Friday 15 January 2010

Action Thriller

Action Thriller Conventions
  • Obvious antagonist
  • Race against the clock scenario
  • Features more violence than other sub-genres
  • Disruption to equilibrium requires one protagonist to use action to solve it.
  • Protagonist must be skilled in combat and physically fit.
  • Usually involves characters of the opposite sex to drive the narrative.
  • Their loyalty will be questioned.
  • Double crossed.
Examples of action thrillers include:
Hostage, Equilibrium, Iron Man, Blood Diamond, Taken, I Am Legend, Matrix,
The Fugitive and the Bourne films.

Die Hard 4.0

The obvious antagonist of the film is the man who set the fire sale attack on the computer systems of the USA. The obvious antagonist helped the FBI make the base where all of the stock exchange codes are and now wants to take revenge on the FBI for sacking him over a dispute whether the systems could handle an attack.

The race against the clock scenario is when Bruce Willis is trying to find the man who set the fire sale, before he gets away with all of the money from the USA systems. The fire sale gives control of the USA's computer controlled infrastructure to the man. If Bruce Willis does not capture this man in time the USA may never regain this power.

There is more violence in action thrillers then there are in other sub - genres. Bruce Willis will do anything to get his daughter back from the fire sale makers, and doing so kills a lot of men in very violent ways. At one point he kills a woman by driving a truck into her and down an elevator shaft.

There is disruption to the equilibrium when the fire sale goes off and they turn off the power and gas. They also get rid of the shares at the stock exchange causing inconvenience to the people who own shares in the businesses. Also the disruption hits Bruce Willis as he is trying to escort a well known computer hacker, who may be connected.

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