The ending may be a bit melodramatic, but the movie is guerrilla filmmaking at its best.
On film it became a melodramatic pad around Victorian London, gamely carried by a pre-"Pirates" Johnny Depp.
At this point, Mr Maupin's novel becomes a gripping, if occasionally melodramatic who-is-it.
Meanwhile Mexican ones tend to be the more melodramatic, and are very conservative.
Obviously I am being overly sarcastic and melodramatic but you get my point.
Shakespeare knew the value of the sensational: ghosts, gore, and grievous bodily harm were all grist for his melodramatic mill.
The band used synthesizers of widely varying quality and vintage to come up with moods that ranged from menacing to melodramatic.
The question shudders with possibilities throughout the melodramatic musical "Passion, " whose plot strains credulity, yet celebrates the erratic improbabilities of love.
The leadership of both parties seems keen to avoid any melodramatic showdowns.
But for my money, Dengue Fever really hit their stride when they rock out and let Nimol lay into quirky, melodramatic Khmer melodies.
My suggestion is that in the future your reporters stay away from melodramatic reporting and attempt a more un-biased approach to covering the war.
Arborea is a bit melodramatic at times (the recurring rain stick could have been left out of the mix), and the spareness can leave listeners wanting something meatier.
As Hairspray becomes more melodramatic, it also becomes more infectious.
Cornelius Loy gave the evening's most melodramatic, and ultimately heartening, performance, in which he coaxed both melodic and violent sounds out of his theremin, played over big, textured electronic tracks.
The Republican leadership appear worried that an unseemly zeal to slash spending and precipitate a melodramatic showdown with the Democrats would alienate moderate voters at the general election next year.
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If those paintings had celebrity appeal in their own time, most of them now have a melodramatic look that suggests a tableau vivant whose meaning we don't necessarily care to explore.
Based on the gossip of her courtiers, a diet of Hollywood movies and the projection of her own cunning calculations, these guesses might be sentimental or nasty, but were always vulgar and melodramatic.
Her embodiment of such girlish emotions as curiosity-streaked ardor and such womanly ones as do-or-die willfulness enables her director, Zhang Yimou, to eschew melodramatic inflation while crafting a visually eloquent tribute to rural life.
Turns out the actor was just being melodramatic.
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Remember years ago, in your melodramatic youth, when you were lying on the bed in your room, and you'd play a song and think it spoke to you so much it was going to save your life?
The hero of this melodramatic story of pre-Revolutionary America is Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis), a rugged but sensitive individualist who roams the forest of the Hudson Valley in the company of two Indians, Chingachgook (Russell Means) and Uncas (Eric Schweig).
Again, there is no denying that the stage arts want to dazzle, too: The vocal pyrotechnics in opera, repetitive turns in ballet, or melodramatic breakdowns in plays all result in "ta-da" moments that the audience rewards with applause.
There's also a trite love story between Ferris and Aisha (Golshifteh Farahani), a nurse whose main function is to prove that Arabs aren't just people, they're also convenient pawns when it comes to engineering a good old-fashioned melodramatic ending.
Despite the melodramatic, now-or-never pitch of a president who desperately wants history to judge him no less a leader than Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger or Jimmy Carter, Congress should defer removal of the legislative threat to use trade restrictions on China.
Although the Nick of the novel arrives at a new and tragic understanding of the American Dream, the Nick on screen can't be more than an earnest observer, since any vestige of the story's tragic sense has been replaced by melodramatic sadness.
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The richly textured populist panorama, with its long-simmering feuds, casual gunplay, corrupt local politics, and the shoddy justice of vigilante mobs, blends the comic hyperbole of long-ago tall tales with the intense melodramatic spectacle of life and death in the daily balance.
The Kite Runner is brisk and bland, but if you've read the novel, you know it has a great melodramatic hook: As a boy, the Afghan narrator stood by and did nothing when his little friend, the son of his father's servant, was raped by bullies.
The author thrives on conflict as well as conspiracy, and his account of a melodramatic struggle for power in Save Venice Inc, one of the fund-raising organisations that have done much to restore the stones of Venice, is splendidly entertaining and thoroughly damaging to all parties.
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