action/adventure

There are many sub-genres for action, but the largest is action adventure.

Action adventure is the largest of them all. This sub-genre started to make itself known to the film industry in the 1970s.

The development of an action adventure film has been running since the 1970s, where it started of as a  small genre with not many films using it, to it being the highest budgeted film genre and most widely used within the film industry.

There are many iconography used in action/adventure, such as:
Props:
• Guns
• Swords
• Explosives
• Cars

Location:
• Familiar places
• Exotic places
• Places the audience can relate to

Costume:
• Scruffy/explore clothing
• Suites (usually for the men)


One of the most famous action/adventure film series are the James Bond films, these films include all the traits of an action/adventure film. They all have a protagonist (James Bond), an antagonist, the helper (both the girls he meets and the M16 00’ program), explosions, cars, guns and swords.