Schindler's List

Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is a visual test centred around the idea of “The Power of One”- this means that one person can influence many things, such as saving 1100 Jews, in regards to this text and Schindler. Schindler comes to Germany to make as much money from the war as possible and ends up saving 1100 Jews instead out of his own pocket. This is all due to the event of seeing one innocent Jewish girl walking around in confusion whilst the Ghetto she lives in is being…

German province in the Austro-Hungarian empire it now belongs to the the Czech Republic. Schindler grew up and attended grammar school in a region known as the Sudetenland. Schindler worked for his father, Hans Schindler, selling farm equipment. Schindler's father was the owner of a large factory. After his marriage in 1928 however Schindler left his father’s factory. To make some money Schindler started a poultry farm. This was dismally unsuccessful and Schindler closed the business within six…

almost $500 million. This, however, is not the only blockbuster movie from this American director and producer. In 1993, Universal published Schindler’s List based on a novel from the author Thomas Keneally called Schindler’s Ark. This movie based on real life events, tells the story of a manager of a German military company during World War II, and how he makes a list out of all his Jewish workers to save from the hands of the Nazis. Magazines…

never be forgotten. There are many movies that try to depict what exactly happened to the Jewish people during this time, but there is no film more impactive than Schindler’s List. In this film, Liam Neeson plays as Oskar Schindler during World War Two. Oskar was the man who erased Jewish people’s names off the concentration camp lists and brought them to work for him in a safe environment. He worked closely…

“When words fail, music speaks.” ~ Anonymous Music, known as the world’s “universal language,” is something that is used in many different forms to convey various forms of emotion. For example, music can convey emotions through the usage of the film industry with the composition of film scores. Furthermore, orchestral music serves as a form of music in which emotions can be conveyed as well. Though rarely seen, music can also convey emotion to those who sneak illegal drinks, such as men and…

The Holocaust film Schindler's List (1993) depicts many typical stereotypes associated with American films such as eroticization of the female body, good vs. evil, and the patriarchal hero. These themes cloud the real events with themes that the audience can readily associate with…

He operated a factory in which Jews “worked” for him and did many deeds when it came to saving the Jews. Schindler’s factory, known as Emalia, is where the lives of numerous Jews stayed during WWII. Inside the factory, no Jews were hit, murdered, or sent to death camps; however, conditions weren’t as comfortable as believed so (Bülow). This reveals how the Jews…

emotional harm to an individual One connection was observed across the texts that Mississippi Burning, Schindler’s List and the poems Dulce and Anthem had enormous amounts of emotional harm and violence in contrast to To Kill a Mockingbird which has the least. Mississippi Burning and Schindler’s List were similar in this case as they both showed people getting murdered. One scene in Schindler’s List which shows emotional harm is the little girl in the red coat. The attention is drawn to the…

In wars, many humans often lose their humanity because of the fact that they lost someone close to them. People in time of desperations listen to their emotions more than reasoning which can cause them to do an action that goes against their own morals. Most People would go against their own beliefs and loyalties because they’re afraid to die. After the war, many people face challenges that affect their life substantially. War dehumanizes many people with traumas, from killing others to save…

In Schindler’s List, Spielberg portrayed Schindler as a ruthless man who would scam Jews to make a profit at the beginning of the movie. Spielberg displayed Schindler as a man who only cared about his pleasures instead of others. Which then made the audience saw Schindler as a man that holds himself with ruthlessness, dishonesty, and callousness. Eventually, Spielberg portrays a transformation within Oskar Schindler from opportunist to savior. There was a transformation when Oskar Schindler had…