Movie Genre blog Action

The genre I have chose is 'Action', I chose this genre because that is one of my favourite styles of movies to watch.  Here are three trailers that are examples of the action genre, I think they represent the action genre very well because they are all different styles of action and show good variety.












The thing I love about action movies is it can be based around so many different things, as you can see in the above trailers it goes from hundreds of years ago with the Spartans, to guns and explosions with the Terminator, to robots, light sabers and space ships in Star Wars.  As opposed to other genres like romantic comedy, where you can already tell the whole movie from the first 5 minutes.

The action genre usually includes things like high energy, physical stunts and chases, rescues, battles, escapes, destructive crises, non-stop moving.  The action genre usually includes a hero, or 'good guy(s)' taking on the villain or villains.

The action genre actually began in the silent film era, the first 'action' movie was more or less 'The Great Train Robbery' which was made in 1903. The movie is about a group of bandits that try to do a hold up on a train later to find out a determined posse is on their tails. This movie has all the elements a action movie requires, some what fast pace music, a group of 'good guys' and a group of 'bad guys' dueling it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY.-(Link to The Great Train Robbery)
 Action films then expanded in the 80s and 90s with the growth of special effects techniques.  The action genre also developed decently fast to the response of the audience wanting faster paced plots, greater violence and stimulation.
In my opinion the one actor that sticks out in my mind that revolutionized action films is Sylvester Stallone.  With the Rocky movies and the Rambo movies he really changed how people look at action movies.  In the Rambo series he took violence to a whole new level and really gave the action seekers what they were looking for.

The elements that create this theme are special effects, big guns, big explosions, a villain, a hero, stunts, and a problem EG: Save the family, save the world, prevent crime, win the girl etc. Without these elements the action film is no longer an action film.