Tuesday 1 February 2011

Why "Thrillers" Thrive by Alfred Hitchcock

This essay by Alfred Hitchcock shows what the thriller conventions are in real thrillers by explaining them through examsples in the essay. For example he tells the tension when a British plane has to fly into a zeppelin it means that a thriller has to grasp the meaning of the film and left them on a the edge of their seats and thaty he says makes a good thriller in a cinema. Also it gives ideas and tips on certin ways to make a really good thriler because he gives his own story of when he went to a sideshows about really good thrills and where a oillar was about to fall on the spectators but it stop in the air, that give them a thrill. The thriller films have to leave the audience in suspense throughout the film beacuse of all the dangrer involved in the film.

I think that  this essay helps to give yoy in idea of how a thriller film is ment to make the audience feel in the cinema while they watch the thriller. Weather it would be tension confused or making you jump. Thriller films want to make the saudience feel that they are in the film because that way they can see and possible see the life that is relfected in the thriller film. Alfred Hitchcock said that is why we all go to the pictures or cinema. Thriller secenes are made to be confusing and to make the audiences blood to pound round in their bodys because of the thrill that they get while watching the film.  

Posted by: Oliver Gibbs

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