what is a theme?
Themes are conventional to genres, they adapt to genre giving an impact on the storyline and it engages the audience by helping them what kind of genre and sub genre a film is. Moreover different themes set different atmospheres and mood for example if they were watching a film with the theme love they would also start to feel the same emotion as they connect with the film. Another example is war as the audience would become engaged and have confidence in one army keeping them on the edge of their seats hoping they would win
Examples of themes within different genres...
Thrillers
-death
-revenge
-obsession
Action
-violence
-racing
-revenge
Sci fi
-disaster
-aliens
-survival
Crime
-drugs
-gangs
-money
Rom com
-love
-friendship
-relation
Some of the most conventional themes in a thriller are, death, revenge, obsession and corruption. They're suitable as they all automatically put the audience in a thrilled uncomfortable mood in addition they bring out the bad side of a character making it more interesting but unpleasant for the audience at the same time which is why film makers come across these themes when making a thriller.
Thriller film examples...
Scream
scream is an example of death because throughout the movie an unknown antagonist decides to target and randomly kill a various amount of teenager brutally at unexpected moment.
Nightmare on elm street
This may have death however the main themes are revenge and obsession which leads to death. In this thriller film we have the main antagonist, Freddy krueger who was once bullied as a kid and now seeks out for revenge by targeting his bullies' sons and daughters and killing the people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.
The dark knight
In The dark knight the themes Crime and corruption have been demonstrated throughout the film. At the beginning of the film the Joker robs a bank which is committing a crime. Then throughout the film the Joker is decides he wants to corrupt Gotham city just like how he had a corrupted childhood.
overall i plan to use death and survival because there two which link most and are more conventional to the thriller genre. I've planned to utilise survival as that builds tension the most grabs the audience attention by finding out who survives and who doesn't
Again Khaled, this post has a lot of potentail but your presentation of work is making it difficult to follow. Different genres are discussed and there are some good examples of thrillers drawn upon in relation to conventional themes within thrillers.
ReplyDeleteLook at the presentation of your work please.
Do thriller themes differ depending on the sub-genre?