Contrived dialogue is no use to anyone.
But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world … " It's an idea that is explored at great and exhausting length, in contrived Socratic-style dialogues led by De La Paz and numerous practical examples from the Lunar colony.
But good intentions go just so far when a movie is hobbled by such risible, place holder dialogue, contrived plot points, wildly uneven performances and awkward camera work.
I found the plot lines contrived, much of the dialogue less than convincing, and few characters that really resonated as fully formed.
The sketch parodied the soap genre with its bad acting, ridiculous dialogue and contrived plot twists.
He's aided and abetted by writers Sherwood Schwartz and Lloyd J. Schwartz, who go for nostalgia with the same simplistic dialogue and contrived, sweet situations we remember from the old days.
Ms. Anthony's solo, "Snail," involved a crocheted "wearable sculpture" by Agata Oleksiak and music by John Stone, who also collaborated with Ms. Anthony on "Last Days of the Ebu Gogo," billed as a work in progress and involving clown noses, wiggly hips and stilted dialogue that seemed contrived for a children's show.
Plots, sets, dialogue, costumes — everything is contrived.
But he must know that the latter is just as contrived as the kind of fictional dialogue he professes to dislike.
An editor can and will alert their author that an odd coincidence reads as ridiculously contrived, or that a character's dialogue seems stiff and unrealistic; that's part of helping a writer hone their craft and polish their book.
Filardi was guilty of a dialogue which "echoes with cliches, while contrived plotting put characters into situations that may be true, but they feel corny and movie-like".
