Thrillers are a well established popular genre of film, which aims to keep the audience on edge with the use of cliff hangers and twisted plotlines, building towards the climax. Thriller and suspense films tend to promote intense excitement, tension and establish a high level of anticipation. They all consist of a main character that is put in a life threatening situation, which seams un-escapable.
Thrillers are when “ordinary people in extraordinary situations”
Some thrillers, for example the work of the Cohen brothers, use semantics which is using signs, symbols and motifs to produce meaning, often used in a montage, linking these semantics to demonstrate something mysteriously, often a characters qualities or a past.
Sub genres:
Conspiracy
Crime
Disaster
Erotic
Legal
Medical
Mystery
Political
Psychological
Rape and revenge
Religious
Supernatural
Techno
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock is a well known English filmmaker, who specialised in suspense and psychological thrillers. He began his career with silent films and early talking films. He has a recognizable directing style, making viewers identify with the ‘normal’ character, by using certain camera angles, mimicking a person’s gaze and view. He used innovative editing to establish the point of view and framed shots to maximise the anxiety and manipulate the feelings of the audience creating suspense ad tension and the audience feel fear and empathy. He often incorporated an icy blonde female character and usually had twisted ending with violence, crime and murder and through his time, directed more than 50 films, with the daily telegraph awarding him with greatest ever film maker in 2007.
Early thrillers included:
Safety last (1923)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
The Bat Whispers (1930), M (1931)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931)
Murders in the Zoo (1933
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