Władysław Szpilman

bottom of the stairs, encounters him. The Captain asks several 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…

In The Pianist, a German soldier by the name of Wilm Hosenfeld conforms to the society’s harassment and physical harm towards the Jewish community. However, after meeting Wladyslaw Szpilman, he feels sympathy for those that are being subordinated and therefore feels dissonance. To align his attitude and behaviour, he helps Szpilman to hide in a room away…

The idea that the purpose of a text, or representational medium, enables a deeper understanding rather than an ultimate truth is highly reflected in Mark Baker’s 1997 biographical novel The Fiftieth Gate and Roman Polanski’s 2002 autobiography-adapted film The Pianist. Both texts explore how the objective of history and memory focuses on the interaction between these two notions and their limitations rather than the ultimate truth. The deeper understanding gained of these two texts have shown…

Achieving Greatness: The Definition of a Great Film And the Academy Award for Best Picture goes to…The Artist! The silent film also won three other awards at this year’s Oscars; add those awards to the wide praise the movie received from both critics and viewers, and a strong case can be made in calling The Artist a great movie. However, at the time of its nomination, The Artist had only grossed about $12 million; compare that to critical flop Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which grossed over…

These actors play their characters in their day to day lives in order to accurately represent the emotions and attitudes that their characters have. While playing Wladyslaw Szpilman in the Pianist, Adrian Brody gave up the finer things in life, including his car and girlfriend. He dropped his weight down to 130 pounds and practiced the piano for four hours a day. Christian Bale is another example of an actor that gains…