"The Thriller is a very difficult genre to pin down because it covers such a wide range of films.
Thrillers are films of suspense... that are supposed to instill terror to the audience" Susan Hayward, Key concepts in film studies.
Different types of thrillers:
- Spy Thrillers
- Political Thrillers
- Conspiracy Thrillers
- Legal Thrillers
- Psychological Thrillers
Like the villains in James Bond movies. Whenever Bond breaks into the complex,"Ah mister Bond, welcome, come in. Let me show you my entire evil plan and then put you in a death machine that doesn't work". Jerry Seinfeld
The rules of Roadrunner
- The Roadrunner cannot harm or upset the coyote, only except by going meep meep
- No outside force can harm the coyote, only his own ineptitude or the failure of acme products
- The coyote could stop anytime, if he weren't a fanatic
- The Roadrunner must stay on the road- otherwise logically he would not be a Roadrunner
- All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters - The Southwest American desert
- All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from acme corporation
- Whenever possible, make gravity the coyotes greatest enemy.
- The coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures
However, most would agree that there are certain conventions that mainstream films observe in order for them to be acceptable to the mass audience.
Thriller contentions:
- weapons
- young naive protagonist
- curious character
- resourceful
- flashback
- far more powerful in the beginning
- double agent
- false hero
- reason for conflict
- mcuffin
- hi-tech gadgets
- fast paced action scenes
- hero falls in love
- cant kill children
- mysterious phone call
- suspense
- hero wins
- villain antagonist with shady past
- mysterious enigma
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