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ACTION ROMANC
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Conventions of Genre
• Fast paced• Fights• Weapons• Killings (usually a loved one/s)• Mass destruction• Outbursts in setting• Motives/goals• Good versus bad• Boy meets girl• Happy ending• Emotions
Associated Actors and Directors
Actors Tom Cruise Brad Pitt Daniel Craig
Directors Doug Liman John Glen Michael Bay
Popular Action Romance Films
Popular films - Mr and Mrs Smith, The Body Guard, Knight and Day, The Bounty Hunter.Normally involve well- known film stars such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr and Mrs Smith.Often have a strong comedy element or witty dialogue.
Popular Action Romance Films
The genre goes back to the early days of Hollywood.
Stars have included:Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in the African Queen
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in Romancing The Stone.
Popular Action Romance Films
Main characters usually begin the film disliking each other but a romantic relationship develops.
Action Romance films can be huge at the box office.
Top Gun starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. The money taken for the film at the box office was $356,830,601
Analysis of a Scene
In this scene the editing is mainly slow-motion and fast paced so you can see all of the action going on. Sound, gun shots and explosions with the click of a door opening at the beginning. The camera pans around John and Jane which shows that they're working together, and there are mainly two shots with a few close ups. They are wearing black trousers, bullet proof vests and blue shirts with yellow glasses. The lighting is quite dim with a few lights around the room, and there are bright lights from the explosions.
