Resident evil: damnation is a hybrid film that contained animation, action, horror, sci-fi, suspense and few comedy elements. It is a Japanese adult animated biopunk action film by Capcom and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan. This film was directed by Makoto Kamiya and it was made based on the video game, Resident Evil. The main characters in this film are Leon S. Kennedy, Buddy, and Ada Wong. I will mainly discuss action and sci-fi theory based on Resident Evil: Damnation how it reacts to these theories and what scenes had associated.
The action genre was started by Edwin Porter with The Great Time Robbery in 1903. There has semantic and syntax in the action films. The fluidity in action films are heavily mixed, bent and fused into several other genres especially with the technological growth of special effects. It is not only built with action scenes anymore because nowadays the films came out with Sci-fi and comedy. They mixed together and create an amazing effect. As an example, the Marvels series become impressive gradually. They use different types of genres and combined them. Sci-fi, also known as science fiction is a fiction of genre of fiction whose content is imaginative but it is science. The first film that contains a Sci-fi element was made by Georges Melies in Trip to the Moon. Actually, resident evil: damnation is a hybrid mixing genre which means they have many genres mixed together. It is a postmodernism movement so that the film more striking and remarkable.
The synopsis of this film is talking about a special agent of the United States named Leon S. Kennedy has been dispatch by the US government to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war. He then sneaks into the Eastern Slav Republic to stop it but unfortunately gets caught. During his mission journey, he met Ada Wong which she is actually a BSAA agent working beside the president, Svetlana Belikova. Both of them reach an agreement to fight against the president. After that, Leon and Buddy have a serious fight with Svetlana. The monsters, Tyrants and Lickers are being released. At last, Tyrants are attacked by the U.S planes which they have been observed Leon's action since his mission started. It was a happy ending I think.
In this film, we could see those action genres are fit in some scenes. The extended chase scenes, fight and escaped will automatically awaken me when I almost fall asleep. The sound effects always the loudest and noisest for me. Thus, I quite preferred to watch an action film. For example, there have one action scene I was interested with which is the fight between two women, Svetlana and Ada wong. Svetlana received some bad information about Ada from her personnel. After the truth has exposed, both of them fight seriously and Ada still jailed by Svetlana. This scene also a type of semantic approach in the action genre. While for the syntax approach, we can see that Leon, Buddy and Ada act as a protagonist yet Svetlana act as an antagonist. Svetlana becomes the enemy by the public. Both parties having fights with her. Lastly, Svetlana received her retribution as she had done so many bad things.
Moreover, the sci-fi genre had been used and it is also the main genre in this film. This is because the characters are sort of like animated design. There are many extraordinary monsters created in these films such as tyrants, lickers, and Plaga. Tyrants are created by Svetlana and Lickers are created by Buddy. Plaga is parasitic in nature where it can control human beings and make them become abnormal. These monsters are all the components of Sci-fi. They were created and transformed by using a type of mutagen named progenitor virus. Because of Sci-fi, it makes this film more attractive and it was one of the features in this film. The monsters are special although it looks scary and it gives audiences a kind of surprising feels.
Tyrant
Plaga Licker
Other than that, resident evil: damnation has included horror genre in some of the scenes. It makes me felt me disgusting especially when the scene a group of zombies is chasing an army. The army failed to escape and one of the zombies insert the plaga into his mouth. The scene closes up to the plaga as we clearly see how the plaga looks like. The process is extremely ruthless. It has revealed the reality of the city. Then, he becomes a zombie and one of the victims among people. Besides, the war in the end where Leon and Buddy fight with Tyrants at outside. Due to the endangered situation, Buddy released all his Lickers to fight against Tyrants although he has seriously injured. One of the scenes when Tyrants kills all the lickers, he lifted one the lickers and crushed. The tyrant also stepped on Licker's body. The blood splashed out instantly and the ground is bloody.
Overall, resident evil: damnation is a hybrid movie with the mixing of action, sci-fi and horror genre. My favorite part of this film is the women fight because it looks cool and has used tongue-in-cheek dialogue. It was not bad but I feel a bit confused that what message they are trying to deliver to the audience. This movie was not popularization in my opinion. For those who love sci-fi films or play video games, I will recommend this movie to them.
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