Carl’s Image

Carl has created a complex and detailed static image based on Schindler’s List.

Schindler’s List Posts

Now that we are writing essays on the film, have a look at the Schindler’s List category on this blog. There are lots of interesting and useful posts – including essays to check out.

Julia’s Image

Julia shows the irony of Goeth’s words and the strength of the Jewish spirit in her image.

Static Image

James has created an interesting and original image about Schindler’s List. The symbolism is very clear.

Zach’s Image

In Zach’s image he shows the turning point of the film when Schindler sees the Jews as individuals. The chief symbol used to do that in the film is the girl in the red coat.

Jacob’s Image

In Jacob’s image he shows the nature of the film’s villian Amon Goeth.

Schindler Images

The static images are finished now and I will post a few. This one is from Ken and it looks at how Schindler saved his workers from the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Schindler’s List Trivia

Here is some interesting trivia about Schindler’s List:

• About 40% of the film was shot using a handheld camera.
• There is a Jewish tradition that when one visits a grave, one leaves a small stone on the marker as a sign of respect. This is why the cast and the Schindlerjuden cover Schindler’s grave with stones at the end of the movie.
• The film’s tagline “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire” is a quotation from the Talmud.
• The only film released in the last quarter century to make it onto the American Film Institute’s top ten list of best American movies of all time.
• Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time (2006).
• [June 2008] Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre “Epic”.
• In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the 8 Greatest Movie of All Time.
• Amon Goeth’s name is pronounced “Aimen Gert”. Ralph Fiennes said in an interview that one of the reasons he was interested in playing Amon was because both their names are spelled differently then they are pronounced.
• During the liquidation scene, one man stops to remove something from the door post of his residence. What he removes is a Mezuzah, a case containing a passage from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9), which Jews traditionally affix to the door frames of their houses as a constant reminder of God’s presence.
• Ralph Fiennes put on 13kg by drinking Guinness for his role. Steven Spielberg cast him because of his “evil sexuality”.
• During filming, Ben Kingsley, who played Itzhak Stern, kept a picture of Anne Frank, the young girl who died in a concentration camp and whose personal diary was published after the Holocaust, in his coat pocket.

Read more here.

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Totalitarian Architecture of the Third Reich

Dark Roasted Blend has a post on the architecture of Nazi Germany which 10 KIM and Year 13 students may find of interest. Here is an extract:

Fascist and communist governments in the first half of the twentieth century both created monumental architecture, largely to intimidate their people and showcase the regime’s strengths. In a totalitarian system such as existed in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, the government attempted to control every aspect of daily life. It used architecture to some degree to achieve this, to firmly establish its authority leaving no doubt as to who was in charge. One of the chief aims of Nazi architecture was also to reflect the beliefs of National Socialism, celebrate the German national identity and glorify the idea of the master Aryan race, as perceived by Hitler and his associates. Read the rest here.