Chapter | Thirty-Three
Genre: Drama
FIGURE 33.1 Actors get ready to shoot a scene from a drama by Armen Antranikian.
WHAT IS IT?
A movie about relationships, people and life.
The Drama is the mother of all genres, bringing into the world a whole family of film genres. The bad boys grew up and became the Gangster films, the wanderers left home to become the Westerns, the weirdos became the Comedies, and the sickos became the Horror films.
So with the other genres all grown up and moved away, the Drama genre simply grew to fill the space left behind, with serious movies about people, loss, love, life and death.
Today’s drama movies have ...
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