evaluation on alfred hitchcocks essay ''why thrillers thrive''



alfred hitchcock trys to explain why people go to the cinema he says it is to reflect life but not always lives like our own as we would never experience them ourselves but the differences in the lives of the charaters like the emotional disterbances or thrills. so these thrills would be in thrillers hence the name and this is why we like to see these films for the thrills maybe because our own lives are more boring than these of the charaters on the thrillers.

he also goes on to say how we need ''shake ups'' basically to be scared of worried other wise we get bored and lazyand that the environment we live inhas made our lives so sheltered that we are not able to get the thrills first hand which is quite sad really saying the only way that we would get thrills in life is through cinema because our lives are so boring.

the only way to experience this thrill is through the cinema as it is the best way.it must be the best way because you have the images to add on to your own imagineation.

he mentions how the things that happen on stage are detached from ourselves like the termoil and struggles which could be a good thing because if somethings happened in our lives that happen in thrillers it could ruin our lives for ever and he says that we just look at it through a window like it is not our own life because it is not.

he also says how to feel what the characters a going through on stage or screen we make try to make ourselevs feel what they feel in there consciousness but we unconscisley feel it and this is the most effective way for us to get our thrills without us actually experiencing it ourselves which could be a good thing as i dont think people would want to feel what the charaters feel.

he also says how we participate we participate in the scence we feel see and hear all what the charaters do and it helps us to understand and want to watch the film.

he describes a film that he knows and says how you feel for the main character and that all the pain he goes through you feel and that makes good cinema for the viewers as it is exciting and interesting.

he then goes on to a story of a side show that promises thrills it is a memory of his so people went in to a room and expected one thing to happen but the complete opposite happened a pillar started to fall on top of them this may have supplied a thrill to the public but not a thrill that they certianly enjoyed in fact i imagien it would have made them uncomrfortable as it is not something you would experience also it is actually happening to you and not on the screen unlike the films.

the thrills that we get from thrillers at the cinema are secondary types of thrill as we dont actually endure them but we do participate in them as in we feel exactly every little detail that the characters feels we find that enjoyable but if it was first hand we do not enjoy that even though it is also a thrill but we feel the effect more so and it is harder for us to accept this form of thrill as it scares us more.

he says how horror and thrillers are entierly different from each other thrillers are ment to add suprise and suspence and have you on the edge and not knowing whhat is going to happen and not having all the answers where as horrors give every answer and are just there to scare you not to have any sort of suspence or questions.