Combining Thrilling and Killing:Use of Violence in Psychological Thrill

Combining Thrilling and KillingUse of force in Psychological Thrillers As we speak, there is a human beings place a gun to the back of your head. The cold muzzle stings the tender jumble of your scalp and blood trickles to the floor from where the handcuffs have cut into your wrists. Your centerfield, sleuthing death approaching, struggles in vain to slip through its cage of ribs and operate screaming into the night, much like how the scream just behind your look makes your vision blur and muscles twitch spastically. But perhaps you know the man behind you. Does that make you more or less afraid? by chance theres no man at all. Perhaps its you whos holding that gun. Maybe that gun isnt there either. Is such a thing possible? A loud BANG is your solo answer.Now you stand up, brush the flecks of popcorn off your shirt, and leave the theatre. Tomorrow, when you specialise your friends that the movie was exciting, explosive chargeing, and heart-stopping youll most like ly be describing angiotensin converting enzyme thing - frenzy. neer mind the unanswered questions of identity its the gun that made your heart race, the blood that made your hair stand on end. Does this mean you tailt be thrilled without violence? Certainly not. What it means is that violence does thrill. Aside from being a biological fact, it also happens to be one which filmmakers have learned to expertly exploit. When properly employed, almost any fair game or action can set the heart thumping and lead a chill down the spine, but to do so requires greater-than-average scientific discipline on the part of writers, directors, and actors, whereas simple violence requires relatively little of these things. What motivates filmmakers to induct in all that effort to replace a cheap thrill with a sophisticated one? Why do extremel... ...because to us, it exists as a part of our very selves.Works CitedHarris, Sally. Original Purpose of Escalating Violence in movies Backfired, Vir ginia Tech Film Critic Says. Virginia Tech News and Information, Oct 1999. Mar 2004 .Kelley, Richard. The Donnie Darko Book. Faber & Faber, 2003.Klein, Andy. Everything You cute to Know About Memento. Salon.com ArtsEntertainment June 2001. Mar 2004.Nolan, Christopher. Memento A Screenplay. Oct 1999.Piluso, Robert. Ah, Bloody hell Violence in Film. Script Magazine Dec 2003. Mar2004 .Wood, Robin. Hitchcocks Films Revisited Revised Edition. New York Columbia University Press, 2002.