Hey guys, coming back here again for another post. This time, I want to talk about different genres and how they're successful in their respective roles. When I was starting off my research, I immediately thought to look back on the genre slideshow we did a couple of weeks ago to understand and know the different genre types there are. After looking at that, I began my research with looking into the video games genre since I have a high interest in it.
Moving on, I needed dive deeper into the film category and at I quickly thought of researching the Western genre. The idea of western films is to, obviously, portray the 1800s and how life was at that time with movies such as The Searcher or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly that both gave rugged landscapes and had themes like justice or redemption. Elements like these are very different compared to the Horror genre where the ideas such as upbeat or more action packed would be put aside and sticks to a more darker and grim tone. The article also explains that in many movies, like the ones I had just said, often show the characters to have specific archetypes. For example, there would the classic gunslinger who often would be the main character of the film and the antagonist could also be a gunslinger to create conflict with the protagonist. With this kind of style of film being more action-packed, it could give the audience a sense of hype or excitement. Studios such as Pixar have made western styled films in the past, most notably Toy Story which is a trilogy about the protagonist and his friends all being toys that go on little adventures and have large themes and aspects that represent a western style due to the protagonist being a cowboy.
Finally, I ventured and researched my final genre which ended up to be action. Action is a very broad genre since you would typically see this in most if not all movies due to their always being a climax and could involve some sort of conflict or fighting. While I was looking for some informational articles, I stumbled upon this one article that was titled "The Action Genre in film and TV." While scrolling through this article, I read a part that gave me the exact definition of what the action genre is and it basically said that action films/shows are usually made with a hero and villain as the main focus. These two characters usually fight each other with one having very obvious good intentions while the other would have much more evil desires. A good example of this would be the film Die Hard which is about a New York cop called John McClane who is labeled as the protagonist since he was forced to stop a group of terrorists from stealing over $640 million along with taking over the Nakatomi Plaza Skyscraper. Adding on, there are some studios that popularized the action genre such as Warner Bros. who created films like Mad Max, DC Universe, etc. The action genre itself is created with the intent to entertain the audience with constant scenes of conflict or fighting to make sure the movie doesn't feel boring or repetitive with other scenes that might focus on more personal topics. Director Michael Bay was able to achieve this trait in his movie trilogy Transformers and he was known for always putting lots of explosions in those movies to really portray the action genre.
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