Am Sonntag den, 1. Dezember 2002, um 01:29, schrieb Ross Macleay:
>> melodrama is a category of drama. sidney lumet defines drama as a plot
>> which is driven by the actor(s) behaviour, and melodrama as the
>> reverse,
>> a plot which drives actor(s) behaviour.
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> This would then release melodramatic characters from the burden of
> simply
> being allegorical figures of good and evil (or sickness and health). It
> also
> implies that melodrama is, as it were, 'plot driven' rather than driven
> by
> the extended ideological metaphor of an allegory. It is driven by the
> universal of plot stucture (like a genre) rather than simply by, say,
> some
> sort of would-be moral or political universal. It keeps the drama in
> melodrama.
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certainly drama is melodrama's root. that root, however, stems from
transcribing literature into film, and forcing the actor to follow the
story. film is at its best when actions are believable, beyond a
narrative logic, which is invariably the impetus for actors illustrating
a plot.
the camp aspect of melodrama, which i read into your defence of
melodrama above, is melodrama's saving grace, perhaps, its charm, when
narrative is debunked as the basis for film art.
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