When judging a movie, it is important to consider the characters and how well or unwell they are portrayed. It takes real talent to appropriately capture the true personality of characters. In “Hidden in Silence”, Kellie Martin plays the heroine, Fusia Podgorska, and she did an excellent job obtaining the charisma of this young woman. Fusia’s little sister, Helena, is acted by Gemma Coughlan (“Hidden in Silence”). This young actress gave a great example of the innocence of a child in the midsts of the Holocaust. Isaac Diamant, Max Diamant, and Lubic were three boys who were romantically involved with Fusia at some point throughout the story. Max, acted by Tom Radcliffe, becomes the main man involved with Fusia in the movie (“Hidden in Silence”). …show more content…
The scenes, location, props, language, and wardrobe all considerably contribute to the overall film success. In my opinion, a good film has accuracy in all of the above categories. When I watched “Hidden in Silence”, I saw the attention that went into all of the details. The clothing that the actors and actresses wore matched their culture and time. The vehicles seen in the streets belonged in the time frame of the movie. When the camera showed the inside of the Diamant’s apartment, the decor and furniture depicted the correct era’s lifestyle or homelife. More scenes that showed the accuracy of the film make-up were when Fusia goes from farm to farm gathering food to smuggle into the ghettos for the Diamant family. In order to pay for all of this extra food, Fusia had to get a job. It was not as easy as it is today. She had to go through the German government to get a job in a factory (Martin). The factory scenes helped capture the everyday lives of so many people, from disguised Jews to German supporters and regular Polish people. The most impacting detail was the film’s location. “Hidden in Silence” was actually filmed in the Czech Republic (“Hidden in Silence”). This gives the movie a more European feel because of the scenery of the location. All of these tedious details are what make a film
I would like to point out the poignant cinematography, which was very innovative for its time. The narration and the filming introducing what was about to be uncovered must have been extremely moving in a melancholy way. The mise-en-scène is both compelling and haunting, each frame cleverly editied. Resnais experimented with what is known as the long shot, and the 360 degree shot, to make the voyeur very aware of the unbalanced composition. The panning of the film tracking back from Auschwitz brings us a close up, of barbed wire. This clearly suggests that this isn't what it appears to be. Resnais films the past in black and white, and the then present in colour. The ambiance is chilling, and the composed background music unique. Where normally dramatic loud music would be used to express the abonimation and enormity of the most horrendous scenes, Resnais did quite the contrary.
When it comes to films most people think that the filmmakers just draft up the script, hires some actors, films and edits some scenes, then releases the next number one movie in America to the world (or select theaters near you). In actuality, there are a lot more details that go into film than that. Filmmakers are constantly making decisions in regards to a films narrative and cinematic style and making sure a film comes out as well as it can. One of those decisions fall under cinematic style and is called mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene has four elements: lighting, costume/makeup, sets/props, and figure expression and movement. The three that will be focused on when analyzing the film Modern Times are costume/makeup, sets/props, and figure expression
When any book is made into a movie, one of the most difficult tasks is interpreting the visual aspects, and viewers are often disappointed by the result as it is not how they imagined it while reading the book. While the “All Quiet on the Western Front” novel was limited only by the reader's imagination, The movie's action scenes were anything but realistic and the special effects did not stand the test of time as modern films contain much more sophisticated special effects... While movies should never be judged by special effects alone, the film was certainly not enhanced by them. In fact modern audiences might even consider the effects as humorous which was certainly not the intention.
Denial is another theme in this film which helped to save the Jewish race. Even as they are forced into the ghetto and later into labor camps they are in denial of their real situation. When they are in the ghetto they are optimistic and believe that the bad times will pass, and even when killing surrounds them they won’t let themselves believe the worst.
While Anja and Vladek are avoiding the Gestapo, Anja faces another challenge because she looks more Jewish than Vladek, which increases her risk of persecution. As she is walking through a courtyard, a woman screams “Jewess” and points at Anja while calling for the police. Even though she escaped, this shows how much harder it was for Anja to avoid detection during the holocaust.
Vladek’s life during the Holocaust was gruesome, but regardless of what was happening in his own life Vladek was always thinking about the safety of Anja. Vladek loved Anja dearly, if anything happened to Anja Vladek would not care about his own life, and lose the will to live. When Anja and Vladek were separated in the concentration camp, Vladek found a woman and asked her if she knew if Anja is...
