i just got home from seeing a movie with my roomates. now that i'm sitting here, reflecting on how many hours of homework i have ahead of me, i'm thinking the movie wasn't such a good idea. but despite that, is the movie i just saw a piece of writing? is any movie a piece of writing? the first day of class we discussed what constitutes as forms of writing...what's the difference between an award winning novel and a webpage address? they both consist of letters, punctuation, words. so does a film. it starts out with a script; words that get read, then memorized, then acted and eventually produced into something that shows the words coming to life. it's debatable because the final product of a movie doesn't seem like it should be considered a piece of writing, yet at the very beginning, that's exactly what it was. so to answer my own question, well, i guess i already did. the chick flick i just watched definatly wasn't Shakespeare, but it was still formed the same way. at the very beginning, that's exactly what it was, a piece of writing.
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