Entertaiment is an experience of pleasure and amusement, although many entertainments have a more serious purpose such as religious festivals, ceremonies, or satire. Activities such as hunting or war may be adapted into spectacles, and competitions like cooking are staged for a global audience. Entertainments can be personalised or customised for any scale from an individual who chooses their own personal private entertainment from a vast array of pre-recorded products to an entire banquet with entertainment adapted to suit the taste and occasion. Entertainments can also cross into different media such as the story of Scheherazade, from the Persian professional storytelling tradition, inspiring orchestral works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel, films by Pasolini, and a new generation of innovative video games.
