ABSTRACT

The Screenwriters Taxonomy has a similar delineation with films: Comedy or Drama. The fundamental distinction within all narrative films is whether they are going to be funny or serious. There's no official governing board of genre. Genres have been created using a crowdsourced approach. The visceral expectations of a film are the elements that will excite the audience and get their hearts pumping or their minds racing. Horror movies are typically stories about an innocent victim being confronted by some sort of overpowering, evil entity whose sole intention is to kill and destroy. The theme is the central recurring idea underlining the entire story. Crime films explore themes of truth, justice and freedom and contain the fundamental dichotomy of Criminal versus Lawman. While an action film typically takes place in an exotic location and/or contrasts a mundane location with the exotic, the thriller genre takes a typical location and elevates it to the extreme.