Don't be so childish !

I agree that people purchase clothing, material goods and even plastic surgery to look or feel more like the celebrities. And Gabler concerned about they are losing their own lifestyle and identity.

Fashion, architecture, and furnishing are three different ways in which our lives resemble movie. I agree with your answer and author saying. However, it limited only people watching many movies.

I did also agree with Gabler’s assessment, so our thinking is getting follow to movie, and it reflects our real life. People purchase item even though it is folderol for the reason that it was on movie. And they find location appeared in the movie.

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Authored by: Matthew Gentrup
Authored on: Jun 21, 2011 7:53 PM
Subject: Gabler Discussion

1. According to Neal Gabler, in what ways has entertainment "infested" our lives? Why is he concerned about this?
   Entertainment has infested our lives by constantly bombarding us with ideas and notions that we should act & dress like characters found in movies.  We are able to purchase clothing, material goods and even plastic surgery to look or feel more like the celebrities.  Neal Gabler fears that society is losing its own personal identities by becoming puppets of sort when it comes to how society wants to be percieved.
2. Gabler argues that our real lives have come to resemble movies. Identify three different ways in which our lives resemble movies, according to Gabler, and explain your examples.  Garber talks about our real lives resembling movies through several different ways.  One of the ways, the fashion industry, has become over done with the so called designer clothes.   These "costumes" are copied by every company from designer houses to The Gap to Old Navy.  So called  designer clothes can now be bought & worn by most customers.  Themed restaurants or attractions have sprung up also.   These places emulate a restaurant or building  giving the person a feeling of having visited as if they were in the movie.  One example would be the new Harry Potter Village at Universal Studios.  It allows the visitor to feel as if they stepped into the movie by touring Hogwarts or sipping on a butter beer.  Movies also dictate our furnishings in our home.  We purchase appilances or furniture because we want to have the same comforts we see in the films we watch.  We watch a movie that shows that a perfect room has a large screen tv with theater style seating which includes motion from the chairs or couches to we can actually feel what is happening in the movie.
3. Do you agree with Gabler's assessment - that we now shape our lives to follow the patterns or ideals of films?  Support your answer with an explanation and examples.
   I agree with Gabler's assessment.  Our lives are being shaped by many of the movies or television shows that we watch.  Guys watch the movies and want to have the fast cars, the beautiful girlfriends and a great man cave.  Women want the pair of shoes, hairstyle of a celebrity, clothing, a wonderful apartment and the handsome boyfriend.  This then takes away from each of our individual likes & dislikes and takes away our dreams by thinking we want someone elses dreams found in a movie

I agree with you, and I believe you catch what author say and summary it well.

I’ve found your interesting view argument is similar to the chicken and egg debate. And I believe you approach example with freshness.

I agreed with Gabler assessment in my answer, but you are not. I can find your different view in author assessment, and I can agree with you, because I didn’t think of it. Author only talk about happy ending movie, but you say a lots of movie also has traumatizing ending. Yes, it is. However, author say not only talk about ending of movie. Life-style has changed like movie, so we need to wake up from this fantasy. That’s what I think main point in this essay.

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Authored by: Sarah Whalen
Authored on: Jun 21, 2011 10:19 PM
Subject: Gabler Discussion

Gabler has blamed entertainment for affecting our lives in several ways. He starts by addressing the hype media gives to true life melodramas. This effects how we dress, act and even what we use in our daily lives. We start to become whoever is portrayed in our favorite movies and forget to be ourselves even when we are “off stage”. Gabler uncovers our desperate attempts to play the part. Although they become daily goals, he worries we will lose our true purpose in life, perpetual happiness.

The argument that we now shape our lives to movies is similar to the chicken and egg debate. Gabler stands firm on the theory of modern life resembling movies. One way I have seen this proven true is the idea that the love of your life is exactly like Prince Charming as long as you behave like Cinderella. As a result women nitpick at man’s imperfections. Movies also encourage men to pursue women who say no whether it is to over come a challenge satisfying their personal desires. Then there is the idea that every heroic man is muscular and strong internally and externally.

I strongly disagree with Gabler. Examples supporting his case do not proof that entertainment isn’t still depicting life rather than vice versa. Who’s to say our lives have just raised standards for movies and such things? He is generalizing all amusements as having a happy ending, where in my opinion, some of the best fictions have traumatizing endings. The entertainment Gabler suggests is for the simple mind. Yes America has become lazy in pursuing brainteasers; plenty still crave new tantalizing pleasures. The movie Requiem for a Dream shows the sorrows of a mundane lifestyle turned to drug addiction. It tortures the heart while exciting the subconscious mind. I have read The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, Of Mice and Men, and several other classic books for the joy of it. The type of person Gabler describes is a fraction of America, our black sheep who are lazy and just plain stupid.

Author says our lives has been infested, because movie going and television watching has been impregnating the American consciousness with the conventions and esthetics of entertainment. So, until we have become performers we performing our own live out of the shards of movies.

Our lives resemble movies in several things which are clothes, furnishing, accessories and architecture. We wear clothes what movie star wore, and purchasing furniture which were on movie, and build architecture which resemble building which was in movie.

My answer sometimes is no, but yes. Nowadays, people watching many movies yearn life-style like movie; however, it is nearly impossible in reality. People know this well, so they just imitate it, and they are just satisfied.