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Popular thrillers from the past 20 years

The Silence Of The Lambs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/
Fatal Attraction http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093010/
The Usual Suspects http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/
Signs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286106/
Syriana http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365737/
Minority Report http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
The Sixth Sence http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/
La Femme Nikita http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/
Speed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111257/
The Game http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/

Own definition of a Thriller

Thriller genre is a type of tv and film that create suspence and tension, it also makes you nervous and anxious to what is about to happen. It's not really the same as a horror, becauase horrors are more graphic and scary. Where as Thrillers are made to excite you and thrill you, and not show that much graphic imagary, but to keep you wanting more. Less is more. Murder is one if the main features in a thriller, and Alfred Hitchcock is famous for this.

North by Nothwest - Alfred hitchcock

North By Northwest - Title Sequence, Musical Score. Watch more top selected videos about: Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann

Lines on the screen to start with, these make you feel trapped and nervous the more they form, they look like a cartoon version of a building. Then credits come from the bottom to the middle of the screen, and then from the top of the screen to the middle.

The this cartoon slowly forms into a real moving picture, and we see it is a building in New York. The picture then disolves into a shot of what we think is the base of the sky scraper. Many people are rushing out the building then we see many people rushing into the tube. From this we can tell it is abut 5o'Clock in the evening, which is rush hour and everyone is rushing home.

The thing that makes this picture seem more caotic is the music with it, it is heart racing and makes you panic. The beat is fast and really goes with how fast people are walking, running and rushing. At one point we even see two women fighting for a cab, and a man (Alfred Hitchcock who always stars in one of his films early on) who misses the bus.