Lights! Camera! Action!

Action action yet more action. No action film worthy of genre would be caught dead without its fair share of red-hot lead and no-holds-barred fisticuffs high-octane pursuits and gravity-defying gymnastics.</P><P>Then again nonstop action soon wears thin absent a rooting interest in Last Man Standing.First Woman to Cross Finish Line.</P><P>Rooting interest inheres not in overt action no matter how artfully choreographed or breathtakingly executed.</P><P>Rather rooting interest comes from empathy for the protagonist and more precisely from the dramatic action embodied by the protagonist's struggle to accomplish a worthy goal opposed by a formidable foe.</P><P>Action is a double-edged blade overt action being a necessary but insufficient condition to sustain viewer interest which soars and ebbs to extent that dramatic action intersects with-injects meaningfulness into-gunplay and fistfest acrobatics and pyrotechnics.</P><P><I>Lights! Camera! Action!</I> spotlights the essential elements of action comedy action romance and action adventure. It underscores the crucial distinction between overt and dramatic action which a screenwriter must weave together in order for an action script to hum and shimmer pulsate and zing.</P>