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    right, it only determines who 's left, however, war can mean different things to different people in some examples, it may be heroic to fight for your country where for others it is devastating and dehumanising. The films such as The Pianist by Roman Polanski to Blackadder Goodbyeee demonstrate how the war dehumanises people while the American sniper and Dulcie et show that war can be heroic and great to fight for your country. Which signifies that the motives you have for fighting a war determines

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    Roman Polanski — noted for being an iconic figure in the film world — is known for producing great films such as China Town, and The Pianist. Of those two, it is argued that, The Pianist is his best work. This is because this film has close ties to Polanski’s roots. Born in Paris, France in 1933, his father was a Polish-Jew and his mother was Catholic. Polanski’s family moved to Krakow, Poland in 1936. Unfortunately this move would negatively impact the Polanski family, forever. In 1936

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    Film: The Pianist Director, Roman Polanski Scene(s) Hosenfeld scene In the Film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski. We witness a scene where Szpilman is injured, filthy and starving he rummages around looking for anything to sustain himself. He finds a can of gherkins which he struggles to open he finds some fire stoking equipment and begins opening the can however due to the state of Szpilman he drops the can and the contents falls and drains at the soldier 's feet. In the Hosenfeld scene

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    intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth and power, according to Oxford Dictionary. The film Chinatown directed by Roman Polanski embodies these underlying tones of corruption and greed. The main focus of corruption and greed in the film is Noah Cross. He murders Hollis Mulwray for greed and attempts to flee from police to add to the corruption. Polanski vision and perspective made the film innovative. In the movie Chinatown, the example of greed leading up to corruption is demonstrated

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    This week's movie is Chinatown by Roman Polanski. This movie in short follows this private investigator J.J. Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) who is hired by the wife of the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. At first, the person who hires him is a facade to the real wife of the chief engineer. The original intentional for hiring him was to find out if the chief engineer was having an extramarital affairs with someone else; he was not. As time goes on, the plot thickens

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    Roman Polanski’s film “The Pianist” follows the journey of a Polish Jew named Wladyslaw Szpilman. Szpilman is a pianist who was playing for a Warsaw radio station when the first German bombs fell. Once World War ll begins Szpilman and his family are forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto, but he is later separated from them. At this time Warsaw is surrounded with German soldiers and from this time up until the concentration camp prisoners are released. Hiding in abandoned, run down building Szpilman

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    Chinatown This week's movie is Chinatown by Roman Polanski. This movie in short follows this private investigator J.J. Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) who is hired by the wife of the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. At first, the person who hires him is a facade to the real wife of the chief engineer. The original intentional for hiring him was to find out if the chief engineer was having an extramarital affairs with someone else; he was not. As time goes on, the plot

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    Roman Polanski was famous for his film directing after he had survived the Holocaust. Over the years his motion pictures became more and more noticed soon a very famous director, producer, writer, and actor (Roman Polanski). He did create very successful works and also has been overlooked for his crimes. Although Roman Polanski survived the Holocaust and had become a very successful film director, he did deserve to be in jail for decades. Rajmund Roman Thierry Polanski was born on August 18, 1933

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    How does Polanski convey the notion of man’s inhumanity through cinematic techniques in The Pianist? Roman Polanski's The Pianist, released in 2002, shares a realistic encounter of man’s inhumanity in World War II. Full of scenes that show the ruthless behaviour of the Nazis, Polanski presents the idea of man’s inhumanity at the time of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany through skilful cinematography. Although Polanski uses many different cinematic techniques, three of them are more strongly drawn

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    from Wladyslaw Szpilman’s memoirs, and directed by Oscar winning director, Roman Polanski. The Pianist, is a movie about a Polish Jewish radio station pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman and his family during the second world war. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, and is later separated from his family. Stoicism the ability to endure an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving in. In The Pianist, Polanski used cinematography with a touch of sound to depict Stoicism in various forms

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