Genre Research.Action Films.

The majority of action films which you see include tremendous impact and continuous high energy, to keep the audience with the whole rhythm of the scene and what’s going on. Lots of physical stunts and activity are put in to emphasise on the whole action and brutality of the scene. They include chase scenes, races, rescues, battles these are all included, they get people adrenalin flowing as normally these are faced paced and include large impacts and destruction. Martial arts and fight scenes are included in a lot of fight scene mainly used by the main characters to defeat the bad guy they use allot of non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing to really get the audience to feel the pace and spped of the fight . Destructive disasters which normally include floods, explosions, natural disasters these always have one of the more venerable characters also know as the ‘ Damsel In Distress’ where the main character does a spectacular rescue. All of the above are mainly in the stereo typical action film which are designed for pure audience escapism with the action sequences at the core of the film.

Introduction Of Action Films.

The history of Action Films.During the 1920s and 1930s many films featured as swashbuckling, these are action adventure subgenre films, they normally consist of sword fighting and adventurous heroic characters, these will normally be sit in renaissance western Europe, the plot to this is normally a damsel in distress and a romantic element. Many films associated with this subgenre is this era are:

-The Mark of Zorro (1920)-Robin Hood (1922)-The Three Musketeers (1921)-Captain Blood (1935)-The Prisoner Of Zenda (1937)

Notable Actors In The 1920s & 1930s

Douglas Fairbanks Errol Flynn

Noah Beery

The history of Action Films.The 1940s and 1950s saw a different subgenre of films, most films in the 40s and 50s were mainly in he form of a war film, or a cowboy movie. War films were generally related on warfare, these either consisted of naval, air or land battles. Some of these were prisoners of war this is where the film has the plot of someone who is held in prisoner by an enemy during or immediately after the war or conflict between either sides. Finally just anything based on these, whether it was fictional, documentaries or generally just based on the history of war. of war this is where the film has the plot of someone who is held in prisoner by an enemy during or immediately after the war or conflict between either sides.

Some War Films From The 40s And 50s:

-The Wooden Horse (1950)- Albert R.N. (1953)- The Colditz Story (1955)

Notable Actors In The 1940s an 1950s

David TomlinsonLeo Genn

Jack Warner

The History Of Action Films.The 1960s Introduced a new subgenre of action films, this was the Spy Adventure Genre, These films, were something new, James Bond came into the whole equation, These films dominated the action films of 1960s. This introduced to everyone the staples of a modern day action film. These films normally consisted of a ‘one man army’ who has the abilities to disposal of villainous masterminds in even more creative ways. These films normally included high speed car chases which would get on the end of your seat, also these included fist fights and the big fight scenes with the use of different gadgets and weapons.

Sean Connery Sir Roger Moore

Steve McQueen

Notable Actors In The 1940s

an 1950s

The History Of Action Films.The 1970s, This is where bond saw a competition on his hands these were gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas, these consisted of this new action style, leading to a string of police officer films all of which featured an intense car chase, which they replicated of bonds popular stuntwork of the Bond films.The 70s also saw the introduction of martial-arts films to western audiences. These were:-Enter the Dragon (1973)-Way of (or Return of) the Dragon(1972)Also these were getting popularized by the cross films of martial arts with cops and robbers, starring Chuck Norris: -Good Guys Wear Black (1977)-A Force of One (1979)From Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in the Karate Kiba in 1973. It was the first movie for him about martial arts. His international breakthrough film was the Street fighter series in 1974. His films weren't just about martial arts but they also included action thriller:- Doberman Cop and Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon -(1977)

Notable Actors In The 70s.

Clint Eastwood Bruce Lee李小龍

Chuck Norris

The History Of Action Films.The 1980s, saw the action film take over in Hollywood to become a dominant form of summer blockbuster This was named the The Action Era. This introduced some of the main actors such as :-Sylvester Stallone-Arnold Schwarzenegger-Bruce Willis -Chuck Norris.Steven Spielberg and George Lucas introduced a new james bond inspired style with the mega-hit:-Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)This introduced a new hero ‘ indiana jones ‘ Played by the actor Harrison Ford.In 1982 the first ‘buddie cop’ film was introduced named 48hrs, this had smashed the box office records.

The History Of Action Films.1980s Continued: in 1982 also the first of the Rambo films were popularized named ‘first blood’ starring Sylvester Stallone, this was the first of the Rambo sequels. This film proved to be very successful and in 1985 the introduced a second to the film named ‘ Rambo First Blood: Part 2’ this was the most successful in the Rambo series and gave Rambo the name of a pop culture icon.

Other great action films were introduced during this, such as in 1987 the first of the die hards named ‘Die Hard’, this consisted of a maverick cop with martial arts skills fighting drug traffickers.

In 1988 The first of the sequels ‘ Die Hard’ was introduced starring one of the most memorable actors ‘Bruce Willis’. This is where a New York police detective who inadvertently becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office building high-rise.

This then introduced many dub genres such as: war-action hybrids, science fiction and musical-action-comedy.

Notable Actors In The 80s.

Sylvester StalloneBruce Willis

Arnold Schwarzenegger Harrison Ford

The History Of Action Films.The 1990s was an era of sequels and hybrid, sub genre actions films, Like the: -Western genre-The spy-movies.- urban-action films. These all were starting to parody themselves.With the growing revolution in Computer Gaming Imagery these real world setting, started to have an allowance budget of any motion picture films.

The success of many of the successful film sequels had proven that a single successful action film could lead to a continuing action franchise.All the new rise in amount of technology allowed many film makers to produce a new height in film making with breath taking experiences.

In 1989 ‘Tim Burton’ introduced and had great successes ‘Batman’, which with its great success lead to many great successful sequels and had proved the variability of a new sub genre ‘ The Comic Book Movie’.

Notable Actors In the 90s.

Chris Farley

Will Smith

Jackie Chan成龍

The History Of Action Films.The 20th and 21st Century Films had a whole new thing to them, with most films having budgets of$ 100,000,000s. This meant that films were able to create thrilling, breath taking features.

The ability to use CGI ( Computer Generated Imagery ) ables films to have such spectacular graphics : 3D computerised graphics. These are used to make computer generated movies, which allows fine art and to create pure fine detailed, surfaces textures and brilliant picture to the filming world.

Well Known Action Film Actors.