North by Northwest is a thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It follows the life of Roger Thornhill. Roger is mistaken to be a secret agent by a criminal who is running illegal activities to get rich quick. The criminal sees Roger as a threat and thus goes to quite extreme lengths to try and eliminate him.
Roger Thornhill is not actually a secret agent, but assumes his new identity as George Kaplin and helps bring the criminal and his henchmen to justice.
Does North by Northwest follow the recipe of an archetypal thriller?
It is commonly stated that the recipe for a typical thriller contains a resourceful and powerful villain and a hero who is dragged into the story often against his own will. This is the exact plot of North by Northwest. Roger is not actually a secret agent, he works for an advertisement company, however he eventually does start to work with the police to bring the aforementioned criminal to justice and to clear his own name.
The character of Thornhill is never properly explained. His character intentionally does not have a lot of depth. This allowed Hitchcock to focus on the story itself, which was Thornhill trying to clear his name from all the crimes he was caught up in because of the men trying to get rid of him while believing that he is a secret agent.
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