Action Thrillers

Key conventions in action thrillers:

Sound track is very key in action thrillers, the music is usually very deep and it progressively gets faster when a tense moment is about to occur. This makes the viewer eager to watch the rest of the film. This is usually used when the characters have a specific amount of time to race to do a specific task. Crime thrillers have more use of drums in thier soundtracks compared to psychological thriller that use for strings insruments.

Only brief amount of identity - most main characters in action thrillers, their idenity is only shown breifly and leave the most important traits of their personality/ identity to the end. This is done as most characters have a secret or something out of the ordinary about them and would ruin the story if it was discovered at the beginning of the film. Not knowing alot about a character draws the audience's attention towards the plot of the sequence and that specific character.


The film Leon shoes the hit man in his everyday life. He is perceived as a normal man and lives in a flat building.  It also shows the hit man showing emotion to a young girl who has a bruise on her face. This could scare the viewers as he is such a normal character away from his job.

At the beginning theirs a point of view shot of someone going into a building. It seems as he is floating, this could me a Mcguffin, as the hit man is a killer that cannot be heard or seen.