Features suspense

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Features suspense films often occur wholly or partly in exotic locations such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions or at sea. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently “tough guys” accustomed to danger, police officers, spies, soldiers, sailors or pilots. Anyway, can also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident. While such heroes have traditionally been men, women are becoming more frequent. The thrillers often overlap with mystery stories but are distinguished by the structure of his argument. In suspense, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, instead of discovering a crime that has already happened. The suspense also happen to a much larger scale: the crimes to be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism or the overthrow of governments. Dangerous and violent confrontations are standard elements in the argument.As a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others. In the suspense film influenced by the black and the tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process. In recent years, when the suspense became increasingly influenced by horror or psychological horror popular exhibition (Hide and Seek), an omniscient or monstrous element has become common to increase the tension. The monster can be anything, even an inferior physical strength made only for their superior intellect (as in the Saw film series), can be a supernatural entity (Dracula, Christine, The Amityville Horror, Final Destination), aliens (books Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft, The thing from John Carpenter) serial murderers (Stepfather, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), or even microbes or chemical agents (Cabin Fever, The Last Man On Earth Richard Matheson).Some authors have made their mark by incorporating all these elements (Richard Laymon, Francis Paul Wilson) through their bibliographies. Similar distinctions separate the thriller from other overlapping genres: adventure, spy, legal, war, maritime fiction and more. The suspense is not defined by its theme but because of the way to approach it. Many thrillers involve spies and espionage, but not all spy stories are thrillers. The spy novels of John Le Carr , for example, explicitly and intentionally reject the conventions of the thriller. By contrast, many other genres cross thriller which have traditionally had little or no element of suspense. Alistair MacLean, Hammond Innes and Brian Callison are best known for its suspense, but also notable writers of stories of man against the sea. The suspense can be defined by the atmosphere that show: emotion, which gives rise to the name of the genre.

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