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This website aims to answer that question by taking an action scenario approach and combining it with an empirical analysis of action in films.

In this post, I will summarize the methods I have employed when analyzing action moments and how I go about quantifying them.

In this post I turn to the issue of what constitutes continuous action. Consider the recurrent scene in which the protagonist and the antagonist of a film are locked in some type of combat and pause to banter, and after exchanging insults, resume their fight. Do we treat the scene as a whole as continuous action and the pause in action a mere blip? Or should we consider the banter as a more significant interruption that separates the action into two separate moments? The question poses the problem of interruptions in action. Since interruptions can assume many forms, this post will consider the cases in which interruptions do not entail discontinuous action and the cases in which they separate action into distinct moments.