#melodrama — Public Fediverse posts

🎶🤖 Oh, the horror! Claude's new system prompt is apparently so terrified of song lyrics that it would rather implode than reproduce them. In a twist of irony, they publish the prompt history like anyone cares about their melodramatic quest for AI lyric-free purity. 🎵🙄
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/claudes-new-system-prompt/ #AIlyricsfree #AIethics #Technologyhumor #ClaudeImplosion #Melodrama #HackerNews #ngated

Ernst Lubitsch's Eyes of the Mummy (1918) sounds like a horror film but it's a romantic melodrama although there's an ancient Egyptian tomb and a curse, and strange and inexplicable events. Pola Negri stars. Early Lubitsch is so wild and crazy.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/eyes-of-mummy-1918.html

#ErnstLubitsch #silentcinema #silentmovie #silentmovies #silentfilm #silentfilms #germancinema #germanmovie #germanmovies #PolaNegri #melodrama

#OnThisDate, May 8 – both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday – Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [#Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) is the #FilmDuJour. #RobertoRossellini #Italy #USA #religion #melodrama #1950s #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film ★★☆☆☆

Ann Vickers, a 1933 melodrama with Irene Dunne as a social reformer. There's lots of pre-code sexual content but this a movie that bludgeons us relentlessly with a social message. Amazingly it features a bad performance by Walter Huston. Avoid.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/02/ann-vickers-1933.html

#30smovie #30smovies #1930smovie #1930smovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #precode #precodemovie #precodemovies #precodehollywood #melodrama #IreneDunne #WalterHuston