First Blog Post

     Once upon a time there was no paper, no quills, no pens, no printers—no books.  No video cameras, no film, no televisions, no theaters—no movies.  There was only people.  People with imaginations that ran so wild that stories ran right out of their mouths.  And people listened.  Then those people told other people, and so on and so forth.  Eventually those stories were written down so that more people could hear them.  And now—read them.  Now, many of them have found their way to the big screen.  But have they lost something along the way? This is one of the many questions I intend to explore in this blog.
     I chose stories as the topic for my blog because I love reading, as well as learning about what makes a good story, well, a good story.  Also, when a movie based on a book comes out, I find it really interesting to compare them.  For example, why they took out certain scenes and thought they weren't as important as ones they used in the movie or who they chose to cast as a certain character and why?
     We all live in the commercialized, body-centric world of the entertainment industry.  Movies are all around us.  Movie theaters are everywhere.  And even when all else fails we will always have the internet keeping the movie world alive and well.  That's why people should care about stories, because even though they aren't told the same way as all those years ago, books are still stories.  Movies are still stories.  Our world is still centered around stories to distract us from reality for a little while just as much as they were then.  The only difference being the way they are "told."