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37. Dr. Bill Indick, Author of Psychology for Screenwriters

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The Role of Film in Getting Us Back in Touch With Fantasy

When we're kids, fantasy is our sort of natural route of imagination. We take what the little that we understand, and then the rest has to be imagined. But as we grow older...we give up on these fantasy elements of life because they simply don't exist. So a primary role of film is to reconnect us with our own fantasy worlds. What we usually see is a lead character or a group of characters that are children.

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