Genre Research Blog

 I have spoken about genres and how they are all different. In my last blog I spoke about the genre of Mystery. Mystery is quite captivating, but what may be more captivating is action. Along with mystery movies and series, action is the most watched and entertained genre. 90% of the top movies are action. 

You may ask yourself, why is action so loved? The answer is that people live vicariously through movies. People watch action movies because they get pleasure out of seeing people do what they’d like to be doing. People also like to see things that they can’t safely do in real life. This often takes form in them watching movies that often results in a lot of death.

A good example of this is Rambo. Rambo is a story based on an ex-military lone wolf trying to assimilate himself back into America. At this point, America doesn’t value the military post Vietnam. Rambo goes rogue in a small town after facing discrimination , resulting in a lot of violence and death. People that like Rambo watch it because they view themself as the character, living dangerously , without facing the real life consequences. 

Another example is Transformers. Transformers is a fictional story about alien robots coming down from space. In this movie , the main character face life or death scenarios constantly from a group of alien robots called decepticons. This story is of course completely fictional and therefore people watch it. They live through the main characters experience.