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Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.^{[citation needed]}

Overview

Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, survival films and pirate films. Adventure films can also be historical dramas, epic films, disaster films, road movies, time travel films or superhero films.^{[citation needed]} Main plot elements include quests for lost continents; a jungle, mountain, island, sea, forest, river, space, city, town, cave, tundra, volcano, wilderness, or desert setting; characters embarking on treasure and heroic journeys, facing dangers, rescuing a damsel in distress, travels and explorations for the unknown, usually also having to overcome an adversary.^{[citation needed]} Adventure films are commonly set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. Kings, monarchs, battles, aliens, princes, tribes, emperors, dinosaurs, espionage, rebellion or piracy are commonly seen in adventure films.^[1] Adventure films may also be combined with other movie genres such as action, comedy, documentary, family, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western or war.^{[citation needed]}

History

Adventure film popularity peaked in the 1930s and 1940s, when films such as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro were regularly made with major stars, notably Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power, who were closely associated with the genre.^{[citation needed]} Saturday morning serials used many of the same thematic elements as high-budget adventure films.^{[citation needed]}

In the early days of adventure films, the protagonists were mainly male. These heroes were courageous, often fighting suppression and facing tyrants. Recent adventure films have featured heroines, such as Lara Croft, as protagonists.^[1]

Popular concepts

Adventure films can contain stock characters and stereotypes. In some cases, this has been accused of going as far as implicit racism; claimed examples of this are Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, First Blood and James Bond "kicking third-world people around" in Dr. No.^[2]^[3]^{[page needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b "Adventure Films". Filmsite.org. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
^ Dancyger, Ken; Rush, Jeff (2013). Alternative Scriptwriting: Successfully Breaking the Rules (4th ed.). New York: Focal Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780240808499. Stereotypes abound in the adventure genre. Examples range from the mad scientist in Dr. No to the mindless thugs in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The racism implicit in the latter film and films such as First Blood are by-products of the stereotyping rampant in the adventure genre.
^ Pynchon, Thomas (2012). Slow Learner. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 1101594616. Modern readers will be, at least, put off by an unacceptable level of racist, sexist and proto-Fascist talk throughout this story [written in the 1950s]. I wish I could say that this is only Pig Bodine's voice, but, sad to say, it was also my own at the time. The best I can say for it now is that, for its time, it is probably authentic enough. John Kennedy's role model James Bond was about to make his name by kicking third-world people around, another extension of the boy's adventure tales a lot of us grew up reading. There had prevailed for a while a set of assumptions and distinctions, unvoiced and unquestioned, best captured years later in the '70's television character Archie Bunker.

External links

"IMDb: Genre: Adventure". IMDb\. Retrieved 2017-05-29.

[filmsite1-1] "Adventure Films". Filmsite.org. Retrieved 2017-05-29.

[2] Dancyger, Ken; Rush, Jeff (2013). Alternative Scriptwriting: Successfully Breaking the Rules (4th ed.). New York: Focal Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780240808499. Stereotypes abound in the adventure genre. Examples range from the mad scientist in Dr. No to the mindless thugs in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The racism implicit in the latter film and films such as First Blood are by-products of the stereotyping rampant in the adventure genre.

[3] Pynchon, Thomas (2012). Slow Learner. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 1101594616. Modern readers will be, at least, put off by an unacceptable level of racist, sexist and proto-Fascist talk throughout this story [written in the 1950s]. I wish I could say that this is only Pig Bodine's voice, but, sad to say, it was also my own at the time. The best I can say for it now is that, for its time, it is probably authentic enough. John Kennedy's role model James Bond was about to make his name by kicking third-world people around, another extension of the boy's adventure tales a lot of us grew up reading. There had prevailed for a while a set of assumptions and distinctions, unvoiced and unquestioned, best captured years later in the '70's television character Archie Bunker.

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 ==Overview==
-Subgenres of adventure films include [[swashbuckler film]]s, [[survival film]]s and [[pirate film]]s. Adventure films can also be [[historical drama]]s, [[epic film]]s, [[disaster film]]s, [[road movie]]s, [[time travel film]]s or [[superhero film]]s.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}} Main plot elements include quests for lost continents; a [[jungle]], [[mountain]], [[island]], [[sea]], [[forest]], [[river]], [[outer space|space]], [[city]], [[town]], [[cave]], [[tundra]], [[volcano]], [[wilderness]], or [[desert]] setting; characters embarking on [[treasure hunt|treasure]] and heroic journeys, facing [[risk|danger]]s, rescuing a [[damsel in distress]], [[travel]]s and [[exploration]]s for the unknown, usually also having to overcome an adversary.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}} Adventure films are commonly set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. [[King]]s, [[monarch]]s, [[battle]]s, [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]], [[prince]]s, [[emperor]]s, [[dinosaur]]s, [[espionage]], [[rebellion]] or [[piracy]] are commonly seen in adventure films.<ref name="filmsite1">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/adventurefilms.html|title=Adventure Films|date=|publisher=Filmsite.org|accessdate=2017-05-29}}</ref> Adventure films may also be combined with other movie genres such as [[action film|action]], [[comedy film|comedy]], [[documentary film|documentary]], [[family film|family]], [[science fiction film|science fiction]], [[fantasy film|fantasy]], [[horror film|horror]], [[Western (genre)|western]] or [[War film|war]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}}
+Subgenres of adventure films include [[swashbuckler film]]s, [[survival film]]s and [[pirate film]]s. Adventure films can also be [[historical drama]]s, [[epic film]]s, [[disaster film]]s, [[road movie]]s, [[time travel film]]s or [[superhero film]]s.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}} Main plot elements include quests for lost continents; a [[jungle]], [[mountain]], [[island]], [[sea]], [[forest]], [[river]], [[outer space|space]], [[city]], [[town]], [[cave]], [[tundra]], [[volcano]], [[wilderness]], or [[desert]] setting; characters embarking on [[treasure hunt|treasure]] and heroic journeys, facing [[risk|danger]]s, rescuing a [[damsel in distress]], [[travel]]s and [[exploration]]s for the unknown, usually also having to overcome an adversary.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}} Adventure films are commonly set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. [[King]]s, [[monarch]]s, [[battle]]s, [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]], [[prince]]s, [[tribe]]s, [[emperor]]s, [[dinosaur]]s, [[espionage]], [[rebellion]] or [[piracy]] are commonly seen in adventure films.<ref name="filmsite1">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/adventurefilms.html|title=Adventure Films|date=|publisher=Filmsite.org|accessdate=2017-05-29}}</ref> Adventure films may also be combined with other movie genres such as [[action film|action]], [[comedy film|comedy]], [[documentary film|documentary]], [[family film|family]], [[science fiction film|science fiction]], [[fantasy film|fantasy]], [[horror film|horror]], [[Western (genre)|western]] or [[War film|war]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}}
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