He decided to make a minimalist film without melodrama, overacting, excessive dialogue, or duets, writing a screenplay according to his visualisation of it.
In addition to being critically acclaimed and commercially successful, Mullum Malarum became a milestone in Tamil cinema in that it discarded the traditional melodrama, fights, duet songs or excessive dialogue, focusing on the visual aesthetic and realism.
According to Ligeti, who died in 2006, the original version was received "with some difficulty" because of excessive spoken dialogue, thick orchestration and a hasty, ineffectual ending.
Still, there remain questionable aesthetic choices – excessive rhyming dialogue à la Spike Lee's Chiraq, for one – which tend to distract from the wonderful performances of Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, and Jaden Smith.
He loves excessive gestures, and the dialogue — written by Maddin and George Toles, and based, heaven knows how distantly, on a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro — hazes over with archaic yearning.
Mouna Ragam was Ratnam's first film to make excessive use of staccato dialogues, which became his trademark style in his later films.
In my graduate program, my classmates and I would ruthlessly mark up one another's manuscripts, finding fault with dialogue, pacing, character development and excessive or inadequate lyricism.
Mullum Malarum became a milestone in Tamil cinema in that it focused primarily on the visual medium and realism, without excessive usage of melodrama, fights, duets or dialogue.
Richard K. Davis, the chief executive of U.S. Bancorp, said that he told the president that he believed the industry recognized the outrage over excessive compensation and would work to change the dialogue.
The hyperbolic and misguided references to "death panels" by Sarah Palin derailed what should have been a springboard for physicians, insurers, patients and patients' families to have open dialogues about when medical care becomes excessive, painful and futile.
"The excessive use of force by police and the overall absence of dialogue during the protests in May/June have raised serious concerns," the European Commission said.
