Rear Window and Se7en

What do Se7en and Rear Window have in common?

-> Suspense / Increasing tension

-> Murders / Killers: WHO? If? (Crimes)
 

§  Lack of privacy – environment (affects characters)

§  Wires die – men solve things with help – “Main Hero”

§  Heroes – Jeff has a broken leg, Mills is hot tempered, - FLAWED HEROES (No one is perfect even heroes)

§  Urban setting

§  Cynical world view – “ people don’t care”

Codes: system of signs that creates meaning.

Conventions: accepted or expected ways of doing things

 

 

What are the convection – (expected)

>>  Take to do = suspense

>>  Dark setting / time

>>  Happy then sad

>>  Warnings -> foreshadows (impending doom)

>>  Tensions  

The difference between horror and thrillers.

 >> Horror includes supernatural

>> Horror is more blood

>> Extreme scare!

The difference between action and thrillers 

                                                                           >> Less action

                                                                           >> Actions set on pieces

                                                                           >> Explosions