Schindler's List 2
The paper I decided to do was on "Schindler's List". I have seen this movie four times and yet had not really noticed the many ways in which the director, Steven Spielberg, used the camera to emphasis a "million words". It was interesting, when watching this film from this stand point, how I was able to see the importance of the way the director uses sounds and color to make some much significant points of a film.I decided to emphasis the way certain close ups and facial expressions were used to show very significant emotions of the characters in the film. In these particular scenes, no words had to be used. The camera focuses on the character involved in the scene and one can tell exactly what is going on in the mind of the character. The other aspect of the movie that I wanted to discuss is the music that was used. This movie won seven academy awards. Not surprisingly, one of awards was for " Best Original scene". The use of music in the scenes was very appropriate. I'm going to discuss several of the scenes of the movie and how music contributed to the scene. There is a scene in the movie where Oskar Schindler is put in jail because he kissed a Jewish girl, this scene has Schindler in a cell with another person, Schin
I think the director was attempting to show that perhaps there was more to this monster, but the monster could never let that be known. The girl in the red coat, is probably one of the most talked about scenes in the movie. The reason that this is so powerful is that it is one of the only times during the movie that color is used. In the initial scene, Schindler is riding horse with one of his lovers. They are an on top of a hill and they are looking at all of the murders below. Once again, a close up is shown of Schindler's face. He appears to be very bothered by something he sees below. The camera pans downward and you see little girl walking along. The girl was wearing a bright red coat. The cameras, which act as Schindler's eyes, follow the girl until she disappears behind a building. The camera alone follows her up to a room where she hids under the bed. Later in the movie, they are showing the bodies (dead) that are waiting to be burned in the incinerator. The scene is gray a smoky depressing and cold. Goeth is talking to Schindler, Schindler glances over and sees the dead body charred over of the girl in the red coat. This signifies the beginning of Schindler's metamorphosis. There is a scene where all the suitcases and personal belongings from the Jewish from the Ghetto, are being pile up in a storage room, the belongings included shoes, clothes, photographs, watches, and a lot of jewelry which was being kept by the guards. One of the Jewish Jewelers is helping in the guard sort the jewelry; all of the sudden they brought him extracted human teeth with gold and silver fillings for him to remove the metals. The music during this scene played an important role in influencing the audience. The song was a very sand song and with everything that was happening it showed the scene as the beginning of all of the Jewish death. Another scene with Goeth that uses camera scene only and silence to depict so much is the scene where all the Jewish is in the hot trains. Schindler feels compassion toward these suffering people. He asks that some hoses be provided in order to cool the passengers. The SS guards think, because of their own perversions, that Schindler is trying to be cruel. They think he is trying
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Approximate Word count = 1501
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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