Word: melodrama
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AIRPLANE!: THE "DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY" EDITION Who remembers Airport, the blockbuster 1970 melodrama (and its three sequels) about imperiled aircraft and frantic air-traffic controllers? It's this 1980 parody that both defined and dented that disaster genre. Writer-directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker (who later profitably spoofed cops in their Police Squad TV show and Naked Gun movie series) set the tone for a generation of movie silliness. Their coolest inspiration: casting "serious" actors, like Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves, who spat out the ludicrous dialogue in flawless deadpan. Bridges: "Looks like I picked...
...whirlwind tour of Spain, as he searches for a way to avoid his old identity and to discover how to live a completely new life.The beauty of the movie is not encased in the plot, which is simple enough. Rather than turn this into high-tension melodrama, complete with mad car chases and imprisonments, Antonioni pares everything down to the most minimalist possible point. The delicious assortment of visual simplicity needs no additional thrills or frills. From his beautiful palette—all blues, beiges and whites—to his painstakingly executed shots—whether of flies buzzing...
...Like Water for Chocolate Home cooking is the sorcery of the oppressed. In this sprawling banquet of a romantic Mexican melodrama, forbidden love finds the recipe for fulfillment -- even if it takes a lifetime and beyond. Screenwriter-novelist Laura Esquivel and her husband, director Alfonso Arau, capture a savory passion that comes straight from the hearth...
...Fazio melodrama comes as Italy--the world's seventh largest economy--continues to struggle with European economic integration. Cross-border bank mergers are common in the euro zone, but not in Italy, where the banking system remains largely a fortress under the eye of the all-powerful central banker. Although Fazio no longer sets the price of money, he has wielded every ounce of his notable clout. His stated goal is for Italian banks to be at the service of Italian businesses. In practice, this has meant keeping foreign firms out. It's a shortsighted view and dangerous: some blame...
...stopped, but I continued on, in a potentially incriminating vein. “While one viewer might watch WWE and see nothing more than a bunch of steroid-addled actors with gender issues, another person could witness the spectacle and see a modern-day burlesque. There’s melodrama, slapstick humor, sexual ambiguity…frankly, Commedia dell’Arte incorporates most of the same elements...