I would like to say a few words about such a popular genre of cinema as a thriller.
Action movie or a thriller - a genre of literature and cinema, it includes those works that seek to give the viewer a feeling intense emotions, excitement. Genre does not have clear boundaries. Often attributed to the thriller detective adventure in which the emphasis shifted to preparing for some unique offense. K thriller also often include literature and horror movies.
By Ross McDonald's definition, in a detective action moves in time back, to a solution; in a thriller — forward, to accident. Distinguish between these genres is not always easy, and one often contains elements of both. Vivid examples of the thriller in film - films by A. Hitchcock, who skillfully used the technique of movie plot to foment tension and emotional management audience. For his paintings characterized by a thin black humor and secondary character of the plot to virtuosic elaboration of key episodes.
Another master of thriller was a German director Fritz Lang ("Spies", 1928; "M", 1931); since 1936, he worked in Hollywood ( "Woman in the Window", 1944, etc.).
If in 30th years for the Hollywood thriller had been characterized by elements of comedy ( "This is a wonderful world", 1939, etc.), then with the beginning of the war genre has become more somber tone: "Assassin" (1942), "The Big Clock" ( 1948) and others
Originated subgenre-heist movie ( "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950). In Britain, T. Dickinson took the classic film "Gaslight" (1940), which became the basis for a Hollywood remake in 1944. In the genre of comic thriller worked FA Londer and S. Gilliat: "I see a stranger" (1946), "State secret" (1950). Carol Reed put the picture of "The Third Man" (1949) - one of the best thrillers in world cinema.
Among the varieties of the genre can be distinguished spy thriller, the best examples of which are connected with the Second World War or the Cold War.
In the 60's and 70's, in connection with the Kennedy assassination and Watergate, became popular political thriller, "gold standard" which can be considered a film by John Frankenheimer's "Manchurian Candidate" (1962).
However, in the same period, the genre is increasingly used for the operation of acute or merely fashionable themes. Such films have won in relevance, but sometimes lost in quality. Allocated to the work of Brian De Palma, whom critics called the successor to Hitchcock ( "Dressed to kill", 1980, etc.). The elements of the thriller are present in many films of Roman Polanski: Knife in the Water "(Poland, 1962)," On the brink of insanity "(USA, 1988) and others.