Interview Questions 2
1) What do you look for in a thriller?
2) What grabs your attention most in a thriller?
3) Would you prefer a thriller to end resolved or with a cliff hanger and why?
4) When you watch a thriller from a certain sub-genre, what do you expect to be in it?
5) If you were to expect something different in a thriller, what would it be and why?
1) I like a top billed cast, as most times they are just the best acting talent out there, and I like to get immersed in the characters, which I can’t do if the acting is terrible. With a thriller there needs to be plenty of action, if I want a slow movie id watch a rom-com or a documentary etc I don’t like my films to be realistic; I find it sometimes to be quite disturbing and boring, because real life is boring. Therefore I like a large amount of fantasy to keep me interested.
2) The action scenes and their build up. There’s always a tense bit of music before the action, then the fast camera cuts and the clever wide panning to close-up transitions, when the action gets going. There’s always loud, fast paced dramatic music, and the actions the main part of the film. I feel like everything else just leads up to the action, or sums up the action at the end.
3) I like it to end resolved. Cliff hangers are supposedly for you to make your own ending of it, but then the producers bring out a mediocre sequel; ruin the viewers made up ending by replacing it with a shoddy excuse for a decent film. Clearly just trying to make more money off the first film rather than trying to make just a good film. So I prefer when a film has an absolute ending, to prevent bad sequels and such. Although it is difficult to find many resolute endings which work nicely, some seem rushed and are done poorly, and you always run the risk that the ending you dreamt up yourself would have been more satisfactory than the one the film makers provide.
4) Well I do like the predictability of action has to keep to the general setup of all action films so at the beginning we meet a character unsure of themselves (top billed of course) who is going to be our hero then a large problem comes up, still near the beginning: there’s nothing worse than a slow build up - I like the main character to be introduced and then get on with it so the main character starts plotting how to fix this problem, I expect of course a love interest at this stage, and normally an unsuspecting civilian innocently thrust into the line of action always works nicely then huge action scenes, dramatic, good music, has to look like a struggle then a resolved ending, "baddy" defeated, guy gets girl I do rather enjoy a happy ending.
5) If this was in terms of an action thriller then I would have to say the hero does not survive at the end and instead the love interest or friends/family have to suffer. I chose this reason as many action movies these days just have the love interest dying and the hero surviving throughout the whole film.
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