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THRILLER
CONVENTIONS
THRILLERS HAVE :
FAST PACING
FREQUENTACTION
And RESOURCESFUL HEROES who must change the plans of powerful better equipped villains.
THRILLER CONVENTIONS
 THRILLER CONVENTIONS CREATE
 SUSPENSE
 RED HEARING
 CLIFF HANGERS
GENRE
 The genre is always flexible and can always change at any time, it
engages the audience through a dramatic way and can affect the
physiological, social and political tension.
WHAT IS A THRILLER
 Thrillers often take place in an exotic settings such as foreign films,
 The heroes in most thrillers are frequently tough guys, they either
used to be policemen or ex militant, they also tend to acumulate
danger, however they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger
by accident.
 While such heroes have traditionally been men. Over the past few
years women lead characters have become increasingly common.
THRILLERS DIFFER FROM
MYSTERY STORIES
 Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the
structure of their plots.
 In a thriller, the hero must change the future plans of an enemy rather than
uncover a cime that has already happened.
 A murder mystery would e spoiled by knowing the murders true identity, they
usually know the hero and have had some sort of contact in the past, whereas in a
thriller the identity of a murderer/ villain is typically known all along.
THRILLERS DIFFER FROM
MYSTERY STORIES
 Thrilers occur on a much grander scale than mystery films: the crimes
that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism assassination,
or the overthrown of the governments.
 Danger and violent confrontations are standard plot elemets of a
thriller.
 The climax of a mystery is when the mystery is solved, a thriller
climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and
often the life of others.
TYPES OF THRILLERS
 There are loads of different types of thrillers, , medical thriller,
police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, the list goes on and
on, with new variations constantly being invented.
THRILLER CONVENTIONS
 Thrillers can be defined by the primary mood that they create:
fearful excitement.
 If it ‘thrills’ then it is a thriller.

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  • 1. THRILLER CONVENTIONS THRILLERS HAVE : FAST PACING FREQUENTACTION And RESOURCESFUL HEROES who must change the plans of powerful better equipped villains.
  • 2. THRILLER CONVENTIONS  THRILLER CONVENTIONS CREATE  SUSPENSE  RED HEARING  CLIFF HANGERS
  • 3. GENRE  The genre is always flexible and can always change at any time, it engages the audience through a dramatic way and can affect the physiological, social and political tension.
  • 4. WHAT IS A THRILLER  Thrillers often take place in an exotic settings such as foreign films,  The heroes in most thrillers are frequently tough guys, they either used to be policemen or ex militant, they also tend to acumulate danger, however they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident.  While such heroes have traditionally been men. Over the past few years women lead characters have become increasingly common.
  • 5. THRILLERS DIFFER FROM MYSTERY STORIES  Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots.  In a thriller, the hero must change the future plans of an enemy rather than uncover a cime that has already happened.  A murder mystery would e spoiled by knowing the murders true identity, they usually know the hero and have had some sort of contact in the past, whereas in a thriller the identity of a murderer/ villain is typically known all along.
  • 6. THRILLERS DIFFER FROM MYSTERY STORIES  Thrilers occur on a much grander scale than mystery films: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism assassination, or the overthrown of the governments.  Danger and violent confrontations are standard plot elemets of a thriller.  The climax of a mystery is when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the life of others.
  • 7. TYPES OF THRILLERS  There are loads of different types of thrillers, , medical thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, the list goes on and on, with new variations constantly being invented.
  • 8. THRILLER CONVENTIONS  Thrillers can be defined by the primary mood that they create: fearful excitement.  If it ‘thrills’ then it is a thriller.