Friday, June 2, 2023

Review of Surviving Thrillers

 

Which scripts should be included under surviving thrillers/drama? Ans: Wherein the quest for survival is happening in an ordinary course of action or incident for which the protagonists were neither excessively trained, nor anticipated nor prepared for any event, but a circumstantial situation was arisen & wherein an ordinary individual too can relate to the same in real.

Whereas neither sci-fi flicks should’ve been included under such Genre, be it The Martian, Gravity, Apollo 13, Predator, Jurassic Park (World) etc. (as herein highly professional protagonists were involved who being trained to be prepared for any outcome), nor the disaster movies like 2012, San Andreas, World War Z, Dante’s Peak, Volcano, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon etc. (as herein almost everyone’s a Protagonist who’s trying to escape & one can’t demarcate a single person in the story). And if not, then almost every flick, be it fiction or non-fiction could be considered as Survival thriller/drama, be it Alien, Maze Runner etc.; even then John Wick series could too be considered of same genre. Further, nor the likes of Sully should be considered as herein the protagonists & supporting characters were rescued immediately after crashing in the Hudson. Furthermore, the likes of Man vs Wild television series could be considered as Surviving skills, but not Surviving thriller/drama.

But then what could be the examples of survival flicks? That may include but not limited to (as happened in an ordinary course of action, unexpected) -> Cast Away, 127 Hours, Fall, The Revenant, Life of PI, The Shallows, Ready or Not, Everest, Apocalypto, Don’t Breathe, Captain Phillips, Trapped, Argo and many more; wherein protagonists were caught in a situation amidst an ordinary course of action, unanticipated, unprepared, and mostly untrained.

© Pranav Chaturvedi

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