Schindlers List Analysis

The piece that was played during this particular piece was titled “Miracle of the Ark”. This particular piece was rather ominous and made the seen overall seem very suspenseful in the build up to the ark finally being opened. The actual moment that the ark is opened in the movie the orchestra quiets down and the string instruments play a rather fast suspenseful note while everyone looks on to see what is in the ark. It is then that the scene gets more intense with ghosts guarding the ark and melting anyone that looks at them. To make this scene seem more intense and powerful the orchestra really matched that and grew in volume.

In this point of my analysis, I deal with the scene that one could argue most enriches the main subject of the story, namely hope. In this scene that is created by Darabont, Andy, who is at Norton 's office to receive some used books and sundries for the prison 's library, locks the guard in the bathroom and then starts playing a recording of ‘Canzonettasull 'aria’ from the opera The Marriage of Figaro. As Verstraten argues, filmmakers use music as narrative tool(153) that not only challenges the audience 's emotions but also carries the theme of the movie. In this scene the music is intradiegetic since Andy connects the public speaker system to the record player so that all of the prisoners can hear the music. In her book Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment, Lily Hirsch explains that this scene “also highlights another utopia musical ascription related to the contested idea that music is a universal language” since all the prisoners are feeling connected, enjoying the music while hope is revived within their

No music was aloud to prevent the Jews from being able to enjoy something. But as one last rebellion and to tell the others to keep holding onto hope, Juliek carried his violin, in secret, on the journey to Gleiwitz. “It had to be Juliek. He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Never

It also includes another famous piece, To a Wild Rose. This is a very comforting piece. It reminds me of the music from old black and white movies. This is a solo piano piece. There is no other instruments on this piece.

His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again” (Wiesel 95). While Nazi order had forbidden Jews from playing Beethoven, as it was German music, Juliek plays it anyway. He sets his own boundaries with the music he plays and does not follow the ruling of others.

Originator Of the original composers we discussed in class, the one that stands out the most for me is Alfred Newman and his music score for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I have discussed this in an earlier paper, but the music used in the movie and in particular, the scene where Quasimodo is placed on display in the public square and is ridiculed by the villagers is the most memorable. The scene has very little dialogue, save for Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) begging for water. As the villagers mock his cries for help, the music comes in and suddenly captures the scene perfectly as the noise of the crowd fades out.

Introduction Roger’s and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is arguably one of the most well known films that many can admit to watching at least once in their lifetime. People all around the world have found this musical inspiring, as it documents growth and hope amidst the horrors of World War II. This incredibly well written film is based on the story of the Von Trapp family who escaped Austria when the Nazis invaded it during the war. Part of what made this movie so interesting on so many different accounts was the music that accompanied the vivid and exciting scenes. Without music, many could agree that our world would be a sad, quiet, dull and depressing place.

People to this day still find horror and beauty in this film, finding this film an extraordinary masterpiece executed by director, Steven Spielberg. Some people do disagree with the images shown in the film, however, as a whole, the entire community who thoroughly enjoys films agree the accuracy of this film that did not hold back any viewing content truly added greatly to the film. Perhaps the most touching reaction came from the place where it all started. The premiere of Schindler’s List in Germany with a room filled with 800 people – Germans and Jews, diplomats and artists, film makers and people who had known Oskar Schindler when he lived there (Whitney, 1994).

The film Schindler 's List stands among the most successful and noteworthy Holocaust films of the twentieth century. It portrays the moral development of one Oskar Schindler, a rising Nazi businessman, who saved roughly one thousand Jewish prisoners of the Krakow Ghetto by employing them at his factory. By heavily bribing Nazi officials and outsourcing his production, Schindler was able to his deem his Jewish workers essential to the war effort, saving them from otherwise certain death.

" Juliek's music is unusually touching and heartrending because he puts his whole being into his playing. After being denied his life, humanity, and future by the Nazis and after having becoming emotionally numb from his time in the concentration camp, Juliek takes everything that has been denied him and infuses it into his music: "He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings‹his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again. " The words "charred" and "extinguished" evoke the image of the fiery crematory and emphasize how crudely and barbarously the Nazis destroyed human life in the concentration

I don’t know how long he played. I was overcome by sleep. When I awoke at daybreak, I saw Juliek facing me, hunched over, dead. Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse”(95). In order to reveal the idea that when Juliek died, so did the “melancholy” sound of

In Night by Elie Wiesel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and the movie Swing Kid, symbolism found in music is a common theme that they all convey. Music symbolizes peace, comfort and freedom in the two novels and the movie. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Juliek playing the violin in the crowded barracks is a symbol of peace, safety, hope and Juliek himself. Throughout the book, Elie mentions how dark and silent the night is, emphasizing the prisoners’ fear of the nightmares the darkness brings.

There are many moments in life, where one has to make a choice, but there are only a few where one collides with a split second decision. You only have a few breaths, a minute at most, to decide what to do. Simon Wiesenthal's had many moments in his 96 years of life, which he was faced with choices , yet the one he made the day he spent on the bedside of a German soldier was undoubtedly a moment which shaped the rest of his life . Karl Seidl, a 22 year old German soldier told Simon of the deeds he committed, towards the jews. As the final attempt to cleanse himself of his actions, Seidl asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness. Whatever choice was made by Simon would lead himself into feeling guilty . When Seidl asked for forgiveness, the load of his actions, was transferred to Simon whether it was Seidl’s intention or

Suspend Judgement. To suspend judgment is refraining from drawing one’s own conclusions and judging the unnecessary. Society easily judges the person’s clothes, beauty, tone and attitude, nevertheless, many tend to judge one’s place in society focusing mainly on the materialistic side. However within the texts of the Sunflower, The Cage, Harrison and Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the reader can analyze their place in society and better understand their status’.

According to an article posted to Weebly.com comparing Schindler’s List to the novel, Spielberg’s film is “… organized differently from the way the novel is organized and some main impacts from the character of the film and the character from the novel are different,” (Weebly.com). Despite Spielberg's film and the book being organized differently, and having the main impacts of Oskar Schindler differ from the film to the novel, the film still follows the same chronological order as the book and the same main points. For example, Spielberg's film and the book are both about a semi-successful businessman who saved 1,200 Jews from the gas chambers by putting their names on a list of people who were meant to work in his