What’s interesting is that
What’s interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point. Errol Morris
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What’s interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point. Errol Morris
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer’s contribution seems not only absorbed but translated…. One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce. Eric Bentley
I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don’t feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply try to tell what happened, or what I imagine happened. I also think it helps to let the reader fill in a lot of the blanks. Melodrama is patronizing. With a … Read more
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. Elbert Hubbard
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. e. e. cummings
THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist Francesca Woodman
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn’t. It’s a pain. But I didn’t feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn’t want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die. Floyd Dell
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. Douglas Sirk
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. Deepak Chopra
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra