Codes and conventions of an action genre.
- 12/15 certifictae: maximising youth audience
- Often hybridised with Sci-Fi/Aventure/Romance
- Major Hollywood studio produced and distributed
- High production values including CGI, FX
- Fast paced editing
- Predictable chain of events- cause and effect
- Dramatic non-diegetic sound
- Chase scenes, fight scenes, weapons used throughout
- Low lighting on evil characters
- Extreme close up of characters to show expression duirng action and tense moments
- Immaculate clothing becomes torn and scruffy towards the end of the film to symbolise their situation
- Lots of high energy throughout
- Music to suit the characters
- More narrative action codes-enigma codes-puzzles
- Clear binary oppositions, good v evil
- Romantic sub plot, homorous dialogue
There are several cliches and conventions of an action film, some of these include:
- Several large men possessing preposterous level of upper body musculature
- Villains are usually heavily accented
- Females tend to be promiscuous, weak and usually the victim, not having a large role throughout the film
- Emergency surgery, falls from great height, reasonable amounts of torture
- Characters with lots of scars, and each scar should come with a story.
- Off road vehicles only
- Attacks that come as a complete surprise
- Stream of deadly machine guns
- Leap away from explosions
- Sliding down the sloped of an all glass skyscraper
- Inability of the bad guys to hit anything with their weapons
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