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Film is considered to have its own language. James Monaco wrote a classic text on film theory, titled "How to Read a Film," that addresses this. Director Ingmar Bergman famously said, "Andrei Tarkovsky for me is the greatest director, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream." An example of the language is a sequence of back and forth images of one speaking actor's left profile, followed by another speaking actor's right profile, then a repetition of this, which is a language understood by the audience to indicate a conversation. This describes another theory of film, the 180-degree rule, as a visual story-telling device with an ability to place a viewer in a context of being psychologically present through the use of visual composition and editing. The "Hollywood style" includes this narrative theory, due to the overwhelming practice of the rule by movie studios based in Hollywood, California, during film's classical era. Another example of cinematic language is having a shot that zooms in on the forehead of an actor with an expression of silent reflection that cuts to a shot of a younger actor who vaguely resembles the first actor, indicating that the first person is remembering a past self, an edit of compositions that causes a time transition. Screenplay is also another type of cinematic writing. It will create a rhythm as well as highlight characterisation. This to help the reader imagine how the film will feel so that they can be more in tune with it. The way that the scenes in a movie interact with each other is probably the most important thing that distinguishes film from other mediums, like theater. It allows the filmmaker to tell the story in the exact way they want to by arranging the scenes to their convenience. The most important thing to remember when writing to be more cinematic is to be fully aware of the form you’re writing for.