A neoumbrella surrounding the subgenre of action thrillers that can be described as “doing crime and looking good doing it”, often regarding espionage and hitmen. Particularly represented in the John Wick films, Daniel Craig’s James Bond films, Inside Man (2006), Ocean’s 11, the Bourne films (to a degree), and the tv show Alias (to a degree).
The themes surrounding this neoumbrella (one does not need to identify with all of them) are:
- glamour, opulence, modernity
- being the criminal, getting away with it
- guns and knives, one-on-one combat
- heists, espionage, infiltration, assassination
- illegal services for hire / that have been hired
- underworlds, either ran by the government or hiding from them, unknown to the general public
- fast cars, fast motorbikes, chase sequences using these vehicles
- crisp, clean suits and tight, short dresses
- alcohol, fancy cocktails
- glittering lights in the nighttime
- urban or big city settings
- breaking into places one shouldn’t be (especially large buildings)
- blood spattered across surfaces
- getting cocky, confidence, adrenaline rushes
- card games, gambling, western playing cards as motifs/symbolism
- competition, rivalry, revenge
- lost (as in killed) lovers, reminiscing on tender memories, feeling the ache of loss, for others and for how you have lost yourself
- bosses, organization leaders, or other people who are “bad guys”, a little mysterious, and hold an enormous amount of power
- the feeling of (or just the concept of) holding an enormous amount of power/leverage
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