Action And Adventure Genre

Action and adventure is a film genre where one or more protagonist, or heroes in action and adventure genre, is thrust into a series of challenges that requires physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases. Usually the genre contains one resourceful character struggling against incredible odds such as;

• life threatening situations



• an evil villain



• and/or being chased in several forms of transportation (e.g. cars, trains, boats e.t.c)

with victory being achieved at the end after difficult physical efforts and violence. During the stories developments there are usually secondary explosions, fist fights, gunplay and car chases.

Action and adventure genres were traditionally aimed at male audiences from the early teens to the mid 30's many action and adventure filmmakers from the 1990's and 2000's added female heroins in response to the expanding social concepts of gender and glorifying the strong female archetype.

Because of the advancement in CGI and special effects action and adventure films are becoming more and more popular by filmmakers. It is now cheaper and easier to create action sequences and other visual effects that required professional stunt crews and dangerous stunt crews than in the past. Film audiences now have high expectations for action and adventure films because of the high level of computer generated imagery.

While action has been a major element in the action and adventure genre development in the 1970's has now made the genre closely linked with the thriller genre and also may have elements of science fiction and espionage.