The following is the short research task for Media 'G321 Thriller Research':
Thriller films are difficult to stamp a definition on, this is mainly because they can cover such a massive range of different types of films. There are many sub-genres that quite often overlap, from erotic thrillers to physiological thrillers to erotic/physiological thrillers! Thrillers are quite often categorized by frequent action and are usually seen as fast paced, it also sees the villains usually getting punished. A few different types of thrillers can be seen below:
Action Thriller: Lots of violence, an obvious main character, can include large quantities of guns, explosions and quite often can involve large elaborate sets for the action to take place in. A good example of an Action Thriller would be the latest James Bond film ‘Casino Royale’ where there is indeed a lot of violence, James Bond acts as the man character and many elaborate sets were used like airports and hotel resorts.
Conspiracy Thriller: This is where we see our antagonist faced with a large, powerful group of enemies in which the extent of their danger is only seen by the antagonist themselves. A recent Steven Spielberg Produced film ‘Eagle Eye’ follows this setting as the large, powerful enemy is shown as a evil conspiracy that they have to uncover during the course of the film.
Drama Thriller: A Drama Thriller is essentially where a drama film and a thriller film meet. These are shown as reasonably slow paced films with little action and involve a lot of character development. An example of this would be the recent card counting film ‘21’ in which a group of MIT students learn card counting in order to make money in Vegas.
Physiological Thriller: This is the thriller which features hardly any physical conflict between the characters (often this is broken near the end of the film) as the conflict is very often mental and emotional. Many examples can be given here, ‘The Number 23’ which stars Jim Carrey as he finds a book about the number 23 and starts finding the same patterns in his real life. The film ‘One Hour Photo’ is another good one which features Robin Williams as an employee at a photo printing company who becomes obsessed with one particular family.
Thriller Films
Thriller films are difficult to stamp a definition on, this is mainly because they can cover such a massive range of different types of films. There are many sub-genres that quite often overlap, from erotic thrillers to physiological thrillers to erotic/physiological thrillers! Thrillers are quite often categorized by frequent action and are usually seen as fast paced, it also sees the villains usually getting punished. A few different types of thrillers can be seen below:
Action Thriller: Lots of violence, an obvious main character, can include large quantities of guns, explosions and quite often can involve large elaborate sets for the action to take place in. A good example of an Action Thriller would be the latest James Bond film ‘Casino Royale’ where there is indeed a lot of violence, James Bond acts as the man character and many elaborate sets were used like airports and hotel resorts.
Conspiracy Thriller: This is where we see our antagonist faced with a large, powerful group of enemies in which the extent of their danger is only seen by the antagonist themselves. A recent Steven Spielberg Produced film ‘Eagle Eye’ follows this setting as the large, powerful enemy is shown as a evil conspiracy that they have to uncover during the course of the film.
Drama Thriller: A Drama Thriller is essentially where a drama film and a thriller film meet. These are shown as reasonably slow paced films with little action and involve a lot of character development. An example of this would be the recent card counting film ‘21’ in which a group of MIT students learn card counting in order to make money in Vegas.
Physiological Thriller: This is the thriller which features hardly any physical conflict between the characters (often this is broken near the end of the film) as the conflict is very often mental and emotional. Many examples can be given here, ‘The Number 23’ which stars Jim Carrey as he finds a book about the number 23 and starts finding the same patterns in his real life. The film ‘One Hour Photo’ is another good one which features Robin Williams as an employee at a photo printing company who becomes obsessed with one particular family.
