Thriller

A thriller is characterized by "the sudden rush of emotions, the excitement, sense of suspense". The plot needs to be exciting to achieve a good result. Thriller is a genre of fiction in which tough but ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them. An important part of the thriller is how it is told. Non-stop action, plot twists that both surprise and excite, settings that are both energetic and exotic, and an intense pace that never lets up until the story reached its climax. Thrillers are usually about life and death situations. We have looked at two thrillers which are The Usual Suspects and Children of Men.

We have analyzed the opening sequence and looked at the character's representation and juxtaposed it with the movie poster. We talked about mise-en-scene, sound, props and lighting.
We also discussed different posters of The Usual Suspects and found out that the different posters reveal different information about the characters. For example in the first poster it would not be so obvious who is the main character of the movie. However, it the second poster you can see the man in the yellow suit in the middle and standing before everybody else. We talked about the calours of their clothes and what they reveal and their posture.