Recipe For A Thriller

Recipe For A Thriller

There are many things that can describe a thriller. Fast car action? The cute blonde in the back? It all depends on what we think makes a successful thriller. One good example is Albert Hitchcock's North By Northwest. It has excellent plot and storyline which is constantly making the audience wonder 'what's gonna happen next?'. One element of the film that Albert Hitchcock himself made was a MacGuffin (Explanation is in my North By Northwest post). 

There are two things that are especially used in a typical thriller and these are:

-A villain driven plot, whereby the villain gives the hero obstacles they must overcome

-Resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains

In all fairness for thriller movies, they wouldn't be anything without the villains very evil driven tasks. But at the end of the movie, do we really think about the heroes getting the MacGuffin or saving the world. Not really. All we care about is "Will they survive?", "Are they gonna get out of this mess?". This adds to the thriller movie because most of the audience never really care about the storyline as much as how the hero/es will get through the challenges that have been put in front of them.

There are many examples of thriller movies:

-Bourne Legacy

-The Avengers Assemble

-Twilight

-The Hunger Games

There are so many examples that it will be so hard to count all of them. But for the bare basics of a thriller, theres the plot, general action or a fight scene and normally some sort of love scene.