"fantasy" versus "supernatural ghost story"

More importantly, what's the difference between horror and reality television?

The biggest problem with hanging a garden sprinkler from the ceiling to make rain is that on film it looks like someone hung a garden sprinkler from the ceiling, and then your very serious dramatic coup de grace at the end where the dying grandfather holds his dying grandchild up to the rain that is supposed to cure them both -- becomes a comedy.

The grandfather is no longer someone who allowed himself to be seduced by the optimistic allure of this legendary curative healing rain in order to give himself and his grandchild hope, he is instead a man of limited faculties who got bewitched by the unscrupulous wiles of one of those notoriously evil sprinkler salesmen.

I would love to see that movie.

Unless it was a howdunnit. Like how do you get the camera in that small box OR how does atmosphere form in a box so it'll rain OR is the box some form of pornographic inuendo about showers. Steve you've created a conundrum of Paddy Chayevsky-like proportions.

aurora68 wrote: GeneD wrote: aurora68 wrote: Well, I would argue that since the ghost in The Lovely Bones is actually the protagonist, you *wouldn't* have a story. However, another example that would be a clear fantasy, I think, is that Reese Witherspoon/Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy where she's in a coma and her spirit is haunting his apartment -- sorry, can't remember what it's called.   I thought the title was "Really Crappy Reese Witherspoon/Mark Ruffalo Romantic Comedy".  That's what it looks like when it comes on cable in my house.   The ghost in The Lovely Bones is not the protagonist.  The person she was before she was killed is the protagonist.  Well, I didn't say it was a good movie, just that it was a fantasy. As for The Lovely Bones, I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree. At any rate, thank you for a really interesting discussion!