Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Review by Anders Wik and Erik Nilsson Ranta of Moviemix
Schindlers list is made with a mixture of traditional filming and about 40% of handheld camera shots, This is to give the movie a more documentary feel to it, which together with the black and white color is stunningly beautiful. Many of the scenes look exactly like taken out of the elementary and junior high school documentaries, commonly watched in Europe. The music and footage is phenomenal and of course the acting. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler is brilliant. His facial expressions are in many cases very precise to the actual pictures taken of Oskar Schindler in the 1940s. Ralph Fiennes, as Amon Goeth, the SS officer is also fantastic, really personifying evil. He had to gain 26 pounds in order to play the part which kind of looks somewhat awkward but the overall performance is great. Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern is also wonderful. The filth, stress and chaos from living in the ghettos can be seen in traces of Kingsley´s face. Most of the small parts are done very well too. Schindlers list is easily said a masterpiece from a theatrical standpoint. There are, according to many sources some inaccuracies in scenes and details but it is a Hollywood production from the director of E.T. so that can be overseen. The movie received 7 Oscars in 1993, one of which was for best picture. If you want to see a movie about the holocaust, or if you want to study this part of history, watching this movie is a great way to start.
http://www.moviemix.nu/filmrec.asp?ID=1464
Schindlers list is made with a mixture of traditional filming and about 40% of handheld camera shots, This is to give the movie a more documentary feel to it, which together with the black and white color is stunningly beautiful. Many of the scenes look exactly like taken out of the elementary and junior high school documentaries, commonly watched in Europe. The music and footage is phenomenal and of course the acting. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler is brilliant. His facial expressions are in many cases very precise to the actual pictures taken of Oskar Schindler in the 1940s. Ralph Fiennes, as Amon Goeth, the SS officer is also fantastic, really personifying evil. He had to gain 26 pounds in order to play the part which kind of looks somewhat awkward but the overall performance is great. Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern is also wonderful. The filth, stress and chaos from living in the ghettos can be seen in traces of Kingsley´s face. Most of the small parts are done very well too. Schindlers list is easily said a masterpiece from a theatrical standpoint. There are, according to many sources some inaccuracies in scenes and details but it is a Hollywood production from the director of E.T. so that can be overseen. The movie received 7 Oscars in 1993, one of which was for best picture. If you want to see a movie about the holocaust, or if you want to study this part of history, watching this movie is a great way to start.
http://www.moviemix.nu/filmrec.asp?ID=1464
Results:
Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), National Democratic Party in Germany, founded in 1964 and since 1996 led by Udo Voigt is the biggest national party in Germany. The party had great success in the election in 2004 when they entered in a cooperation with the German folk union and received 9,2% of the votes which meant 12 seats in the parlament. According to polls, in 2006, NDP received 6,5 % of the votes in the German election in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern area.
http://sydsvenskan.se/varlden/article184469/Framgang-for-NDP-i-tyska-val.html
Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), National Democratic Party in Germany, founded in 1964 and since 1996 led by Udo Voigt is the biggest national party in Germany. The party had great success in the election in 2004 when they entered in a cooperation with the German folk union and received 9,2% of the votes which meant 12 seats in the parlament. According to polls, in 2006, NDP received 6,5 % of the votes in the German election in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern area.
http://sydsvenskan.se/varlden/article184469/Framgang-for-NDP-i-tyska-val.html
According to Niven´s article Statistical surveys has shown that since German reunification in 1990, there has been an increase in growth of right-wing extremists. “There has been an accompanying rise in radical right-wing ideological agitation,” Niven says. The running and success of the film in Germany coincided with these occurrences.
According to a journal article by William J. Niven; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 25, 1995, “The Reception of Steven Spielberg´s ‘Schindler´s List’ in the German Media,” the press reviewed the film and published articles on Schindler. Articles also covered the people Schindler protected. There were debates accompanied with the film and television talk-shows.
The Spiegel writes "Schindler's story is all the more credible because it is told by the creator of 'E.T.' and 'Jurassic Park' and not issued by the Federal Institute for Political Instruction." Only neo-Nazis avoid seeing the film. "Nobody in our circles shows any great interest in it," says the head ideologist of the Hamburg Nationalist Party. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2206
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