Thursday, 30 October 2008

Endings of thrillers

Another thing that i decided to research was the endings of thrillers and the way they build to the final climactic moment. I noticed that thrillers will go one of two ways really. They will either build up to a big climactic moment where everything comes down to this one point. The 'will they make it moment' that happens in a lot of the more action thrillers like James Bond or Die hard or something like that where you are on the edge of your seat wondering whether he will save the girl or beat the villain. On the other hand in the more psychological thrillers you tend to be led down a path with little clues here and there about what is going on and then they will put in a massive plot twist. For example M. Night Shyamalan sixth sense you have the massive twist at the end when we find out that he is a ghost, or in se7en when you find out that he hasn't turned himself in and that he had it all planned out to make sure that Brad Pitt killed him to make all of the seven deadly sins. This tactic of the plot twist i think is a better way of doing it because it gives the film to different contexts. The first time you watch it tyou don't no what is going to happen and you sit there being thrilled with your heart in your mouth. However once you no what is going to happen and you watch it again it gives a whole different meaning to the film as you sit there seing all the clues along the way and kicking yourself for not guessing how it is going to end.

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