Word: melodrama
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...Fistful of Dollars, the perfect western, is without suspense--there's not a who-dunnit, what's-happening-baby minute in it. Sergio Leone doesn't let melodrama disturb his intimacy with an object or an actor's gesture...
...Covenant with Death. Some people think character is an old-fashioned word. In this seemingly modest melodrama, Director Lament Johnson ambitiously attempts to bring the word up to date-to say what is wrong with an all-too-average American male, and what he has to do to make himself...
Like Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, Antonioni feels that violence is an integral part of contemporary society and cannot be ignored. His photographer, like Hitchcock's, is brought back to reality by means of melodrama: waiting for the owner of a junk shop he wants to buy, the photographer wanders through a nearby park. Ignoring a bizarre fat lady that 99 out of 100 photographers would have snapped without thinking twice, he photographs pigeons instead, then two lovers kissing. The girl sees him and pleads with him to give her the roll of film. Unsuccessful, she follows him to his studio...
This characteristic infelicity of image and language shows how Poet-Translator W. S. Merwin has diluted Lorca's intense lyricism, which in Spanish almost sustains the play. Having no place to go, the play capsizes into melodrama, with Yerma strangling her husband to death in the last scene...
HOGAN'S GOAT. The poetry is purplish, the melodrama mauve, but William Alfred paints a colorful canvas of the deeds and misdeeds of Irish politicians in Brooklyn at the turn of the century...