Genre theory is how a movie or film should be categorized. Genres usually follow a familiar formula, setting or character type for the story (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). The most common genres are horror, science fiction, animation, comedy, and mystery. There are also sub-genres that use more of a narrow formula that includes action, slasher, slapstick, and romance. The genre I picked for this week was science fiction. Science fiction usually is set either in outer space or in a time that is not reachable in the lifetime of anyone that is alive during the time that it comes out. Sometimes science fiction can incorporate horror elements (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014), as well as mystery like the movie Dr. Who, or action like Looper.
The movie I picked for this week’s assignment is Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This is classified as a science fiction film with a sub-genre of an action film. It was directed by James Cameron and was released in July of 1991. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg who is a T800 he gets sent back through time to August 29th 1997, to protect the mother and son that in the original movie he had been sent to kill. As a more advanced model had been sent out to kill them in the future. (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991). This more advanced cyborg or T100 can change shapes and transform into any human that it comes across due to the liquid metal it is made out of. The original cyborg had been reprogrammed in order to protect the son.
The time traveling helps classify it as a science fiction genre and the fighting in it helps classify it as an action film. One specific scene is at the beginning when it shows the advanced cyborg showing up and transforming into the police officer that responds to the electrical disturbance call. Another scene is where the original cyborg and the advanced cyborg are chasing John down the road, and the original cyborg blows up the fuel truck that the advanced cyborg is...