Thriller Conventions
Tension
Suspence
Detective & Criminals
Murders
Red Herring
Plot twists
Chases
Enigmas
Clues/Hints
Thrillers are charaterized by the fast paced action and resourceful heroes who must defeat the villians.
GK Chesterton
The theory about the transformed city, little stories in every day life that are dramatic or exiting and 'The poetry of modern life'
Northrop Frye
The herotic performance, the hero is often 'one of us' who is forced into behaving in a extraordinary way and the 'enchanted forest' has been replaced by the modern city.
John Cawelti
The exotic, foreign or unfamilar artefacts or settings can turn a normal enviroment into one of enchantment and mystery.
WH Matthews
Mazes and labyrinths, devolped from thesues quest to kill the minataur and the hero goes on a journey involving many twists and dead ends. The maze should be complex so the solution.
Pascal Bonitzer
Partial vision and we can only see so much and what we can't see is very important, A need to catch a killer by a deadline.
Lars Ole Saurberg
Concealment and Protraction. Concealment, the deliberate hiding of something. Protraction, the deliberate delaying of a suspected outcome.
Noel Carroll
The question and answering model. the construction of key questions contained within the narrative to which the audience waits for answers. The probability factor is where the main characters battle against the odds and are more suspenseful. The moral factor is the 'right outcomes' in the end.
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