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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Best Openings to Thrillers

Golden Eye

Lots of things happening

Endless supply of ammo

Lots of action - fast editing

Starts with thriller action - straight into it - Jumping off a dam

A lot of action in a small space of time

28 Days Later

Music - Chromatic - gets faster as the build-up of information reveals what has happened

The Departed

Starts about racism – Past in history

People can relate to it, easily relatable


About something that has happened.
Memento

Psychological – plays on the fact that he can’t remember information after 5 minutes

It has crime in it as main character is an investigator and it is really confusing which suits the psychological thriller sub-genre.

Drive

Crime uses a criminal to outsmart the police, music is percussive like a heartbeat and it speeds up increasing tension.
Involved with crime and is from a criminals perspective.
V for Vendetta

Alternate view on Britain, twisted made to be the opposite of what it is now.
Dystopian and a “what if?” question is posed. It has explosions in it which relates to action thrillers.
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Obeys two types of signifiers from thrillers but relates more to action.

Point of view of a criminal.

Action thriller as it involves guns being shot and escaping which heavily relates to action thrillers.

The Hunger Games

Tells us a story of what already happened.

Makes it easier for us to understand the dystopian world.

Means that we can get to grips with the world and understand what the characters are going through.

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