Rhetoric In The Pianist

For my preliminary proposal I wanted to look at the rhetoric arguments between the print and film version of the same story. I then Identified three books, which had been turned into films that I wanted to analyze: The Boy in The Striped Pajamas, The Pianist, and Defiance. But as you pointed out, doing all three films in depth would be extremely difficult for one project.
From this I have refined my research intention quite a bit, I still want to look at the difference in rhetoric between film and print, but I want to refine it to just The Pianist. I chose the Pianist because it looks specifically at the life in the jewish ghettos and how destructive they were. Ghetto’s, generally, were destructive in a multitude of ways; in particular the …show more content…
Rhetoric is the composition or orientation of how an argument is conveyed to its audience in order to prove, or attempt to prove, a point. But in how to make a well rounded rhetorical argument greatly differs in which art form you are presenting. Which is why I want to look at the same story, The Pianist, but presented in two very different forms, cinematic and literature.
A major difference in the two forms are its delivery. An author delivers words to it’s audience, in which its audience must analyze these words in order to depict a scene, movement, color, and conversation. Whereas a director, conducts the actors, which is shown to its audience as a visual, and a screenplay writer then conducts what the actors say, all of which depict a scene, movement, and conversation just as the author does. But two are so very …show more content…
I have not read the book nor seen the movie, but an interesting facet of the Holocaust, which I believe, is constantly overlooked is what the everyday German thought of it all. There will always be the standout Schindler’s of the world, but what about your average John Doe that works down the street. Was he in favor of jewish suppression? Did he believe that jewish community were the source of German economic struggles? Did you believe that ousting this population from the earth would be a service to the world? Or was he just a bystander that was to afraid to stand up against the military? All questions I do not have the answer too, but I wish to find out. All of which the rhetoric and diction of the author and director correlate