2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
Even a child knows: if a movie has a lot of funny moments and a traditional happy ending, then it's a comedy. When everything ends gloomy on the screen, and the search for truth or happiness has led the characters only to a hopeless dead end - most likely, you watched the tragedy.
Not so sad
In the third genre of literature, cinema, theater - drama - not everything is so sad, the characters usually have a way out of a seemingly impasse or hope for the best. What is the difference between drama and melodrama? Firstly, in the drama everything is as close to life as possible, showing social, domestic problems, conflicts that arise at work. The drama of the Soviet period "Vacation in September" based on the play by Vampilov with Oleg Dal in the title role, the Italian film "Life is Beautiful" almost approach tragedy, but still they are dramas. Melodrama sharply exacerbates conflicts, clearly opposing love to hate, good to evil. The lyrical heroine in the melodrama is called upon to suffer and cry, for which she will be rewarded with the appearance of a “handsome prince” (hero), and the villain in such films is sure towill remain so until the end credits. This is also the difference between drama and melodrama. The works filmed in Bollywood are very characteristic. Indian filmmakers tend to sometimes bring the situation to the point of absurdity (which is facilitated by the somewhat deliberate play of actors with pronounced gestures and facial expressions), but at the same time, everything is resolved remarkably by the end. Unforgettable Zita and Gita, Beloved Raja, Tramp are melodramas.
Emotion rainbow
In the melodrama, the spiritual world of the characters is revealed in all the multicolored emotions - this is another difference between dramas and melodramas, because in drama everything is as "mundane" as possible. Not without reason in the word "melodrama" to the component "drama", that is, "action", a particle "melos" is added, which means "song". The feelings of the characters, their spiritual world - this subtle matter - are emphasized in every possible way in the melodrama. Recognized classics: the American "Titanic" by Cameron and "Gone with the Wind" by Fleming, the Russian "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" by Menshov and "You Never Dreamed" by Fraz. But, for example, many works by Eldar Ryazanov, such as "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!", "Promised Heaven", "Office Romance" cannot be attributed to melodrama in its "pure form". Besides, it's also a comedy. The same can be said about the work of Leonid Gaidai.
Blurred frames
Age is what separates dramas from melodramas. If the "three whales" - tragedy, comedy and drama - existed on the stage and in literature in ancient Greece, thenmelodrama is a rather young genre compared to them. Born in the depths of tragedy, it smoothed out its too “sharp corners”. Sometimes it is difficult to understand what is in front of you - drama or melodrama. It happens that a movie starts out ordinary, and then suddenly the plot takes a melodramatic turn. Therefore, very often in the description of works of cinema we see films "melodrama (drama)". An example is the Shawshank Redemption based on Stephen King's novel. Very often, directors shoot "synthetic" pictures that carry elements of, for example, thrillers, dramas and melodramas. Like, for example, the film adaptation of the novel "The Green Mile" by the same King. So in modern cinema you rarely see a work shot in a strictly defined genre, the frames are becoming more and more blurred. And sometimes it's hard to understand how dramas differ from melodramas, where one ends and another begins.
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