November 10, 2012

What is My Genre?

Every writer has a genre, right?

I don't know. Wait! Yes, I do. And yes, every writer has a genre.



C.S. Lewis - fantasy, action adventure
J.R.R. Tolkien - fantasy, action adventure
Stephanie Meyer - fantasy, romance
Rick Riordan - fantasy, action adventure (romance? nah...)
Linda Lee Chaikin - historical fiction, romance, contemporary fiction, amish, drama
J.K. Rowling - fantasy (action adventure?)
Cathy Marie Hake - historical fiction, romance
Gilbert Morris - historical fiction, romance
Christopher Paulini - fantasy, action adventure
Ian Fleming - spy fiction, action adventure

You get the idea. I like action, adventure, fantasy, romance, fiction and historical.



Originally, my "Remmington Pirates Series" was going to strictly be a historical action, romance type of thing, but over the years - because I wanted to add more adventure to it, like Indiana Jones - I decided to touch on fantasy, but still be as close to historically accurate as possible.

And now I'm thinkin', why hold back? I still want to be close to historically accurate, but history is really people's re-creation of what they think it was like back then, granted if we're lucky, we've got evidence from journals and books and artifacts and what-not to help us "re-create" history. (This statement was based off of what my UK "Early Modern England" professor told us in our lecture/class at the beginning of the autumn semester of 2012.)



So I'm writing a fable or an allegory.
Fable means: "a story about supernatural, mythological, or legendary characters and events."
Fable (also) means: "a false or improbable account of something."
Fable synonyms: story, allegory, tale, legend, myth, parable

Allegory means: "a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual or moral meaning."
Allegory (also) means: "the symbolic expression of a deeper meaning through a story or scene action out by human, animal, or mythical characters."
Allegory (also) means: "allegories considered as a literary or artistic genre."
Allegory (also) means: "a symbolic representation of something."
Allegory synonyms: parable, fable, metaphor, symbol, story, tale



Now I wanted to know, what movies are allegories?
I googled and got a variety...(some of them happen to also be books made into movies):
Batman: The Dark Knight
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
Fight Club
Wizard of Oz
Spiderman
Iron Man 2
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and 2
The Matrix
District 9
The Tree of Life
The Planet of Apes
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Ghostbusters 2
Chronicles of Narnia movies
Captain America
Kill Bill: Vol 1
The Lord of the Rings
Air Force One
X-Men: First Class
Eragon
Elektra
Tron movies
Puss in Boots
Heartless
Safe House
Columbiana
John Carter
The Secret of NIMH
The Wedding Date
Man on a Ledge
Superman
Dracula
Frankenstein Monster
Jaws
Godzilla
Werewolf
Alien 3
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Gladiator
The Lion King
King Kong
THe Ninth Configuration
The Proposition
Total Recall
The Secret Gardan
The Hunger Games
The Christmas Carol
The Sixth Sense
Home Alone
Meet the Parents
The Number 23

(I have NOT seen all of these, only some...)

But honestly, I think every story has meaning behind it. Why else write it?



SO. My genre is action, adventure, fantasy, historical with romance of course. ;)

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