Applying a theorist to my products.

My Thriller:


Derrida: 


Jacques Derrida said that 'the law of genre is a principle of contamination, a law of impurity'  this means that genre is impure because none of it is original anymore. I can apply this to my Thriller as I had many influences for it, like Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, so this affected the originality of my ideas, for example, in 28 Days Later, there is a boy/girl relationship that goes wrong, but turns out for the good. I have a similar story-line, but I adapted it to not turn out for the good, giving this thriller a twist of my own. It is like this in many other aspects too, but I also changed the conventions I was following by putting in the flashbacks at the end.