Thriller is a genre that gives heart-beating, tension and eagerness to the audience. Thriller was made to keep the audience to the edge of their seat and also make the audience alert.
After researching and watching countless of thriller films, it comes to a fact that no matter sub-genre the thriller film is, the protagonist will always face problems and/or danger.
What is genre?
The definition of genre is a category of art, music, or literature. So for films, it's a category that a film would fall to (along with sub-genre) depending on what element its constructed to for example: Action, Crime, Psychological, Science-fiction etc.
Themes for thriller
For thrillers, the most common is 'Good vs Evil' theme, so it will type of theme will be about a protagonist (hero) fighting against a antagonist (evil) and saving those who are in danger.
Other common themes are:
Crime thrillers - revenge, kidnapping, justice etc,
Mystery thrillers - investigations, 'whodunit' techniques etc.
Psychological thrillers - mind games, stalking, obsessions etc.
There are many themes for thriller.
There are many thriller sub-genre such as:
- Action
- Crime
- Disaster
- Romance
- Religion
- Supernatural
- Psychological
- Crime
- Mystery
Here's an example of a thriller film:
This film is about two detectives along with a rookie and a veteran - their job is to find and hunt a serial killer, who somehow, is able to use the seven deadly sins.
The genre of this film is:
- Thriller
- Mystery
- Crime fiction
- Psychological
A good start here, themes identified well and the sub-genres of thrillers.
ReplyDeleteTo improve;
-in your 'Seven' analysis, can you be specific to the best fit sub-genre, rather than stating lots of genres?
-include another example of a thriller film with some discussion on the narrative, themes etc,
-what are some of the common conventions of thrillers?
-think about the audience in relation to thriller films.