What is the signifigance of....

[KGB1]

the girl in the red coat in the nazi concentration camp? The SCENCE only, what it shows/implies? What the scene capture? and how the scene works in a black and white picture.

I'm writing an essay for a media class and I chose to do about Steven Spielberg's motion pictures. I have several other films of his to do. But I am analytically writing about his films, so guys please be thoughtful in your responses and I would really like to read about what you guys think about it.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: KGB
the girl in the red coat in the nazi concentration camp? The SCENCE only, what it shows/implies? What the scene capture? and how the scene works in a black and white picture.

I'm writing an essay for a media class and I chose to do about Steven Spielberg's motion pictures. I have several other films of his to do. But I am analytically writing about his films, so guys please be thoughtful in your responses and I would really like to read about what you guys think about it.

It has been a very long time sience I saw this movie. Anyways....

Perhaps it is used to draw your attention to her. No, REALLY draw your attention to the girl. It appeals to the emotion. If I saw it again, I am sure that he is implying the death of something (besides the girl, she is a symbol). Perhaps he is prooving that the Nazis have done all wrongs? Hm?

 

[Entity]

Apparently the image itself is not invented by Spielberg, but is actually a true story -- passed down since the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

The use of color to follow the little girl in her red coat has by now achieved the stature of legendary. However, most people do not know that this image is based upon a true story, told at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most feared and hated Nazi leaders of World War II, responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews.

In the PBS documentary, The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, this image loses none of its impact when the actual story is told by Assistant Prosecutor, later Supreme Court Judge, Gavriel Bach in an interview which appears in the program. When asked if there was any moment in the trial that affected him more than any other, this is the moment he describes.

Bach was questioning Dr. Martin Földi, a survivor of Auschwitz, about the selection process at the train station in the shadows of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz. Földi described how he and a son went to the right while a daughter and his wife went to the left. His little daughter wore the red coat. When an SS officer sent the son to join the mother and daughter, Földi describes his panic. How would the boy, only twelve, find them among the thousands of people there? But then he realized the red coat would be like a beacon for the boy to join his mother and sister.

He then ends his testimony with the chilling phrase, "I never saw them again"

While telling the story, thirty-five years after the incident, Judge Bach wells up with emotion. As Dr. Földi recounted the incident, Bach became frozen and unable to continue. All he could do was think about his own daughter who he had by chance just bought a red coat.

He then adds that to this day he can be at the theater or a restaurant and he will feel his heart beating faster when he sees a little girl in a red coat.

Over one million children under the age of sixteen died in the Holocaust - she was one of them ...

http://www.girl-in-the-red-coat.com/home.html
http://www.girl-in-the-red-coat.com/books.html

http://www.oskarschindler.com/13.htm

Hope this helps,
Rob

 

[KGB1]

Thanks Entity for the link, but I am looking for what you think about it. Not emotionally, but how the scene presents itself. What were you thinking.


(links are very informative by the way)

 

[Tom]

It emphasized that every one of the millions was an individual human being, with all that means.

It's a good thing to remember about current events too. The numbers we hear everyday, it's easy to forget every one of them is a whole person with parents, kids, loves, dreams, hopes, fears, etc.

all, wiped away..

 

[SammyBoy]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
It emphasized that every one of the millions was an individual human being, with all that means.

It's a good thing to remember about current events too. The numbers we hear everyday, it's easy to forget every one of them is a whole person with parents, kids, loves, dreams, hopes, fears, etc.

all, wiped away..

WINNAR!

the whole movie is seas of broken people walking around miserably, waiting for the day they are eventually let free or killed, with no control over their lives. Eventually you see these crowds of people being led where they are going, and you start to get used to it and it stops effecting you as much. Then they draw your attention to the poor innocent girl, and you can't help but notice that she is just 1 person of millions, with a life just like yours, and when they load the dead bodies into carts to haul away each one of those people is a individual who had their life stolen by a goddamn jerk.