darkSpyro

Help me with this jargon, DS. The favorite thing that brazilian entertainment have in their works is 'emotion'. Not 'emotional', if you see the creators or people associated with them talking at any point about how good their work is, they use 'it has a lot of emotion', singular. What the hell does that mean? Is that something that other countries also use in media or it's really soap opera writers not actually trying to give any actual reason for people to watch their stuff?

(I don't watch soap operas/movies from soap opera writers unless someone else has it on, don't worry. But darn if the channels don't talk about them the whole rest day no matter how unrelated it is)

"Lots of emotion", "filled with emotion", "lacking emotion", etc tends to be used here in the US as a selling point or way to describe something as well.

I think it usually means that someone put a lot of time and effort into the project. Like, "this director put all of his emotion into making this movie".

Nah,the phrases are usually 'There is a ton of emotion in this story and every character faces happenings' or something along those lines. But I guess it is a lot to do with 'filled with emotion' and the others, though I'm still not sure if it's supposed to describe anything or just fill up adjectives.

So... Maybe it's something like that the story uses much the emotions of the characters?

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Nah,the phrases are usually 'There is a ton of emotion in this story and every character faces happenings' or something along those lines. But I guess it is a lot to do with 'filled with emotion' and the others, though I'm still not sure if it's supposed to describe anything or just fill up adjectives.

Kind of like what CAV said. It's like an adjective to descrive a performance, as you've probably guessed. Emotion in a character is like spices for food. A meal can taste okay if it's bland, even if it looks and was prepared well. But a bland meal isn't what anyone wants. It doesn't taste of anything. Yet once you add salt, you can finally swallow your decent tasting food.

Performances can be the same way, even described the same way. An actor, story, or character can be "bland" unless they are full of emotions. A bland character is a character with a single trait, or their entire archetype is centered around a trait (i.e The Goth Kid). A bland story is a boring story. A bland actor is an actor who doesn't put their all into the character and doesn't understand the context of the story to give a realistic performance.

A character with a lot of emotions is fully developed, you know their passions, motivations, what they dislike, what makes them tick. Like you've known them for a while and personally. A story with a lot of emotion is a well developed and engaging story. An actor with emotion can help bring the character to life.

Emotions is something we as humans can connect to, as well as a window into the soul. In fact, one of the three appeals of persuasion is Pathos, which is the use of emotion. Showing emotions show everything about you: every little detail. That's why people who tend to be detached from society are considered "emotionless". It's not a coiencidence that isolated characters or people who barley talk are people we don't know much about. They don't show their emotions, and thus, they don't show themselves.

Anything form of media that "has emotion", basically means it's well developed and presented.

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Probably didn't click fo me since they use it a lot to refer to soap operas and comedy movies which are commonly about one or two-dimensional characters with gimmicks and not much else,for the better or worse. Guess it can be used for positive qualities on a work; thanks for the detailed answer :3

No problem! I'm really into this kind of stuff, being into both theatre and writing, which is where you hear this comment a lot. Plus I'm really into the emotional development of characters, so this is kind of my forte lol.

Glad to help!!