"Giant" and "Written on the Wind": Capturing the Essence of the Romantic Melodrama

Aristotle once said, "The purpose of art is not to express the external representation of things, but to express their essential meanings." That statement summarized the best intentions of the classic romantic soap opera. The two main kinds of movies watching movies like "Giant" and "Written Style" are those who see storytelling. The scope of their expression is still resonating with society. These are contagious greed, broken dreams, devastated families, and common wilted stories surrounding American dreams.

Always romantic melodrama Casablanca, which has been classic and loved you are on the list of the movie of the top 10 (1942) is a great story of two men to compete On love of the same woman in a love triangle. The story of a political and romantic spy is carried out in the context of wartime confrontation between democracy and totalitarianism. Smoky atmosphere, the anti-Nazi propaganda, Max Steiner of great music, do not forget, (it is said to have a cast of 34 countries), unforgettable characters, and unforgettable dialogue line "And, this is also It is unprecedented "Sam". This is one of the most popular and magical (most innocent) movies ever - this is the world of chaos focusing on love, honor, loss of responsibility, self-sacrifice and romance

From 1954 to 1959, Sirk produced a series of Technicolor melodies for Universal Pictures. The most famous of these things in soap opera (and what I focus) is, Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allow (1955), Writed on the Wind (1956), and Imitation of Life (1959) is. The term "women's picture" is typically used romance, tragedy, sudden rise of the music, and to refer to a soap opera full of Hollywood in many of the story crying on the screen. Because these movies are thought to be frivolous, unrealistic and too emotional, this is a mockery word used to abandon the idea of ​​a movie to appeal to women. Melodrama / female photographs are overlooked like a "chicken movie" being laid off by being dismissed by contemporary soap opera and sex discrimination centered on men.

Rear projection was widely exhibited in Douglas Sark 's lush melodrama "Wind' s Book" (1956). Specifically, almost all ride is done like this. This is a general feature of Hollywood classic because there are physical restrictions on shooting in the studio. In addition, by increasing the speed of the projected image in the background or rapidly changing those angles, backprojection can produce a sense of speed that is not really dangerous. Despite one of the leading characters of Book of the Wind being a radical alcohol-dependent millionaires (and thus, driving inadvertently many times), the rear projection is a stunt for economic and aesthetic reasons It is better. For example, in the case of soap opera, the actual landscape is not as important as in action movies.