Friday 15 January 2010

Action Thriller

Action Thriller Conventions
  • Obvious antagonist
  • Race against the clock scenario
  • Features more violence than other sub genres
  • Disruption to equilibrium requires the protagonist to use action to solve it
  • Must be skilled in combat, physically fit
  • Usually involves character of the opposite sex to drive the narrative, their loyalty will be questioned.


Hostage
  • The obvious antagonists are the criminals holding the house hostage, also the unknown criminals blackmailing Bruce Willis' character.
  • Race against the clock scenario, they have to rescue the hostages and Bruce must retrieve the secret dvd before the unknown antagonists kill his family.
  • There's loads of shooting and killing in graphic detail, the different methods of killing such as flames are more violent than other sub genres.
  • Equilibrium of the hostages normal family life, this is used to introduce us to the characters and their rich lifestyle which leads to the main antagonists who hold them hostage; it also introduces the house, which is key to the other part of the story, introducing us to the other antagonists.
  • The girl hostage could be the one who drives the main criminal as he is intrigued by her, her loyalty is questioned because whatever she does is to distract him and save her family; she knows he likes her and she uses this to her advantage.

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