"Family dramas are all about conflict, about family oblications versus free will. The martial arts film enternalises the elements of restraint and exhilaration. In a family drama there is a verbal fight. Here you kick butt." (Ang Lee, on the differences between his films Sense and Sensibility and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Genre theory has developed considerably over the past few decades. Many approach film genres as they are set in stone, with sets of codes, conventions and themes that should not be changed. Action and adventure is a far less easy genre from which to assemble common characteristics. It embrases a varity of sub-genres, and many western films are also considered as part of the action and adventure genre.
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