The conventions of action trailers are very similar to the actual conventions of the film... obviously. There are always action scenes, whether they turn up in the form of a fist fight, explosions, or an all out gun fight. This leads to the audince wondering why are they fighting, whilst also being in awe of the fights that are taking place. This usually means that special effects are also a mainstay of the trailer as well as the film, which can be easily assumed.
Another convention is that there must always be an easily identified hero in the trailer. This may take the role of a retired cop who has to recue his family, or any number of "The Chosen One" charcters from multiple film e.g. Ash Ketchum, Shia la Beuf's character or Harry Potter. And of course for it to be an action film trailer there needs to be a villain in direct competition with said here, to follow the conventions of good verses evil, and the desiceve fight at the climax of the trailer/ film, e.g. Bane, Dr Elsa Shneider and Roy Batty. ( the latter two are from Indiana Jones and Blade runner respectively)
In The Expendables The group of mismatch old fogies team up to deal with a seemingly impossible mission, and all the odds stacked against them. This is also a convention in many other action films.
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