more shauden fraude ideas

Use of character types and motivations

The main character of our thriller Shauden Fraude is an immortal clown serial killer named Charlie Chuckles, he is the villain. This goes against Vladimir Propp’s idea that the hero is the main character. Other characters include a blonde girl who becomes Charlie’s first victim we decided this because it is stereotypical for a blonde female to be a victim or a vulnerable character. Our thriller relies heavily on stereotypical ideas of thrillers and horror movies. Our thriller also has a reckless false hero who dies very quickly.

Characters:-

Charlie Chuckles (villain)

Betty Bimbo (stereotypical blonde victim/princess)

Marcus Mark (false hero)

Rodger Rhape (false hero)

Freddward Jeddward (the underdog hero)

Sally Salmon (victim)

Sophie Satchel  (informer)

Veronica Verginson (victim)

Melissa Malkovich (victim)

Neil Nilbog (victim)

Tanya Tamzim (victim)

Todorov’s stages of equilibrium

Our thriller doesn’t stick to the rules of this idea either. Todorov theorized that a film starts with an equilibrium then goes to a disequilibrium and ends with a new or restored equilibrium. Shauden Fraude doesn’t stick to this rule it instead starts with a disequilibrium where the first victims are killed, then it goes to a very brief equilibrium whereby they think the killer is dead, then it goes to a new disequilibrium when they find out the killer isn’t dead (he’s immortal), so the pattern is the opposite of Todorov’s stages of equilibrium.