Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Thriller Conventions

-A crime at the core of the narrative (often murder but not neccesaraily).
-A complex narrative structure.
-A narrative pattern of establishing enigmas which the viewer expects to be resolved.
-A protagonist who is systematically dis-empowerd and drawn into a complex web of intruge by the antagonist.
-Extraordinary events happening in ordinary situations, themes of identity.
-Themes of mirroring.
-Themes of voyeurism.
-Orotagonist with a flaw which is exploited by the antagonist
-Titles often reflct an aspect of the antagonist pyschological state.

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