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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Daily Cascade #1094322 added July 29, 2025 at 12:10pm
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About Movies and Me
Prompt: Movies
Do you like movies, writing for movies, and movie-making? If one of your stories could become a movie, which one would it be? And/or if re-telling a movie from a different perspective became popular, what movie would you like to be retold?
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I haven't been to the movies in at least a couple of decades. I used to love, no cross that, adore movies. I guess our watching movies, over time, turned to watching movies on TV and that to me became like taking a cold shower on a freezing day, as all the magic was gone.
I mean, the magic of the movie-houses, running into friends there, and enjoying the show with a huge room of people, and then, at the end, on our way out, conversing with those total strangers and exchanging remarks on what we felt about what we just watched. Maybe, it was the old movie-going thing that hooked and entertained me the most.
As to the movies itself, no I never even thought about writing for movies or movie-making. But if any of my fiction could be made into a movie, I'd probably pick a short story because novels lose a lot when made into a movie. I just checked my port, since I haven't been writing serious fiction for some time, and came up with "Fox Hunt"  . Why? Because that story has holes that an adventurous movie maker can fill up, to his liking. 
Surely, a screenplay will have to be written first. A screenplay does what a story does but with more dialogue, structure, rhythm, and visuals, where every scene, every line of dialogue must serve a purpose. Then would come the collaboration with a team of artists, including directors, actors, cinematographers, and editors, who will bring the story to life.
As to re-telling an existing movie, I can think of so many. But for the sake of brevity, I'm choosing "The Day the Earth Stood Still" a 1951 movie, only because we need that alien right now here on earth.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456
In this movie, an alien shows up in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed because the way things are, they are a danger to other planets.
How to improve that? Well, I'll have to say, although I know so very little about movie-making, a more impressive visual spaceship would help. Also, I wouldn't make the alien "from Mars" but from some far outer-space place, especially in tandem with Nasa's newest discoveries and other space telescopes and Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes.
Plus, a better, more relatable robot would be a good start. Then, the action and the scenery could be made livelier and more interesting with the new techniques, but without letting the characters and the ideas behind the story lose their life-like elements. More importantly, the film's message about humanity's self-destructive tendencies could be explored with greater urgency and depth, given the current environmental and political climate.
In fact, writing and making movies takes an immense effort, patience, and imagination. When this is done well, such movies can become a kind of magic to which we can all relate.
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