Genre Awareness Project
Joe Brunner
Instructor Belmihoub
English 120
1/29/14
Characteristics of the Action Genre
Abstract
With the gaining popularity of many different types of movie genres, Action movies are rising up as well because there are many actors and directors. There are many characteristics that define an action movie and how it should be made. While looking at the movie posters I found some similar features between all three. While looking at the photos I further saw the reasoning behind the similarities. At the end I figured out if the same features are in all other action movies.
Introduction
Action movies have been around, as long as movies were filmed. Thinking of the characteristics of action movies, explosions, loud noises, gun, fast and nice cars, and a lot of violence and blood all come to mind. Also there are actors that people think of, including Sylvester Stallone who is a muscular man who is on all action movies and typically plays the big many figure present in action movies. My objective in this report is to look at posters of the same genre and look for the same aspects and elements that they have in common and then with the objectives to figure out the similar meaning.
Methods
For my first poster I started my search by going into Google and typing in Capitan America. There were a lot of the same posters and then there were a few of different ones but I decided to go with the one that showed up the most, to make sure it was the right one I checked with imdb.com and it was the correct poster used for advertising. The second poster, I researched on Google for the Expendables 2 poster with the same process. I checked imdb.com it was the correct poster, and to further check the posters as the same I went to another movie database called, themoviedb.org which had the same exact poster.
Finally, for the 3rd poster I also used Google images again to look up the poster for GI Joe: Rise of the King Cobra. Chose the one that I have seen before and thought to be the
Instructor Belmihoub
English 120
1/29/14
Characteristics of the Action Genre
Abstract
With the gaining popularity of many different types of movie genres, Action movies are rising up as well because there are many actors and directors. There are many characteristics that define an action movie and how it should be made. While looking at the movie posters I found some similar features between all three. While looking at the photos I further saw the reasoning behind the similarities. At the end I figured out if the same features are in all other action movies.
Introduction
Action movies have been around, as long as movies were filmed. Thinking of the characteristics of action movies, explosions, loud noises, gun, fast and nice cars, and a lot of violence and blood all come to mind. Also there are actors that people think of, including Sylvester Stallone who is a muscular man who is on all action movies and typically plays the big many figure present in action movies. My objective in this report is to look at posters of the same genre and look for the same aspects and elements that they have in common and then with the objectives to figure out the similar meaning.
Methods
For my first poster I started my search by going into Google and typing in Capitan America. There were a lot of the same posters and then there were a few of different ones but I decided to go with the one that showed up the most, to make sure it was the right one I checked with imdb.com and it was the correct poster used for advertising. The second poster, I researched on Google for the Expendables 2 poster with the same process. I checked imdb.com it was the correct poster, and to further check the posters as the same I went to another movie database called, themoviedb.org which had the same exact poster.
Finally, for the 3rd poster I also used Google images again to look up the poster for GI Joe: Rise of the King Cobra. Chose the one that I have seen before and thought to be the
Cited: Captain America: The First Avenger. Dir. Joe Johnston. 2011. Expendables 2. Dir. Simon West. 2012. G.I. Joe: Rise of King Cobra. Dir. Stephen Sommers. 2009. IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2014. <http://www.imdb.com/>. "The Movie Database." The Movie Database. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2014. <http://www.themoviedb.org/>. Appendix