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THE ART OF SOUND PICTURES
The writer all too readily believes that people all over the world like what he likes and want what he wants in fiction. His first — and sometimes hardest — lesson is to unlearn this.
The limitations of the average man furnish the picture writer with his greatest opportunities.
The average man is not imaginative. His free fantasy is feeble indeed. So the writer lends him a richer and fairer one.
The average man cannot think clearly about many things. He would like to, but lacks native ability as well as wealth of experience. So the writer does his thinking for him.
The average man seldom knows what he wants. He usually imagines that he does, but he is forever being disappointed. When he gets the things he thinks he has wanted, he finds them unsatisfactory. So the writer clarifies his wishes and sometimes supplies the objects of desire, at least in dream form.
The average man cannot express himself well. His vocabulary is meager and clumsy. His opinions — such as they are — rarely come out in phrases that seem quite right to him. So the writer becomes his spokesman.
All this often seems dull to the highly imaginative writer. He would prefer to go riding on the wings of his own fantasy. And, if he is vastly more imaginative and mentally active than the larger motion picture public, he may miss the higher success of a rival whose mind moves more nearly in step with that of the average man and woman.
Most writers who aspire to the screen have been trained in the W'ays of literary work or journalism. This