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Adventure Genre Analysis

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What are movie genres? Movie genre is a term used to categorize the many different types of movies that we have in abundance. Movie Genres comes in many different categories such as Action, Thriller, Horror and many more where each is used to categorize a movie based on their narrative element properties. In this essay, I will be contrasting the differences between an adventure genre film and a disaster genre film. I had chosen two movies to research on with the first being, “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” as my pick for the adventure genre film and “San Andreas” as my film of choice for my disaster genre.
The genres of the two films are slightly different. Adventure films unlike disaster films, often use their scenes to display and explore …show more content…

Such disasters include natural disasters such as earthquakes as shown in “San Andreas”. The beginning of ˜San Andreas” is somewhat different, as it has a more action based approach. It begins with Ray, a fireman from the Los Angeles fire department successfully rescuing a girl who had fell off a canyon. There is minimal speech for the opening scene, highlighting the background noises, which include helicopter rotors and the victim screaming for help. This gives the impression that Ray is an expert on life-rescue missions. Apart from this, the next build-up scene unlike Journey, is quite predictable, as it shows a group of scientist calculating predictions of an incoming earthquake. I think that this will make the audience be aware of the incoming disaster, therefore allowing the main earthquake scene to smoothly make an impact. From the opening scenes, one could already tell that the genre of the film is clearly a disaster …show more content…

The protagonist from Journey, Sean Anderson, played by Josh Hutcherson portrays a rebellious teenager who hates his stepfather. He doesn’t show a lot of resemblance to the main protagonist from San Andreas, Blake played by Alexandra Daddario who is portrayed in the movie as a teenage girl who loves her father Ray very much. Other than that, Sean is also not as good as Blake in terms of individual survivability. This statement can be proved as Sean depends a lot on his stepfather Hank to navigate the dangers and survive throughout the mysterious island while Blake is able to guide two of her friends through the disaster wrecked city of San Francisco alone. The Antagonists from both movies, Hank, Sean’s stepfather and Ray, Blake’s Father, both played by Dwayne Johnson also shows contrast in personalities. Hank from Journey is great with women and plays a very attractive and humorous character while Hank on the other hand is portrayed to be a more serious and patient

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