"Why do thrillers thrive?"

Task: read article; "why do thrillers thrive?" and sumerise in bulletpoints why thrillers are succeessful and enjoyed by audiences linking reason back to the quote.

• The article claims we go to the pictures as we see exciting life, 'reflected on the screen'.
• It states that because we 'don't experience' exciting lives, we 'must have these shake ups' of 'emotional disterbances' to be able to feel empathy - putting yourself in the actors shoes, imagining that you are playing the role, and making dicitions possibly what the actor may not do.
• Because these experiences are too dangerous, we experience 'them artificially, where a screen is the best medium for this'.
• As we sit in our 'armchair' feeling the empathy of the protagonist, we subconciously spot danger and often feel tense through the 'stuggle and turmoil' of the protagonist which is a main attraction for the thriller audience and mainly why people enjoy thrillers so much; the need to feel tense and be made to jump.
• Although we, as the audience feel tense subconciously, we also, subconciously know that there is the limit of danger that is enclosed withing the 16:9 screen. 'let me illustrate this...an exibition slideshow' showed two collums begin to fall over actors, and 'just before it reached them, it hung in suspense' where the audience became restless, as the danger was real, the 'security was undermined', the audience felt uncomfortable about the safty of the actors.
• finnally, thrillers thrive due to the audience being able to relate to the actors, for example; people know that the main plot is that heroes always persevere and win over the villains, however, even still knowing this we represse that thought and concerntraight on the safety of the hero and development of the hero in the plot.