Rules and Conventions of a Thriller

Rules and Conventions of a Thriller

A thriller is a range of overlapping sub-genres, which follows specific rules in order to create a specific effect on the audience. Thrillers are regarded as fast-paced, regular action, including creative heroes who must stop the more powerful or clever villain. 

Some of the characteristics of a thriller are;

• The setting - The location is usually in an exotic place such as foreign cities, for example James Bond is always in foreign cities.

In some thrillers the hero is an ordinary person where such extra-ordinary things have happened to them. This is becoming more popular in thriller movies as audiences like to relate their situation to the film as it is more realistic.

In a thriller film the narrative is often centred around a crime, often murder, where the theme is revenge and the person murdered is someone close to the protagonist, who is murdered by the antagonist.