When I read this article, I noticed a very important question that individuals should ask themselves… Does Hollywood observe society and merely recreate it on film? Or do the media lead society and, over time, change it?
In my opinion, I believe Hollywood does both. There is no television show, movie or song that doesn’t have some type of example that it was created from. Dick Rolfe, movie and television specialist said, “When you spend that much time watching something, you have just developed new role models and a new window on life. And I think that's the destructive value of some television and movies, viewers get the wrong impression and a distorted view of what life is really like.”
However, Hollywood had to get their ideas from somewhere or someone. Yes people have creative and imaginary thoughts, ideas and creations but a lot of times producers, artists and celebrities are just reenacting what they've seen people do.
On the contrary, I feel that Hollywood goes too far with merely trying to reenact society with trying to influence. I understand that, yes, Hollywood observes society and recreates it on film, but at the same time I feel that instead of trying to teach individuals a lesson, they make things seem like it’s cool such as: trying to look like celebrities, fighting, being sexually promiscuous etc. That’s where I feel that media leads society because they make it seem like nothing is wrong with those things and “everyone is doing it.” So, by us being such an easily influenced society we feed off of the media and choose to do what we see in the media.
I propose the same question to you. Does Hollywood observe society and merely recreate it on film? Or do the media lead society and, over time, change it?
I propose the same question to you. Does Hollywood observe society and merely recreate it on film? Or do the media lead society and, over time, change it?
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