Movies are literature.

I would characterize quite a few TV shows and almost all movies as literature. They tell a story. They contain the elements found in written literature. They have their plots, their characters, their settings and themes. Just as you can get lost in a really good book, you can escape into the story told as a movie.

Modern day movies are not unlike those earlier days of plays written by Shakespeare and Chaucer. I wonder what Shakespeare would think of today's movies.

DiaP