Genre research on action

How did action come about?

The action genre is known to be very popular even when action films started to come out. It started to make appearances in the 1920s which was very early. These action films normally consisted of swashbuckling pirates having sword fights and finding treasure.

In the 1940s there was a new type of action which featured cowboys, spy and war films. In the 60s James Bond was the most popular action film as it included hero and villains plus modern fighting scenes with guns rather than sword fights with pirates. James Bond included car chases and fist fighting combat.

In the 1990s it was the era of squeals as they made another James Bond as film companies saw the opportunity to make even more money from a squeal.

Famous examples Famous examples of the action genre is Saving Private Ryan, this was based on the Normandy Landings, then a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. The budget was $70,000,000 and scored 8.6 on IMDB

Other famous examples include the expendables and the matrix, both of these films have a trilogy.

Common conventions of

the action genre In nearly all action films there is hero and a villain. A villain normally has a facial disfigurement like a scar and maybe has something to represent themselves. There is normally a woman with a sex appeal who needs saving or gets captured by the villain. In an action film there is normally violent chase scenes. Action sequences will be violent and also the hero is always trying to kill the villain.