“It’s not a police drama, it’s a Western, they’re just chasing each other using cars instead of horses. You’re not exploring the social consequences of the fact that they’re in a 21st century police station rather than just a sheriff in the West”.
...to be fair, I’ve described a number of movies in exactly those terms before. You can find stylistic descendants of the Western all over modern action movies, even though the original genre is pretty much dead by now.
I was talking about style and themes more than about plot requirements, though, and I think it’s a mistake to ignore those in a discussion of genre boundaries.
...to be fair, I’ve described a number of movies in exactly those terms before. You can find stylistic descendants of the Western all over modern action movies, even though the original genre is pretty much dead by now.
I was talking about style and themes more than about plot requirements, though, and I think it’s a mistake to ignore those in a discussion of genre boundaries.