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Thursday 8 December 2011

thriller genre

In class when we were introduces to the unit, as a class we were looking at different types of thriller. The types of thrillers we look at was:

Action thriller: These types of films all ways features a race against the clock and contains lots of violence. As in this type of film, the use of mise on en is a lot of guns, explosions , fast cars and bullets.
To film action thriller , the set needs to be bigger then all the other type of thriller to preset the action .
These films often have elements of mystery films and crime films but these elements take a backseat to action. Notable examples are the James Bond films, The Transporter, and the Jason Bourne novels and films.

Conspiracy thriller: these types of films all ways have a hero/ heroine which confronts a large group of enemies which are really powerful. The Chancellor Manuscript and The Aquitane Progression by Robert Ludlum fall into this category, as do films such as Three Days of the Condor, Capricorn One, JFK, and The Zero Option, based on the 1983 shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 carrying 269 people including Cong. Larry McDonald.

Crime thriller: This particular genre is a hybrid type of both crime films and thrillers that offers a suspenseful account of a successful or failed crime or crimes. These types of thriller all ways has a criminal which involves police as well. In these films there is a murder, there is robberies going on and chases. The films that includes this is The Killing, Seven, Reservoir Dogs, Inside Man, and The Asphalt Jungle.

Disaster thriller: these types of film is all on natural disasters which takes place on earth. There is all ways earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and volcanoes. The film that was out at the end of 2009 was 2012. 2012 is based on the world coming to an end. Other films that have been poplar on this type of genre was Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen, Tremor by Winston Graham,

Science-fiction thriller: Alien and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and Ian Irvine's Human Rites Trilogy and Dasavathaaram are examples of science-fiction thrilers.

Horror thriller: these types of films has the main character in danger by the enemies which are abnormal.
Films such as Evil Dead 2 and Zombi 2 fit into this genre of thriller.

Legal thriller: In which the lawyer-heroes/heroines confront enemies outside, as well as inside, the courtroom and are in danger of losing not only their cases but their lives. The Innocent Man by John Grisham is a well known example of the type.

Techno-thriller: In which technology is described in detail and made essential to the reader's/viewer's understanding of the plot. Tom Clancy defined and popularized the genre with his The Hunt for Red October, and is considered to be the "Father of the Techno thriller".

Religious thriller: In which the plot is closely connected to religious objects, institutions and questions. While suspense stories have always shown a significant affinity for religion and philosophical issues (G.K. Chesterton's novel The Man Who Was Thursday has been called a "metaphysical thriller"; and Umberto Eco's novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum both display thriller characteristics), Dan Brown's 2003 best-seller The Da Vinci Code has led to a current boom in religiously oriented thrillers.






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