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Genre Research

ACTION

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In this film genre one or more heroes have to face a variety of challenges that require crazy fights and intense chases. There is usually an evil villain and lots of life threatening situations. The hero has to face incredible odds and after lots of violence and physically effort by the hero involving guns, death and explosions the hero is usually victorious, and defeats the villain. Action has been a major success

since the early twentieth century.

OVERVIEW

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• Terminator• The Matrix• Rambo• Wolverine • The Expendables• James Bond• Robocop • The Dark Knight• Iron Man • 300

EXAMPLES OF ACTION MOVIES

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During the 1920s and 1930s action based films were often also adventure films, in the 40s and 50s this developed into

war and western films. An example of this is ‘Run for Cover’, a western film that was released in 1955. As the 50s progressed the spy-adventure genre started to get popular

and in the 60s ‘James Bond’ easily dominated all other action films of the era. In the 1970s ‘James Bond’ had

competition when films such as ‘Dirty Harry’ were released. ‘Dirty Harry’ signaled the end of cowboy western films. The 1980s was a big era for the genre when famous actors such

as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis started appearing in films. In the 90s films budgets increased

dramatically and by the 21st century films such as ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘Casino Royale’ were released.

ACTION FILMS THROUGH HISTORY

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Typical props in action films consist of – • Guns• Hand grenades • Knives• Axes• Cars• Planes• Boats

PROPS IN ACTION

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Typical locations in action films consist of –• Military Bases• Motorways• Car Parks • Cities • Banks• Sky scrapers • Office Blocks

LOCATIONS