Monday 20 October 2014

What is a thriller?


Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements.

A thriller to be defined completely, is suppose to provide thrills, include cliff-hangers and keep the audience on the edge of their seats by creating a tension by building a plot to a climax. Tension is usually made to arise when the main character/s is in a life threatening situation which seems impossible to escape. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces- the outside person (bady) is usually made shadowy and mysterious.

Thrillers are mainly made into hybrids, meaning there is more than one genre put to a film,
 e.g. 
  • action- or adventure- thrillers
  • Sci-Fi thrillers (Alien (1979))
  • crime-caper thrillers (The French Connection (1971))
  • western-thrillers (High Noon (1952))
  • film-noir thrillers (Double Indemnity (1944))
  • even romantic comedy-thrillers (Safety Last (1923))

1 comment:

  1. Shawnean you should be working hard to catch up-this is far below standard of an A level student. What are you doing? Please see me immediately and be in MS1 blogging in your free periods and at lunch!

    ReplyDelete