Conventions for the Sub genre - Action

Action conventions -

• obvious antagonistic.
• race against the clock scenario.
• more violence than other sub genres
• disruption to equilibrium requires the protagonist to use action to solve it (most be still from some form of combat)
• usually involves a character of the opposite sex to drive the narrative (however, their loyalty may be doubted, double cross scenario).
• often involves high character profiles.
• examples are: Spider man, Die Hard, James Bond.

This is the trailer from Spider man which is an example of the sub genre action.

This movie is portrayed as a action film becasue it fit in with the conventions of an action film. The viewer can very easily recognise the protagonist and antagonist. There is alot of fighting and violence in this movie between the 'baddy' and the 'goody'.
There is a woman the spider man is fighting for, but not against the antagonist, so this is sort of a convention, but it doesn't completely fit, although the famale character does get into trouble with the baddy, so the protagonist feels that he has to save her no matter what becasue she is his 'love'.
The scenes with fighting in mostly have something bad happening to them at the end after a certain amount of time, so the protagonist is racing against time to prevent the bad thing form happeneing.
In this movie and other action movies, the only way the crime can been seen to be solved is if the fight and use violence.
In most actions movies such as this, the producers what the audience to think that the protagonist is loosing so that they feel sorry for him/her as they have created an emotions connection with them. Obviously in the end though the protagonist defeats the antagonist, but they may come out of it a bit battered and bruised like in 'Spiderman'.