Films # Vocabulary For IELTS
Films have become a very important part of our lives. Some of them have had a great impact on us. For today, let us understand the vocabulary used to describe different kinds of films.
- ACTION FILMS
- Action film is a film genre in which one or more heroes are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include physical feats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases.
- COMEDIES
- Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. These films are designed to entertain the audience through amusement, and most often work by exaggerating characteristics of real life for humorous effect
- ROMANTIC FILMS
- Romance films (or romance movies) are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love takes them through dating, courtship or marriage.
- ROM-COMS
- Romantic comedy films are a certain genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and may also have elements of screwball comedies and stoner comedies.
- ADVENTURE FILMS
- Adventure film is a genre that revolves around the conquests and explorations of a protagonist. The purpose of the conquest can be to retrieve a person or treasure, but often the main focus is simply the pursuit of the unknown.
- MUSICAL
- The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
- DRAMAS
- A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.
- PERIOD FILMS
- A period film is a film that attempts to faithfully depict a specific time period.
- REAL LIFE FILMS
- These are the films based on real life incidents.
- HORROR FILMS
- Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience.
- WAR FILM
- War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles in the twentieth century, with combat scenes central to the drama. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war films often end with them.
- SCIENCE FICTION
- Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.