The larger part of the film literature of today is certainly harmful in this sense.

The intellectual background of most photoplays is insipid.

By telling the plot without the subtle motivation which the spoken word of the drama may bring, not only do the characters lose color but all the scenes and situations are simplified to a degree which adjusts them to a thoughtless public and soon becomes intolerable to an intellectually trained spectator.
They force on the cultivated mind that feeling which musical persons experience in the musical comedies of the day.

We hear the melodies constantly with the feeling of having heard them ever so often before.
This lack of originality and inspiration is not necessary; it does not lie in the art form.

Offenbach and Strauss and others have written musical comedies which are classical.