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I found the brief very general. Thrillers, as I have discovered through my research, are not often just thrillers. Most are hybrids, for example, a Sci-Fi thriller like Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott or western thrillers such as High Noon (1952) directed by Fred Zinnemann. The thriller genre is something that hard to define; however, Todorov did try to define it as follows. "A genuine thriller is a film that relentlessly pursues a single-minded goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax". Thrillers tend to encourage a certain level of anticipation, and an ambiguity and anxiety that lead towards a tension building finale. Characters can have a tendency to stay mysterious until the ending where every thing becomes clear. The Departed (2006) directed by Martin Scorsese is a crime-thriller, where as Christopher Nolan's Insomnia (2002)...

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