Tuesday, 8 October 2013

history of thriller


Early thriller movies appeared in the start of the 1920’s with Alfred hichcocks’s first thrillers such as the lodger in 1926 witch was wrote on the shocking jack ripper story. More films followed such as blackmail in 1929. During the period from 1925 and 1935 6 films where made relating to the thriller genre. Spy films where introduced in 1928 with films such as fritz langs spies that was about criminal spy characters and action in the film these kind of films allowed and opened the floor for the james bond movies we see now that use very similar designs to the first creations of this type of film. Fritz lang went on to create more films based on and about serial killers and criminal actions involving preying on children witch are quite rare in todays thriller movies. other british directors followed such as walter forde , victor saville and George a cooper all in the same period of time created there own version of thriller movies and they made on average 6 movies each with some making nine. While hitchcocks films seemed to follow purpose and a britsh trend because of his patch in to making suspence type film witch include films such as the man who new so much  in 1934 he was one of the first dirctors to put in a film many different types of genre and some how link them into one story. In the 1940’s Hitchcock went on to create more films even picking up an award for his 1940 film Rebecca there where films every year the 50s all following the same style of film and basing it on certain non fictional storys and also fictional and creative ideas and designs. The 1950/60’s showed the more glamious side to the films where the movies included many famous stars and it was the first time the movies where shot in technicolour witch in a sence re invented the way in whitch directors produced the films. Stars like Marilyn Monroe and henry Hathaway, ralph meeker where all involved in making thrill movies in the 50’s. it was the 70’s and 80’s that saw the up step up in the making of these movies introducing more adult content compared to the soft detective work in past movies, violence and explicit materials where used in films like frenzy in 1972 and duel in 1971. 90’s saw rob reiners misery that was based on a book introducing spy and conspiracys into the story line of thrillers. Modern day thrillers have come a long way from the early day types this has been possible because over the years directors have been willing to try new things and experiment with different layouts and storys. Thriller movies have introduced stars of today like jude law and tom cruise and even to day is a very popular genre that includes gore, violence ,brutality ,terror and shock and keeping the viewer tence. Todays thrillers use a variety of elements and vairious people to create shock and action. Directors use lots of special effects such as diffrent6 camera angles and cameras. Pryrotechnics and other explosion and fire effects and also computer generateted effects.

1 comment:

  1. the history task was too research in detail the genre of thriller and the history and where it came from. I included multiple decades in my findings that really shows what was happening and how the type of genre was developing and where it is today.

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