Political Coventions.
- Threat is set against a back drop of political power struggle.
- Plots are designed to give political power to someone.
- Opponent characters are set up to try and prevent people recieving power.
- 2 sets of characters with 2 different roles or ranks. e.g. James Bond.



At the beginning of this clip there is an obvious link to politics, in America. The political threat that the film is representing is bombings. The problem of the bombings is realistic to real life, therefore the thriller itself is good for the people to relate to. The film is automatically seen as a political subgenre of a thriller as it begins with narrations of a man setting the scene as if he were a member of parliment, this leads the audience to know straight away.
Opponent characters are shown within the first scene of the film as the president gets shot. This suggests that the film has been created to excite the audience as well as have an interest in politics. The good character is also shown in this clip as Thomas Barnes. (Dennis Quaid) He is linked to the politics as he is a bodyguard to the president before and after he gets shot. We know Thomas is a good character as he is portrayed as heroic through the audience watching a clip of him taking a bullet for the president.
The threat shown in this film is revealed quickly as they want the audience to get into the storyline/narrative therefore they get into the politics of it quickly aswell.