Ragheed Hannona111898 3rd Hour Movies And How They Have Changed Movies have been around for 100 years in America. They have been entertaining us and giving us new insights. There are a wide variety of genres which have changed the effects in films. From Sci-fi , Drama, and Action, these genres have changed their issues. As movie genres have widely expanded, old ones have been forgotten and new ones have been discovered. The Sci-fi genre is probably one of the oldest yet still alive in movies today. Sci-fi started out as space exploration to the moon. Finding aliens on planets in these movies were common. Years past by and better technology went into them. Special effects were brought in by using computers and blue screens to generate more life-like images in to today s movies. Back in the 30 s and 40 s, movie effects were horrible. You could see the model spaceships attached to strings as they were hovering around. In addition, drama films have changed through the years with more social issues. A Few Good Men, Dead Man Walking, Forrest Gump, and The Grapes of Wrath all had one thing in common. They all came from that genre. One movie that stands out from the crowd was Gone with the Wind. A story of dramatic Civil War action with love scenes that touched peoples hearts. However, in today s movies like Forrest Gump and Dead Man Walking, they deal with realistic problems in the 1990 s. The majority of today s Drama films deal with issues that are happening in the real world, such as AIDS, drugs, and crimes.

Movie genres seem to change their main concerns sometimes. Most notably was the western genre. It depicted the lives and times of cowboys, Native Americans, and settlers in the western United States. The Westerns usually romanticizes life in the western and southwestern United States from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. Stars of these Westerns were usually Clint Eastwood and John Wayne in films such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Stagecoach. Now however, rarely anybody makes these types of movies any more. It has become an action genre, with fast paced plots and excitement. The location of this genre also has moved to bigger and more dangerous cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Films such as Passenger 57 and Die Hard are becoming more popular, as they feature hostages and innocent people being attacked and killed. In conclusion, movie issues have changed, but they still are deep within our hearts with memorable moments and imitated lines. Also, they have become an American past time and a prominent occasion in our everyday life style.