Road movie
Sometimes, as Heart of Darkness, this progress is inverted, and each episode represents a loss rather than a gain. Road movies traditionally end in one of four ways: Notable examples include . In each episode, there is a challenge to be met, although not all of them will be met successfully.The modern road picture is to filmmakers what the heroic quest was to Medieval writers. The on-the-road plot was used at the birth of American Cinema but blossomed in the years after World War II, reflecting a boom in automobile production and the growth of youth culture. In most episodes, a piece of the plot is revealed - knowledge or allies are gained, and so on.
A road film is a film genre in which the film s plot takes place during a journey. The genre has its roots in spoken and written tales of epic journeys, such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid. The road film is a standard plot employed by screenwriters.
Even so, awareness of the road picture as a genre came only in the 1960s with Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde. Like their antecedents, the road movie tends towards an episodic structure. It is a kind of bildungsroman, a kind of story in which the hero changes, grows or improves over the course of the story.
