1.12/15 certificate: maximising youth audiences
2.Often hybridised with Sci Fi/Adventure/Romance
3.Major Hollywood studio produced and distributed
4.High production values including CGI
5.Fast paced editing - diegetic sounds of guns and explosions, diologe villain has
a foreign
accent, a non digetic sound like music
a foreign
accent, a non digetic sound like music
6.Predictable chain of events – cause and effect
7.Dramatic non-diegetic sound
8.More narrative action codes - enigma codes - puzzles
9.Clear binary oppositions – good versus evil
10.Star Marketing: Audience identification/expectations
(Cruise/Pitt/Willis/Thurman/Jolie/Stallone/Craig/)
(Cruise/Pitt/Willis/Thurman/Jolie/Stallone/Craig/)
11.Romantic sub-plot, humorous dialogue
12.Relationships with new technology (youth audiences)
13.Use of close up - of villains face etc, establishing a shot of the setting, where the
action is going to take place
Typical Cliche in an the action genre are
The women in action films tend to be promiscuous femmes fatales or crusading journalist
or medical support staff or hapless rebels or victims or miscast.
a fall from a great height, a reasonable amount of torture and a lot of rappelling.
Nobody drives a car in action films: off-road vehicles only.
In the course of the classic action film, several large men possessing a preposterous level of
upper body musculature will be betrayed
action is going to take place
Typical Cliche in an the action genre are
The women in action films tend to be promiscuous femmes fatales or crusading journalist
or medical support staff or hapless rebels or victims or miscast.
a fall from a great height, a reasonable amount of torture and a lot of rappelling.
Nobody drives a car in action films: off-road vehicles only.
In the course of the classic action film, several large men possessing a preposterous level of
upper body musculature will be betrayed
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