Conventions Of Action/Comedy

By Will De Ath

Action/Comedy

• The genre chosen in our group is a hybrid of action and comedy

• These two genre are very different but can still be made into a good film which normally show characters like with a serious authority such as a cop which would normally show them with a funny side of the action making it a comedy.

Action/Comedy

• This would create a odd feel and would also create the base settings for the film to be a comedy with action.

• A action/comedy has different levels of each genre in it. For example, Bad Boys has more of the action side but still with a comedy side laced into it. Then Pineapple Express has more of a comedy side to it.

Different Conventions Inside The Genre

• Conventions using CMINTS:• Characters • Mise-En-Scene• Iconography• Narrative• Themes• Sounds

Characters• Most action/comedies have the typical

hero who would normally play the part of the serious one and the typical sidekick or partner who would play the ‘funny guy’.

Characters

• For example: In Hot Fuzz the serious character of Police Officer, Sergeant Nicholas Angel has the role in looking after a village where bloody crime are hidden in the village’s ‘Fatal accidents’ covered up by the ‘Elders’ of the village. Nicholas's partner Danny has the typical role of a ‘dumb’ cop lacking in any intelligence of how to be a Police Officer.

Mise-En-Scene

• The costumes typical seen in a action/comedy film are either portrayed in a way of seriousness or a comedic way.

• This look at the costumes shows us how much of each genre is shown in the hybrid genre.

• For example: In The Other Guys, comedic and seriousness are shown in two different sets of partners:

Mise-En-Scene

• Iconography is key to the viewers to find out what the genre is in the film and to make it clear what is going on.

• Iconography can come in many different forms like high technology gadgets and guns for action and funny looking or nerdy and unusual clothing and facial expressions to indicate comedy.

Iconography

Action Iconography

• Action Iconography has many forms.• Fast cars, guns, explosions, villains, flash

clothing etc. all these show that the film is a action as of the more serious look at props and Icons

• For example, the film Chill Factor indicates a action from it’s explosions, guns and cars.

Comedy Iconography

• Comedy iconography also has many forms.• Comedy films use iconography include idiotic

people, unusual actions, comedy characters and facial expressions.

• For example, the film Hot Fuzz features Simon Pegg and Nick frost. These actors are well know to the comedy film industry and represents a instant icon for comedy.

Themes

• Themes in a action/comedy film are very much the same.

• Normally we will see the two main characters of the film in partnership with each other to find and stop the ‘Bad Guys’

• This is seen in action/comedy films like Hot Fuzz and Bad Boys I and II.

Themes

• Hot fuzz shows Police Officer, Sergeant Nicholas Angel with his partner Danny fighting to find out mysterious deaths in the town where they live.

Themes

• Bad Boys I and II show Police partners and best friends, Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett fighting to stop Drug dealers in Miami.