The rules and conventions of thrillers

The rules and conventions of thrillers

In the thriller genre there’s lots of different sub genres, which do certain rules to create a specific effect on the audience.  Thrillers are mostly fast paced with regular action this includes a hero who has to stop this strong intelligent villain.

One of the characteristic’s in a thriller is the location is often in exotic places such as foreign cities for example in James bond films he is in mostly foreign places. On the other hand some of the thrillers are presented as people in an ordinary situation and then extraordinary things happen to them for example in the film “The Birds” we see birds attack these ordinary people which is extraordinary for birds to do. Finally some other thrillers have a hero as an ordinary person then extraordinary things happen to them for example the in “the hulk” there’s an ordinary man but when he gets angry he turns in to this giant big green guy also known as the hulk.

In some of the thrillers the story’s is mostly centred around a crime or often a murder or someone captured their family which sets the theme on revenge and the person who murdered or captured their family also known as the antagonist is powerful and mostly has an army of people where as the protagonist is mostly one person who is after revenge and is fighting an army of people by himself.

Secondly some thriller genres are more complicated and is not the same as some of original thriller convention for example in the film “law abiding citizen” we see a man’s wife and kid murders we think that the man is the protagonist (hero) but later on in the film we see that he actually is the antagonist (villain) and then a new protagonist comes, therefore few of the thrillers don’t stick to their thriller conventions.

Finally in the thriller genre there is also an enigma set in the opening of the film and then the film gets complicated and then at the end it becomes clear. This is done to engage the audience because they don’t know the aspect of the film which makes them eager to find out what’s going on in the film till the information’s revealed. An example of an enigma is done in the film fight club where brad Pitt has a gun pointed at another character, this is later resolved in the end.

In the Thriller genre there are lots of different sub genres such as action thriller, crime thriller, horror thriller and etc.

Psycho

In psycho  we see a young lady called Marion Crane who decides to leave phoenix with $40,000 which her boss trusted her to deposit in the bank. Marion was on her way to her boyfriend "Sam" in California, the money will let them start a life together. She spend a night in her car and then followed up spending her second night in the Bates motel. Marion than meets Norman bates which is a shy young man who is dominated by his mother. They have a conversation for a little bit and then she decides to return the money back at phoenix. She still decides to spend the night at the bates motel, she then has a shower and then she's brutally murdered. A week later  Marion's sister arrives at Sam stores in fair vale and demands answers for where Marion is.     All together with a private investigator Milton Arbogast decide to go searching for her and come across the bates motel. Arbogast finds something suspicious about the bates motel and decides to go speak to Normans mother, which causes him to get murdered. Sam and Marion sister then find arbogast missing. They then decide to check out the bates motel and then Marion sister goes to speak to Normans bates mother where she finds that his mothers dead, she then sees Norman bates dressed as his mother with a knife ready to kill her when Sam comes to the rescue and save her. 

Genres and Narratives

What are genres?
Genres are different categories of films for example we have
action
Horror
Comedy
thriller
In these genres there make them to be specific so you can pick what film you specifically want to watch for example if i wanted to see a film with lots of action i would look for the films under action and if i wanted to look or something thats scary i would look for a film under the horror genre.

There also is sub genres for example
Action thrillers
Animated action films
Sub genres are there to have a bit of both for example if i wanted a film with action thriller i would have some of the action and some of the thriller.

What are Narratives?
Narrative is the what tells you the story is about for example like in life of pie its about a boy who gets stranded on the sea and then escapes.

North by North west

In the film North by north west we see a character called “Roger thorn hill” who ends up finding himself mixed up in a world of spies, for being mistaken for a guy called “George Kaplan”. A spy Philip Vandamm and his men try and kill him but when “Roger” tries to resolve the case he is framed

for murder. He then escaped from the police and managed to board the 20^th century limited bound for Chicago, he meets a beautiful blond lady “Eve Kendall” who helps him escape. Yet again bad luck hits him and “Eve” wasn't who she says she is, it then leads to “Rogers” rescue/ escape at the top of MT.Rushmore.

The birds

The Birds

In the film “The birds” we see a rich lady Melanie Daniels who is jet set and gets what she wants. The lawyer “Mitch Brenner” finds her in a pet shop and decides to play a practical joke on her so she decides to return the favour. “Melanie Daniels” then drives down an hour north of Francisco to bodega bay where Mitch stays over to see his mother “Lydia” and his sister “Cathy”. When she arrives in bodega bay we start to see the birds start acting strange. “Melanie Daniels” then pranks “Mitch Brenner” and starts crossing the bay, a seagull out of no where attacks her. Lydia then finds her neighbour dead with his eyes pecked out which shows us his one of the victims. Not long after hundreds of birds started to brutally attack anyone that is outside. There is no imp articular reason why the birds are doing this, survival becomes the most important priority.