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Question

To what extent do modern day dramas try to promote moral values?

Do you think they should???

Answer 1

Now let's see. What do you mean by dramas? Serious plays and films (as opposed to comic ones)? Hmm. Well, I think only to the extent that the playwright consciously or unconsciously inserts his moral values into the script and then the production artists theirs into the production. Which to say not very much. Should they? Not if they want to draw large audiences. Theatre and cinema audiences want entertainment, The producers of same want money to come it. Was is Sam Goldwyn who said,,"if they want messages they can go to Western Union."? I think churches (and schools by example at least) should promote moral values.)

Answer 2

King George V and Queen Mary enter the royal box to see a play in Drury Lane, "all the ladies wearing white or in mourning, though his Majesty looked much more cheerful than he has done for some time past'' (1916). In the early years, The Hindu published news from West End, London, and reviews on plays such as "Julius Caesar'' and "Beggars in Hell'' (set in frontier India, with an Indian villain, but played by an Englishman, of course). The "state of contemporary British drama'' is scrutinised, the decline in English theatre regretted. But `native' theatre soon finds voices.

A hilarious account of a European's response to small town all night Indian theatre of myths and legends appears in 1929. Sitting close to the footlights, the writer is beside a man with a harmonium "playing single notes with both hands, in unison never a chord. Another slaps his bass and treble drums, a third scrapes a violin. On the stage, Kabir or Chandrahasa or Draupadi or Arjuna is declaiming one of those endless Hindu ragas one comes to love somehow without in the least comprehending.'' The story is always the same. "A virtuous lady — married of course, this is India — in the power of an evil man and delivered eventually— but only after hours of assault and remonstrance — by her own virtue and divine intervention it has merited... The heroines are usually the exact colour of pink powder; most deities are blue.'' A noble in Ayodhya sports a wrist watch, a Pandava wears spectacles, a buffoon mimes a chugging train in the middle of the Ramayana.

Answer 3

Are you talking about shows like Desperate housewife's? i don't think that there are many out there that promote moral values. It would be nice if they did maybe our youth might have a fighting chance.