Some of the greatest Hollywood melodramas (such as Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession") featured plotlines of an even more extravagant absurdity than that of "Fifty Shades Darker".
Similar territory is part of the Calvin Klein DNA, especially during its 90s heyday, when shift dresses designed by Klein were worn by former employee Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and adverts for perfume like Obsession featuring a naked Kate Moss, scandalised the general public.
6 p.m. 2) MOUNTAIN ICON The stark, jagged silhouette of the Matterhorn is the symbol of Zermatt, as well as a local obsession, featured on every photograph and logo as if required by law.
It's a tongue-in-cheek, silly-ass satire that pokes fun at the movie business's recent re-do obsession, featuring an all-star cast of cameos and familiar faces!
While battery life amounted almost to an obsession, other features that have been touted by some handset makers were far less popular.
Which, for him, had a fairly sharp edge over the prospect of the two-year obsession of another feature film.
The July issue Vogue tried to tap into the mood of the hour with "Magnificent Obsession," a fashion feature styled as a 1950s Technicolor melodrama, one replete with period-like headbands, swing skirts and skinny men's ties.
Over cups of tea, and two whole films, she recounts her life of sexual obsession – an odyssey featuring a cast of thousands, including cameos by Shia Labeouf, Uma Thurman and Jamie Bell, while Von Trier steers his excoriating course through the erotic and the absurd.
"Magnificent Obsession" (December 24th and 25th) features a plot that's as grandly extreme as it is grandly absurd (the dissolute heir played by Hudson becomes a brain surgeon in order to operate on the woman he loves and accidentally blinded).
The recent picture book, Where's Elvis?: Documented Sightings Prove That He Lives, a parody of both the "Where's Waldo?" series and American culture's obsession with Elvis sightings, features minutely altered images that place the allegedly still-extant "King" of rock 'n' roll in a variety of group scenes.
