TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Film struggle (stock) genre that tells that the main character (protagonist) is involved in a series of violent events and physical battles. Quotation Los Angeles Times, This film has several subgenres, namely: Thriller in Frenchadventure, espionage, comedy, drama.

For the most part, heroes of this genre are good at combat. Situation in each action scene like the pursuit with the victory of the hero, after going through a threatening and dangerous situation.

Common action movie elements include explosions, weapons, heroes, villains, someone in distress pursues, a wise protagonist, and the scene changes from calm to intense (dark) accompanied by gunfire or fighting.

The origins of action movies (stock)?

To quote the Action Elite page, originally action movies are simply captivating adventure and cowboy stories. The story was shown during the period 1920 to 1930 as the first action movie was rising in the movie world.

Some historians claim, The Great Train Robbery which was released in 1903 as the initial stimulus for the emergence of other action films. In the 1940s, action films featured new adventures of action, war and espionage. This action is shown in the film james bond by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman.

The film’s long-term success james bond – which dominated action films from 1940 to 1960 – introduced the subject of modern action stories, namely about resourceful heroes. In 1963, famed producer and director John Sturges featured prisoners trying to escape the German war during World War II. This action is shown in the film called The great Escape (1963).

During the 1970s, action films laced with martial arts, crime novels and urban crime dramas gave rise to a series of detective films, such as Bullit. In 1979 Jim Markovic produced a Hong Kong martial arts film called The real Bruce Lee. The impact of this film is extraordinary. This film once occupied the top charts in box office North America.

In the 1980s, action films began to flap higher and produced some of the highest budget actors, such as Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. The subgenre in action films has also successfully adorned the world of cinema, namely: action comedy (action comedy), sci-fi action (sci-fi action) and action thriller (action thriller).

In the 1990s, technological advancements supported the development of action films. Many action movies take advantage of technological advances resulting from infographic pictures (CGI) or infographics technology.

Quotation Internet Archive, Although producing films with this technology tends to be easy, the costs involved are higher. A film that has been mixed by CGI will be unrealistic. There are also great action movies with a mix of CGI, one of which is a movie The Avengers.

In the 2000s, action films merged tent pole (films that support the financial performance of the studio) with other genres, such as films The matrix. In this era, it’s also synonymous with car chases for criminals, superheroes, detectives, and other action subgenres that are amazingly packed, because of CGI. In January 2022 action series movie fast and Furious managed to become the highest-grossing film.

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