Sentences with phrase «structure of a thriller»

This time he does it within the structure of a thriller, but the questions are there all the same.

Funny Games extends the counter-cinematic strategies of alienation in the debut trilogy and superimposes the framework of the generic structures of the thriller and the horror film in order to attract the very spectators who, according to Haneke, need to be critically aware of the cine - televisual medium.

Not exact matches

This structure is the basis of films from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, from thrillers and dramas to romcoms.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

In The Wall, director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) has teamed up with debut screenwriter Dwain Worrell to create a 90 - minute thriller about snipers divided by the eponymous rickety structure, which is part of a bombed building in the Iraqi desert in 2007.

Sadly, there has been such a glut of gun - packed London crime thrillers, that it simply isn't enough to make one that looks good and has a fierce energy: you need a solidly structured plot that...

This could have been the West Coast camp equivalent of the Southern fried neo-noir soft core sleaze fest Wild Things (1998), but Martin falls into the same self - aware pretense many similarly set and structured Los Angeles indie thrillers are prone to (Dennis Hauck's yet - to - be released Too Late starring John Hawke is another recent example of this overly rehearsed, hopelessly contrived claptrap).

Richly growing with each viewing - including a Secret Cinema event - I've discovered something new each time, like the multilayered structure of this erotic thriller.

It's southern at its most gothic, a familial dysfunction piece set in Texas, wrapped in a rightwing nut - job crime thriller that plays like Mortal Thoughts in its mood and structure and Eye of God in its somewhat detached humanism and ability to wring suspense from Biblical Abraham's trial.

The handling of the BDSM sex play is dreadfully cliched in terms of structure (3 heated romps and a final dramatic one); however, the actual presentation of the «love scenes» recalls the style of director Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful, Nine 1/2 Weeks), favoring artsy close - ups of human form, curve and the intimate sensations of touch, feel and response, rather than the raw carnality seen in something like Basic Instinct (my generation's landmark erotic thriller movie).

There is a reason that stalker thrillers fell out of vogue: in terms of story structure, even the good ones have a lot in common with the bad ones.

The movie has the minimal structure and trappings of a thriller, but it requires a different kind of engagement from the viewer; there's a different kind of contract being made with the viewer in this movie than in the traditional genre movie.

While the self - loathing artiste Charlie (Nicolas Cage) struggles to capture the essence of Orlean's poetic but decidedly uncinematic prose about orchid enthusiast John Laroche, brother Donald (also played by Cage) is having a far easier time with his own creative (in name only) writing endeavors, slavishly adhering to the structure guidelines set forth by screenwriting guru Robert McKee (played onscreen by Brian Cox) to come up with a thoroughly formulaic Tinseltown - ready thriller.

At its best, their tale takes on the structure and tone of a paranoid thriller in which the protagonist's paranoia is not only warranted but also a call to action.

Like all of Hamid's novels, Exit West is a love story, but one that exists within the structure of a moral thriller.

Author Joshua Horwitz structures this account like an eco-legal thriller, layering his research so that film of a Navy ship seen in the water near the site of the beachings hangs there like damning evidence.

This grand - scale historical thriller is dazzling for its complexity, its structure, its richness of thought, and above all, its passion.

Structured along the lines of a cinematic thriller, rapidly cutting from one man to the next, the book takes us blow by blow as they try to outthink and outfight each other.

I reread a number of my favorite thriller novels and wrote analyses of their structure and content.

James is not only a bestselling thriller novelist, he's written three truly helpful craft books for Writers Digest, including the bestselling Plot & Structure, Revision & Self - Editing, and The Art of War for Writers.

Jim is an award - winning thriller writer and the author of the # 1 bestseller Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish.

Jim is an award - winning thriller writer and the author of the # 1 bestseller Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish [2].