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The Pianist, Scene 15 Works that are a tribute to the will ...
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Term Paper - The Pianist, Scene 15
Works that are a tribute to the will to live always touch our
emotions in a unique way and Roman Polanski's The Pianist definitely
strikes a chord with sentiment. I had originally imagined that a film
adapted from a memoir may have taken liberties in converting the
written work to script and in creating historical accuracy. However, I
was proven wrong as I watched Polanski's vivid directorship of this
war film about music. The Pianist is a good-history Shoah film that is
very humanizing and shows total war, compassion for the enemy, and
even heroism. And although it wasn't listed among the forms of war
films, I believe more than anything that this film is about survival
and the powerful will to live. In Polanski's own words, "The Pianist
is a testimony to the power of music, the will to live, and the
courage to stand against evil."
And so, interestingly enough, the movie centers around an aspect that
is very unusual for the war film genre: music. When Wladyslaw
Szpilman, played by Adrien Brody, loses everything, the only thing he
has left to live for and hold on to is his passion for music. It is a
passion that he will hold on to for some six years while separated
from a piano until at last beckoned onto one by the Wehrmacht officer
Wilhelm Hosenfeld, played by Thomas Kretschmann.
This scene, in which the yet-unnamed German officer is finally seen,
begins during a frigid night with Szpilman looking for a can opener
around the house in which he is hiding. As the scene begins, Szpilman
enters from the left and the camera pans right and tilts down and up,
following him; there is no score, only silence and footsteps. He is
shown off-center to the right in a level shot at a medium close-up as
he fumbles with a can. But the can...
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