The Collector is 2009 film directed by Marcus Dunstan, the main plot of the film is that a man (Arkin) and his wife owe money so he decides to rob his employer of his prized jewel, though when he breaks into the house to steal it he finds that someone has already gone through the entire place and set up traps on everything, along with this the guilty party has already taken the mansions residents hostage and appears to be slowly killing them. Though, while this film is not very popular among many due to the interesting plot it does continue some of the important conventions that my group wants to include in our own film. Specifically by having an introduction that explodes with an intense level of simple and normal. Though a difference between this film and the previously analyzed Pet Semetary is this: the plot holes. This film has many different props and scenes that just don’t make sense when put together, a key example being when the Collector sets up so many traps throughout the house. A big question for this is how he does so much in a very short time span, according to dialogue in the film only about a couple hours passes between the time the workers leave and when Arkin, the main character, enters the house to find everything rigged. If the film were more realistic it would have taken days for a single man to set up something so intricate in every room of the mansion his victims reside in. What this means for my group is that we have to make sure we are consistent, timelines, props, costuming, it all needs to stay relative and maintain a flow. This is something that the film The Collector did not do, there were multiple holes in the plot and inconsistencies throughout, I believe watching this film provided a strong example of what we want to avoid for our final project.
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