Melodrama
Stereotypical Characters
Characters in melodramas generally depend on a stereotyped
character development, interaction, and emotional themes.
Melodramatic films tend to use plots that often deal with
crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial
situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship.
Victims, couples, virtuous and heroic characters or suffering
protagonists, heroines, in melodramas are presented with social pressures,
threats, repression, fears, improbable events or difficulties with friends,
community, work, lovers, or family.
The melodramatic format allows the character to work through
their difficulties or overcome the problems with resolute endurance,
sacrificial acts, and stubborn bravery.
Characters:
1. The heroine: good, honest, poor, selfless, beautiful,
responsible for a weak or elderly relative, in danger
2. The hero:
handsome, honest, not particularly clever, defeats the villain
3. The villain: wicked, handsome, rich and/or powerful,
desires the heroine
4. Relative of heroine: needy, ill, passive, vulnerable,
parent or grandparent
5. Sidekick:
assists the hero, in thrall to the
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