Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Prestige, Genre!
The Prestige is a very exciting, dramatic, mysterious, and a thrilling experience. Because this movie has so many different aspects, it is difficult to categorize this movie in just one genre. If it were up to me I would categorize this movie in mystery. Throughout the whole movie the audience is trying to figure something out. The Prestige also leaves the audience with many questions after the movie. Yes, the movie is dramatic with the wife and the girlfriend but I believe every movie has drama in it or else it would be rather boring. There is not enough drama in this movie to consider it a drama. With every movie having drama in it, the genre "drama" is too broad for a movie like The Prestige. Because of all of the excitement in The Prestige, I would classify it as a thriller after a mystery. The audience never knows what is going to happen next and the movie always has the audience on their toes. I jumped many times during this movie because of all the unexpected action. Overall, I would consider this film to be a thrilling mystery because of all of the excitement and questions brought up before, during, and after the movie.
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I agree with you that there isn't enough drama going on in this movie to qualify it as a movie, just like there aren't enough sci-fi elements in it to make it a science-fiction movie.
ReplyDeleteI agree that drama is just too broad; the movie definitely appeals to a more specific audience.
ReplyDeleteA small nitpick in your English punctuation: Make sure to include a comma where the period would have gone in a compound sentence.
"The audience never knows what is going to happen next and the movie always has the audience on their toes."
should be
"The audience never knows what is going to happen next, and the movie always has the audience on their toes."