Felipe Bayona Lozano Santiago Zarate
Action Film, Movie Genre Action film, is a film or movie genre in which basically the main character end up in a series of challenges that include, violence, combat, physical fights, and most of the times a winner and a loser. Action movies, usually, tend to feature an all mighty hero, that always does somethings amazing, against all incredible odds. Also, this kind of movies, tend to create a super villain that at the beginning starts winning the features against the hero, but generally the story concludes with a hero´s victory, like I’ve already said against all odds. In all this features you see a tremendous impact and a high energy moments and scenes. This were some of the things that made this movie genre so exciting and successful. During the 1920s and 1930s, action films were based on action-adventure subgenre films. This films, normally consisted of a sword fighting and adventurous hero, and mostly were develop on Western Europe. Some examples of this are The Mark of Zorro (1920) or The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). It was until the 40s and 50s that we saw a different type of movies, most of them were war films, or cowboy movies. One notable actor from these two decades was Jack Warner. In the 60s, a new movie sub-genre raised. The spy adventure genre, that with the help of James Bond 007, gained a lot of fame and fortune. The 80s was the time when Hollywood became the most important place of summer blockbuster. This was named The Action Era. This new era introduced to fame some of the most popular actors nowadays such as Bruce Willies, or Chuck Norris. In the 90s, sub genres like spy movies and western genre got stronger than before. Also the Comic Book Movie was created, giving to the audience great movies such as Batman. In the 21st century, action movies became a whole new thing. Each movie, or most of them, had budgets of millions and millions of dollars, which allowed them to bring to life almost everything they’ve ever imagined. Creating and developing movies such as, Mad Max, American Sniper or Kingsman. The abilities of 3D graphics, incredible special effects, fine art and creation of fine details, opened a door to a whole new world for this genre and for mankind.