Blog 1 Thriller conventions

Blog 1 Thriller conventions

Firstly, the ‘Thriller’ is a comprehensive category of literature, film and television that comprises abundant and often overlapping sub-genes. Thrillers, contain fast pacing and frequent action. This is because thrillers are often about death, crime and gangs ETC. Likewise, they also contain resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more commanding and improved equipped villains. A thriller is a villain driven plot. The villain presents difficulties that the hero must overcome. During thriller conventions
devices are used. The devices that are used are “suspense, red herring and cliff-hangers”. These are used to make the film more attractive, over-whelming and to make it more dramatic for the audience.

Secondly, a flexible genre is where the genre is flexible and can participate with the audience through a dramatic translation of psychological, social and political tensions. Furthermore, Hitchcock once said thrillers allow the audience “to put their toe in the cold water to fear to see what it’s like”. This implies that Hitchcock is trying to introduce the audience with the film to have a taste of what it feels like to actually be involved. Additionally, thrillers frequently take place in interesting surroundings such as foreign cities. Also, the heroes in most thrillers are frequently “Hard men” familiarised to danger. An example of this is: policemen and big built men that protect their women and men that have no fear and try their best to get what they want. However, they might also be commonplace citizens that are dragged into danger by coincidence. Correspondingly, although such heroes have traditionally been men, women lead characters have become increasingly common. An example of this is shown in the film movie ‘Alien’ that was produced in 1979 and to get even deeper into looking at women leading characters there is an early example being ‘Sigourney Weaver’s’.

Thirdly, thrillers differ from mystery stories. Thrillers habitually overlap with mystery stories but are distinguished by the construction of their plots. Equally, in a thriller, the hero must frustrate the future plans of an enemy, rather than expose a wrongdoing that has previously happened. Nevertheless, a murder mystery would be spoiled by knowing the murderer’s identity. Whereas, in a thriller the individuality of a murderer or a villain is characteristically recognised all length-ways.

Moreover, thrillers appear to happen on a much grander scale than mystery films. This is because the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination or the revolution of administrations. In addition, vulnerability and violent confrontations are standard plot elements of a Thriller. Also, the climax of a mystery is when the mystery is solved. A thriller climaxes when the hero finally comes to an end and defeats the villain and by doing this he/she saves their own life and often the lives of others.

Finally, there are all different types of thrillers and thriller. For example: legal thriller, spy thriller, action-adventure thriller, medical thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, political thriller, religious thriller, high-tech thriller and military thriller ETC. As a matter of fact, this ingenuousness to development is one of the genre’s most continuing characteristics. Thrillers can be defined by the primary mood that they create
being fearful and excited. Therefore, in short terms if it ‘thrills’ it is indeed a thriller.