Friday, 13 January 2012

Recipe of a Thriller

Thriller is a broad genre of  literature, film and television, that includes numerous and often overlapping sub genres. Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heros, who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains.

In thrillers there are many devices used in thrillers commonly:

Suspense,
tension builds up

Red Herrings,
When a hero or villain turns out to be the opposite

Villain driven plot,
The plans of the villain

Cliffhangers,
When the story ends and we don't know what will happen next

Psychological, social and political tensions,
Different types of thrillers.

In thrillers there is a sub story to the thriller called a Mcguffin
The Mcguffin is the plot that drives the work of fiction.
There are many different types of Mcguffin stories in thrillers:
Money, victory, Glory, survival, a source of power, or a potential threat, or it may simply be something entirely unexplained.  

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