The Quest On A Film
INTRODUCTION
"The best education in film is to make one." - Stanley Kubrick
Aristotle never said it, but it seems that man is a storyteller by nature.
From ancient times to the present, mankind has had a hunger for great stories. Novels, poems, stage plays, films - spanning the whole spectrum from comedy to tragedy - all give evidence of, and serve to satisfy, this hunger.
Something powerful indeed must exist in these forms of entertainment that draws us to them time and time again. Over 2,300 years ago, in The Poetics, Aristotle identified that "something": All art, he says, is imitation of life. "It is natural for man to delight in works of imitation...the reason of the delight...is that one is at the same time learning - gathering the meaning of things."1
Fictional stories are one of the primary means by which man "imitates" the world around him. Through this imitation comes illumination - we may be entertained by the elements of fiction, imagination, or fantasy......
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