180. Why movies are so popular all over the world?

Movies are popular all over the world. Explain why movies are so popular. Use reasons and specific

examples to support your answer.

『分析』

人们喜欢电影是因为：

• 电影能够满足人们的幻想

• 电影能使满足人们的好奇(了解其他国家的很多事情[183])

• 电影是最经济的娱乐手段(金钱上、精力上[127])

参见：范文

相关题目：[127]、[183]

『范文』

One of the most popular pastimes today is movie-going. With what started as moving-picture shows has

dramatically developed into an industry that spends millions upon millions of dollars while still turning a gigantic

profit.

Movies are so popular because they are the most fascinating and easiest escape means from increasing

pressure, which comes from family, school, working place, society, and so many other directions. Combined with

acoustic and visual effect, movies are definitely more appealing for audiences who have exhausted themselves in

the real world than are those printed novels. It must have been much easier to see a movie than to read a novel,

since all the audience should do is simply to sit there in a soft chair in the dark about 150 minutes. Captured,

involved, the audience in a movie theater will forget everything but the story in action on the screen.

Movies have magic power to let people immerse themselves in fiction. The point is that almost everyone long

for the power of snapping his/her fingers and seeing his/her wishes and dreams instantly granted. Everyone long

for eternity of love, many idealize about it but now in the theater it's time to "feel" it. Every move the character

makes, every breath the character takes, all seem to happen around, and clearly sensible. On the screen, no entire

life needed, movies illustrate all aspects of love we can imagine: all aspects of love, from the mushy warm and

fuzzy feelings we feel with our children and companion animals, to platonic love we have with friends and

acquaintances, to the romantic soul mate kind of love, to the agape kind of unconditional love, it's the full gamut.

Dramas are created in order for us to play out different sides of ourselves.

In short, movies are so popular because many can escape into the world of fantasy and live vicariously

through the characters and in doing so, work out different feelings and emotions that they may not have the

opportunity to do in their "normal" lives.