Types of Thrillers

I wanted to know exactly what a thriller consisted of as i had a misunderstanding between thrillers and horrors, so i looked up what a thriller was and this information helped me a lot to understand correctly, therefore giving me better ideas for a plot.

Characteristic :

• Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others. In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process.

Convention of thriller :

• Protagonist is at the mercy of the antagonist. · Cheap surprise – an easy shock generated by an sudden unexpected action/movement/sound. · False ending – where is appears the case is solved, but it is not. · Speech in praise of the antagonist – often done by the protagonist and is used to build up the villain, even if the speech ultimately dams the villain. · Make it personal – where the crime/plans draws in aspects of the protagonists life/emotions to change the plot from a professional action to a personal quest. This can be taken even further by taking it from personal quest to making the protagonist also become the victim. · Theatre of the Mind – don’t show everything to the audience, force them to image some things.

I also looked up what type of thrillers there are, and i will use this information when doing my survey on what peoples interests are in a thriller, giving us more information to work with, when it comes to making our movie beginning.