Aim: to understand different character types in thriller

Protagonist : good guy (main)
Antagonist : bad guy


Protagonist - aren't aware of who is actually alighted with them


Character archetypes : false types
Bad guy (antag)
Handicapped - misery
- bone collector
- rear window
- memento
Piracesque hero - Aladdin (uses wit - of lower status to others)
Anti hero is the hero but isn't a good guy
Women in peril - elements of thriller
Unaware hero - protagonist what stumbles into a situation/plot e.g salt (mistaken ID)
Unreliable narrator - eg memento - do they know what theyre talking about - could be the point of an antag, criminal etc


Types of antagonist :
-donor helping antag
- false hero
- Natalie from memento
- mentally handicapped
- political - government conspiracy
- part of criminal underworld
- agencies
- companies - conglometers
- manipulator - usually criminals
- absent villain
- supernatural
- where the pro realises that they are the antag - trying to run from themselves : mentally handicapped)