Within the film The Pianist Roman Polanski presents us with the important idea that man is capable of committing acts of great brutality and of destroying their fellow man and in turn humanity itself. However‚ Polanski also reveals that it is not a condition of Germans to be evil and Jews to be noble. In fact‚ it is humanity which is capable of great acts of kindness and great acts of atrocity. Polanski reveals the dual nature of humanity through the journey and rapid decline of Wladyslaw Szpilman
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Johnson 1 Kayla Johnson Prof. Hirchfelder‚ K-213 ENG2102‚ Sec. 06 26 March 2013 Scene Analysis Paper Musical Dependency The 2002 film‚ The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski focuses on the hardships of a well-known‚ local concert pianist‚ Wladyslaw Szpilman. Wladyslaw Szpilman is played by actor Adrien Brody‚ who does an excellent job portraying both the warmhearted side of Szpliman and the desperate struggling side we see later on in the film. The film is based on Szpilman’s book‚ The Pianist
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history can be used to clarify fragmented memories. For a true understanding of the past there has to be a balance between documented evidence and personal experiences and memories. In Mark Baker’s nonfiction biography ‘The Fiftieth Gate’ (1997)‚ and Roman Polanski’s film ‘The Pianist’ (2002) have both reconstructed the past through a combination of memories and historical documentation. The interplay of historical documentation and memories is critical for an accurate portrayal of an event. ‘The
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‘The Pianist’ is a cinematic masterpiece by the Polish director Roman Polanski. One of the key ideas that appear throughout much of the film is that of ‘hope being instrumental in our survival’. This idea is portrayed through Wladyslaw Szpilman‚ a Polish pianist‚ as he struggles for survival in Warsaw as everybody that he once knew and everything that he once had is lost. The idea of ‘hope being instrumental in our survival’ is worth learning about as it allows the audience to realise the importance
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Chinatown Reading Response The film Chinatown‚ directed by Roman Polanski‚ incorporates the image system of blindness vs. seeing to effectively increase the depth and complexity of how the plot is revealed to the audience. The effect of this is the audience feeling that they are not just watching a film‚ they are solving a mystery in time with the characters and what they see is not always the truth. This image first appears in the form of the bi-focal glasses seen at the very beginning
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As Macbeth enters the banquet hall (Macbeth in the movie by Roman Polanski enters the room talking to everyone happily; it zooms out to show the Lords and Lady Macbeth’s reaction to Macbeth’s toast). At this point we can tell that he cares about social status since he tells the Lords that they should sit in their own “degrees”. He feels powerful and more superior to the other Lords. Macbeth feels no remorse and guilt for having killed his friend‚ Banquo. On the other hand‚ he is more unstable and
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Chinatown – Racism “Chinatown”‚ one of director Roman Polanski’s finest films‚ contains an underlying deep rooted sense of racism within it. Those who weren’t of white race were constantly in the background of scenes yet rarely ever heard‚ busily tending to their wealthy superiors. The roles they were presented with in the film‚ including that of waiters‚ cleaners‚ housekeepers‚ gardeners held as little as authority as possible‚ yet unfortunately‚ seemed to be realistically representative of those living
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comedy is often how the material is viewed by the audience".(Berardinelli) Prior to Morrissette ’s Scotland‚ PA‚ Roman Polanski brought his adaptation of Macbeth (1971) to the silver screen. This more traditional adaptation follows the plays blueprint. The setting remains unchanged‚ as well as the plot and dialogue. This movie was made soon after a horrifically traumatic events in Polanski ’s life‚ the heinous murder of his pregnant wife by members of the Charlie Manson family ’. The film may have
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Roman Polanski’s witches in the opening scene are simple older women. They do not stand out and they do not seem special. The only uncomfortable aspect of the witches is that they are burying a hand in the sand. Since the beginning scene does not focus on the witches in great detail‚ Polanski still must having a reason for not emphasizing the witches as much. I think Polanski is emphasizing nature more than she is the witches‚ however‚
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a necessity to belong. He describes how they all wore the same “blue‚ black and gold” uniform and there was no individuality or finding a sense of place. He sums it all up by being “like a foreign tourist”. “The Pianist” a movie directed by Roman Polanski‚ shows a Polish man’s journey of survival and endurance though an era of which Hitler and his Nazi’s strove to extinct the Polish race and as a side effect‚ the survivors sense of place in the world due the fact they were hated and hunted by all
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