2. What is a thriller?
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that
uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. Thrillers heavily
stimulate the viewer's moods giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-
heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and/or terror. Thriller films
tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast paces. . A thriller is villain-
driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the hero must overcome.
The aim for thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats. The
protagonist in these films is set against a problem – an escape, a mission, or
a mystery.
What is the purpose of a thriller?
Is to make the audience always anxious on what might happen
next and leave them in suspense with twist and turns in the thriller
film.
3. Taken
Protagonist: Liam Nelson
Antagonist: Albanians
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and
relies on his old skills to save his estranged
daughter, who was kidnapped on a trip to
Paris to be sold into prostitution.
4. I Robots
Protagonist: Will smith
Antagonist: Robots
In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop
investigates a crime that may have been
perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger
threat to humanity.
5. Phone booth
Protagonist: Stuart
Antagonist: Man with the
sniper
Phone booth is about a slick new
York publicist who picks up a ringing
phone in a phone booth and is told
that if he hangs up he’s dead, this
makes the protagonist vulnerable,
and also this all happens within a day
which makes it a thriller.
6. Bourne legacy
In The Bourne Legacy, Aaron
Protagonist: Bourne Cross, a member of a black
Antagonist: Treadstone ops program, whose
agents are physically
trained goes on the run.
Once Bourne's actions lead
to the public exposure of
Operation Treadstone.
Bourne legacy is a thriller
as he is a lone hero which
means he is the
protagonist. There are
many things about Bourne
that we don’t know and
later find out in the movie,
this keeps the audience
attached as they don’t
know what expect next.
This is partly a thriller as all
happens between two days
7. The bike ride is the
protagonist and the
man chasing him is the
antagonist. The
protagonist is very
vanrauble in this movie
as he is just a normal
delivery boy who is just
unlucky to be in this
situation, it is a thriller
as the movie is based in
a day.