Film Cliche's

Action

action appeals mainly to the male audience although there are also some female fans, action is another genre of film that has many cliches.


In action films majority of the time the bad guy is always foreign and have strong accents, this makes it more appealing to a British audience. The villain is also normally homosexual and has big guys with weapons there to protect him. This infurates the audience and makes the villain seem as a weak character as he cant fight his own battlles, this kees the audience watching as his body guards get killed one by one and the hero comes closer to the villain who always seems to dress smart and is more effeminate than the hero who is usually big built and not normally a romantic. both the villain and hero normally each have a sidekick that also fight each other, this is very cliche in many action films.


there are always fight scenes in action films and the hero fights each person one by one rather then them all attacking him at once. it is cliche in action films to have people running up walls and for the gun to never run out of bullets. furthermore scenes that contain weapons such as guns, never seem to hit the hero, even if it is a machine gun firring hundreds of bullets.


somewhere in an action film there is a scene where the hero has to perform self surgery, this makes the audience see the hero as a very strong character and want him to succeed. It is very cliche for there to be a big explosion in an action film and for the hero to come out with hardly a scratch.


in allot of action films there is a girl that they want to protect and in the end the hero saves the girl in the end.

In die hard there are many cliche moments, the hero is played by Bruce Willis who throughout the film walks around in his vest to show of his big muscles, this makes the male audience aspire to be like him and is also entertaining for the female audience. the villain is a small, smartly dressed, camp foreigner who has many body guards working to protect him and fight all his battles, who Bruce Willis fights one by one. in all the fight scenes he never seems to get hit by the many machine guns fired at him, although later in the film he does have to perform self surgery. he also manages to jump out the way of a massive explosion and doesn't seem to be hurt by it at all, this is very cliche in action films for the hero to never get hurt.