The image is not about conflict occuring for contrived reasons but about Chewing the Scenery. I suspect it refers to the misunderstanding that Rule of Drama is about looking dramatic.

Yeah, that's definitely more Chewing the Scenery or Large Ham than this trope.

Motion to pull

Misleading, isn't actually the trope per and , and the text is eye-strainingly small.

edited 3rd Oct '12 9:47:42 AM by Willbyr

Seconding, particularly on the "misleading" bit.

Pull it.

The image illustrates someone reacting dramatically to something less dramatic, rather than adding a dramatic element to a story just to add drama. Well, mostly. It also illustrates the latter since it adds the drama of her not liking crowds (or something), which seems out of the blue. Maybe, since there's no history attached to it. Yes, she's Chewing the Scenery, but she's also creating a dramatic point that can be angsted about later.

Does it count for the trope if you try to create drama from something that's normally not very dramatic? By create I mean something that extends beyond the scene in question, which hamminess doesn't.

You have a point but the image illustrates the misunderstanding more clearly.

Clock is set.

I think it's a pretty bad picture regardless. To hard to see what's going on, and the text is eye-hurtingly small. Agree with pull.

This image sucks like a jet engine, and with seven to one it's been chipped in the engine...

I thought they just guillotined her...

Clock's up; locking up. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.