Sports, fantasy, sci-fi, fairytale, fiction, love/romance, comedy, historical fiction etc. Remember, you don't have to read fiction.
Action thrillers, romantic comedies, historical dramas, sci-fi adventures — it's hard to think of a genre of motion picture he could not have excelled in.
Audiences must be acculturated, film by film, until they're ready to accept not just cartoons and horror movies in 3-D, but also mainstream comedies, historical dramas and earnest independent films, too.
In general, what do you think about the use of comedy in historical films?
Like so many who have set off for wider worlds, "West of Here" seems to be undergoing an identity crisis — part modern comedy, part historical novel, part societal indictment, part environmental cri de coeur.
Isn't it black comedy or historical satire or something?
But until then, John Guare's latest play is a wearying mash-up of styles, most notably Restoration Comedy and historical drama, and George C. Wolfe's production struggles to achieve a coherent tone".
While the industry fielded a couple of homegrown blockbusters including "The Mermaid" ($526 million in China) this year, there were a number of movies with major stars that did poor business, such as the comedy "Papa," historical adventure "Xuan Zang" and the war flick "Brothers".
The movies that do get official approval and release tend to be inoffensive comedies and historical action movies catering to a youth audience.
Having written for almost every genre of film, from dramas and comedies to historical epics, he is frustrated that some people still associate him with westerns – "even though western films account for just 8% of my production".
Eric Rentschler, a Harvard professor who is an authority on German film, once described the glut of populist comedies and historical dramas that began to dominate German film culture in the mid-'80s as "a cinema of consensus".
