The Daily Campus

Issue date: 10/13/06 Section: Commentary

Now I don't want to come off implying that Tarantino is the only director that makes decent movies. There are extraordinary movies released all the time. Tarantino in fact is not the only one that can interweave multiple plotlines. "Crash," which recently one an Oscar for Best Motion Picture, does this with extraordinary precision and entertainment. "Memento" was another movie that I thoroughly enjoyed because of its unique way of presenting a story. It's just that a Tarantino movie is like a van Gogh painting. When I see a van Gogh painting, I know it's a van Gogh. Similarly when I see a Tarantino movie, I know it is a Tarantino movie. The techniques of both artists may be employed by others, but the unique styles that come through in their original works cannot be copied.

The rate at which Tarantino directs movies is something I hope will increase. If there is a trade off between quantity and quality, I would gladly choose quality. If it takes him multiple years to finish a project that he deems worthy of release I am willing to wait because I know in the end, when I sit down in the theater to watch his next film, I will not be disappointed.







Weekly columnist Greg Pivarnik is a 5th-semester molecular and cell biology major.

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