Analysis Of The Film 'Captain Blood'

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Produced in 1935, the film “Captain Blood” is a great representation and model of adventure films in the Classical period. “Captain Blood” is a classic swashbuckler film, which was predominantly popularized during the era, as the audience favored movies where the heroes would battle villains with swords in order to save the beautiful girl or seek for justice. The Romance of Adventure Genre suggested that “Considered as the first legitimate subgenre of adventure film in the classical period, swashbuckler films with classic charismatic and masculine action-heroes in historically settings of the seventeenth to 19th century was particularly popular in the 1930s.” This specific form of adventure films included well decorated sets, lavish costumes, classical sword fights, and often involved scenes of sea battles, sword duels, cutlass …show more content…
It was an age of corruption and devastation which ultimately lead to an outbreak of World War 2 towards the end of the decade. Under such harsh circumstances, adventure films served as a breakaway from the difficult and cruel reality as the film takes audiences on an unrealistic exploration and journey to fight against the corrupted system, and make the impossible happen. Due to popular demands, conventions of protagonists rising from rags to riches, saving and marrying the beautiful girl, as well as fighting against the evil and corrupted government were all introduced to the film industry at the time. Themes of piracy, sword fighting, rebellion were all popular themes at the time as they provided an outlet for audiences to imagine their revolt to the corrupted system, and encouraged remytholigization as it questioned the myth and convention behind the film throughout the journey of the protagonist, yet with agrees to the conventions and myths as the “happy ending” is
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