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Definition of Sardoodledom
Mechanically contrived plot structure and stereotyped or unrealistic characterization in drama : STAGINESS, MELODRAMA

The authors of the world's great plays are not mere tricksters in Sardoodledom
— John Mason Brown

Named for Victorien Sardou, a 1908 French playwright criticized by G. B. Shaw for the supposed staginess of his plays.

Next word: Haboob.

He ate chicken because they fed him chicken.
I doubt they gave him freshly dead entire chicken corpses to ponder over.
He was only doing what Roosters do.
So much melodrama.
Next...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_lkVzzd6rE

They could have spent a couple bucks online and just bought the guy a button hook.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/136-6348609-6033755?url=search-alias%3Dhpc&field-keywords=button+hook

Why all the melodrama?

Looking forward to this. I've been binging on the old Doctor Whos, Series 7 & 8 (Jon Pertwee & Tom Baker). They are so different to the last few years. The old ones had a real sense of menace that few of the new stories have. Not as cartoonish and some like "Genesis of the daleks" are so bleak they would never make them now. Less swelling music and melodrama, more hard sci-fi.

From the score onwards this looks to be pure melodrama. I wouldn't expect much less with Steven Spielberg.

Like most fan vids, takes most of the spectacle and melodrama and takes out the humor and subtlety and mashes it into an emo music video. blah.

>> ^bobknight33:

If I had a son like OBAMA I'd kick his for being such a piece of shit.


I don't often feel any need or desire to downvote (videos or comments) here on the sift. Now, when a downvote is so blatantly warranted, I am reminded that I can't. So in its place here's a hearty Vaudeville melodrama "BOOOOOOOOOO" to you sir.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

>> ^acidSpine:
I know this is serious but "MEDIC!... MEDIIIIIC!" Where do these people think they are, Omaha fucking beach.

I get where you are coming from, and I pretty much agree that it is a bit overly dramatic. On the other hand, I can only say this:
If I was in that situation myself and was suddenly being rocked by flash grenade explosions and other shit popping off all around me, then saw some dude being limply carried away with a bloodied head, apparently unable to speak... I'd be pretty impressed with myself if I managed to shout something as coherent as "MEDIC!", rather than "blauahhahahhahhahghwaa".
That kind of adrenaline rush lets instinct take over rather than logic, so I can cut them some slack on the melodrama.


Maybe they were trying to get him Uber'd?




Too soon?

>> ^acidSpine:

I know this is serious but "MEDIC!... MEDIIIIIC!" Where do these people think they are, Omaha fucking beach.


I get where you are coming from, and I pretty much agree that it is a bit overly dramatic. On the other hand, I can only say this:

If I was in that situation myself and was suddenly being rocked by flash grenade explosions and other shit popping off all around me, then saw some dude being limply carried away with a bloodied head, apparently unable to speak... I'd be pretty impressed with myself if I managed to shout something as coherent as "MEDIC!", rather than "blauahhahahhahhahghwaa".

That kind of adrenaline rush lets instinct take over rather than logic, so I can cut them some slack on the melodrama.

makes me wonder how we're going to see today's programming is going to look to us ten years from now... especially since the reality shows are already parodies of themselves.>> ^brycewi19:

Melodrama at it's finest.
They just don't make that kind of crap like they used to!

>> ^brycewi19:

Melodrama at it's finest.
They just don't make that kind of crap like they used to!


Which means you've never endured an episode of NCIS.

Melodrama at it's finest.

They just don't make that kind of crap like they used to!

If he was in high school this sort of melodrama might be a bit more forgivable.

Well, maybe this guy is still in high school, but he's like 27. He's well past the age that it's expected he'd do weird shit like this and think it was romantic.

>> ^NaMeCaF:

>> ^Payback:
Sorry, the kids in my highschool had no where near this level of courage or compassion. Mutants.

The thing is, this is so unrealistic and over the top that no kids in any highschool would do this.


Well, I'm pretty sure they're going for melodrama, not reality, but I still have real doubts you could get any highschool anywhere to show enough backbone to even euphemistically achieve this.

I recommend you all forget about the Kubrick / Spielberg melodrama and go read the source material. Brian Aldiss eventually wrote three short stories about David. In fact, in a foreword titled "attempting to please" he talks about Kubrick, Spielberg, AI, etc. It's quite interesting. Here, let me type out a bit of it:

"So why was 'Supertoys' not filmed? [...] My belief is that he [Kubrick] was basically mistaken. Obsessed with the big blockbuster SF movies of the time, he was determined to take my sorrowing domestic scene out into the galaxy. After all, he had wrought similarly to great success with [Arthur C.] Clarke's story.

But 'The Sentinel' looks outward to begin with. It speaks of a mystery elsewhere, whereas 'Supertoys' speaks of a mystery within. David suffers because he does not know he is a machine. Here is the real drama; as Mary Shelley said of her Frankenstein, it 'speaks to the mysterious fears of our nature'.

A possible film could be made of 'Supertoys' showing David facing his real nature. It comes as a shock to realise he is a machine. He malfunctions. Perhaps his father takes him to a factory where a thousand identical androids step off the line. Does he autodestruct? The audience should be subjected to a tense and alarming drama of claustrophobia, to be left with the final questions, 'Does it matter that David is a machine? Should it matter? And to what extent are we all machines?'

Behind such metaphysical puzzles remains the simple story - the story that attracted Stanley Kubrick - of a boy who was never able to please his mother. A story of love rejected."