Self evaluation

Lets start by saying that I believe I’m not qualified to evaluate my performance. In the other hand I believe, my work is one of quality. I’ve done all my posting, not all were done on time but I tried to watch all the movies to be able to participate and understand what was going on in the classroom. About my comments, they were also made. In the first part of the semester, everything was made on time, while in this second part I left all the comments for the last minute. I believe is not the most responsible characteristic, but I’ll have to say that when made they were well thought-out. I will let my work speak for it self and hope is enough.

Quentin Tarantino as an Auteur

Quentin Tarantino is a misunderstood artist. Most people think of him as a “copycat”. I see him as a great mind who is able to take a general idea and reinvent it and make it a piece of art. Tarantino’s style is very different from Kubrick and Scorsese methods. If we compare Tarantino with Kubrick, well we would have to say disorganized and OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). Tarantino lets things flow and is not so attentive to detail as Kubrick was, but in the other hand, who is? In addition, Kubrick walked the viewer through the drama and we always know what is happening. With Tarantino we do not now what time is running in the movie. One gets confuse by the time bridges used on his films. Like in Reservoir Dogs, I sometimes did not understand what was going on, because he was going back and forth with every scene. One moment we are looking at the past and the in another we were watching the present.

If looking at Scorsese’s work we see a very brutal crude violence, while Tarantino implies the violence but does not lets us see it first hand. If we look at Resservoir Dogs, we will see that Tarantino turns the camera around every time the police officer is being tortured, making the viewer imagine how is the action happening. We get to see the result but we most imagine the method. That is what makes Tarantino’s work so entertaining and attractive to the masses. We have to work with Tarantino to be entertained.