THRILLER CONVENTIONS

THRILLERS HAVE :

FAST PACING

FREQUENTACTION

And RESOURCESFUL HEROES who must change the plans of powerful better equipped villains.

THRILLER CONVENTIONS

THRILLER CONVENTIONS CREATE

SUSPENSE

RED HEARING

CLIFF HANGERS

GENRE

The genre is always flexible and can always change

at any time, it engages the audience through a

dramatic way and can affect the physiological, social

and political tension.

WHAT IS A THRILLER

Thrillers often take place in an exotic settings such as foreign

films,

The heroes in most thrillers are frequently tough guys, they

either used to be policemen or ex militant, they also tend to

acumulate danger, however they may also be ordinary citizens

drawn into danger by accident.

While such heroes have traditionally been men. Over the past

few years women lead characters have become increasingly

common.

THRILLERS DIFFER FROM MYSTERY STORIES

Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are

distinguished by the structure of their plots.

In a thriller, the hero must change the future plans of an enemy

rather than uncover a cime that has already happened.

A murder mystery would e spoiled by knowing the murders true

identity, they usually know the hero and have had some sort of

contact in the past, whereas in a thriller the identity of a

murderer/ villain is typically known all along.

THRILLERS DIFFER FROM MYSTERY STORIES

Thrilers occur on a much grander scale than mystery films:

the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder,

terrorism assassination, or the overthrown of the governments.

Danger and violent confrontations are standard plot elemets

of a thriller.

The climax of a mystery is when the mystery is solved, a

thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain,

saving his own life and often the life of others.

TYPES OF THRILLERS

There are loads of different types of thrillers, ,

medical thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller,

historical thriller, the list goes on and on, with new

variations constantly being invented.

THRILLER CONVENTIONS

Thrillers can be defined by the primary mood that

they create: fearful excitement.

If it ‘thrills’ then it is a thriller.