Thursday 13 November 2008

Individual Research on Thrillers

Settings for Thrillers:
exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas.
Typical Characters:
Hard men, law enforcement officers, spies, soldiers, seamen - Sailors, or ordinary citizens drawn into danger. Mainly men, but women lead characters have been cast before.
Thrillers can often be similar tomystery stories.
Thrillers - Theme crime: the crimes commited are usually serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments.
Violent confrontations are usually used somewhere in the plot.
Mystery films end when the mystery is solved, in contrast to a thriller which climaxes when the hero defeats the villain.
Thrillers have been influenced by horror films.
Monsters have been used in the films, these could be a physical force, something supernatural, aliens, serial killers, or microbes or chemicals.
Thrillers are defined by their approach to the storyline. Many thrillers involve spies, but not all spy stories are thrillers.
Thrillers can be defined by the mood that they create - fear, excitement.

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