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Action Cinema, The Mess is intended to demonstrate the complexity of films…
Action Cinema
Body
Masculinity - I am categorizing films on what aspect they display more, when a film is masculine the violence or velocity takes on a masculine character
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The Soldierly Body, the Technological Machine, and the Fascist Aesthetic
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From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the Male Rampage Film
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Space, Place, and Spectacle: The Crisis Cinema of John Woo
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Femininity - I am categorizing films on what aspect they display more, when a film is masculine the violence or velocity takes on a feminine character
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"Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess"
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Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine
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Machine - I am viewing the machine body as a film body, machines do often have personality as portrayed in movies and they can have violence done to them or inflict violence
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City - I am treating a city as a body and character in the films, the city can be wounded through violence like in die hard and the many explosions in the Nakatomi building. Citys can also inflict violence as in the architecture of Mars on Total Recall
Urban Renaissance and the Spirit of Postmodernism,
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Action
Violence
Aliens is an adventure action horror film where the aliens take over a station and the main character has to convince the rest of the security to go back and attempt to take it over. At the site they find the face huggers that attack humans to give birth to the new generation making this more a dark feminine horror component in the action movie.
John Wick II is an epic in worldbuilding of the criminal organization with a full currency and system for goods and exchange for services. John Wick in part one can be categorized as a masculine character that works to avenge his dog after losing the love of his life, in the second film he is seen to take violence on behalf of the person he had to make a deal with making this film both masculine and violent.
Rambo: First Blood Part II, is the picture of masculine violence, Rambo is a special forces Vietnam veteran that is called by the military to do more violence and rescue Americans.
Hard Boiled is a cop action film featuring anti organized crime violence. It is also considered a gun fu movie, this is a fighting style that is generally unique.
Total Recall 's main character played by the bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, the picture of masculinity when the movie was created. This is directly related to the violence of the movie with many fight scenes and war between the underdogs and corporations.
Dirty Harry is a city cop movie where the main character fights the system to fight a violent criminal and save an innocent victim. Harry plays a masculine character fighting the feminine system, using violence, in the end he throws away his cop badge, as a demonstrated rejection of the system.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, can be seen as the close of the western, the main character does not actually shoot Liberty Valance but he does establish the area in the eyes of the federal government and helps create the state. The actual man who shot Liberty Valance a picture of masculinity is forgotten over time and his violence is assigned to another.
Velocity
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The Hazards of Helen follows a female character that goes on adventures related to transportation, like for example trains.
The Mess is intended to demonstrate the complexity of films and how they often overlap genres and concepts and totally not because I can't realistically make it organized