Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg

The movie –Schindler’s List– is based off the true story of the saving of 1,200 Jews by Oskar Schindler. In the beginning of the movie, Schindler employed Jews from the Kraków Ghetto to work in his newly established enamelware factory in Poland. Spielberg portrays Schindler as “simply another Nazi who regards the killing of Jewish slaves as a senseless business practice. Although he is seen

In the movie, Schindler's list directed by Steven Spielberg Oscar Schindler is portrayed as a cliché war profiteer. Using the captured Jews as slaves to work in his factory’s. When Schindler sees the little girl in the red dress this has a serious impact on him. The girl in the red coat is the most obvious symbol in Schindler's List, simply because her coat is the only colored object, other than the Shabbat candles, presented in the main body of the film. To Schindler she represents the innocence of the Jews being slaughtered. through the movie you watch as Schindler goes from a greedy selfish war profiteer to a caring man who risks his own life and fortune to save any Jew he can. the best

The movie “Schindler’s list” is a compelling, real-life depiction of the events that occurred during the 1940’s. It illustrates the persecution and horrific killings of the Jewish people. It also exemplifies the hope and will of the Jewish people, which undoubtedly is a factor in the survival of their race. The most important factor however is because of the willingness of one man, Oskar Schindler, to stand out and make a difference.

This scene is the point at which Schindler becomes infuriated, and he asks himself why these things would happen, and

Ingenious placement of mise en scene allows the actors from the film Schindler’s List to be shown next to the real life victims. Spielberg has used this technique of mise en scene to achieve his underlying purpose which was for the audience to identify and feel the pain of the victims. Spielberg explained, “I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to after the war.” Using mise en scene really drives home the fact that the characters in the film are real people who suffered during the reign of the Nazi’s rather than just invented figures and allows the audience to have a true connection with the characters and the victims. Showing the real life people along with the actors humanises them as a group and gives them individuality and uniqueness. Spielberg is also sending a message to those that doubt the reality

Schindler's List is one of the most powerful movies of all time. It presents the indelible true story of enigmatic German businessman Oskar Schindler who becomes an unlikely saviour of more than 1100 Jews amid the barbaric Nazi reign. A German Catholic war profiteer, Schindler moved to Krakow in 1939 when Germany overran Poland. There he opens an enamelware factory that, on the advice of his Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern, was staffed by Jews from the nearby forced labour camp at Plaszow. Schindler's factory prospered though his contacts with the Nazi war machine and its local representatives, as well as his deft skill on the black market. Then, somewhere along the way, Schindler's devotion to self-interest was

Throughout the novel, a miniscule act of heroism goes a long way. While working for Oskar Schindler, a Nazi, at his factory, Schindler portrays kindness. Leyson informs us that, ‘A true Nazi observing such an action, such humane treatment of a Jew, would have murdered them both’ (141). By simply making

One main character in the movie, Amon Goeth, was the epitome of caring more about himself than the other people around him. One example of this is when Goeth had the guards in the concentration camp shoot the forewoman. She had tried to correct how a building was being constructed because she had a background in engineering. Goeth didn’t like that a woman had made him look bad in front of a bunch of the inmates and guards, so he ordered her to be killed right then and there. This symbolizes just how many horrible people there were during this time and how truly traumatizing and horrifying life was for a lot of people. Another contributor to this overall theme is Oskar Schindler himself. Although he was known for helping thousands of jews throughout the whole movie, in the long run he was still very concerned with himself and how everything would work out for him in the end for a large majority of the film. Throughout much of the movie, he is had Hzhak Stern, his jewish bookkeeper, move people into his enamel factory to work for him and make him money. When one of the so called “essential workers” that Stern had moved into the factory wanted to thank Schindler for saving his life he saw that the man was not only a weak old man, but was also missing one arm. Schindler started to become a little

