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What's the difference between a movie/series that tries to emotionally manipulate आप vs one that gives आप genuine emotion?

I'm asking for लेखन purposes. I can't really explain what exactly makes something emotionally manipulative, but I feel that Up is somewhat this way and while I was never an active प्रशंसक of the series, the later seasons of Grey's Anatomy definitely do this.
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8theGreat said:
The biggest difference, it seems, is whether या not the film tries to earn an emotional reaction या just kind of expects one because a sad thing happened with sad संगीत in the background.

Something emotional happening to a fleshed-out character that we've grown to understand is a genuine emotional reaction because it's like it's happening to a real person that we know. Someone we care about. The writer decided to write about something emotional that happened to someone rather than looking to just make the audience cry for half a सेकंड and it shows.

That contrasts when something is being emotionally manipulative, where something is just kind of sad because it's sad. Usually, it just kind of happens for the sake of happening, the characters are so flat and generic that it's hard to care about them at all, there's a lack of any actual emotional stakes, and the character doesn't struggle with whatever happened at all. It's just kind of there, with sappy संगीत in the background, and the writers/directors/producers just kind of expect the audience to care because it's emotional.

One of the emotionally manipulative things I see a lot is children in danger. Like, you're watching some run-of-the-mill action movie, and in the middle of all the mayhem is just this बिना सोचे समझे child that we've never seen before ever, and the hero has to go save them because Oh no! Not the child! The audience will care so much about what happens to the child because everyone loves children! It's so intense, आप guys!
And the filmmakers just kind of take advantage of the fact that the vast majority of people care a lot about the well-being of children.

The best way to avoid making it manipulative is to make sure that the characters are well developed and well rounded and making sure that whatever happens has actual weight to the plot and/or the arc of the characters.
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Up is a little bit that way, I suppose. Talking about the opening montage with his wife. But it works because it isn't just sad for the sake of being sad, but rather it's meant to explain what made the old guy the way that he is. While the creators were certainly trying to make something that would make the audience cry, we also wouldn't have understood the main character as well without it.
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And also the visual story telling is so spot on in that part. Like holy shit, dat composition. Dat use of color tho. Mmm. MMM. 10/10
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hatelarxene said:
Genuine Emotion: The Greatest Showman (2017) & Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Emotionally Manipulative: The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
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 Genuine Emotion: The Greatest Showman (2017) & Beauty and the Beast (2017) Emotionally Manipulative: The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
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