There is always a 'Victim', the person who is being terrorised or targeted by the villian. These are normally women as they play a more vunerable character.
The 'Heroes' in most thrillers are frequently "hard men" accustomed to danger: law enforcement officers, spies, soldiers, seamen or aviators. However, they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident. While such heroes have traditionally been men, women lead characters have become increasingly common.
For example in the film 'What Lies Beneath' there is a confused, vunerable women who thinks she's losing her mind but really ghosts are haunting her. Her husband therefore is the hero who tries to help his wife see sense and keeps her safe. Leaving the ghost being the villian; the person/thing who is making the disruption.
These two characters out of 'What Lies Beneath' are stereotypical of the victim and the hero in Thrillers. The victim is blonde representing the 'dumb' nature of blonde which makes her vunerable against the villian. The hero is dark, tall and handsome which is stereotypical of a perfect man which any women would like to be saved by.
These two conventions of typical characters in Thrillers are a good influence and we are going to take this idea and use it in our own opening sequence.
Lauren
1 comment:
why have you added these pictures - would it be better to find some that are more serious and typical of the genre? Why not add some recent examples of films that come into this category? Also why not add what you will use from this to put into your own opening sequence? Think broadly about typical charcaters, settings, plots, props, aspects of medai language to get a full definition of the genre... (Mrs Doggart)
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