Introduction Into Thriller and The Main Context

The genre 'Thriller' is separated into literature, film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres.
Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must hinder the plans of more-powerful and better equipped villains.

In thriller films there alot of useful devices to engage the audience for example: Suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers.
The genre is a fascinatingly flexible form that can undermine audience exhilaration through a dramatic deliver of psychological, social, familial and political tensions but sensation-hungry audiences.

Thrillers often take place thoroughly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" prepared to face danger: law enforcement officers, spies, soldiers, seamen or aviators.
However, they might also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident. While such heroes have traditionally been men, women lead characters have become increasingly common in the modern days of thriller.

Recommended thriller movies to watch are:

(1) Infernal Affairs
(2) Se7en
(3) The Man Who Wasn't There
(4) The Bourne Identity
(5) Jakie Brown
(6) Dracula
(7) First Blood
(8) Scarface
(9) Krays
(10)The Panic Room
(11)Dead man Running

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All About Thriller Films

A Thrillers' mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved and climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain saving his own life and often the lives of others. Also thrillers are set on different subjects in the film such as:
(1) Police Investigations
(2) Guns
(3) Mysteries
(4) Vengeance

The Codes and Conventions

Genetic feature of a thriller is entrapment. Also claustrophobic spaces are a key generic signifier in thriller.

Flight plan, Snakes on a Plane, Phone booth, Kill Bill 2 and Panic Room all have claustrophobic spaces and a sense of entrapment

Flight plan - location - plane

Snakes on a Plane - location - plane

Phone booth - location - phone booth

Kill bill 2 - location - buried in a coffin

Claustrophobic spaces that are always used in thrillers to signify a clear image of the context of the scene are:

(1) Planes
(2) Trains
(3) Empty room
(4) coffins
(5) boot of a car
(6) elevator/lift
(7) white/black van
(8) prison cell
(9) narrow alleyways
(10)car parks

The way that a thriller is set is very strong and effective, they usually have a strong deep narrative voice to signify the relation between a horror and a thriller contrast. However thriller is different towards its lighting and how it sets the scene. Also the use of action to represent the genre the film belongs to.

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The use of black and white signifies the life and death. Thrillers are more brighter than horror. Also thrillers take longer time to set the scene, but they establish where the scene is taken and always show the relations of police, detective, law, murder, gangs and espionage.

Thrillers are most likely to be filmed in:
(1) City not countryside
(2) In the rain, to make it more dramatic and tense. Which creates an affect.

Sound and Camera angels

More use of medium close up than extreme. More over the shoulder shot to show the one to one conversation between characters in the scene. A lot of dolly and tracking to show the movement and action. Zooming into to show facial expression. A lot of body movements and expressions.
More use of extreme long shots and medium shots to establish the scene and surrounding.
The sounds are mostly to do with the law and city noise like everyday. Also sound that creates tension e.g. killer walking towards the behind of the character with a knife or a weapon and the sound is building up getting the audience's heart pumping, as the killer is coming closer and closer. Also quick cuts and change in camera angel aims to play with the audience's mind. The use of flashbacks and past time sequences make it more dramatic and a added twist make it more worthwhile to watch it and bring the flavour out of the movie.