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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Reform of the Turkish language, initiated in the late 20’s and lasting for several years after that, does have an effect, not only on the choice of words by the Turkish authors themselves, but also, and to an even greater extent in my opinion, on the translators of works of contemporary Turkish literature, and especially this specific one by Kiremitçi, where neologisms co-occur, in the mouth of different characters, with what I chose to call “ottomanisms”, that is, words that were once common in Osmanlıca, but, due to several reasons, are obsolete, or in the process of becoming so, competing with their neologisms. Bibliography Çelik, M. “Neologisms in contemporary Turkish”. Available at: www.latrobe.edu.au/linguistics/LaTrobePapersinLinguistics/Vol%2008/4Celik.pdf. Heyd, U. Language Reform in Modern Turkey. Jerusalem: The Israel Oriental Society, 1954. Johanson, L. & Csató, É. Á (Ed.). The Turkic Languages. London: Routledge, 1998. Kiremitçi, T. Dualar Kalıcıdır. İstanbul: Doğan Kitap, 2007. Lewis, G. The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Moya, S. “The History of Arabic loanwords in Turkish”. Thesis available at: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/Linguistics/Theses09/smoya1%20LingThesis%20final%20 pdf.pdf. Seyhan, A. Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Contemporary Context. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. Turan, Ş. & Özel, S. 75. Yılda Türkçenin ve Dil Devriminin Öyküsü. Ankara: Dil Derneği, 2007. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2010 152
January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ EKUKLU, Bülent Slumdog Millionaire (eng) "I thought we could meet only in death." (The phrase that Latika says to Jamal at the final stage) Danny Boyle who attracted attention of the cinema audiences with his different cinematographic language and expression with Trainspotting in 1996, and then won the hearts with his The Beach and 28 Days Later works, commercially successful signings of him, made Sunshine before Slumdog Millionaire, his latest film. The movie “Slumdog Millionaire” which is inspired by a true story, stages a lot of Indian actors, mainly Dev Patel and Anil Kapoor in leading roles, tells the story of a poor young Indian, named Jamal who enters a contest, India's "Who wants to be a millionaire?" and rises up to the last question. The main character of the movie, Jamal Malik, is a lad who works in a big call center as tea maker (kind of waiter) after his childhood days in suburban Mumbai. And he enters a contest, the "Who wants to be a millionaire?" which has a large audience in India. When he answers all questions correctly, it raises the suspicion of the person who manages the contest and when it comes to the final question, Jamal is arrested on suspicion of cheating. During the investigation, even a secret chip on the body is searched and after all, it is understood that the correct answers he gives to the questions are related to turning points in his life. Jamal begins to tell the police the life story of continuous cross-cutting challenges and his brother Salim and Latika, his beloved from childhood. As the story goes on, it is realized that every single detail in Jamal's story is a way which provides answers to questions in the contest. On the road to the final, the audience becomes a partner in Jamal's story. The movie starts with a scene when Jamal and his friends are chased by the police, and then the story of his whole life is given by a complex narration which has no certain flow and is without beginning and end. Jamal's life is a kind of poverty history and he tries to rescue his life and his beloved by winning the biggest money prize in the major contest of the country. The movie tells Jamal’s effort to answer the questions in hidden details, step by step through the film. It explains/deals with the issues such as destiny, love, money, brotherhood by referring to clichés from time to time. A sad moment in Jamal's life is given in every question. Hence, the answers to questions are in fact no simple bits of information provided by Jamal, they are rather important events in his life, hidden in his memory. In fact, the answer to the question asked at the beginning of the movie, is "D-written". The film adopts a fatalistic approach and this is understood by the sequence of questions in contest: The sequence of answers related to the bad memories increases the belief that this is Jamal’s fate. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2010 153
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