write a debate speech on the topic (READING BOOKS IS BETTER THAN WATCHING MOVIES) using salutation, opening salutation, countering opponents, arguments & conclusion......
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Nowadays with the development of technology, the film-making industry is growing faster and faster; The Lord of the Rings became the first movie to reach 1 billion dollars profit several year ago and it is still making money. All that wonderful visual effects, soundtracks and excellent actors are making people forget that just about several decades ago, reading fiction is a very popular way of entertaining. Regardless of those fantastic scenes, I belive that reading short stories or novels is more enjoyable since it makes your mind more active and sets your imagination free.
First of all, reading fiction is far more better than watching movies considered your mind’s active degree and that is why it is more interesting. When you watch a movie, everything is just showed right in your eyes and your ears and then siting in a chair is the only thing you have to do. All the sound effects, images, illustration appears in your mind is directed by the film-makers. That is the reason why your mind will become less active; it is like a boy with his hand hold by his mother and certainly he cannot feel a sense of independence. Several years ago, I watch Lord of the Rings film triology and found it very interesting but then I read the original script of Tolkien and found it super interesting. This leads me to a question for myself, should I create the wonderful world by my own or should I sit in a chair and watch the world created by other people in the screen?
Secondly, movies based on fiction definitely cannot describe exactly what the author want the readers to comprehend. The film-making industry has its own limit; for example, a flying dragon made by movies cannot be completely realistic since the movie-making technique is unable to create an imagining dragon in people’mind. I remember the film “Journey to the West” made by China, in which Sun Wukong has to face many monters but the film-making technique in 1980s is so poor that the quality of fight scenes or magic spell are so simple and not very amazing. However, breaking the limit of what eyes and ears can comprehend is whar the imagination does, a dragon exists in our mind is of course more realistic than a computer-based one.
To sum up, reading fiction is more enjoyable than watching movies because watching movies limits your comprehence of the original master pieces they are based on and causes your mind to become passive. The visual effects, violent scenes are just like fast food, make you satisfied one day, vanish from your mind the next.