All films use various types of characters and plot however in every story there is a protagonist and an antagonist character, these are generally main characters within the film.
Protagonist:
A protagonist character is generally the “main character“ of a film in which may be the hero, the villain or even the bystander. It is the person to whom the film is evolved around, in which the story is about. One example of a protagonist would be Paul Sheldon (James Caan) in Misery as he is the character to whom everyone is looking for but is captured by the antagonist character. We know that Paul is the protagonist because he is shown to be the main character in which the audience revolve around this is done by following his career at the beginning, the accident occurrence, being held against his will, trying to escape and finally dealing with his “problem”.
Another example of the protagonist character within thriller may be Liam Neeson in Taken as he must try to save his daughter from being trafficked in Europe; he is the protagonist character generally because he is the main character to whom the storyline follows, particularly in terms of getting revenge.
Antagonist:
An antagonist character is the opposite of the protagonist, in the way that they provide obstacles for them, for example the protagonist could be a criminal making the antagonist possibly a police officer. There can be more than one antagonist meaning that it varies however with thriller there is generally just the one, such as; misery Annie Wilks is the antagonist preventing Paul from escaping and living his life freely.
Also an example of the antagonist character may be Malorie Cobb in inception as she constantly aims to prevent Dom from living his life and being with his children, but also within the dreams she becomes an important element to trying to “ruin” the occurrence of the dreams/project/inception.
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