Specific Narrative Features of Thrillers
- Plot twists and turns - complex, makes the audience work
- Flash backs - darks pasts
- Narrative retardation - miss leading the audience
- Red herrings - things that distract the audience, miss-leading them to believe someone else it the bad guy or Villain
- Chase/ pursuit - action scenes to excite the audience and 'thrill' them
- Mysterious characters (shady past / duplicitous / unsure of intentions / keep audience guessing) don't reveal to much
- Deadlines (bomb timer, ransom demands...)
Morally complex characters which give us more grey areas which add to an audience Narrative retardation
- Enigma codes "Flash backs"to bring us back to a character's past
- Cliff Hangers to build tension, suspense and to play on the viewers imagination
- Misdirection, give the audience inaccurate information
Multiple lines of action, more than one story being told
General Narrative Theory references
- Todorov's Narrative theory- Three act structure
- Beginning, Middle and End
- Happy Endings (Doesn't always happen in the thriller genre)
- Catalyst: Something that get the ball rolling so to speak
- Enigma codes (Barthes)
- Levi Strauss and Binary Oppositions
**Refer to "Simple codes and conventions part 1"**
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