mickEblu
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How’s life otherwise?
Disney Irish
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For those that care, here is a quick list of the sample of genres of various different MCU films:
Captain America: The First Avenger - Period Drama
Guardians of the Galaxy - Science Fiction
Captain American: Winter Soldier - Political Thriller/Spy
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Coming of Age
Spider-Man: Far from Home - Romantic Comedy
Black Panther - AfroFuturism
AntMan - Heist
Doctor Strange - Urban Fantasy/Martial Arts
Thor: Ragnarok - Buddy Comedy
Of course there is super-hero action in all these but these are examples of underlying different genres used in just some of the MCU films.
Captain America: The First Avenger - Period Drama
Guardians of the Galaxy - Science Fiction
Captain American: Winter Soldier - Political Thriller/Spy
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Coming of Age
Spider-Man: Far from Home - Romantic Comedy
Black Panther - AfroFuturism
AntMan - Heist
Doctor Strange - Urban Fantasy/Martial Arts
Thor: Ragnarok - Buddy Comedy
Of course there is super-hero action in all these but these are examples of underlying different genres used in just some of the MCU films.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
I'm fine, just living life....
If you've seen one WWII movie, you've seen them all. It's just the same genre every time. And they presume you know the backstory. Why is this Adolph person a bad man? What made him bad? <shrug> I don't want to watch every WWII movie just to get that all filled in.
mickEblu
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Nailed it
Californian Elitist
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Classifying the Marvel films as “dumb” is ludicrous.
Superheroes is the genre. You're giving us the plot and even then it's not accurate.
Californian Elitist
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Superheroes is not a genre.
Superheroes is a genre. It practically has it's own medium in comic books.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Superheros are a sub-genre classification. A film can have multiple genres tied to them, and what I listed are not plot points but actual genre classifications which are accurate.
Californian Elitist
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No. Superhero films belong to similar genres, like action/adventure, crime, thriller, etc. It’s not an official genre though.
The most applicable genre is action/adventure, in which superheroes is a subcategory, but all stories feature a character that has superpowers of some sort that does action regardless of setting that you call (crime, thriller, etc.), which is not a separate genre of action/adventure involving superheroes.
Superheroes combat crime or they are themselves the criminals. These are topics dealt with endlessly in superhero stories. Superheroes do heroic things in a thriller. How can you separate what they do and say they are other genres. You cannot because superheroes have an advantage that transcends those genres. Plus they hide their identities and have amazing costumes.
Californian Elitist
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It’s not a genre.
lazyboy97o
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The nonsense never stops. I like the idea that “crime” or “thriller” are a setting. Where is crime?
Disney Irish
Premium Member
What you're describing are the characteristics of the main protagonist within a superhero story not a genre.
Californian Elitist
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Not gonna lie, I skimmed the response and didn’t catch that. When you find either on a map, let me know.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Can we get a Film 101 class on genre thread created? I'd even settle for a Freshman English Lit course right now....
Genre is defined as "A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content".
Superheroes got all 3 down. It takes a lot of effort to ignore the superheroes aspect to say it belongs in another genre.
Here's the definition of manga that is recognized as a genre in American Heritage Dictionary. "Japanese comic books and graphic novels considered collectively as a genre" despite having even less similar content. It's mostly style and form with Manga.
And to wrap it up.
www.rutgers.edu
Why Are Manga Outselling Superhero Comics?
Last year, sales of Japanese or Japanese-inspired comics reportedly exceeded superhero comics in the United States. Satoru Saito, an associate professor of Japanese literature at Rutgers-New Brunswick, explores the foundations of manga and anime and their relation to Japanese culture.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
No one is ignoring the superhero aspect of the stories. All several of us are saying is that superhero is a sub-classification of a genre, of which the stories are part of a larger genre such as action, adventure, crime, thriller, etc.
Batman at its core is a vigilante crime story, the fact that he is also a superhero (some would say antihero) adds to the depth of the story.