Bangkok Dangerous Analysis

Thriller movies have a few conventions; these are not normally associated around the characters and are more around editing and sound. One of these conventions is quick cuts between scenes and camera angle changes. This is very similar to the action genre but it is usually more rapid in action movies. Also another convention is the use of darkness and light, as in many thriller movies the opening usually takes place at night or in a dark place where shadows can easily be seen if light is behind the character,  mainly the antagonist or the protagonist. Another convention is that it is usually from a killer’s point of view, for example in “Bangkok Dangerous” it is from an assassin’s point of view and what it is like to be a killer. There is also usually some tricks on the viewers mind. The plot of a thriller is usually how somebody got arrested or killed by committing a crime, usually murder.

Bangkok Dangerous conventions

-Darkness

-shadows

-story of a killer

-car chase (motorcycle in this case)

-usually faster editing of angle switches and cuts.

-fighting/conflict hand to hand and with guns.

 

-As with most thriller movies, there is some relation to crime, at this part in the movie there is drugs which in the next scene are used to kill somebody who was involved in the crime to “destroy all evidence.” This is typical of a thriller movie as it has crime orientation and there is also plenty of light showing what Nicholas Cage is doing in this scene (preparing drugs for a lethal overdose).

-once again this scene has conventions of a thriller movie as light is present which there is usually a lot or little light in different scenes. You can also tell this is a thriller movie as it has the convention of violence and crime, as in this scene it is a gang beating on one person in a unfair situation which is also illegal as it is assault.

-This scene still also has conventions of a thriller movie. For example, one convention is the use of mirrors and surrounding item to view around an area. This is very prominent in thriller movies and is no different here as it is using a mirror to view surroundings, this makes it easier to view the mise-en-scene and also show emotion on characters faces. Also another convention is that it is at night, which quite a large portion of most thriller movies are.

-This scene also fits in with a thriller opening as it fits the convention of light once again, this is true here as light is entering through a window to make a character seem bigger, more aggressive, or as if they are good as light is seen as good where as dark is seen as more menacing, however with the costume in this scene, it is a darker costume so it could be seen to show a character as evil or as if they have a darker personality or as they are more aggressive and should be feared.