Creativity

when I driving home with one of my friends, we were listening to an audio book. I forgot what it was called but I remember that in a certain part of the book they talk about how TV is bad and how it doesn’t inspire creativity. I disagreed with this strongly but my friend agreed with it. I told him that watching TV can give you ideas and help you make something new, but he argued that those ideas you get from watching TV are someone else’s idea’s, you’re just copying someone else’s thoughts, because when TV was relatively new and star wars first came out, there wasn’t anything like star wars. There was no spaceship or lightsaber movies or books that the director could rip it off from, he got the idea of star wars through his experiences and by experiencing the world, which made it original. And even though my friend did have a point he didn’t realize that how you got ideas back then has changed. Lucas probably got the idea for star wars by reading comics or reading a book, but he added parts of each thing he read and did to make something new. Now you don’t really need to read, the TV is the virtual book of today, and yes it limits some of your creativity since it shows you what’s happening instead of you imagining it. but just like a comic or a book you can get ideas from a movie and make something new and original, it just depends on how much of an idea from a movie you use.