Essay: Film genres

A lot of people tend to say movies are their escape into a fantasy world. However, the movie industry is now the largest industry with millions of employees, and producers have started to earn large amount of money from the movies that they made. There are several different types of movies people like to see. In fact, almost everyone has a certain type of movie they like to watch that will make them happy in some way. Precisely because there have been so many movies made, many different genres of movies exist.. However, there are three main categories that people automatically think of: action films, comedy, and love stories.
The most popular type of movies is action films. Action films are always favorites since they are different from the others. These films keep the audience awake and excited with their nonstop action sequences. They are usually filled with fast paced chases, explosions, fighting, and special effects. They show us that life can be dangerous, dejected, bloody, and mortal or it can be glorious, innocent, and normal. It depends on the producers of action films. There are many different people outside of our houses and properties to make a movie about them. Directors and producers use computerized techniques, and several action films are made in unreal studios or in computers with computerized techniques. Developing technology allows them to build imaginary places or they can make a small-model of the place.
The second category, comedy movies, gives of feelings to a lesser level. Comedies are unavoidable type of movies since people always seek fun and entertainment in their lives. Sometimes life is boring and dull, and usually it is the problems that people face that make life boring. Films of this style have a main strain on one’s humor. Many funny movies such as White Chicks have a happy ending. Watching how certain people react to this type of movie is very interesting because everyone has a different reaction from one another. For example, these people would rather watch comedy films than struggle with their problems as they can escape from their reality. Interestingly, even a person who has lots of problems can forget his/her problems during the two hours that he/she watches a comedy. Moreover, there is no age for watching comedy films. Even your grandmother and your little brother/sister can watch comedy films as they are not too complicated, they are easy to understand, and they use common language called comedy.
Furthermore, the last type of movies is romantic or sentimental movies. Romantic films are one of the most popular movies and usually romantic films take awards in Oscar ceremonies. For example ‘Titanic’, ‘Life is beautiful’ and ‘English patient’ are the award takers that I can remember in recent years. Romance films make the romantic love story or the search for strong and pure love and romance the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological limits or family that threaten to break their union of love. In these types of movies, we usually come across with dramatic stories, modern love stories, and tragic love stories. People watch romantic films since the subject of these movies is not new for people. Everyone can experience love stories. People’s nature is set up for partnership. Film producers then begun to make movies that affect people’s emotions.
In conclusion, they are broad enough to meet practically any film ever made, although film categories can never be precise. By isolating the various elements in a film and categorizing them in genres, it is possible to easily evaluate a film within its genre and allow for meaningful comparisons and some judgments on greatness. Films were not really subjected to genre analysis by film historians until the 1970s. All films have at least one major genre, although there are a number of films that are considered crossbreeds or hybrids with three or four overlapping genre (or sub-genre) types that identify them.