What makes 'Gladiator' look like an action hero?
- His clothes
- Body Structure is big and strong connoting strength
- Weapons
What does 'Indiana Jones' look like an action hero?
- Rough clothes
- Swords
- Facial expression
Similarities?
- Its important to look like one to show the audience he is the hero/ main character and that weapons should relate to the movie.

The hero needs to be physically strong to be able to fight and travel long distances across difficult terrain like the film 'Hancock' - in a particular scene; Hancock picks up a car of criminals and flies with it and put them on the statue of liberty also, when he lands from flight, he makes a massive dent in the ground.

The hero needs to be intelligent and a quick thinker in order to solve problems like 'Harry Potter' - when he faces evil like Voldemort; he has to think quickly of a spell to cast to get him away.

The hero needs to be a leader to have followers and gain our trust like 'Robin Hood' - he is the leader of a  trained band of fighters.


The hero needs to unstoppable to keep the audience interested like 'Hancock' - Hancock keeps fighting and solving crimes despite the fact the public hate him for ruining the streets.

The hero needs to be experiences in order to cope with all dangers and obstacles like 'Batman' - Batman has a mechanical thing that makes him fly and has built in weapons.

Iconography:
-Superman is iconography as the logo is well recognised.
We can tell this film is is action adventure as it includes all the action props such as swords, costume and battles.

  The setting shows this is an action adventure film as it is a gladiator ring and is only used for battles. It shows an intense battle as the stands are full of cheering people connoting an encouraging, interesting battle. There is a tiger which connotes individually a fierce fight. 

This setting doesn't show much of an action adventure film as it does not show the typical action adventure props; it looks more like a documentary. You can tell the setting is based in Egypt as you can see the transcripts and symbols. It seems like a very confined, secret place as there is no one else but him, it could be a tomb. He is wearing arabian clothing probably to fit into his environment as a disguise or undercover. There is very bright lighting coming out of the left corner which suggests the opening of the tomb.