Friday, March 27, 2015

Formal Film Study: Mystery/Thriller Movies

                                               















  
            Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. Films of this genre tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced. The directors of Mystery/Thrillers are usually very different in the way that they like to make their films differently. The sound in Thriller movies make and set the scene. The movies I saw were Se7en (1995), Inception (2010), and The Usual Suspects (1995).


Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must stop the plans of an enemy rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Mystery thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments.

These three thrillers were not made during anything that would cause a spark politically.   Ancient epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Odyssey and the Mahābhārata use similar narrative techniques as modern thrillers. In the Odyssey, the hero Odysseus makes a perilous voyage home after the Trojan War, battling extraordinary hardships in order to be reunited with his wife Penelope. He has to contend with villains such as the Cyclops, a one-eyed giant, and the Sirens, whose sweet singing lures sailors to their doom. The Odyssey could be considered one of the first thrillers.
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The overarching discovery that I noticed was sound. Sound happened to be a major part in each of these movies that I watched because the movies mood reflects heavily on sound and it wouldn't be the same experience. Depending on the the sound people get different feelings due to the way that the music is placed into the movies sound. 

A smaller find that is pretty important to thriller movies is the fact that someone has a person that gets murdered. I also found that the people that are murdered usually has some sort of personal connection to the main character. The main character is also trying to figure out what happened to that close person or they are trying to get revenge on their killer. 

Critics find that thriller movies are "Riveting in a gut-twisting way, but I, myself, would not call it "entertaining." Though critics say that they're not "entertaining" I would completely disagree. Although critics have their own opinion so do I but it can't judge how someone else would like a movie that they haven't seen.     

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