Research: Narrative Themes and Plots

Research: Narrative Themes and Plots

Themes in film are very similar genre and sub genre. They are  general factors that are carried within the narrative, a theme is a a big factor or the backdrop in film for example a theme in the famous 'ScarFace' Would be drugs because that is a big contributing factors to the storyline and essentially why all the various characters are in the situation/predicaments that they're all in. 

However plots are the idea's carried by a charachter in the narrative this maybe the protagonist's ideas or plans within the film such as revenge and murder which are main plots in the film like the film 'Double Jeopardy'. 

In order to identify the difference between themes and genres you need to look at the brain storm on the left . Genre is the main idea as to what the narrative will be as in Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy and more they don't go into much detail about the time setting like a theme or the characters specific goals like a plot either.  

Common themes in thriller would be Drug dealing, murder and revenge. They need much darker themes becausde this is what makes a thriller and thriller films need to shock the audience and give them a rush of exileration you couldn't get that kind of thrill from something thats got a main theme of romance or comedy you need to have them on the edge of their seats and thats what thriller and these kind of themes can bring to the audience. An examp[le of this would be The Dark Knight trilogy. Although this is a BatMan film this time around it's a much darker and deeper interpretation to Gotham's crime detective, this time around there is alot more violence and crime exploited than ever before. 

Themes that impact audineces would be something they may be able to relate to because they may be influenced to do the same like what they see on the film thats why you must be very sensitive as to how you portray characters and what you show in thre narrative. 

In my thriller I think I would go for the classic theme of revenge, this is because it's a darker theme than the other thrilller themes including murder, this is because revenge in thriller is usually based on an innocent character driven to the path of something darker in order to avenge someone close to them who has been killed or dramatically done wrong. I feel like you can get more out of a character who is exploring their darkerside because you can shape and expand your ideas and turn them into whatever you want.