History of actionAivaras Vaitiekunas

Douglas Fairbanks – his mains films consisted of ‘Swashbuckling’ which were often known as sword fighting films which has western based with a adventure twist to it.

1920s – 1930s

Action movies in the 1940s and 1950s were in form of war movies and cowboy movies, Alfred Hitchcock made the spy-adventure movies. North by Northwest (1959) was a action-oriented film with ‘set pieces’ which was created like the famous crop-duster scene.

Other films from 1940s – 1950s The seven samurai (1954) The Desert fox: The story of Rommel (1951) The Third man (1949) Red River (1948)

1940s – 1950s

In the 1960s to the 1970s films started to get more popular in which they would attract loads of different people to come and watch.

James bond was one of the most popular action movies in the 1960s and the 1970s, ‘You only live twice’ (1967) was a filmed directed by Lewis Gilbert which carried on making action movies like Alfie (1966).

1960s – 1970s

In the 1980s and the 1990s Hollywood took over the action scene with stars like Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris.

Directors like Steve Carver made the films like ‘An eye for an eye’ (1981) and ‘lone wolf McQuade’ (1983) and the actors were Chuck Norris.

James Cameron was another huge director in the 1980-1990s because of his excellent movies like ‘The Terminator’ (1984) played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and ‘Rambo: First Blood Part II’ (1985) played by Sylvester Stallone.

Other films: Aliens (1986) Conan The Barbarian (1982) Predator (1987) Total Recall (1990) The Matrix (1990)

1980s – 1990s

Action movies have changed throughout the scene during years and they will change through many years to come. Directors have tried to stand out with many different aspects like the CGI (computer generated images) to enhance their movies for example the movie ‘Inception’ (2010) has used great CGI effects which attract many viewers around the world to watch in the cinemas.

Christopher Nolan has directed many action films in which he has used many forms of action features. Films like Batman begins (2005) and the inception (2010) have been greatest hits.

2000 – now

Since the years have gone past this has given me an insight on how movies have changed through the years of action movies for example how they have changed with the use of CGI and the use of different types if mix ups with other genres.