Word: melodrama
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Monsoon Wedding isn’t a subtle film. It is, instead, melodrama at its glorious and exuberant best: When the screen isn’t drenched with the torrential rain of monsoon season, it is saturated in a kaleidoscopic array of color. Characters are often familiar stock players of the wedding film genre and the film’s frenetic energy levels are maintained by a joyfully upbeat score that intrudes upon even the most intimate and contemplative of scenes...
...portray Laura simply as a one-dimensional vixen and the Captain as a hapless victim would sink the play into a facile exercise of melodrama. Instead, the two actors find an ideal balance between the multiple facets of their characters and their interactions. Gowl’s Laura is manipulative, but she also shows the vulnerability and intelligence spurring her motives...
...Gene Kelly were around today (he died in 1996), he might find this poignant. What is the most popular movie genre in the world today? Not melodrama or comedy or horror or teen pop-star showcases. Correct answer: the musical...
...coming off a weak season, no one raised a fuss. This year Sale and Pelletier trotted out Orchid, a new high-concept routine (he played the stem, she the blooming flower) but on the eve of the Olympics settled on Love Story, based on the 1970 love-and-death melodrama, which first enchanted judges back...
...spring of 1967, he met Elizabeth Lewis, a Radcliffe sophomore, and married her in March of 1968, shortly before his fortieth birthday. His sexist pomposity leaks through in a postcard to a friend: “19-year-old now mine.” Despite its readability and lighthearted melodrama, the book is ultimately hurt by Watson’s own egoism. His final description of the woman with enough fortitude to marry him does little to neutralize the sour taste already in the reader’s mouth: “Now, more than thirty years later, she remains...