A Presentation on the Historical Evaluation and Action Genre Film

This presentation explores the action genre, focusing on its historical evaluation and revolution. It highlights key characteristics such as fast-paced scenes, fight sequences, and chase sequences. The presentation discusses the genre's evolution from gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas to incorporating physical stunts, chases, explosions, and special effects. A scene from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (Battle of Helm's Deep) is analyzed, emphasizing the use of lighting, dialogue, and background action to create a thrilling atmosphere. The presentation concludes that the action film genre became popular in the 1970s and has continued to evolve with the integration of hybrid elements and effective techniques for creating excitement and suspense. Desklib provides students access to this assignment and other solved materials for academic support.

The topic action
genre

Table of content:
• Introduction
• Historical evaluation and revolutionised of the action genre
• Analysis of scenes
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
The current presentation is based on the action genre that comprises of the protagonist or
protagonists are thrust into a series of events that typically include violence, extended
fighting, physical feats, rescues and frantic chases. Further, the key characteristics of the
action genre comprises of the fast paced scenes and also include a lot of action like the
fight scenes, chase scenes and slow motion shots. This presentation includes a discussion
about the evaluation and revolutionised of the action genre along with analysis of a scene
focusing on the actor gesture lighting and other stuff.

Historical evaluation and revolutionised of
the action genre
Action genre is the one that comprises of the film and scenes wherein a high level of
physical action takes place in a series of scenes and shots that precedence in the
storytelling. Thus, the action film will tend to often have a continuous level of motion and
action that keeps on including the physical stunts, chases, fights, battles, and races. Beside
this, the action genre tends to have a usual story that revolves around a hero that has
basically have a goal, but is facing incredible odds and difficult situation to obtain these set
goals.

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Further, during the evaluation time action genre tend
to supply the context that is based on gritty detective
stories and urban crime dramas which lead to creation
and making of the string of maverick police officer
films, such as Bullitt (1968), The French Connection
(1971) and The Seven-Ups (1973). Dirty Harry (1971)

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Further, action film are made around the core set of characteristics includes the spectacular
physical action, narrative form of the fights, fast chasing, explosion and an effective
combination of state of the art and special effects that are main reason behind its rising
popularity. A revaluation and evaluation in the action genre has been seen that tend to
include the creation and generation of a hybrid genre that fuses and include a moral
landscape of the western and its combination with the urban settings of the film including
the tropes based on noir and police procedurals

Analysis of scene
An action scene is the one that tend
to comprises of the physical events
along with a rapid clip including
fight scenes, car clashes violence,
physical feats, rescues and any
form of frantic chases.

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The action scene selected for current
presentation is from the Movie “The
Lord of the Rings” comprises of the
Two towers- Battle of the Helm’s
deep.

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The Best and most thrilling part of this scenes comprises of the
raining scenes and the lighting used during the scenes as the during
the fight a vast outnumbered and Gandalf went off has been seen that
somewhere so he could not come back the dramatic entrance. Further,
this fight scene is considered as one of the most melee battle in the
history of the cinema and become most epic fight and action scenes
including fantastic dialogue delivery and lighting use.

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Further, this, scene comprises of a limited
dialogue and more and more of fighting
between the actors. Further, the use of the
background action and tone is amazing to add
on in the fighting mood. Further, proper use of
the movement to dialogue is also made to keep
the story moving during the fight.

Conclusion
On the basis of the current presentation, an analysis can be made that the
action film become most popular during the 1970s and involve a high level of
evaluation and development. Use of effective lighting techniques and
combination of hybrid chimera is seen after the evaluation. Along with thus,
high level of thriller created by short term stress situation and excitement is
made within the action scenes.

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