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Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1993, follows a German businessman who is initially a profiteer of slave labour, he later changes heart and saves over one-thousand jews during the holocaust. One of the most powerful and influential sequences is the ending of the film, showing how impactful Schindler’s actions were in saving the Jews. The final sequence of the film is positive and powerful one that focuses on the outcome of Oscar’s actions. It is the final resolution of the film and add such it offers a hopeful message of recovery for the Jewish survivors. The sequence reflects a great shift in power - the guards are no longer in charge and the brutality has come to an end. In dramatic shift from black and white …show more content…

Schindler’s speech to the workers in the factory represents his change in heart towards the jewish people. This develops Schindler’s character after he had saved thousands of jewish people, presenting his reaction to his successful efforts of saving human life. Schindler’s speech develops idea of the long road ahead for the Jewish people in the hopeless effort to find survivors of the Holocaust. Schindler announces that the war is officially over at midnight but he will stay until 5 minutes after midnight as the hunter becomes the hunted. This shows that he is not running because he wants to or because he has done something this is unjust but because he must, as it is not what he has done but what he has been perceived to have done. He is perceived as a profiteer of slave labour and a member of the Nazi party. Schindler knew that the German soldiers were given orders to kill the workers in the camp and he had confidence that the soldiers didn’t want to do it. Schindler’s actions reveal that the German Soldiers and Officers are not so brutal and mean on the inside as they are portrayed on the outside. Spielberg makes the soldiers powerful to show how they had had the opportunity to kill the workers. He does this by using a low camera angle when viewing the soldiers and

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For example, he succeed his first quest for riches, but at the end of the war, he spent everything he made, and managed to save 1,300 Jewish men and women lives. Not too long after his factory, which produced enamels goods and munitions, Schindler's Jewish accountant put him in touch with some of the few Jews that has any remaining wealth. Furthermore, they invested in his factory, and in return, they would be able to work there and hopefully be spared. He was persuaded to hire more Jewish workers for his factory to pay off the Nazis so they would allow them to stay in

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One appeal in particular that Schindler nailed in the head was pathos. Throughout his address, Schindler commemorates the lives of both the living and fallen Jewish people during the Holocaust. Additionally, Schindler pulled at the heartstrings of his factory workers when he stated, “Tomorrow, you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases, you won't find them” (Schindler’s List). Here, Schindler confessed to the workers the harsh realities of their situation; however, the way he expressed this fact made the workers melancholy but not defeated.

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By 1944, he was forced to use expensive bribes just to keep the Jewish workers in his employ. Near the end of the year, German officials ordered the closing of his camp and Schindler was offered a weapons factory in Czechoslovakia. The problem? Now he had to pick who to take with him. With the help of his associates, he created the infamous Schindler's list that named more than one thousand Jews from his factory and Plaszow who would be moved to his new factory as workers.

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As he experiences multiple harsh moments, Schindler becomes a decent, unselfish, and a positive manipulating man. Schindler once said, “War brings out the worst in people.”, but he proves his own statement wrong by himself becoming a better man. As Steven Spielberg directs Schindler’s List, he profusely provides us with great details of how Oskar Schindler’s character has

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At Schindler’s factories no one was hit, murdered, or sent to death camps like Auschwitz. The Jews at Schindler’s factories were among the only who were saved and

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On the other hand, in the movie ‘Schindler’s list’, Schindler’s life changes as he realizes the Jews shouldn’t be treated brutally. So he begins a mission to help them. The director Steven Spielberg directed the whole story in a realistic way and it was a successful

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It is obvious that Schindler risk his life, determining whether he did it out of empathy, impulse, self-interest, Influence is a good question. At one point if you would have asked me this question I would have said self-interest, but now looking at the full picture and watching the movie my vision of him has shifted. The things he saw and did, the way he took action, trying to save lives. Schindler was raised to believe to hate Jews at a young age, and everyone he new and maybe even trusted was going around tormenting jews and killing for fun. It makes me wonder if he truly was not sure of which way to go.

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Schindler did some very bad things in the beginning, he used slave labor for his profit and he schmoozed many people for his benefit. Though near the end he still schmoozed to get what he wanted, now it was for the benefit of the Jews that he was saving. Schindler change of character and attitude saved 1200 Jews. Schindler changed a lot and because of that many generations of the jews he saved lived

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When the war ended, gathered his workers and told them that they were free and he called for the guards to go home peacefully. As he says goodbye to the workers, they give him a gold ring as a token of their appreciation. At that moment, Schindler realized that he could’ve saved more lives by selling personal items of his such as his car. He then flees with his wife as he is a member of the Nazi Party and could be tried for war crimes. Later on, a Russian soldier travels to Schindler’s factory and tells the Jews that they are free to go.

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Schindler’s List A Man Who Saves and Changes History With a List “The unconditional surrender of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases you won't find them…

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Schindler is depicted as a charming and generous man. He at first is opposed to bringing in jews because it is illegal, but never does much to push back against Stern for what is happening. He risks everything for these Jews in the movie, giving diamonds to nazis for bribery. He also acts as he wants to get as many people out of the camps as possible. At the end of the movie, he weeps for all the jews he couldn't save, and starts to put values in the number of people on all of his belongings.

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Steven Spielberg 's “Schindler’s List” is a phenomenal movie that was produced in 1993. The movie won an impressive number of awards for its cinematography and screenplay, but also its plot. The plot was based on the life and effect of Oskar Schindler. Though he had started on the side of the Nazis, Schindler became a hero for the Jews by working to save their lives. Oskar Schindler was one of the most unlikely heroes of WWII.

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This movie takes place during World War II Germany. At this time, Germany committed an act of genocide against the Jewish people for no more than the fact that they hated the Jewish people, and anti-Semitism was very strong at that time. Due to the strong hatred for the Jews, the Germans felt the need to perform an act called ethnic cleansing, and exterminate all the Jews in Germany, because the Germans had no other place to let millions of Jews from Germany to migrate to, or in other words, no other country would let the Jewish people to enter their country. Oskar Schindler was part of the German Nazi force, and had good connections with the Nazi leaders. Throughout the movie, Oskar sees the harsh realities that the Jewish people have to face,

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Some argue the idea that before Schindler’s List,  his films like the Color Purple and Empire of the Sun which were serious films but some claim that the films were flawed in an attempt to maked the holocaust seem “more dramatic”. (Welsh The idea of this is absolutely false it is absurd and frankly sick to think that one would make one of the biggest human genocides “more dramatic” Others argue the reason that before Schindler’s list, Spielberg was a totally different actor. One film critic who reviewed the Sugarland Express, called Spielberg a “ commercial and shallow and impersonal. They called out the idea that Spielberg was more about marketing than the actual film. (Manchel 26).

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People to this day still find horror and beauty in this film, finding this film an extraordinary masterpiece executed by director, Steven Spielberg. Some people do disagree with the images shown in the film, however, as a whole, the entire community who thoroughly enjoys films agree the accuracy of this film that did not hold back any viewing content truly added greatly to the film. Perhaps the most touching reaction came from the place where it all started. The premiere of Schindler’s List in Germany with a room filled with 800 people – Germans and Jews, diplomats and artists, film makers and people who had known Oskar Schindler when he lived there (Whitney, 1994).

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