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    The Pianist captures the effects of the Holocaust in a real way, making it hard emotionally to watch. I had only heard about how intense the Holocaust was, but I’d never watched a film showing the experience of it. I think the film captured the Holocaust honestly for what it was. The harsh truth was empowering and made me truly grateful for my life today. It was tough to watch the genocidal behaviors of the Nazis being applied to anyone deemed less than. I think the hardest part for me was watching people get ruthlessly shot for questioning authority, when in society, people are encouraged to ask questions. It is understandable to wonder where you were being taken under such nerve racking conditions. The film did an appropriate job at showing…

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    The Pianist Sparknotes

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    In The Pianist begins in Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of the Second World War,first introducing Wladyslaw (Wladek) Szpilman, who works as a pianist for the local radio. The Polish Army has been defeated in three weeks by the German Army and Szpilman's radio station is bombed while he plays live on the air. While evacuating the building he finds a friend of his who introduces him to his sister, Dorota. Szpilman is immediately attracted to her. Wladyslaw returns home to find his parents and…

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    What I am aiming to show in my essay is that humans can overcome anything if they have the right type of determination. This essay communicates a message aimed at teenagers. I am writing about this character because he shows that anyone can survive if they have what it takes. The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, presents viewers with the story of Wladyk Szpilman and his desire to survive against all odds, as he endures terrible hardship and pain. He manages to survive this terrible ordeal…

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    Symbolism In The Pianist

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    How does Polanski convey the theme of adversity on the human spirit in The Pianist? In 2002, Parisian film director Roman Polanski adapted the memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist living in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II. Once a prosperous musician known throughout the country, the film follows his survival of the holocaust. The experience has implications on the emotions of Szpilman, as well as his passion for music and creativity- his spirit as a human. Through the use of…

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    questions from which he learns that Szpilman is a pianist. He asks Szpilman to play something on the piano which is in a room nearby. This film presents many intertextual elements: The film is intertextual in itself as it is based on the book “The Pianist”. Films and documentaries about the holocaust. Jesus Christ’s appearance: Szpilman looks like Jesus in the Passion after the ordeal he has gone through. My struggle by Hitler: The German Captain fits the characteristics of the ideal…

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    types then pianists will type faster than non-pianists. The procedures for the experiment were; Get participants who are pianists and non-pianists. Prepare a computer for participants to take the typing test. On the computer bring up http://www.freetypinggame.net/. Click on the tab that says test, and choose story number 32 (each participant will type the same story). Have each participant type the story twice for one minute each time. Copy down the number of words per minute each participant…

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    The Pianist Analysis

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    Each year Hollywood makes over 100 movies. These movies have many different genres; horror, adventure, and even historical movies. Historical movies are about a historical that has happened in History over the years, one of these movies is the The Pianist. The movie The Pianist focuses on the life of Wladek Szpilman during World War II and is both accurate and inaccurate in detail. This film is about the life of Wladek Szpilman, during World War 2. In the film the viewer learns some true and…

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    Humanism In The Pianist

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    (The Pianist) The Pianist is 2002 biographical film that was directed by Roman Polanski and follows the life of a pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman through the six years phase of World War II. Wladyslaw Szpilman is a Jewish pianist who works at a radio station in Poland, but it is unfortunate that the Polish army is defeated by the German’s as they bomb and invade their country. Although most of the scenes in the film display inhuman activities as the German soldiers mistreat and kill the Jews, the…

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    Rhetoric In The Pianist

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    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…

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    The Pianist Essay

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    “The Pianist” This essay is about the movie we saw, the movie was about Wladyslav Spillman, the movie was called “The Pianist”, because Wladyslav play piano, he was imprisoned by the Nazis at World War II and he lost all his family inside the Warsaw Ghetto, he suffer a lot of things on the Warsaw Ghetto, he was hungry, seeing people dead in the floor, and a lot of more things he saw in there, he died at 88 years in the 2000, he was a grate pianist in that ages, at least he play some of their…

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