El genero del thrille en la pelicula "el conde de montecristo"

The Count of Monte Cristo
How does your chosen film adhere to the conviction of the thriller genre by exploiting both plot and technical elements?
The film, “The Count of Monte Cristo”, directed by Kevin Reynolds uses many devices and techniques to convey the suspense and thriller in the movie, reaching to adhere to the conventions of the thriller genre. Thrillers heavily stimulate viewer’smood giving them a high level of anticipation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. In the film, Reynolds relies on these techniques to reach the audience and communicate this feeling of suspense and thriller in the spectators and succeed in it.
The film is set mostly in Marseilles, France around the 1815, where Edmond alongside Fernand stop for help at a nearby island, which happens to bewhere Napoleon Bonaparte is in hiding. Bonaparte pulls aside Edmond and asks him to deliver an "innocent letter". The thriller genre has certain features so that it can express and communicate properly the atmosphere of suspense, such as the presence of innocence within an injustice world, in this case by the protagonist. This can be shown in the first part of the film, before Edmond gets into theChateau d'If, in two clear moments: when Napoleon asks him to deliver an "innocent letter" and when he’s being arrested. In the first moment, it is proven the innocence of Edmond by showing the trustfulness he has in people even he doesn’t know them very well. Also demonstrates its loyalty to others and makes the audience empathize more with him, transmitting his feelings of pain and betrayal lateron in the film. Moreover, the fact that he doesn’t know how to write or read, reaffirms his innocence as he is, in a way, incapacitated and less intelligent to react to situations that put him in danger. As not knowing that any evidence with which is being accused can not be destroyed, he doesn’t do anything about it when Villefort burns the letter from Napoleon, which was addressed to his ownfather. Furthermore, another characteristic in the thriller genre is the continuous conflict between the antagonist and the protagonist, as Fernand and Edmond, produced by Fernand’s envy and jealousy. This clash between them, develops throughout the whole film, being the climax when they meet again (the Count as Edmond Dantès), and Fernand feels threatened by his presence, thus creating suspense andintrigue. As a final point, there is the desire for justice and morality of individuals shown by Dantès that intensifies once he escapes prison and wants to get revenge on those who betrayed him. This feature introduces the suspense as the audience starts to get in and suggest the next moves Dantès will make.
Besides, the climatic devices and cinematography sticks to the features of the thrillergenre, by producing constantly suspense in critical moments in cliffhangers, drawing the audience to the edge of their seats. As a clear example of it, are the parts when he gets vengeance on his traitors by killing them or making them suffer and feel the pain he felt those 13 years in prison. One of the most intense ones is the hanging of Danglars, where the editing process by changing very fastthe shots and showing the face emotions builds up the tension and suspense. The cutaway between the characters accelerates the moment and so produces the feeling that everything is happening faster, which makes the audience more anxious. Moreover, the face emotions in the camera work, display the position in which they are found, and how the place are reversed compared to the past, showing who isin charge now. Also the flashback Edmond has when he arrives to Marseilles after this time, and remembers who he was before he had been arrested, evoking the past and reaffirming himself of the new, fearless Edmond. The constant changing of scenes and times convey the emotions of Dantès the conflict inside himself, all the happy memories he had and the situation in which he arrived the last...