What’s “Adventures on Film”? Simply put, it’s a blog dedicated to adventure heroes who search for “treasures beyond their wildest aspirations”, whether the goals are ancient relics, the love of their lives, a way back to the future, or any number of crazy possibilities! In our cynical climate where everyone’s a critic, not very many adventure films are made. They’re a relic from a simplier, more innoccent time. It’s about going to the movies to have fun, with a thrill-a-minute feature to entertain the audience. Still, a few are made nowadays, thanks to the efforts of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, the creators of the box-office smash hits in the “Indiana Jones” series. Those films, coupled with Star Wars (also from George Lucas, of course), brought back a rash of raw adventure. Now, with the genre revived yet again twenty years later, they are getting back into the spotlight. Take a look around this blog for tidbits of information, and stay tuned for news.
Here’s what Allmovie said to describe the genre:
“The adventure film, similar in many ways to the action film, involves a character who must overcome great adversity and challenges while on a journey. The settings tend to be exotic locales, the villains tend to be nasty, the emphasis tends to be on thrills, often serialized over several Saturday matinee showings. Well-established adventure heroes from literature and folklore made the jump to the screen with surprising ease (The Adventures Of Robin Hood, The Mark Of Zorro, Tarzan The Ape Man), as did adaptations of classic adventure stories (The Prisoner Of Zenda, King Solomon’s Mines, The Thief Of Baghdad, The Three Musketeers). Adventure stories got a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s with Star Wars and Raiders Of The Lost Ark reviving the adventure blockbuster, and hardly has a summer gone by since without a new crop of adventure flicks to whisk away viewers from their mundane lives and transport them into a world of action, excitement, and danger.”
