Genre assignment
The expendables
The first movie poster I am going to use for my assignment is going to be “the expendables”, immediately I could see that this movie poster was from an action movie making the genre action and could see no sort of hybrid genre in this because it is strictly action therefore making the movie a straight genre, strictly action. I noticed this by the actors used within this poster by noticing the star names with them all been iconic figures of the action movies such as “Sylvester Stallone” and “Jet Li” who are both also represented on the front of the poster stood in a very masculine posture. “Stallone” stood arms crossed and flexing his muscles makes it look like he means business, this is also shown on all of the actor’s facial expressions showing no smiles or happiness but complete seriousness. Another reason for this film being a shown as an action film would be that there is a mass explosion behind the actors creating an action atmosphere with the piles of rubble behind giving the idea that it’s going to be “messy”. “Jet Li” is featured with weapons connoting violence and death.
