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grow fastly. Genre is appointed after some of films that represent those genre are succesful become trends.
The simple example is western genre. The storyline is often about cowboy who is expert in gun and help the victim from the cruel leader. The spesific settings are in
jail, small town, main street, and ranch houses. Central plot of the western film is the classic, normally rooted in archetypal conflict
– good vs bad, virtue vs evil. The typical elements are gun and gun fight sometimes on horseback, bank robbers and
wore distinctive western clothing denim, jeans, boots etc.
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Like western, others genres have their own characteristics.
The main function of genre is to facilitate film classification. Genre help us to choose films based on the spesification. Genre also set up the relationship between
the film-maker and audiences. Film industry often uses spesific genre as the marketing strategy. Beside for classification, function of genre is for audiences
anticipation in watching.