Many people say that movies and TV programs affect us negatively while others say that they are two influential and useful media for us. How do movies and TV affect us?

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life is based on real life,” they say. But how far it is true is left to the judgment of the individual’s intelligence. The impact that movies and

television

have on our lives can never be over-emphasized. Nowadays

television

and movies are the only sources to keep in pace with the latest trend in the global environment. Every part of our lifestyle is somehow influenced by what we see on the

television

or in movies. The advent of the motion picture has been one of the greatest influences of the cultural activities of the humankind. It does not require great intelligence to ascertain

this

fact. If we just give a glance to see hanging or posted on the walls are the photos of our favourite celebrities from the tinsel world, mounted on the table are things from our favourite T. V. Show, the music blaring out of the system of the latest excuses for musical excellence, in your wardrobe are outfits

last

seen on our favourite stars, the hair cream, shampoo, paste, and what not, the list is endless.

This

does not stop with just what we wear and own it

also

extends to the way we behave in our peer group. Some time back, my friend and I were at the cafeteria near our college when we are suddenly mobbed by a group of students who were dressed up as people straight out of a prehistoric age. They were carrying contraptions that resembled like weapons of a battlefield, which made us wonder whether they were struck in a time warp. And what followed actually bemused us completely, the group started speaking to each other in a very laborious, slow manner in a language which sounded nothing of

this

world. My friend and I were not able to understand a single word of it, we left that day with a really confused mind and were in the same state for quite some time. But it all ended on the day we decided to watch the movie “Lord of the Rings” Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. K.

Tolkiem’s

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novel of early 1900s. We understood the costumes and the weapons were the film’s souvenir collectibles, and the language they spoke was that of the elves originally created by the great author.

Thus

we see people talking about ‘molecular

disintegrators’

break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity

disintegrates

, ‘laser swords’, ‘elves’, ‘hobbits’ etc., and

also

tend to act and perform like what they have seen in movies and

television

. We

also

see that big FMCG companies bringing in

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new

products

inline

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in line

with the latest movies. There are several institutions, which glorify

such

attitude. Those who dare to ignore are considered archaic and become the butt of all jokes.

This

can be easily acknowledged by the fact the

elves

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elf

language has already been recognized as part an official curriculum in a British university.

Thus

the line between real and reel life is fast becoming a blurred one. The whole

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

and cultural activity of the human race is left to the mercy of the

next

big

moviemaker

.