Genre

Genre

There are many different types of genre in the film industry. 

There are a good few that a stereo typically recommended and enjoyed by a certain gender, and others that I personally prefer to others. I will be discussing what types of film genres there are and will give an example of a movie of that genre. Lots of genres are often mixed together also. I will give a few examples.

Romance (50 First Dates)

A romance movie grabs the audience and follows two people usually - and pulls them into their journey so they follow a crazy and normally very emotional whirlwind love story. For example,

"50 First Dates" starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore involves a man falling for a girl who suffers from a very rare case of amnesia where she forgets everything that happened in a day by the time she falls asleep at night. His task is to make her fall in love with him everyday because by the time morning comes she completely forgets who he is. Audiences are intrigued to follow him to find out if manages to do it - and at the same time are taken on an emotional journey like in most romantic movies. There is also a few barriers, which almost makes their love doomed (much like in Romeo & Juliet) and stereo typically most love stories have barriers that are eventually overcome by the couple so that that audience can rest knowing that their love was stronger than anything that life threw at them. This particular movie is a Rom-Com (Romantic Comedy) which means that there are some parts in the movie that are meant to be comical and laughed at, which doesn't make it the most dramatically romantic movie in the world, but by it having funny actors such as Adam Sandler in it, it can appeal to a wider audience of people who enjoy comedies as well as romance.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy (Back To The Future)

A sci-fi or fantasy film involves something scientifically fictional coming to life in a movie. A film like this may involve a vast amount of special effects in editing, make up and costume design as well as an epic theme song/soundtrack to go with it. Being my personal favourite genre of film, the sci-fi drags the audience into a parallel universe where anything is possible. An example of a very successful sc-fi movie is Back To The Future which is a three-part trilogy involving a wannabe rock star teenager Marty McFly and a previously unsuccessful scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Doc) discovering the most impossible thing in the world coming true- travelling through time. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd time travel in an 80s sports vehicle to the past, present and the future. Through this adventure, audiences are desperate to know if their two heroes come out okay at the end of the story, and the first two movies are obviously left on cliffhangers to make the audience thirst for more, especially when time after time something goes incredibly wrong which causes various problems. This happens a lot within sci-fi movies; the audience follow their hero (which is stereo typically a young and strong male figure in a genre like this one) and there are usually a lot a villains which he must fight and get past so that they come out victorious. Sci-Fi movies are often very expensive to make, simply because they require a lot of special effects and constant editing to bring a fantasy to life in the audience's eyes. For example, in Back To The Future there was about three or four prop cars of the time travelling DeLorean because of how frequently and quickly they had to film it over the course of the trilogy.

Comedy (A Million Ways To Die In The West) 

A film within the Comedy genre is made to make the audience feel a sense of joy - whether it be dark humour or dry humour, it is there to entertain and make the audience laugh, and even if they don't laugh out loud it is supposed to appear as amusing. A basic plot with a main character and his/her friends takes the audience on a comical adventure so that they can experience everything that the character does, even if that means the character embarrassing or making a fool out of them self. An example of a recent comedy movie that came out in 2014 is A Million Ways To Die In The West starring Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron and the well-known Liam Neeson. The plot follows a hopeless romantic, Albert, who is a sheep farmer and can't shoot a gun to save his life. He loses his "gold digger" girlfriend Louise to a richer and more socially acceptable man in the mid 1800s and makes a plan to win her back. Then he meets the tomboyish Anna, who teaches him how to shoot a gun and offers to help him win Louise back, and things suddenly seem to be going really well for him. Eventually he realizes that what he really needed was right there in front of him the whole time, and the audience follow the plot into realizing that both Albert and Anna end up falling in love, and Albert confronts Louise knowing now that he shouldn't need money to buy true love. While this movie holds a lot of laugh-out-loud adult comedy, it also forms into a love story, but at the same time nothing is taken very seriously throughout the movie and the whole concept is to make the audience laugh as well as be caught up in an interesting plot twist. Lots of other comedy movies involve plot twists which are often unexpected and make them a lot more exciting to the audience.