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<blockquote>Renee James &quot;How Movies . . .&quot; wrote:

I was just thinking about this topic the other day as I watched "Three Women" by Robert Altman.&nbsp; I loved the ending of that movie, which relied on an unpredictable and totally unrealistic and inexplicable switch, but I thought how hard that would be to write effectively.&nbsp; That movie depended so much on the emotions created by visual imagery -- and while you can "write" visual imagery, it's not just quite the same as seeing it.&nbsp;

As Renee notes, the characters and plot of a movie are only half realized by script and then the actors, music, cameras shots etc. take up the slack.&nbsp; I have never tried using the plot and characters of a movie to write a story, but I have been inspired by specific movie images in my writing, and I sometimes adapt image-driven folktales which also requires one to flesh out plot and character. I'd like to experiment with movies, specifically switching plot and characters&nbsp; relationships at the ending as Altman did in "Three Women."
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