MAIN Post 6: History of your chosen genre

The majority of action films which you see include tremendous impactand continuous high energy, to keep the audience with the whole rhythmof the scene and what’s going on. Lots of physical stunts and activity areput in to emphasise on the whole action and brutality of the scene. Theyinclude chase scenes, races, rescues, battles these are all included, theyget people adrenalin flowing as normally these are faced paced andinclude large impacts and destruction. Martial arts and fight scenes areincluded in a lot of fight scene mainly used by the main characters todefeat the bad guy they use allot of non-stop motion, spectacular rhythmand pacing to really get the audience to feel the pace and spped of thefight . Destructive disasters which normally includefloods, explosions, natural disasters these always have one of the morevenerable characters also know as the ‘ Damsel In Distress’ where themain character does a spectacular rescue.During the 1920s and 1930s many films featured asswashbuckling, these are action adventure subgenre films, theynormally consist of sword fighting and adventurous heroiccharacters, these will normally be sit in renaissance westernEurope, the plot to this is normally a damsel in distress and a romanticelement.The 1940s and 1950s saw a different subgenre of films, most films in the 40sand 50s were mainly in he form of a war film, or a cowboy movie. War filmswere generally related on warfare, these either consisted of naval, air or landbattles. Some of these were prisoners of war this is where the film has the plotof someone who is held in prisoner by an enemy during or immediately afterthe war or conflict between either sides. The 1960s Introduced a new subgenre of action films, this was the SpyAdventure Genre, These films, were something new, James Bond cameinto the whole equation, These films dominated the action films of 1960s.This introduced to everyone the staples of a modern day action film. Thesefilms normally consisted of a ‘one man army’.The 1970s, This is where bond saw a competition on his hands thesewere gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas, these consisted ofthis new action style, leading to a string of police officer films all of whichfeatured an intense car chase, which they replicated of bonds popularstuntwork of the Bond films.The 70s also saw the introduction of martial-arts films to westernaudiences.