Tommy Russell English IV Schulte 21 September 2014 Literary Analysis of Schindler’s List The Holocaust was a colossal extermination of about six million Jews in Eastern Europe under the criminal hands of Nazis and SS troops during World War II. It started in 1933 and ended in 1945 when the war in Europe finally ended. The whole genocide was organized methodically Germany’s leader‚ Adolf Hitler. At first Jews are persecuted‚ then robbed of their citizenship‚ then moved into ghettos‚ and quickly
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Schindler’s List The function of choosing black and white in Schindler’s List is to provide authenticity to the film‚ as a result it induces the imminence of the Second World War and increases the overall effect of the story. Moreover the viewers are stimulated both visually and psychologically due to the film noir style‚ providing a deeper impact on the audience‚ enhancing the brutality of the incidents‚ as well as the opposition of good and evil”the dominant interpretation offered by critics
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1993’s Schindler’s List serves as a major achievement in both film making and compositional music design. Directed by Stephen Spielberg‚ Schinder’s List has become the definitive motion picture account of the sheer horrors that embody the Holocaust. John William’s Academy-Award winning score played an imperative role in the film’s success and wide-spread resonance with audiences across the globe. William’s sorrowful melodies and haunting harmonies accompanied innumerable moments throughout the
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Dekle ENC1102-4100 March 28‚ 2011 Schindler’s List- Humanity Schindler’s List directed by Stephen Speilberg uses many film techniques to emotionally manipulate the attitude of the viewer. His choice of a universal back-drop for mise en scene of monochrome‚ with color only appearing in the bookends‚ the ghetto massacre‚ and the exhumation and incineration of the murdered Jew’s is brilliant and carries significant impact in the film. Our film opens on a Friday night‚ a Jewish family lights the
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Schindler´s List Reaction Scene B: The movie is mainly shot in black and white and there a few scenes that include color. One scene was the one with the girl in the red coat. She represents the first time Schindler has affection towards the Jewish people and makes him realize the atrocities the Nazi regime were committing. She appears once more in the film later when Schindler sees a pile of dead bodies and among them was this little girl recognizable by only her red coat. This is significant because
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Schindler’s List is based on a true story starring Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler‚ a German businessman in Poland. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils and brings in accountant Itzhak Stern to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who have been herded into Krakow’s ghetto by Nazi troops he has a dependable unpaid labour force. It also means that Stern has a job in a war related plant which could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However
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still alive today. To save the Jews from suffering‚ Schindler wrote a list of names who can board the train. Whomever boarded the train they were headed to a factory in Zwittau-Brinnlitz. At Zwittau-Brinnlitz‚ they received food‚ water‚ clothing‚ and blankets. At the other factories they previously went to they were treated like animals‚ but when they arrived at Zwittau-Brinnlitz they were treated like humans. In addition‚ in the factory Schindler didn’t want the SS guards putting their hands on the
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There is now a fairly large body of cinematic depictions of the Holocaust. These films supplement what has become an enormous body of scholarly literature that has grown up around this dismal subject. The best of these films‚ in my opinion‚ fill an important need and‚ because of the nature of the medium‚ accomplish something that words printed on a page cannot. They give the modern viewer a sense of the sheer horror of what the Holocaust was and they do so in a direct way that has a visceral impact
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Schindler’s List March 6th‚ 2012 Schindler’s List You are put into a death camp because you are of a Jewish religion. Day after day you are talked down to by German soldiers and thought of as a plush toy that can just be thrown around. You try to put out some authority over anyone higher than you and you are instantly dehumanized‚ more than you already are‚ and are probably killed on the spot. You are a lucky one‚ however‚ because you were in the left line‚ not the right‚ so you get to live instead
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Schindler’s List Essay Some say that during the Holocaust‚ Jews “went like sheep to the slaughter.” Overall‚ does the movie confirm or contradict this statement. Consider large and small acts of resistance‚ which you saw in the movie Schindler’s List. Overall‚ does the movie confirm or contradict this statement? Please use specific examples to back up your analysis! Overall‚ the movie Schindler’s List contradicts this due to the fact of their minor and major resistances of what the Nazis were
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