Unlike melodrama, they usually had sad or tragic endings.

和音不同是 它们结局通常是悲伤或者说是悲。

I wasn't sure of anything, except that I was living inside some melodrama.

我什么都不确定 除我生活在某种情节里。

Grand Guignol antecedent is melodrama with its anti-literary visually forward focus on sensation and surprise.

“恐怖”祖先是音 其反文学视觉前沿专注于感觉和惊喜。

Imagine the emotional pitch of a Victorian melodrama, add music, and you have the general idea.

想象一下，维多利亚时代情节情感基调，加上配，你就有概念。

Acting in melodrama was exaggerated, designed to appeal to the emotions.

音表演很夸张 是为迎合情感而设计。

But also, is it melodrama supposed to end happily?

还有 这部音结局是好吗？

It was a very necessary corrective to all of those decades of melodramas minstrel and blackface.

是对几十年情节、吟游诗人和黑脸一个非常必要纠正。

Come on, there’s no need for all this melodrama.

【melodrama】好，没必要闹成这种样子。

That melodrama may be dismissed as rubbish.

那部情节可能会被视为垃圾而被驳回。

There were showboats that put on shows and melodramas before movies.

在电影放映之前， 有放映船上演表演和情节。

The effect is a parody of the villain in an old-fashioned melodrama.

效果是对老式情节中恶棍模仿。

What they want is melodrama. It's not highbrow.

而音正好满足他们 所以音不是给知识分子看。

This memorable melodrama was reported by all of the mass media.

这值得纪念轰动事件被所有众传播媒体报道。

This is supposed to be the story about star-crossed lovers, not a trashy melodrama.

这应该是一个关于不幸恋人故事，而不是一部无聊情节。

Surbeck, who is currently at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, got DNA samples from the players in this melodrama.

目前在马克斯·普朗克进化人类学研究所工作瑟贝克，从这部传奇主角身上提取DNA。

Sometimes that good time includes dogs. That's right. There is a whole sub-genre of dog melodrama.

有时候这种美好时光也包括狗狗在内 没错 音有一整个分支是用来讲狗。

Yep, today is all about melodrama, the form that body-slammed 19th century theater and still dominates entertainment culture today.

没错 今天我们要讲是“音” 这种戏在19世纪风靡一时 至今仍是娱文化主导。

What kick-starts melodrama? Well, cities are getting bigger faster, which creates a newly urbanized working class.

是什么促使音出现？是 随着城市不断扩张 一个新城市化工人阶级脱颖而出。

Regardless, melodrama is an incredibly successful and well attended form then and now.

不管怎么说 音在当时以及现在都非常受欢迎。

The easiest way to make these institutions the villains of a melodrama was to make The Maid its heroine.

让这些机构成为情节反派最简单方法就是让女仆成为女主角。