Wednesday 17 November 2010

thriller examples

During the Pre production of our film we need to think of some ground-breaking films in the thriller genre, the examples listed below contain some interesting conventions and ideas we could include in our film. This list will help us analyse what makes a thriller and what a thriller basically is.

here are three examples of thrillers:
The Shining
Released 1980
leading role was played by jack nicholson
directed by stanley kubrick
sub genres- mystery, madness, horror
conventions- isolation, 'heres johnny', 'all work and no play makes jack a dull boy', axe wielding maniac, mystery, frights, random

sin city
Released 2005
directed by frank miller, robert rodreguiz and guest quentin tarrantino
sub genre- crime, action
conventions-set at night, shootout, comic syle, 9mm pistol, police chase, murder

kill bill
released 2003
directed by quentin tarrentino
sub-genre- crime, action
conventions-waking up from comas, matrix style fighting, samurai swords, elemenf of confusion, whistleing

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