An adventure film is one of the classic genres of cinema, telling the adventures of the main character or a friendly company of protagonists. The adventure genre is one of the pillars of animation. The vast majority of animated films in recent years, talk about the characters involved in exciting adventures. Viewers are interested in following the situations in which such characters find themselves. The classic plot of a modern cartoon is based on the following concept: a group of heroes gets into a dangerous situation, from which they can get out by making a fascinating journey.
Classic films in the genre of adventure, captivate the audience with the rapid pace of the narrative. The characters here are required to make quick decisions to overcome numerous obstacles. Indiana Jones movies are considered to be the quintessence of the genre. All pictures based on Jules Verne’s novels or using mythological stories are also considered as adventure ones.
Among the expected films, there are several pictures with a pronounced adventure component. The vast majority of movies about comic book characters, as well as the entire genres of fantasy and space opera, are based on adventure stories. Although adventure films had their heyday in the middle of the last century, it was they that became the basis for the development of modern entertainment cinema.
If the cartoons all use plot tropes adventure literature and movies, modern blockbusters apply these stamps in combination with other techniques. Adventure motifs are perfectly combined with fantastic scenes, action and comedic elements. Screenwriters try to create several dangerous events that threaten the life of the main character. All this allows to keep the viewer’s attention and attract them to watch it again.
The novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered classics of the adventure genre. Both stories have been adapted many times. They have also been used (even without mentioning the source material) to build the plots of many other pictures.