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| One of the most important types of drama is the tragedy. This type of film usually has similar characteristics. The main component of tragedies drama is that it usually involves the ruin of the leading character. The principal character?s destruction usually involves a cruel and an unfair world |
| Another characteristic of the tragedy is that the main character must live or die by for what one belief. A third characteristic of this genre is that the audience usually gets emotional in this film since people often have sympathy with the main character. |
| A good example of a tragedies film is Armageddon. In this film the most important character died in a heroic act to save the world. You could hear people crying in the movie theater while watching this touching scene.Harry, who was the main character, had to decide either to die with the rest of the world or to die trying to save the world and his daughter called Grace. So in the end, Harry decided to die for his belief which is one characteristics of this genre of drama. |
| Another type of drama that takes the audience back to the past is the historical drama. This category of drama has the characteristics of focusing on historical times. This genre of drama usually describes a fact or a moment during the past.Another characteristic of historical drama is that they are about historical people or, literature. The costume is also one characteristic of Historical dramas, because describes a period in the past. The characters in this genre of drama is always very characterized with an incomparable costume, which makes the movies full of beauty. |
| Cleopatra, which is one of the most famous movies, has some of the most important characteristics of this type of drama. The first characteristic is that describes an important moment of the past in Egypt. Cleopatra showed the history of a woman, the queen of Egypt, having to deal with the instability of her partners after her powerful boyfriend, Julio Caesar was murdered. Another characteristic of this film is that it shows the life of one historical person we have had in the past. Cleopatra, in this historical drama was a very clever and astute woman who would do anything to achieve her goals no matter what the obstacles were. The costumes, in addition, used to make this film are far one of the most stunning ever filmed. Cleopatra was always dressed very typically emphasizing a time in Egypt. |
| Melodrama |
| Melodrama is also one of the most famous types of drama. In this form of film, some characteristics are presented. An exaggerated emotion is presented to make people get more involved in the film. That happens because the audience becomes hooked by the exaggerating scene. Stereotypical character is also one more characteristic. In this genre of drama, usually, there are two personages involved. The third characteristic of melodrama movies are the presence of interpersonal conflicts. This interpersonal conflict has to do with the moral of what is right and wrong to the character. |