Action Thriller Conventions

As there are many different themed or sub-genred thrillers, conventions differ slightly depending on which one. Looking at an Action Thriller, you can see that the main character, or Protagonist, has more screen time and is usually outnumbered in a situation as they normally manage to isolate themself, as well as having a background weakness making them slightly vulnerable. They normally also have a talent, which they are very athletic at in their own way, such as shooting or being very strong.
As you can see in the picture below, the protagonist is in a very awkward situation as he has someone behind him and someone infront. The picture was taken from one of The Bourne films.

The antagonist, or bad guy, usually has some sort of high authority, being a good job for example, but terrible at running it, making them a 'false hero'. Locations in an action thriller normally vary quite a lot and you meet or are introduced to lots of new characters that you only learn about later on in the film meaning that anigma's are put into place making you want to watch the film to find out about the characters and understand them better.
The picture below shows Le Chiffre, the bad guy in Casino Royale, who has high authority in the film as he is very rich and contols a lot of people. You can see he is very sly looking and to me looks very devious and untrustworthy.

Finally, a lot of violence is involved and usually innocent people are drawn into the situation and are hurt either with verbal abuse such as threats or physical abuse such as punching, or both, just because these very small characters in the film know people that the main characters are after.

Here are just a couple action thriller genered films that i showed a picture for above in this post. I got their storyline from the website http://www.imbd.com/;

Casino Royale; James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. But if Bond defeats Le Chiffre, will he and Vesper Lynd remain safe?

The Bourne Identity; Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.