folly; there a 6 billion people doing their thing at the moment, and a gross sweeping generalisation like that would be pointless…
What I was curious about was why people like stories so much.
Whether they be in films, or books, or theatre, or computer games, of wherever, stories, even those that have been floating around for a few thousand years, are BIG business…
Despite the technological leaps forward we make, we still spend much of our hard earned, on modern versions of the same stuff that interested our ancient ancestors used to enjoy all that time ago…
It would probably be a good idea to point out that I’m not attempting to deride stories or story telling. Enjoying as I do a wide range of entertainment formats, and intending as I do, to do so for a very long time to come… It’s just, what keeps us fascinated in stories, adventure, epics that directly hold very little t our own lives?
I find the most common explanation to be that of escapism. And, for may aspects that area can easily be seen… But surly that wouldn’t be enough to keep us coming back again and again, spending so much of our money, to suspend out disbelief on ideas and concepts often uncomfortable to us?
Why Do We Like Stories?
One of my housemates and I popped down to the offy, grabbed a few bottles of Ernst, popped into Blockbusters for a vid, and had a pizza delivered…
(Speaking of which, I’ve really tried to dislike Blockbuster, they are a fairly nasty large international company, they only really stock recent stuff, and then they fill the shelves with same movie… The problem is that local video shops are by and large so crap that I cant help thinking Blockbuster are the better alternative?) … Anyway…
So the pizzas came, we exchanged slices, uncorked the wine, stuck the video in and started it playing…
About half way through the previews, my other housemate came back from a couple of after work drinks… (Fortunately she had been wise enough to arrive home bearing home her own bottle of wine)…
So were having a bit of a chat through the rest of the previews, up until the point where British Board of Film Classification title comes up and the film begins…
Wherein I promptly stop talking, half way through a sentence, and start watching the movie…
Somewhat perturbed, but in no way put off, my two housemates continue to chat (although shifting into the beginning of the end of conversation chatter)…
Wherein, I remind them that the film is starting, and that talking isn’t always the best aid when attempting to follow the movies plot…
To which, one of my housemates responds that I doing that thing that all guys do when watching a movie… Requiring that the lights be turned low or off, having to watch the movie right from the beginning to end with no chatting, etc.. Attempting to attain the maximum environment for movie watching, and then, even at the very start of the movie, giving the film my complete attention.
Thing is, up until now I thought it was just me … although Id watched vids with male friends before, because they followed the same pattern of actions, I’d never noticed…
I do, always prepare for watching a movie… Now, If I’ve popped round to someone’s house, and a movies started half an hour before, I’ll still happily sit down and watch the rest of the flick from where I cam in… But if I’m at home, and I’ve hired a couple of vids, then I like to get into film watching mode…
Now, my point here isn’t to ask why women seem to prefer to talk and watch, whereas men apply all their attention to the movie. That would be pure folly; there a 6 billion people doing their thing at the moment, and a gross sweeping generalisation like that would be pointless…
What I was curious about was why people like stories so much.
Whether they be in films, or books, or theatre, or computer games, of wherever, stories, even those that have been floating around for a few thousand years, are BIG business…
Despite the technological leaps forward we make, we still spend much of our hard earned, on modern versions of the same stuff that interested our ancient ancestors used to enjoy all that time ago…
It would probably be a good idea to point out that I’m not attempting to deride stories or story telling. Enjoying as I do a wide range of entertainment formats, and intending as I do, to do so for a very long time to come… It’s just, what keeps us fascinated in stories, adventure, epics that directly hold very little t our own lives?
I find the most common explanation to be that of escapism. And, for may aspects that area can easily be seen… But surly that wouldn’t be enough to keep us coming back again and again, spending so much of our money, to suspend out disbelief on ideas and concepts often uncomfortable to us?
Why Do We Like Stories?
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Well I liked reading this 'story', so it's not just fiction either.....
This happened just last night… as it goes…
One of my housemates and I popped down to the offy, grabbed a few bottles of Ernst, popped into Blockbusters for a vid, and had a pizza delivered…
(Speaking of which, I’ve really tried to dislike Blockbuster, they are a fairly nasty large international company, they only really stock recent stuff, and then they fill the shelves with same movie… The problem is that local video shops are by and large so crap that I cant help thinking Blockbuster are the better alternative?) … Anyway…
So the pizzas came, we exchanged slices, uncorked the wine, stuck the video in and started it playing…
About half way through the previews, my other housemate came back from a couple of after work drinks… (Fortunately she had been wise enough to arrive home bearing home her own bottle of wine)…
So were having a bit of a chat through the rest of the previews, up until the point where British Board of Film Classification title comes up and the film begins…
Wherein I promptly stop talking, half way through a sentence, and start watching the movie…
Somewhat perturbed, but in no way put off, my two housemates continue to chat (although shifting into the beginning of the end of conversation chatter)…
Wherein, I remind them that the film is starting, and that talking isn’t always the best aid when attempting to follow the movies plot…
To which, one of my housemates responds that I doing that thing that all guys do when watching a movie… Requiring that the lights be turned low or off, having to watch the movie right from the beginning to end with no chatting, etc.. Attempting to attain the maximum environment for movie watching, and then, even at the very start of the movie, giving the film my complete attention.