The holocaust is known for the great number of deaths; including the six million Jews. Ida fink is a writer that captures this time period in her works. In “The Key Game” she appeals to pathos because of imagery used, connections to your own family, and dialog used by both the father and mother. Through her fiction stories, she tells tales that relate to what could have been and probably what was. Ida Fink is known for telling her stories in a journalist like tone with very little color. In her stories, she does not like to tell you how to feel she instead leaves that up to the reader. Fink does place some hints of emotion just by writing the story alone. The interpretation of her works is left up to the reader. As you read through her stories some will find more emotion, some will find more logic, and some may see more ethics. At the moment, we will be looking more on the side of emotions within this story.
The play version of The Diary Of Anne Frank is a play about a young girl and her family hiding from the Nazi’s in fear of being taken to a concentration camp during World War 2. In this play, Anne must adjust to life and growing up in hiding while living with seven other people. While the play is still very popular and enjoyed, there is also a more recent version of this story that is told through a movie to share this story in a more modern way and to appeal to more. In this movie, the audience watches Anne go through the struggles of adjusting to life in hiding and living with a large group of people. Although the play and the movie versions of The Diary Of Anne Frank do have some differences in storytelling and dialogue, both stories have the same conflicts, setting, characters, and life lessons.
The novel Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a girl, who gets raped in the summer before the start of her freshman year in high school and the book follows her as she tries to cope with the depression that comes that kind of violation. This book was turned into a movie; and released early in the early 2000’s and when adapting books to film, a lot of information and details are lost in the process. When comparing Speak the novel and Speak the movie, the noticeable differences are; the character relationships, Melinda’s character, and Andy Evans and Melinda’s dynamic.
I watched a heartbreakingly beautiful film by Margarethe von Trotta called Rosenstrasse. It takes place during World War II and goes in depth about how Aryan women stood up to the Nazi party in hopes to save their loved ones. It encompasses the drastically effected lives of individuals such as Lena Fischer, who was played by Katja Riemann and Doris Schade as well as Ruth Weinstein who was played by Jutta Lampe and Svea Lohde. (1) I already had a great appreciation for the film because of the focal point it had on the Holocaust, and how it ventured out to a more unknown topic like the women’s act for justice. My appreciation grew even when I read that it was inspired by true events (Martin Tsai). That makes the film even more real to the audience, and allows one’s connection with it to increase to a whole new level. My appreciation also grew when I read that Margarethe von Trotta was a former actress (Ruthe Stein). I thought that was a very engrossing fact. It almost makes me wonder why she did not place
There is one thing all hidden children of the holocaust have in common, silence. Lola Rein Kaufman is one of those hidden children. And she is done being silent. Lola Rein was a hidden child during the holocaust. She was one of the lucky ones; one of the 10,000- 500,000 that survived. Her family wasn’t as lucky. Lola endured, los, abandonment, and constant fear, but has now chosen to shed her cloak of silence.
The spectacle and melody in the movie are the “pleasurable accessories of Tragedy” in that, despite their minor roles, they are two parts of the whole in a tragedy (72). The thought and diction behind a character’s lines or lack thereof carry messages of significance to carry out the plot and convey the morals behind its actions to the audience. The characters of a tragedy are defined by the actions they take and act as a medium to convey their moral purpose in the plot. Finally, the plot must flow from its beginning to its end with a unified, cohesive series of events while revealing peripeteia and discoveries as the tragedy draws closer to its conclusion. In the end, Bruno, a boy stuck in-between his family and their country’s beliefs and his friendship with Shmuel, the Jew Bruno was supposed to be brought up to hate, would eventually lead to his untimely death whilst not understanding the gravity of the situation surrounding Nazi Germany during the World
Sophie was a Polish women and a survivor of Auschwitz, a concentration camp established in Germany during the Holocaust in the early 1940s. In the novel we learn about her through her telling of her experiences, for instance, the murder of her husband and her father. We also come to learn of the dreadful decision she was faced with upon entering the concentration camp, where she was instructed to choose which one of her two children would be allowed to live. She chose her son. Later we learn of her short lived experience as a stenographer for a man by the name of Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During her time there, Sophie attempted to seduce Hoss in an attempt to have her son transferred to the Lebensborn program so that he may have been raised as a German child. Sophie's attempt was unsuccessful and she was returned back to t...
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"What happened then was both unexpected and extremely unpleasant. Lieutenant Kotler grew very angry with Pavel and no one - not Bruno, not Gretel, not Mother and not even Father - stepped in to stop him doing what he did next, even though none of them could watch. Even though it made Bruno cry and Gretel grow pale." This quote is from the the book.(Boyne, 148-149). The perception of women in “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is that they are useful so long as they believe the lie. The movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” describes the Holocaust from a child’s point of view. Bruno thinks the concentration camp is a playground and a place that has a cafe.