Analysis of Thriller themes

 Chosen film taken

Violence 

1)The key them within taken is violence. With the other themes being fear and suspense.

Within the trailer for taken they are multiple scenes in where the main character is fighting against those who are likely to be the henchmen of the villain within the movie being evident from 1:06 to 1:17 . Each scene shows him either using an armed weapon to combat these henchmen or fighting them with his own Hands. His motive behind doing all these actions is an attempt in order to try and find the nesscary information of the location of his captured daughter. 

The theme effects the audience through making them ponder a question within their mind with the film "Will he be enough to save his daughter?" This question is pondered by the audience as they see him go against many of different individuals some of which are able to combat back against his attacks making people wonder if he will be enough in order to save his daughter.

The theme of violence may be explored in my film by making it the only means of which the protagonist will have in order to stop the antagonist from causing havoc within the world which could have irriverable consequences making the viewers ponder the question "Will one man be enough to save the world"...

Fear

2)Another key theme within the film is fear as his daughter is shown to be scared of the events that are occurring in 0:47 with her being taken. This fear can also be seen within her father he is scared when his daughter is staring to panic about what is going on over there. This fear is being used as motivation the father uses his fear in order to try and save his daughter from her capture and motivated to try and stop his daughter fear and bring her home safe.

The theme of fear affects the audience as it allows them to see the human side of the characters showing how the average person would be reacting in the situation of the daughter. This interests the audience as the human nature is contrsting to that of the dark and violent nature of the daughters father who is willing to use whatever means to save his daughter from and shows little to know fear.

I may explaore the theme of fear within my film by creating a dangerous situation for which the main character will have to go through and use it to show their human nature and how it will effect them in the end.

Suspense

3) A third key theme within the film is that of suspense. 

Suspense is created with a lack of information and only having brief bits of information to set the tone for the movie. This can be seen with the montage from 1:06 to 1:
36 where multiple action sequences are taking place and large amounts of fighting are occurring. This is showing the suspense as the trailer is only giving us small parts of information about what is going on and showing the things the protagonist is willing to do making the audience question what will happen next.

This effects the audience by keeping them on the edge of the seat and desiring more of what they are being shown. Curiosity is what is driving the audience to know more meaning with the lack of information that they are giving us within the trailer it is showing the audience enough to keep them interested and desire more of the film.

This theme can be explored within my film through giving them only enough information that they can understand what is going on and leave them with questions about the film making them eager to watch the rest of the film.