When in life there are not enough emotions, experiences, strong feelings and passions, when an adult wants an adult fairy tale, stories told in a melodramatic genre come to the rescue. After all, melodrama is universal and suitable for almost all occasions. You just need to decide on your own mood and desire, and - voila! - now it only remains to choose a suitable story of someone else's life.
Very often in the fall, unreasonable sadness rolls over a person. Even if the sun is shining and the day is beautiful and bright. And if the rains charge, then it is all the more difficult to cope with the incomprehensible, suddenly surging melancholy. It is on such days or evenings that melodramas help to overcome an incomprehensible mood, throw out emotions and unconscious desires, cry out their sadness looking at the vicissitudes of someone else's fictional life and death.
"The most faithful friend": They taught me to value loyalty … And never forget about those you love."
"Hachiko: The most loyal friend"
In recent years, such artists as Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jim Sturgess, Anne Hathaway, Richard Gere, Matthew Goode, Mario Casas and Maria Velverde can be called unsurpassed masters playing the title roles in melodramatic films.
Agree, Hollywood stars Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron are masters of the game of love. The story told by them and director Pat O'Connor in the film Sweet November (2001) about a successful, robotic PR-intellectual, who is returned to the normal world of living people by a dying girl, moves to tears, because touches such strings of the soul that many people forget about in everyday life: the joy of touching, the smell of the sea and the happiness of a holiday arranged for a best friend.
The film Across the Universe, directed by Julie Taymor, 2007) for many viewers (and especially spectators) discovered the young, talented actor Jim Sturgess, who subsequently appeared more than once in melodramatic films, and, importantly, never repeat.
In the musical melodrama Across the Universe, Sturgess's hero is a simple working guy, almost a loser, living in the Beatles era. He sings Beatles songs as if they were written by him and about him: about finding oneself in the world, about war, about what it is to gain and lose true love. In the film “One Day” (directed by Lone Scherfig, 2011) Sturgess's hero is a successful hero-lover who drags everyone he wants to bed when he just glances at the girl. He is lucky in everything: in love affairs, work, money. Once he was lucky to meet a charming girl who became a good friend for many years. But if the heroine of the film, performed by the clever and beautiful Anne Hathaway, immediately realized that she was doomed to love, then the news that he loved the only woman on earth for him for many years reached the hero only years later. And then it suddenly turned out that in the prime of years there may be very little time left for mutual love …
“We only have your memories. I want you to remember me as strong and beautiful. Do not understand? If I know that you remember me like that, nothing is scary to me. God, Nelson, you are my immortality!"
"Sweet November"
Happiness is never absolute, is it? It comes as unexpectedly as death. Only death misses less often. Love and death in one bottle are often inseparable components of melodramatic stories. That is why, empathizing with the heroes, it is impossible not to cry. And we cry in cinemas and in front of TV screens, watching the story of the faithful dog Hachiko, who remained faithful to his master until the end, after the death of the hero Richard Gere (Hachi: A Dog's Tale, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, 2008) …
We can burst into tears empathizing with the tough and sometimes cruel hero-lover, played by one of the most sought-after actors in the UK today, the handsome Matthew Goode. In 2011, the artist starred in a story of love and death in the melodrama Burning Man (directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, 2011). The fire in this film pursues the hero of Hood everywhere - he burns him from the inside and collapses from the outside: forcing him to survive a tragedy, which is almost impossible to cope with. The death of a beautiful woman, the mother of his son, his beloved, from cancer, tears the hero's world into uneven, sharp pieces and therefore his world is turned upside down. Therefore, the construction of the film is chronologically inverted and torn apart. But it is love, in the end, that will help the hero of the melodrama get out of the fire of longing and grief, and be reborn like a phoenix. During and after watching this difficult, passionate and sexy film, the waterfalls of tears are one hundred percent guaranteed.
"For me, one minute with you is happiness, the other is hell."
"Three Steps Above Heaven"
Fortunately for the audience - and especially the spectators - it is not always and not in all melodramas that the heroes die at the end of the films. Sometimes, parting with their beloved, they simply leave for the "end of the world." Such a "edge" for the hero in the Spanish melodrama Three Meters Above Heaven (Tres metros sobre el cielo, directed by Fernando Gonzalez Molina, 2010) - about half-youthful, half-adult love - after the death of his best friend and parting in his first love-passion, became Great Britain. The romance of the heroes Mario Casas and Maria Velverde is interrupted at the very peak of the relationship, but perhaps not forever? After all, even from the “end of the world” you can return to your old love. Or in order to meet a new one.
