It was once said "There are those who dream and those who live in reality.
But there are also those who transform
one to the other."Authors, directors, choreographers are such visionaries who concoct a storyline using their imaginations and convert them
to reality through medium such as movies, books and dances.
Every dialogue in a movie, and every line in a book is attributed to what the director or author is thinking at that point of time.
If a director decides to make a movie inspired by a real life story, there would be shades of differences from the original story
with a view not to portray reality, but to create something which appeals to the general audience.
So it would be apt to state that media tend to "create" rather than reflect values of a society.Creating - is a form of innovation. A new object originating from creativity attracts immediate attention from critics
and is subject to various forms of scrutiny. Once it passes all those tests, it is carried on as a trend and accepted by society.
Contemporary movies are not meant to portray values which are already relevant in society.
Values and stories which we already know of are disposed as quotidian and dull..
Love triangles, The Butler being the murderer – all are common
elements that build up a very predictable, often boring movie.
Movie makers are tempted to go beyond the horizon, charter unexplored territories that may harbor any form of fresh matter
for us as an audience to experience. This is what attracts a larger crowd- which is also
responsible for better ticket sales."The Butterfly effect" - a movie based on a saying that the entire world is based on a series of events- that the
flutter of a butterfly in one part of the world would be responsible for a hurricane in the other- was acclaimed by critics
of having an original storyline with the sudden twists in the plot that keep us on the edge of our seats.Though it has a riveting story, it also has graphic scenes which were never seen before in previous movies.
These scenes however gruesome, are integral to the excitement the movie delivered.
What moviemakers do not foresee is the impact of such elements on society.
Authors and Directors both generally take us for a ride deep into the depths of their own minds and leave us
drowning in thought, pondering over the plot they devised.
It would be easy to compare this entire media-viewer relationship to the Pied Piper of Hamelen
playing his flute melliflously and thereby alluring us city-rats out of our homes.