Action Genre

What to look for in film

The earliest action movie starts off in the 1990s with

the Great Train Robbery in 1903.

Action has become one of the most popular genres

of all time and still going.

What an audience expects to see in a action movie

would be explosives, open landscape locations,
cars, weapons, fast moving, predictable events,
adventure or investigations, rescues, two sides etc.

1980s era had some of the greatest action movies

and famous characters that have been box office
hits.

By Laura Donnelly

The Dark Knight Rises:

Background
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GokKUqLcvD8

Batman was first introduced to film in

the 1940s.

Batman Film Timeline

1943- Batman
1949- Batman and Robin
1966- Batman
1989- Batman
1993- Batman: Mask of the
Phantasm
1992- Batman Returns
1995- Batman Forever
1997- Batman and Robin
2005- Batman Begins
2008- The Dark Knight
2012- The Dark Knight Rises

This movie alone was a box office hit grossing over

$1.08 billion since its release.

The Dark Knight Rises does still use some of the same
codes and conventions used in the previous
Batman films.

The Batman costume always changes like in many

of the Batman films since the original and the
Batman in this film wears an all black costume.

The Dark Knight Rises does still use some of the same
codes and conventions used in the previous
Batman films.

The Batman costume always changes like in many

of the Batman films since the original and the
Batman in this film wears an all black costume.

Director & Characters

The Dark Knight Rises was directed, written and

produced by Christopher Nolan.

The cast includes Christian Bale, Michael Caine,

Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway and
Morgan Freeman.

Hero

Donors

Villain

Anti-Hero

Camera Shots

Most iconic scenes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj1Q_BAqwa8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rldqTeiGY4

Issues & Debates

Firstly this Batman trilogy is quite dark as it tells the

pain and sufferings of Batman, which can seem
very negative to the an audience.

Batmans costume was changed.

Also in a late night showing of The Dark Knight

Rises in America a masked man opened fire in a
cinema killing 14 people and injured many
more.

There also has been many spoofs made of the

new Batman film, for example south park..

Advertising

The Dark Knight Rises was advertised in

many ways like trailers, merchandise,
interviews and mainly posters were
released.

This film was a PG12, ratings and reviews for

this film were mostly good.

The teaser trailers built excitement and

suspense.

Also posters gave the audience clues

about the film.