Genre Trailers - 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1999)

 

• Although this is a thriller with some horror conventions, this has been analysed because I want to use some thriller conventions within my horror
• Relationship triangles between the 3 main Protagonists
• A clever calculated antagonist who sets out to destroy relationships and get what they want
• Mysterious music
• Secrets and deception (Tom ripley stealing his identity)
• Another convention is the antagonist tormenting other characters with a devious plan (Tom ripely taking the identity)
• Antagonist with mental psychological issues and uncertainty (Tom)
• Climatical where things turn dangerous and secrets get unraveled
• Equilibrium and disrupt when Tom Ripely enters their life
• Dramatic irony (the audience know Tom had been spying on them)
• Tense attempts to repair disruption (trying to get to the bottom of Tom’s secrets) 
• Dramatic and climatically music when tense moments occur and plots are unraveled 
• A convention of characterisation is that the antagonist is a sociopath