But here's a funny thing about melodrama.

但是音乐剧有一个有趣的点。

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

【melodrama】好了，没必要闹成这种样子。

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

想象一下，维多利亚时代的情节剧的情感基调，加上配乐，你就有了大致的概念。

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

是对几十年的情节剧、吟游黑脸的一个非常必要的纠正。

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

没错 今天我们要讲的是“音乐剧” 这种戏剧19纪风靡一时 至今仍是娱乐文化的主导。

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

有的时候这种美好的时光也包括内 没错 音乐剧有一整个分支是用来讲的。

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

是什么促使了音乐剧的出现？是的 随着城市的不断扩张 一个新的城市化的工阶级脱颖而出。

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

而音乐剧正好满足了他们 所以音乐剧不是给知识分子看的。

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

目前马克斯·普朗克进化类学研究所工作的瑟贝克，从这部传奇剧的主角身上提取了DNA。

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

不管怎么说 音乐剧当时以及现都非常受欢迎。

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

以前有表演船， 电影出现之前它们会进行演出情节剧。

And here he walks a tricky tonal line between melodrama, realism and camp.

而这里，他这部作品中巧妙地戏剧化、现实主义夸张风格之间走了一条微妙的分界线。

See, I want to dial up the melodrama.

你看，我想增加一点血剧情。

That melodrama may be dismissed as rubbish.

那种戏剧性的情节或许可以被当作无稽之谈。

The Peruvian novelist was a master of comedy, melodrama and political satire.

这位秘鲁小说家是喜剧、情节剧政治讽刺的高手。

So if you don't like melodrama, I mean, fine.

所以如果你不喜欢夸张戏剧，那也无所谓。

But if you like melodrama, then I'm just comparing them.

但如果你喜欢戏剧化，那么我只是比较它们。

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

效果是对老式情节剧中恶棍的模仿。

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的故事，而不是一部无聊的情节剧。

Rather early seventeenth century theatre saw satiric comedies, tragicomedies, and a kind of melodrama.

17 纪早期, 戏剧出现了讽刺喜剧、悲喜剧一种情节剧。