Thing is, up until now I thought it was just me … although Id watched vids with male friends before, because they followed the same pattern of actions, I’d never noticed…
I do, always prepare for watching a movie… Now, If I’ve popped round to someone’s house, and a movies started half an hour before, I’ll still happily sit down and watch the rest of the flick from where I cam in… But if I’m at home, and I’ve hired a couple of vids, then I like to get into film watching mode…
Now, my point here isn’t to ask why women seem to prefer to talk and watch, whereas men apply all their attention to the movie. That would be pure folly; there a 6 billion people doing their thing at the moment, and a gross sweeping generalisation like that would be pointless…
What I was curious about was why people like stories so much.
Whether they be in films, or books, or theatre, or computer games, of wherever, stories, even those that have been floating around for a few thousand years, are BIG business…
Despite the technological leaps forward we make, we still spend much of our hard earned, on modern versions of the same stuff that interested our ancient ancestors used to enjoy all that time ago…
It would probably be a good idea to point out that I’m not attempting to deride stories or story telling. Enjoying as I do a wide range of entertainment formats, and intending as I do, to do so for a very long time to come… It’s just, what keeps us fascinated in stories, adventure, epics that directly hold very little t our own lives?
I find the most common explanation to be that of escapism. And, for may aspects that area can easily be seen… But surly that wouldn’t be enough to keep us coming back again and again, spending so much of our money, to suspend out disbelief on ideas and concepts often uncomfortable to us?
Why Do We Like Stories?
One of my housemates and I popped down to the offy, grabbed a few bottles of Ernst, popped into Blockbusters for a vid, and had a pizza delivered…
(Speaking of which, I’ve really tried to dislike Blockbuster, they are a fairly nasty large international company, they only really stock recent stuff, and then they fill the shelves with same movie… The problem is that local video shops are by and large so crap that I cant help thinking Blockbuster are the better alternative?) … Anyway…
So the pizzas came, we exchanged slices, uncorked the wine, stuck the video in and started it playing…
About half way through the previews, my other housemate came back from a couple of after work drinks… (Fortunately she had been wise enough to arrive home bearing home her own bottle of wine)…
So were having a bit of a chat through the rest of the previews, up until the point where British Board of Film Classification title comes up and the film begins…
Wherein I promptly stop talking, half way through a sentence, and start watching the movie…
Somewhat perturbed, but in no way put off, my two housemates continue to chat (although shifting into the beginning of the end of conversation chatter)…
Wherein, I remind them that the film is starting, and that talking isn’t always the best aid when attempting to follow the movies plot…
To which, one of my housemates responds that I doing that thing that all guys do when watching a movie… Requiring that the lights be turned low or off, having to watch the movie right from the beginning to end with no chatting, etc.. Attempting to attain the maximum environment for movie watching, and then, even at the very start of the movie, giving the film my complete attention.
Thing is, up until now I thought it was just me … although Id watched vids with male friends before, because they followed the same pattern of actions, I’d never noticed…
I do, always prepare for watching a movie… Now, If I’ve popped round to someone’s house, and a movies started half an hour before, I’ll still happily sit down and watch the rest of the flick from where I cam in… But if I’m at home, and I’ve hired a couple of vids, then I like to get into film watching mode…
Now, my point here isn’t to ask why women seem to prefer to talk and watch, whereas men apply all their attention to the movie. That would be pure folly; there a 6 billion people doing their thing at the moment, and a gross sweeping generalisation like that would be pointless…
What I was curious about was why people like stories so much.
Whether they be in films, or books, or theatre, or computer games, of wherever, stories, even those that have been floating around for a few thousand years, are BIG business…
Despite the technological leaps forward we make, we still spend much of our hard earned, on modern versions of the same stuff that interested our ancient ancestors used to enjoy all that time ago…
It would probably be a good idea to point out that I’m not attempting to deride stories or story telling. Enjoying as I do a wide range of entertainment formats, and intending as I do, to do so for a very long time to come… It’s just, what keeps us fascinated in stories, adventure, epics that directly hold very little t our own lives?
I find the most common explanation to be that of escapism. And, for may aspects that area can easily be seen… But surly that wouldn’t be enough to keep us coming back again and again, spending so much of our money, to suspend out disbelief on ideas and concepts often uncomfortable to us?
Why Do We Like Stories?
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