2. The majority of action films which you see include tremendous impact
and continuous high energy, to keep the audience with the whole rhythm
of the scene and what’s going on. Lots of physical stunts and activity are
put in to emphasise on the whole action and brutality of the scene. They
include chase scenes, races, rescues, battles these are all included, they
get people adrenalin flowing as normally these are faced paced and
include large impacts and destruction. Martial arts and fight scenes are
included in a lot of fight scene mainly used by the main characters to
defeat the bad guy they use allot of non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm
and pacing to really get the audience to feel the pace and spped of the
fight . Destructive disasters which normally include
floods, explosions, natural disasters these always have one of the more
venerable characters also know as the ‘ Damsel In Distress’ where the
main character does a spectacular rescue. All of the above are mainly in
the stereo typical action film which are designed for pure audience
escapism with the action sequences at the core of the film.

3. During the 1920s and 1930s many films featured as
swashbuckling, these are action adventure subgenre films, they
normally consist of sword fighting and adventurous heroic
characters, these will normally be sit in renaissance western
Europe, the plot to this is normally a damsel in distress and a romantic
element.
Many films associated with this subgenre is this era are:
-The Mark of Zorro (1920)
-Robin Hood (1922)
-The Three Musketeers (1921)
-Captain Blood (1935)
-The Prisoner Of Zenda (1937)

4. Noah Beery
Douglas Fairbanks Errol Flynn

5. The 1940s and 1950s saw a different subgenre of films, most films in the 40s
and 50s were mainly in he form of a war film, or a cowboy movie. War films
were generally related on warfare, these either consisted of naval, air or land
battles. Some of these were prisoners of war this is where the film has the plot
of someone who is held in prisoner by an enemy during or immediately after
the war or conflict between either sides.
Finally just anything based on these, whether it was fictional, documentaries or
generally just based on the history of war. of war this is where the film has the
plot of someone who is held in prisoner by an enemy during or immediately
after the war or conflict between either sides.
Some War Films From The 40s And 50s:
-The Wooden Horse (1950)
- Albert R.N. (1953)
- The Colditz Story (1955)

6. Jack Warner
Leo Genn
David Tomlinson

7. The 1960s Introduced a new subgenre of action films, this was the Spy
Adventure Genre, These films, were something new, James Bond came
into the whole equation, These films dominated the action films of 1960s.
This introduced to everyone the staples of a modern day action film. These
films normally consisted of a ‘one man army’ who has the abilities to
disposal of villainous masterminds in even more creative ways.
These films normally included high speed car chases which would get on
the end of your seat, also these included fist fights and the big fight scenes
with the use of different gadgets and weapons.

8. Steve McQueen
Sean Connery Sir Roger Moore

10. The 1970s, This is where bond saw a competition on his hands these
were gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas, these consisted of
this new action style, leading to a string of police officer films all of which
featured an intense car chase, which they replicated of bonds popular
stuntwork of the Bond films.
The 70s also saw the introduction of martial-arts films to western
audiences. These were:
-Enter the Dragon (1973)
-Way of (or Return of) the Dragon(1972)
Also these were getting popularized by the cross films of martial arts with
cops and robbers, starring Chuck Norris:
-Good Guys Wear Black (1977)
-A Force of One (1979)
From Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in the Karate Kiba in 1973. It was the first movie
for him about martial arts. His international breakthrough film was the Street
fighter series in 1974. His films weren't just about martial arts but they also
included action thriller:
- Doberman Cop and Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon -(1977)

11. Notable Actors In The 70s.
Clint Eastwood Chuck Norris Bruce Lee
李小龍

12. The 1980s, saw the action film take over in Hollywood to become a
dominant form of summer blockbuster This was named the The
Action Era. This introduced some of the main actors such as :
-Sylvester Stallone
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
-Bruce Willis
-Chuck Norris.
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas introduced a new james bond
inspired style with the mega-hit:
-Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
This introduced a new hero ‘ indiana jones ‘ Played by the actor
Harrison Ford.
In 1982 the first ‘buddie cop’ film was introduced named 48hrs, this
had smashed the box office records.

13. The History Of Action Films.
1980s Continued: in 1982 also the first of the Rambo films were popularized named
‘first blood’ starring Sylvester Stallone, this was the first of the Rambo sequels. This
film proved to be very successful and in 1985 the introduced a second to the film
named ‘ Rambo First Blood: Part 2’ this was the most successful in the Rambo series
and gave Rambo the name of a pop culture icon.
Other great action films were introduced during this, such as in 1987 the first of the
die hards named ‘Die Hard’, this consisted of a maverick cop with martial arts skills
fighting drug traffickers.
In 1988 The first of the sequels ‘ Die Hard’ was introduced starring one of the most
memorable actors ‘Bruce Willis’. This is where a New York police detective who
inadvertently becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office
building high-rise.
This then introduced many dub genres such as: war-action hybrids, science fiction
and musical-action-comedy.

14. Arnold Schwarzenegger Harrison Ford
Bruce Willis
Sylvester Stallone

15. The 1990s was an era of sequels and hybrid, sub genre actions films, Like the:
-Western genre
-The spy-movies.
- urban-action films. These all were starting to parody themselves.
With the growing revolution in Computer Gaming Imagery these real world
setting, started to have an allowance budget of any motion picture films.
The success of many of the successful film sequels had proven that a single
successful action film could lead to a continuing action franchise.
All the new rise in amount of technology allowed many film makers to produce
a new height in film making with breath taking experiences.
In 1989 ‘Tim Burton’ introduced and had great successes ‘Batman’, which with
its great success lead to many great successful sequels and had proved the
variability of a new sub genre ‘ The Comic Book Movie’.

16. Notable Actors In the 90s.Will Smith
Jackie Chan
成龍
Chris Farley

17. The 20th and 21st Century Films had a whole new thing to them, with most
films having budgets of$ 100,000,000s. This meant that films were able to
create thrilling, breath taking features.
The ability to use CGI ( Computer Generated Imagery ) ables films to have such
spectacular graphics : 3D computerised graphics. These are used to make
computer generated movies, which allows fine art and to create pure fine
detailed, surfaces textures and brilliant picture to the filming world.