Genre in Film

In film, movies of certain genres conform to the genre conventions of there stereotypes. There are stereotypical characters, dialogue, dress, and setting, visual style, and stereotypical situations.

Bond is an agent of the British secret service that is called to defeat a criminally mad mastermind that is about to pull a worldwide crime. Using high tech gadgets and fast cars, he manages to save the world and get the ladies as well, all while wearing remaining suave and in a suit. He travels around the world to exotic locales, nifty gadgets and ingenious toys (provided by Q Branch) to combat evildoers, fast-action suspense and audacious stunts, and gorgeous scantily-clad sexy women. The action-oriented, sophisticated and skillful agent, with a taste for fancy clothes (often tuxedos), dry vodka martinis ('shaken, not stirred') and cars (Aston Martins and BMWs), battled various types of eccentric, deadly and infamous criminals who planned to assault the world. Most Bond movies focus on either a secret worldwide crime syndicate, or the Cold War, and even in Goldeneye (1995) after the fall of the Soviet Union, is based on the premise of soviet weapons and rogue soviet generals. By its own right, it is a anti Communist films series. Characters in Bond usually include, the bad guy, Bond, the crony henchman with a special trait, and the Bond girl. Usually a damsel in distress, in recent films women have joined the ranks of Bond and shooting up bad guys of their own. Everyone tries to dress as suave as possible, Bond wears a suit and even bad guys wear uniforms or suits. You have smooth talking Bond (shaken, not stirred) and the equally smooth talking mastermind. In a mix of kung-fu and gun shootouts, the action is driven usually in chase scenes, eventually coming to car chases. Faced paced cuts and typical "action cutting" applies.

Post Apocalyptic/Dystopian Scifi

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Terminator Series	Mad Max Series	Waterworld

A human character lives on after the destruction of society, whether physically or physiologically. He usually has experienced the apocalypse (John Connor/Max). Most post-apocalyptic films comment upon the negative effects of advancing technology. For example, in Terminator the “Machines” have taken over the world, criticising our over reliance on machines. In “The Road Warrior” man’s increasing reliance on oil caused a nuclear holocaust and alternatively in Waterworld pollution caused the polar ice caps to melt. Post-Apocolyptia films also usually deliver uplifting moral lessons of sacrifice such as Max sacrificing himself to the raiders to draw them from the people with gas, or Sam Worthington in Terminator Salvation giving his heart to John Connor or the T-100 in T2. Some even “provide a 'how-to' in terms of survival skills.” In these types of films, there is usually a main character with some knowledge or something that differentiates him form everyone else. In Mad Max, Max was once a police officer and the gyro captain can fly in his small helicopter. In Waterworld Kevin Costner can breathe underwater and in Terminator John Connor is part off a prophesy and thus can not die because he must fulfill the future. Most of these films have large-scale special effects. A persevering hero or heroine called upon to lead the struggle against the threat, and many plot-lines affecting multiple characters. In many cases," the 'evil' or 'selfish' individuals are the first to succumb to the effects" of the Apocalypse .(Greencine)

Vietnam Era War Films

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Apocalypse Now	Full Metal Jacket	The 9th Company

Many Vietnam war era films are actually anti-war films. Even movies like “Alien” made around the same time were symbolic of the war influenced by current ideals, in Aliens, marines in a foreign land fight a hidden enemy in a freaky grizzled environment. In contemporary war films, the plot usually follows a main character who is called to fight in a war that he is at first enthusiastic about but later he realizes he does not want to fight any longer. It seems to be a cliche when a character talks about his life before or after the war, he usually will die very soon, unless he is the main character in the beginning and middle of the plot. Uusually, a group is either left to make a last stand or In war movies, characters are usually classified by the gun they carry, such as  in Full Metal Jacket, the character with the heavy machine gun is a blunt, crude typical "muscle" character. Military dress also classifies characters, especially in Vietnam films. Characters with no sleeves and just vest and muscle are usually the experiencede members of the squad, and ones with alot of gear are usually the rookies. I included "The 9th Company" despite that it was a recent film because it is based on the same era as the Vietnam films. As for camera and cutting, War films tend to use gritty, shaky cameras adn fast custs to accentuate action.