Schindler was a businessman that was set on making a great deal of money. He had many connections and an abundance of friends in the illicit business. “Never one to miss a chance to make money, he marched into Poland on the heels of the SS. He dived headfirst into the black-market and the underworld and soon made friends with the local Gestapo bigwigs, softening them up with women, money and illicit booze. His newfound connections helped him acquire a factory which he ran with the cheapest labor around: Jewish” (Jewish Virtual Library). “At first he seemed like every other usurping German industrialist, driven by profit and unmoved by the means of his profiteering. But somewhere along the line, something changed.” “In February 1939, five months after the German annexation of the Sudetenland, he joined the Nazi Party” (Holocaust Encyclopedia). “In December 1939, as occupied Poland was being torn apart by the savagery of the Holocaust, Schindler took his first faltering steps from

In the scene 'Vladek and Anja's first view of a swastika from window of a train' from “The Complete Maus” ,Art Speigelman uses several literary devices to deliver the story and emphasise it's importance. Some examples of the literary devices he uses includes intensity of shading, dialogue written and symbolism of objects.

“There was no choice.” Schindler said these words, reflecting on his moral decision to save over 1000 Jews from death and labor camps. He knew there was a right way, and also a wrong way, morally, and that he had no other option. For other industrialists in Schindler 's position, it wasn 't as easy a choice. During the Third Reich, German industrialists had a moral decision to make: whether to cooperate with the Nazis and profit from the persecution of Jews, or to resist and risk their lives and fortune. The Nazis created laws in order to persecute Jews, which contributed to the industrialists’ decisions. In 1939, Jews were made to wear identifying stars, and they were forced to live together in isolated ghettos. In the next few years, more laws were passed inflicting pain and cruelty upon Jews. Then, the Nazis moved beyond persecution, and threatened Jewish people’s jobs and economic stability. First, Jews had to register their property, and then, their privately-owned businesses were sold to non-Jewish German industrialists at a very low price. When their companies were sold, all of their managers and employees were kicked out. Later, once Jews were forced to work in non-Jewish Germans’ factories, a rule was passed in the spring of 1940, declaring that the wages of all the Jewish workers went directly to the SS, instead of the actual workers. Soon after, everyone except for “work-essential” Jews had to leave the city, causing every Jew to desperately try to find

Spielberg adds another dash of realism to the film by throwing in real historic footage to the mix. The most effective contribution to the realism and documentary styling is the genuine historic footage of the real Schindler Jews visiting Schindler's grave alongside the actors who played them in the film shown during the end. This suggests that the characters featured are not fictional and that the events in the film really took place. It stresses that these people really had families who cared for them and are of some significance to history.

Watching Schindler's list I decided to focus on Oskar Schindler. Throughout the movie Schindler personal emotions change on the war. In the beginning we see that it was a good thing for business that nothing else mattered as long as he made money. When Jews would come up he wouldn't care about them because he knew he could manipulate them and earn more money since they needed him. Schindler didn't really care for the Jews and what would happen to them. We see that Schindler only concern is that his business profits in the war. His concern for going to parties were to make connection that would better his money earning business. Money was his only concern which is why he went out seeking a jew. Since having a jew made it so they could be payed less than a normal person and they would be to scared to not do work. If he got a Jew it would earn him more money than hiring a German accountant. After getting an accountant he goes and seek workers for his factory. The workers are Jews since they don't need to be payed to be working. We later learn that his wife influences him with making business and wanting to succeed. He came from a place where he had nothing and is just beginning to make it. Hes making so much money he doesn't know what to do and he thanks the war for that. With his business doing so well he starts to care about his workers. He cares about them because he needs them to continue making the money.He starts really caring about his accountant Stern he makes sure he

The film ‘Schindler’s List’, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel Schindler’s Ark, by Thomas Keneally, gives us an insight into the corruption and destructive capabilities of humans. This film portrays many themes, all of which are evoked due to the factual historical event of the Jewish Holocaust which occurred in Germany during WWII. The exploration of the themes of hope, use and misuse of power, the nature of evil and courage makes this film prominent over others. Spielberg’s purpose in making this film was to raise awareness of the

[War] brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad. Even in the midst the devastation of a national genocide, where one race turned against another in hate, good people existed and worked to counteract the hate through love and compassion. Oskar Schindler was one of these people. World War II provided him the means to become a very wealthy and powerful man, yet he did not exploit the Jews like many other businessmen during his time. He used his money and power to save thousands. Much can be learned from what happened during the holocaust and what Schindler did to save thousands of Jews.