North by NorthWest

While in class, we looked at a thriller called North by NorthWest. This is an American film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In this film it contains severals things which make a good recipe for a thriller such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers.

Therefore in the film, the red herring is when we think that the woman known to us as Miss Kendall is being evil and setting Thornhill up, however we are fooled and realise we are wrong as we find out at the end that she isn't evil and has fallen for him.

Another red herring in the film is in a particular scene when we see Miss Kendall shoot Roger Thornhill. To ourselves we believe that she has shot and killed him as he is taken away on a stretcher in the back of a car. However we come to learn after a short while of him getting shot that it was a fake shooting and he never died.

In the film, there is a part known to us as the crop scene. While watching this scene, we are filled with suspense and the urge to know what's going to happen next as Roger Thornhill is shot at by an aeroplane. We start to feel suspicious about what's going on at the start of this scene as he as been told to meet someone at this certain point but finds thats completely empty, nothing but crop circles surrounding him.

There is also a cliffhanger in the film as right at the end of the film Miss Kendall is literally hanging off the end of the cliff as herself and Mr Thornhill are being chased on the monuments.