Thriller forms and conventions

Thriller Forms and Conventions

Enemy of the State

Iconography • Ear pieces • Spy Technology• Guns (agents)• Helicopters• Cars

Characters • Robert - Lawyer• Rachel - Former love interest, Informant• Phil – Congressman• NSA Agents• Daniel - Innocent person killed

Audio-Visual Style

• High key lighting - Blue filters• Short takes • Diegetic and Non-diegetic sound – car engines, satellites

• Captions – typing style

Narrative

• Assassination – at the beginning of the film there's a scene where a high profile man is assassinated by Phil and his bad agents.

• Chase scenes – the film is full of a vast amount of chase scenes as the NSA Agents are after Robert as he has the video of the assassination, they don’t want him exposing the truth of what happened.

Themes

• Corruption – The NSA is infested with corrupt agents and the film is about corruption in politics.

• Politics – Congressmen• Murder/Crime – The assassination• Injustice – The death of Daniel