Genre Difference, Repetition and similarity

The Thriller genre is very different to many other genres as it varies hugely.

For example here are two films from the Thriller Genre: Gone Girl and Black Swan

Gone Girl

Black Swan

Black swan- Mise En Scene: Ballerina costumes, Ballet Shoes, Stage, Femininity

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Gone girl- Mise en Scene: Town community, Shattered Bottles, Expensive houses, Diary

Black Swan -  Characters: Mainly Women
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Gone Girl- Characters: Based evenly on men and women (two main characters boy and girl)

Black Swan- Narrative: About a ballerina that becomes psychological due to an obsession over a competition.
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Gone Girl-   Narrative: A girl frames her husband for her murder and lays out clues in the end manipulating him to stay with her.

As you can see these two thrillers are very different in terms of Mise En scene, Characters and Narrative events even though they are of the same genre.However in terms of audience's response they both hold tension and keep you gripped all the way through. In terms of narrative structure and character throughout both films i empathize with certain characters as i want them to succeed for example in black swan you want her to over come her psychological problems and be a better ballerina then everyone else and in Gone girl you want him to find his wife and everything to unravel happily.