Woo: A True Hero Or Tragic Hero?

Moreover, Sydney's dead is melodramatic according to Silbergeld's theory of melodrama. Sydney draw down Weng and his gangsters to church and he back to the opened door when he talking to Jeff, so that provides possibility to be killed by enemy from outside and audience know that Sydney may be killed. However, audience does not predict that Sydney asks Jeff to killed him, and that makes plot melodramatic because it mixed realistic and dramatic elements to exaggerate emotional pain of character and it looks credible for audience to a great extent. Woo used a melodramatic way to make Sydney's dead extreme grieved to arouse audience's tears and points out Jeff is a painful hero who acts of heroism and violence for revenge as a feature of Chinese