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drama!

Abdullah Al Qamzi

Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com

05 September 2021

We always hear the phrase “So-and-so loves drama.” What is meant is to exaggerate situations so that someone appears to be the victim or the hero. So what is “drama”? They are serious stories based on events that happen every day in our lives. Drama in cinema and on television has real characters who deal with differences or contradictions with themselves or others or the forces of nature.

These stories focus on characters and how they move through different phases in a specific time period. Drama characters may be about friends, family, co-workers, sports team, or any other type of story that deals with themes, such as love, poverty, drugs, racism, class wars, corruption, and others.

The drama may be anywhere, historical at some time in the past or the future, or in a ship at sea, in a space shuttle, on the surface of Mars, or under the sea inside a submarine, wherever humans are and their differences generate “drama”.

Even if the characters are animals with human voices or “animation” characters with voice actors, the drama is naturally formed. All you need are disagreements that create challenges, and so the characters seek solutions.

In film and television dramas, we see the character at his best and worst. These could be biographies of real characters, moral stories, or tales of struggle against life's challenges.

If “comedy” is about the contradictions of the characters’ actions with reality, and if “action” is about exaggerated movements, then “drama” does not require any movement. They are words and suggestions. The characters are busy fixing or corrupting themselves and doing the same to those around them.

There are sub-directions of the drama, such as “court drama,” “office drama,” or “hospital drama,” all of which deal with a cosmic theme, which is characters who make personal decisions that make them see the world from a new perspective.

“Melodrama” is one of the most popular sub-trends in “Drama” and it is a focused emotional drama that has captured the attention of audiences since the 1950s. Well-made melodramas make audiences cry in cinemas or in front of the television.

The longest television series, which began in the sixties and seventies, and some of them have not finished today, are in the category of "melodramas". The most famous melodrama "Imitation of Life" by Douglas Circus in 1959, and one of the most famous series "Dallas".

The seventies were the golden era of drama, as American cinema witnessed abundant productions of family drama, the most prominent of which was the court drama "Kreamer vs. Kramer". If we go back to this time, the most powerful family drama was "Manchester by the Sea".

Situation

Since the beginning of the 21st century, producers have refrained from injecting money into movie dramas, and they have gradually moved to television and streaming platforms.

And we began to produce unusual and unprecedented dramas about studies of the behavior of characters that develop over the years, and are broadcast in the form of seasons instead of cinematic parts.

The most prominent TV dramas are "Mad Men", "Breaking Bad", "The Sopranos" and "The Wire".. These four series took the themes of popular cinematic drama and presented them in a way that allowed them plenty of time to explore their characters to the point that they turned the tide against cinema, and because of them The platinum era of television kicked off.

Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com