What is a Thriller?
It is difficult to state a clear definition of a thriller
because thrillers cross over various genres of writing. Thrillers can be divided
into countless categories: e.g. action, psychological, military, spy, sci-fi,
romantic etc. It’s easier to recognize a thriller through watching it than
actually describing it.
However there are some general characteristics that most
thrillers have. These usually include a plot that concerns itself with
life-and-death issues. Many thrillers involve murder mysteries.
Nearly all thrillers put the protagonist and other
sympathetic characters in serious danger. Most thrillers have very devious
antagonists. Thrillers usually have a great deal of action, cinematic
landscapes or city-scapes and take place in major cities such as New York and
London. Thrillers are very dramatic even when they focus on someone’s mind as
in a psychological thriller like ‘Inception’
A good thriller presents intense excitement, building up
suspense, tension and anticipation of things to come during the duration of the
film. As a movie genre, it provides thrills from various circumstances
presented in the story, where the protagonist or main character encounters
certain types of mysterious or dangerous situations.
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