STATIC presents as a psychological thriller with a lot of promise. The goal is clear and the stakes are high. The structure utilizes some of the techniques that make for a compelling thriller, including a contained setting (the duplex), unexplained noises, tease attacks, a creepy TV show, and the sense that someone is stalking and watching.
The tone is ominous and foreboding fitting with the story type. There are smart story choices like the discovery of the hidden tunnel and the idea of the unnerving puppet show.
The idea of the couple moving into a new home is a tried and true event for this type of plot. The first act sets up the ordinary world of the protagonist, Curtis, and his girlfriendGray. There’s a solid pivotal plot point when Curtis watches the Pogo show and has the
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Right now it opens almost like a romantic comedy with Curtis practicing how to propose to Gray. Normally, a thriller should open with a darker scene that establishes the genre.
Moreover, the main concern about the presentation is the pace and the lack of compelling tension. The pace feels slow because the events are not captivating enough until late in the script. In examining the tension, there’s a fascinating scene when Curtis first watches the Pogo Show. However, he doesn’t seem to be all that concerned about it. The show should be a very compelling inciting event that drives Curtis to become curious and proactive about investigating the show. Instead, his lack of genuine concern makes the scene feel as if it’s not the inciting event. The Pogo show becomes sporadic and almost forgotten.
It would have been more effective if Curtis were more proactive in trying to figure out what the Pogo show is and where it’s being broadcast from, especially given what he sees with the girl. This would have focused the plot more and given Curtis an objective. It also would have enhanced the
Tone can be academic, informal, affectionate, dignified, bleak, cheerful, deliberate, paradoxical, patronizing, or many other imaginable approaches. The tone being a literary synthesis of the composition, that presents the mindset toward the character and the audience in a literary creation. A perfect illustration of tone in Twisted would be in chapter fifteen "Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.” (pg.44). The one of this example is metaphorical; Anderson uses the
The setting works to create a foreboding mood in Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by using descriptive sensory details. An example of this is when the author says, “Terrible winds and thunderstorms had swept through Washington early that morning, dissolving the dirt streets into a sticky muck of soil and garbage.” This creates a foreboding mood because it foreshadows something bad is going to happen from the turbulent storm brewing. This allows the reader
In the film, “Halloween”, directed by John Carpenter, an outstanding work of art has been created with respect to the ‘on the edge of your seat’ thriller that has been conveyed in the film. Mise-en- scene is incorporated in many different facets throughout the film and has creatively developed the scenes that makeup the thriller and deliver an objective of tone, mood, and scary elements. Mise-en- scene sets up the setting in the film as the director has an objective to deliver a scary, dark scene that keeps the audience on their feet. Initially in the film, there is a unique introduction of a quiet town that leads up to believe there is no horror involved in the area. This unique set up by the director gives us the preamble that the
The crime thriller genre is known for devices such as heists, kidnappings, interrogations, captivities, and ransoms. Famous crime thrill...
The reader starts out with a real hatred for the antagonists, but eventually comes to like them. The author does a wonderful job at convincing the reader to empathize with the kidnappers. Using the three methods that I have talked about, he makes the reader feel completely opposite than what the reader would expect to feel. Combining excellent writing skills, a great plot, and an interesting technique, the author accomplishes a great story while making the reader empathize with the "bad guys", who might not be so bad after all.
First, the tone of the book is fighting. The book is about a game that comes to life. One example of a frightening tone is that peter dropped the dice ready to see what would happen. It said “lion attack, move back one space”. He looked up at his sister to notice a frightening face. Peter turned around to notice a huge lion laying on the piano. It chased him to his aunt’s room. He slammed to door shut with the lion inside. This is very frightening.
Alfred Hitchcock’s films not only permanently scar the brains of his viewers but also addict them to his suspense. Hitchcock’s films lure you in like a trap, he tells the audience what the characters don’t know and tortures them with the anticipation of what’s going to happen.
Second, what is the mood of this story trying to portray with the setting. The setting c...
Due to the conventions included in the novel, this is a perfect example of a gothic novel. The novel evokes in the audience fear and anticipation of the novels plot. The 19th century audience would have been overwhelmed with terror whilst reading the novel as the atmosphere creates suspense and the pace of the novel is fast.
It explores various gothic genres which are mysterious and gloomy. The settings are dim and dismal and the gothic genre is created so that it would be familiar to a Victorian audience. The outlook of the genre would engage the reader from the beginning. The setting contains imagery so that the audience can have a clear picture of the scene. Chapter one begins in the graveyard 'from the tombstones' which gives the reader a gothic and intense feeling as they imagine 'a bleak place overgrown with nettles'.
To set the tone in the story the author had to describe the surroundings of the characters. For example the author states, "with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit." when giving a detailed response of how he feels about the house. This helps show that the author himself feels depressed when in sight of the building and gives the reader a thought of how the house looks. Other textual evidence in the passage also shows a feeling of suspense like the quote, "There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. " which is how the author feels when he thinks about the house. The author cannot bear to imagine the house because he has a dark and negative imagination with different fears he thinks can come to life because of how unsettling the house makes him feel. While suspense is a direct indication of a depressed and dark tone, some other Gothic elements can be used indirectly to describe negative values in the story.
It’s not what the author or director intended for us to feel is tone. Since suspense gives us that anxious feeling it affects how we feel about the characters, the movie or book as a whole, and how we feel about the author and the storyline in general. They also relate because during a suspenseful moment we tend to create the mood we feel at that moment, when we are anxious about what is about to occur and why we feel that certain way. Dahl shows mood throughout the whole story, by creating, awkward, weird, scary and suspicious scenarios. One way Roald Dahl shows mood in The Landlady is when he wrote, “‘I’m so glad you appeared, she said, looking earnestly into his face. “‘I was beginning to get worried”’(p.174). This is an example of mood because we feel weirded out. We feel this way because she says she’s was getting worried about him so that tells us that she was expecting his company. Roald Dahl also wrote, “‘ Excuse my asking, but haven't there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years”(p.179). We begin to feel suspicious about the landlady and her bed and breakfast because at a bed and breakfast there are normally people often staying there. Another example he wrote, “‘how amusing, she said. “But come over here now, dear, and sit down beside me on the sofa and I’ll give you a nice cup of tea and a ginger biscuit before you go to bed”’. This is an example of mood because
...e uses throughout this story gives it a strange, dreamlike quality, which is very appropriate for the dark tone of the story.
Edgar Allen Poe’s tone of the story is delusional and uneasy. The tone is of an insane mind. The story has mystery, death and the possibility of the supernatural, this short story is a work of Gothic writing. The setting is dark and shadowy which leads the reader to connect with the narrator.