The soundtrack “Tenuous Winners/Returning Home” can be heard here. Bocook utilizes poignant swells of sound, as well as tenuto markings and slurs on notes to effectively symbolize the strong feeling of despondency in the victors, despite their survival and returning home. The music then abruptly changes in measure 29 to the theme “Horn of Plenty.” Bocook stirs the audience back to life with the sudden crash of a cymbal, followed by the full volume of trumpet fanfare in the arguably most memorable soundtrack from the movie. In contrast with the first section of the arrangement, “Horn of Plenty” has a faster-paced tempo as well as louder dynamics, emphasizing and contributing to the memorable and moving theme. Staccato and accent articulation markings in this section also powerfully reflect the triumph and victory the Capitol is experiencing during the…
We've recently watched the movie 23 Skidoo both in class and on our own time at home. When I first saw it in class, I was a bit confused and I didn't really understand what was happening in the film. After re-watching it, I understood that it is a film about a post-nuclear bomb explosion. What's different about this movie is that there is no narrative, or actors, but there is music. I find that it makes you concentrate more on what's happening in the film because no one's explaining it to you. The music featured in the film wasn't continuous. It made the setting more mysterious because sometimes, the music would be almost scary sounding, and you'd think that something was about to happen. It made me create other scenarios…
This movie depicts powerful emotions; it shows in depth detail of what Jewish people faced during Hitler’s reign. The piano was a symbol of hope in this movie, as was the sound of music. Wladyslaw portrayed a light in the time of darkness, when sadness, and death encompassed nations. Roman Polanski wanted to submerse the audience into the heart of World War II; this movie is the perfect example of this. You feel for the character Wladyslaw, his hope for survival, and the power of…
The movie Schindler’s List is based of the book Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally. The main character is Oskar Schindler a member of the Nazi Party. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg featured Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler. In 1939, Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who moved to Krakow with the hopes of opening a factory. With some help from Itzhak Stern, he manages to find a way. Schindler manages to charm high ranking political soldiers called Schutzsaffel, or SS of the Nazi Party in order to protect his business.…
Music and Murder as a title for this documentary is very peculiar in that it hints that the two themes go together, many would see such a title as a paradox and that if rehabilitation was the only issue Music after Murder would be a more suitable title, however the emotional maturing through music is important in the documentary. Music recorded by the prisoners is played throughout the documentary, this attempts to give the viewer insight into the emotions felt by the musicians. The music is described by one of the prisons music teachers as "coming from the heart", because we have not discovered the crimes that the prisoners have committed the music attempts to draw on feelings of sympathy from the viewer for the men. Much of the documentary is left to periods of the men's music; these periods are an expression of emotion by which the notion of humanity and a second chance is put forward.…
In Stephen Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List the main character, Oskar Schindler goes through a major change in his views on humanity, and people's lives, in particular the Jews. This film covers the holocaust in detail, and one man's effort to save as many Jews as he could. Throughout the course of the movie, Oskar Schindler's whole perspective on Jewish life is changed.…
The film Schindler's list, produced by Steven Spielberg in 1993 was based on the book "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally. Schindler's List was set in Germany during the period of World War 2. Schindler's list is a true story about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the life's of more than one thousand, one hundred Jews during the 1940s holocaust. The following quote is used to describe the themes in the movie, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ~Edmund Burke. This quote is relevant to Schindler's list as it relates to the idea of everyone else in the world sitting by and doing nothing as Hitler and Germany continued to invade, attack and expand its empire. The symbolism, music,…
Schindler’s List retells the heroic actions of Oskar Schindler. Once a poor Czechoslovakian businessman, Oskar Schindler sees the oncoming world war as a chance to reinvigorate his life by taking advantage of the Nazi regime’s hatred towards Jews. Oskar would find great success in his munitions factory by through securing large deals from Nazi officers, due to his close connections, and his use of cheap Jewish labor. However, as Oskar beared witness to more and more heinous crimes committed against the Jews, Oskar could no longer stand by while thousands of innocent Jews were slaughtered at the hand of Nazis. This would change Oskar’s goal from trying to make a fortune by taking advantage of the Jews to attempting to save as many Jews as possible.…
Film affords a unique opportunity beyond the scope of a book in its ability to engage the audience through both its visual and audio representations (Katz, 2003). Particularly for The Pianist, the classical soundtrack of the film delivers a powerful accompaniment to the main storyline that enhances viewers’ understanding of the life-giving role that music played in Wladek’s life. The climactic scene of the movie as a Nazi soldier discovers Wladek in hiding among the desolate ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto is all the more intensified in the cinematic design of how the two characters are contrasted with one another. The dirty, starving, seemingly helpless Jew is Portrayals of the Holocaust in Films 8 at the mercy of the clean-cut, properly uniformed German soldier. The director dramatizes this scene through the characters’ drastic appearances as well as in the amount of time focused on Wladek’s performance for the Nazi in an attempt to save his own life.…
In the movie Schindler’s List we see the story of Oskar Schindler play out and the great deeds he did to save the lives of many Jewish people and because of this I would say the central theme to Schindler’s List is the great amount of change any one person can make, and this reminds us as a religion class that we too can make meaningful change no matter what. I would say this is the central theme of Schindler’s List because firstly he faced much opposition in his actions and didn’t received much help from others other than the people he was saving and his wife, secondly the actual amount of change and people he saved from certain death and finally how Oskar Schindler risked everything he had to save the lives of these Jewish people. Firstly…
In the film Schindler’s List, the audiences are mesmerized by the protagonist, Oskar Schindler’s generosity. It uses juxtaposition between Schindler and Itzhak Stern’s thorough search of all the names to add to the list to save the Jews from the work camp and the images of…
The composer wanted to create a memorable Leitmotifs. The music makes me think of a drama that I can picture many of the actions taking place just by listening to the music.…
The characters in Schindler’s List are very different because of their attitudes towards the Holocaust. The three main characters that will be focused on are Oskar Schindler, Itzhak Stern and Amon Goeth. These characters were very influential during the Holocaust; therefore, it is important to analyze these characters to gain a better understanding of the film.…
“When trying to determine a novel’s place within the canon we have to determine whether its message and themes deal with fundamental concepts or understandings about the world or offer a unique perspective or opinion on our humanity. What we are asking is, does this piece of writing matter? If there is any novel which might fit this criteria, Schindler’s Ark would certainly be a candidate. The novel portrays in graphic details the atrocities of the Holocaust, an event in history when the Nazis in Germany attempted to annihilate the Jewish race. “The Final Solution” was carried out at the end of a truncheon, the boots of the SS and the teeth of their dogs. It occurred by the tens of thousands as massacres in ghettos and by the hundreds of…
Alex’s psychological thirst to rebel is glorified and represented by the non-diegetic musical underscore of Ludwig van Beethoven’s ninth symphony, a piece which reiterates ironically throughout the entirety of the film as a recurring motif of violence. The symphony is heard primarily in the scenes in which Alex is deep in sadistic thought,…