Thrillers

What is a thriller?

Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. Films of this genre tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced.

 

The Dark Knight

 

 

The Dark Knight is one of the most watched and highly rated thrillers on the IMDb website. The common elements of this film are darkness and being silent. It follows the two main characters around to let you know how their lives intertwine with one another. Also within this film there is a lot of fasted paced action and very sudden but very memorable movements. Such as when the Joker takes hostages and slices their cheeks right down the centre from the corner of their mouth.

There also tend to be a lot of special effects which in thrillers are of their own kind, for example explosions and gun shots. It really makes the audience get interested in the film and want to continue watching. The story line of this film is the chasing down of a notorious villain who puts a lot of innocent people’s lives in danger. The setting of this film is mainly Gotham city where lots of problems start to occur. The actors who play the two main roles of Batman and the Joker really do know how to do it. Considering this is a remake of the old version the actors did pull of a very good job of making it one of a kind. The role Batman is to be this dark figure that protects Gotham city without anyone knowing his true identity. The role of the Joker is to be a homicidal maniac with strong psychological problems putting fear into innocent people’s lives. A lot of the props used are weaponry such as elite armed forces destruction vehicles, and knife and lots and lots of black-market guns.  The camera work is very unique the director was able to get like every single camera angle that exists. Editing such as the explosions and the high speed driving is of a very high level edited because it makes it seem that the explosions are real and the actor is like a professional racing driver.

 

The sound effects used in this film or of its own level, the blend of pure silence and then explosions when you least expect it really makes it’s a very good piece of film work because you stay wanting to see how it ends. The make-up that some of the characters have does really reflect their characters, such as the Two-Face because the burn half of his face does really like his face has actually been charred the extreme and the jokers make-up really does make him look like he is wrong in the head. The costumes also tell you what the characters should be. Batman actually looks like a bat/ humanoid. The Joker dresses very similar to the original joker but with a modern and mental twist. Two-Face dresses like an evil master mind should dress very smart and form but something to separate him from the rest, and commissioner Gordon actually looks like he should be a police commissioner.

 

 

 

In this scene it gives you a real sense of what Batman’s vehicles are like, they are the best of the best nothing could possible stop them and it lets you know he isn’t prepared to lose. The camera angle shows a sense of power and with the explosion it shows that this vehicle is state of the art and one of its kinds.

 

In this scene it is a long shot Batman in all his body armour landing on the top of a car and watching the top of the car getting crushed shows that he is someone that is a power figure and that intimidates anyone that tries to defy him.