MULTIMEDIA REFLECTION 1

TARANTINO’S REFLECTION IN LITERATURE: JOHN COLLIER

Here is a story, The Chaser, by John Collier.

http://www.utdallas.edu/~aargyros/the_chaser.htm

I would like to evaluate my opinions about The Chaser. I have quite strange opinions about the writer of it, John Collier. At first, he reminded me of Quentin Tarantino, a great director from Hollywood, who has created a completely new and peculiar style of his own in last two decades. His movies always consist of long and nice dialogs, a complicated montage, a pretty interesting topic and one more thing which is more important than all other things: at the end of his movies, the events and problems are left unsolved and the spectators are made to think over the rest of the movie. Therefore, I see John Collier as the representative of Quentin Tarantino in the field of literature and this story as a written version of any Tarantino movie because after I read this story I  cannot help thinking over it and really wonder what could have been if the story had gone on more! It is quite attractive. As for the content of the story, I can say that I enjoyed reading long ‘Tarantinalist’ dialogues. The old man speaks very convincingly and presents very promising things. However, we cannot be sure whether what he tells is true or not. Also, he has a plain room and uses a polite and confidential language against customers. There are striking couple of sentences in the text: “Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need a love potion”, by which I was fascinated. There is another mystery: au revoir, meaning ‘goodbye, until we meet again.’ This phrase, along with the old man’s saying “Please a customer with one article, and he will come back when he needs another.” might indicate his potion, that is to say, he himself is something/someone tricky and will make Alan come back again.

 

 

I really liked the video as it thoroughly tells the story without an addition or deduction. I really appreciated the music at the beginning and at the end of the movie. Another striking point that draws my attention is that the whole movie was performed by puppets, which is highly intelligent. Dubbing artists are really successful and it is so obvious that the movie was made by professional producers, which can explain the high quality of the content of the movie.