Friday 28 September 2012

Thriller Conventions

Brief: The opening 2 minutes of a fictional film, including titles

Definition: Thriller films are movies that primarily use action and suspense to engage the audience and emphasize nervous tension and anxiety. Thriller films are distinct from horror movies which emphasize fear, or action movies which emphasize exhilaration. A thriller contains suspense as an indispensable ingredient. There are a number of different hybrids that contribute to a thriller such as adventure, detective fiction and espionage but the topics such as disasters and defeating criminals tend to be subjects of other genres.
      Some of the main thrillers come from fictional stories, for example Hitchcock had the tendency to put 'the common man' in the position of what would be the protagonist in an action film.

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