Thriller notes

Different Character Types :

• Protagonist: Good guy
• Antagonist: Bad guy
• Dramatic irony - when the audience knows more than the protagonist
• Character archetypes
• Handicapped Protagonist: Paul Sheldon - Misery.
• Picaresque: uses wits and charms to escape problems
• Unaware Hero - Become involved in plot by accident
• Unreliable narrator -
• Conspiracy theories usually use governments
• manipulators
• criminals - murderers, assassins, kidnappers
• Handicapped antagonist - deformed
• Absent Villain
• Supernatural
• Maguffins - An item that you never actually see but helps expand on the plot and is an item everyone wants 
• Suspense - builds tension 
• Theater of the mind - what you cant see is often more powerful