The Suspense Setting Of The Cop Film

The police gangster film is a type of film which embodies the resistance between kindness and viciousness of the police and the gangsters.Suspense is an important mean of constructing story and attracting audiences.Excellent suspense setting can make narrative tempo of film more firm,plot more exciting and make audience eagerly expect for development and change of character's destiny,taints and plots.The paper states some methods for setting suspense of police gangsters films in four aspects,such as time,character,narrative structure and detail.Firstly,the scriptwriter can set suspense through controlling film time and overturning sequence.Controlling time is a way of extending time and compressing time to set suspense.Overturning sequence refers to using the means of narration,flashback and narration interspersed with flashbacks to set suspense.Secondly,the scriptwriter can set suspense by means of the breakthrough of the character typification,the character identity setting and the character's strength assimilation.The breakthrough of the character typification is a way of breaking the symbolization of character setting to set suspense.The complexity of the character's identity is a way of constructing multiple character's identities to accumulate suspense.The character's strength assimilation is a way of making resistance or action fall into a state of anxiety when the positive and negative power or power among the allies are roughly same.Thirdly,the scriptwriter can utilize story structural sequence and closed space narration to set suspense.Story structural sequence is a way of making story suspense more hierarchical through connection and layering of large and small stories.The closed space narration is a way of creating a relatively isolated space and brings character audience into isolation and helplessness.Finally,the scriptwriter can apply action details and object details to set suspense,which means providing psychological hint for plot conversion through slight action of characters or some objects to hint character' identity or some key information to set suspense.