This document discusses how movies can be used as a weapon to influence and mold youth. It notes that the main target is 12-25 year olds and outlines how movies attract viewers through elements like posters, trailers, music and themes. It also examines how movies can mold youth according to their aims by affecting culture and the stories viewers store in their brains, making it hard to separate fact from fiction. Surveys show that by age 18 the average person has watched 8000 acts of violence and 100000 televised murders. The document gives smoking and imitation of WWE wrestling as examples of harmful behaviors that have increased among youth due to movie influence. It concludes that control of the mind and awareness programs are needed to counter the negative effects.

1. Movies
As A
Weapon

2. Table Of Contents
1) Introduction
2) How do movies attracts us?
3) How they mold youth?
4) Blind Imitation
5) Conclusion
Main Target :
Youth
Age group :
12-25

3. Haiku
“Watch , think , judge and conclude
And try not to copy all
They are not as simple as they show us all.”

4. Acrostic poem:
M: movies are radioactive elements
O: omitting
V: visual rays
I: influencing
E: effecting
S: souls and attributes

5. “Movies are the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
• What are movies?
Movies are motion picture .
A movie is an electronic signal of moving graphics, pictures, or text used to
combine a steady stream of images used for entertainment, education,
or other uses.
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6. Why their main target is youth?
Emotional
Not mature
Next generation
Easy to attract
Easy to Mold
Easy to Distract

7. Attractive factors?
Elements
Posters Trailers Music Theme

8. If you want to laugh, if you want to be scared, if you want to
see action and adventure – there are thousands of movies to
pick and watch but motive behind every movie is not to
entertain you or not to inspire you. there are many other
aims behind the creation of a movie which
you have to judge by yourself.
Tip!

9. Molding Us
How movies mold the youth according to their
devastating aims and target?
Factors that
affect us
Agenda of
Writing
Culture Story in our brain
Cant separate
fact from fiction
Stories control us

10. Survey
According to a survey an average child watches 8000 televised murders and 100000
acts of violence before finishing elementary school. The number becomes double
reaching at the age of 18.
8000 Acts of Violence
100000
Televised
Murders

11. Blind Imitation:
“Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.”
It can also be a way for some to live out an imaginary life in a conventional world,
so they blind imitate what they watch, without thinking that its not that simple.

12. Example:
Smoking:
One of the most copied and addictive act spread
through movies is smoking. According to a survey, in last
few years, rate of smoking in youth
increases 40%
and the main reason is movies.

13. Example:
WWE is a professional wrestling television program launched in 1999 in the
United States , and is now being broadcast in different nations and air times.
The WWE shows have very scripted dialogues and outcomes designed for
entertainment meaning the winner of the match has already been
decided before the match even begins.

14. Conclusion
“I think we still have a long way, to really
learn to think.”
• Control your minds.
• Boycott negative movies
• Awareness programs
• Role of parents
• Role of teachers
• Government role

15. Two sides of a coin:
There are always and there always be ‘Two Sides of a Coin’,
similarly there are merits
and demerits of films.
“Select the positive side”