From the definitions above, it can be said that movie is a series of images that are projected into a screen to create the illusion of motion and one of the
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b. Movie Genres
Listed below are some of the most common and identifiable movie genre categories, with descriptions of each type or category:
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1. Action Movie
Action movie usually includes a very straightforward storyline like good guys versus bad guys, where most disagreements in the movie are resolved by
physical force. 2.
Adventure Movie Adventure movie is usually exciting stories, with new experiences or
exotic locales, very similar to or often paired with the action film genre. They searches or expeditions for lost continents, jungle and desert epics, treasure
hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown. 3.
Comedy Movie Comedy movie is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humors
and deliberately designed to amuse and provoke laughter by exaggerating the situation, the language, action, relationships and characters.
4. Crime and Gangster Movie
Crime gangster movie is genre of film that focused on the lives of criminals.
5. Drama Movie
Drama movie is serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character
development and interaction. Usually, drama movie is lack of action and the screenplay moves at a very slow-paced.
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Tim Dirks, Main Film Genre, 2014, http:www.filmsite.orggenres.html.
6. Epics or Historical Movie
Epics include costume dramas, historical dramas, war films, medieval romps, or period pictures that often cover a large expanse of time set against a
vast, panoramic backdrop. Epics take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes,
accompanied by grandeur and spectacle, dramatic scope, high production values, and a sweeping musical score.
7. Horror Movie
Horror movie can also be related to suspense movies. They are dominated by elements of horror, shock, suspense, disgust, and terror.
8. Musical or Dances Movie
Musical or dance movie is the type of film where features songs that are sung by actors and dancing which are interwoven into the narrative. Major
subgenres include the musical comedy or the concert film. 9.
Science Fiction Movie Sci-fi films movie often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative -
complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology,
unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters. 10.
War Movie War and anti-war movie acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war,
letting the actual combat fighting against nations or human kind on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film.
11. Western Movie
Western movie is one of the classic movie kind and American literary. It is art works of not only movies, but in literature, sculpture, TV, shows and painting.
It also tells about the romanticized tales of the American West.
