Exactly what the title says. Do you watch the TV or a movie, and think, wow! that is just what I need to finish off my current piece? (I'm not talking copying completely, but taking bit and pieces).
Sort of. Once, when I was really really little, I saw this weird soap opera with this guy who was caged who said something like, "Daisy is our only hope" and that spurred on a mythology that I made up. Pretty cool, if you think about it. And I know that "Yellow Submarine" inspired me to write for FREAK. But usually it just reminds me subconsciously what I want to do with the story... I take nothing of the plot.
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
I had the rather... interesting experience of getting the inspiration for my last novel effort from Star Wars.
And it was about a schizophrenic assassin-with-a-conscience.
How that clicked in my head, I'll never know.
But like Snoink said, it's a subconscious thing.
"2-4-6-8! I like to delegate!" -Meshugenah "Teague: Stomping on your dreams since 1992." -Sachiko "So I'm looking at FLT and am reminded of a sandwich." -Jabber
Mostly it's just that watching a certain movie might make me want to try a different genre or time period or style or something, but I don't usually get plot ideas from movies. I did when I was younger... although The Four Princesses of Illyria is kind of based off Snow White... so maybe that counts.
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"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
- Dale Carnegie
Yeah, a lot. Don't get me wrong, I never never never take anything directly, but I always have my own take on movies and stuff. For instance--when I watched Aladdin at age 16, I really psycho-analyzed the Genie, and that gave me a starting point for my character Tannar. I like watching stuff, and like the others said, I take a lot subconciously from the experience.
"In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function...We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." ~C.S. Lewis
All the bloody time. Hell, life inspires my writing, come to think of it. Most my poems have been inspired by conversations I've had with friends or just random things I've witnessed.
Ta,
Cal.
Fraser: Stop stealing the blanket. [Diefenbaker whines] Fraser: You're an Arctic Wolf, for God's sake. (Due South)
Hatter: Do I need a reason to help a pretty girl in a very wet dress? (Alice)
Hehe all the time. Particularly BAD movies/tv. Most of the time, I get so angry at the way the script-writer/director/actor(s) handled the concept that I run off to write my own version. I often fall in love with certain characters and cannibalize them for myself too XD I dont plaguarize, but I DO like to poke things, or change things, or tweak a little but just there and see what happens.
Mostly, though, my story ideas come from dreams. In fact, I think all of the major novel ideas that are in my head right now originated as dreams o.o Although I think one of said dreams was inspired by an ancient episode of Relic Hunter, so maybe that counts XD
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Oh dear God yes! But its usually the mundane things like one liners that just have the WHAM of the idea wave hitting the brain wall. But songs are better for me.
Indeed, The best part is when I reread my stuff and see how this thing got mixed with that and this and that thing too. Then I ask myself how on earth I mixed Stargate, Buffy, Smallville, and Gilmore Girls into one story.
"Maybe Senpai ate Yuka-tan's last bon-bon?" ----Stupei, Ace Defective
Yep. I love TV shows and movies. They're stories too, after all. Sometimes they just make me want to write. Like, that was such a great story I just HAVE to go and write my own.
Oh, you're angry! Click your pen.
--Music and Lyrics
TV and Movies don't inspire me... but books usually do. Well.. maybe if there is a really well-written script that I notice... but I can't think of a specific example.
Occasionally...I have this sort of 24/7 subconscious that continually asks my conscious, "what if blah blah did blah blah and the magic law was blah blah in this sort of situation, only with blah blah?" and then I'm off. XD
Occasionally books and movies will do this - usually big epic ones based on works like Lord of the Rings and such. I'm much more likely to be inspired by books or art, though. I think that since literature is sort of in the same medium, my brain channels it more directly - since I'm not only inspired by the imagery and the story and the visuals, but also by the dialogue and rhetorical devices that the author uses, I'm more likely to be moved to write by reading a book or a play.
Occasionally there is that odd movie that makes me ask questions, and when I ask questions I have to answer them. Naturally, the way that I do that is through writing... so if there's a movie that makes my brain hurt, then yes, it is likely that I'll be inspired to write something after watching it.
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