第五章 Schindler's List 《辛德勒的名单》：Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman, who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.Schindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C. and it was released on December 15, 1993, in the United States. Often listed among the greatest films ever made, it was also a box office success, earning $321.2 million worldwide on a $22 million budget. It was the recipient of seven Academy Awards (out of twelve nominations), including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score, as well as numerous other awards (including seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globes). In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time. The Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2004.5.1A Brief Introduction to the Film:The film Schindler's List is based on the true story and real person. What is this movie mainly about? Who is the real Oskar Schindler, the real person? What do we know about the person and how does he risk his life saving Jews during the Holocaust. There are three persons who help contributing to the making of the film. The first, the story-teller: Poldek Pfefferberg, the second, the story writer: Thomas Keneally, and the third, the film director: Steven Spielberg. What do we know about their story?[单选题]Which country is the number 1 on the list of an estimate of the number of Jews murdered between 1939 and 1945?选项:[Hungary , Holland , Poland , Germany ]
5.2A Brief Introduction to the Holocaust:The film Schindler's List takes Holocaust as its historic background, and the whole film focuses on the Holocaust. What do we know about Holocaust, its historic background and those persons who have been murdered during the WWII? Are there any practical reasons behind the Holocaust? Some historic pictures, maps are used to illustrate what has really happened in the concentration camps during the Holocaust.
5.3The Understanding of the Beginning and Ending of the Film:The film is mainly shot in black and white except the film's beginning, the film's ending and the girl in red coat in the film. Why does the film director do in this way? How do you interpret the beginning of the film, the ending of the film? Are there any symbolic meanings? We try to answer these questions in the lecture.
5.4Main Clues and the Narrative Technique:The first time you see this movie, maybe you are confused with the plot of the movie. Why? There are so many persons in the film, especially in the opening part of the film, and it seems there are so many stories to tell in the movie. What are these stories? Are there any clues among these stories to help your follow and understand the movie? How these stories are developing and integrated successfully into a whole one? Two main clues of the film and its narrative way are to be unfolded and analyzed.
5.5The Use of Black and White, Light and Shadow:The film is shot mainly in black and white, except the opening and closing scenes and the Jewish girl dressed in red. Why does the film director do in this way? How do you understand the use of black and white color, light and shadow in the film? Are there any symbolic meanings? What effect they can achieve?
5.6Character Analysis: Schindler and the Reason for His Great Change:The film mainly describes the person of Oscar Schindler. In the beginning, he is a member of the Nazi party, a businessman, a German spy, and an opportunist who wants to make fortune by taking advantage of the war when Poland is just occupied by German Nazi. In the end, he has become a righteous person, a man of humanity, justice, a man who risks his life and saves as many Jews as possible. What makes his great change?
5.7From Schindler to Other Righteous Persons Like Schindler:Schindler is considered to be righteous person, a person of humanity and justice. There are other persons like Oscar Schindler who risk protecting and saving as many Jews as possible before and during Holocaust. They are HoFeng-Shan 何凤山, who is called “Chinese Schindler”, Nicholas Winton, who is called “British Schindler”, and John Rabe, a German businessman, whose story has adapted into a film, named John Rabe, which is called “Chinese version of Schindler’s List”. Some historical photos, videos and reports are used to tell their hidden, untold stories and exploits.
[单选题]Poldek Pfefferberg is considered to be one of the persons who help contributing to the making of the film Schindler’s List mainly because______________.选项:[he was one of Jews who survived the Holocaust, he was one of Jews who kept good relation with Oskar Schindler, he was the story-teller, telling the story of his savior, Oskar Schindle, he was the only person who survived in the factory]
[单选题]In 2014, Nicholas Winton was awarded the highest honor of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion by Czech President. He is often called __________.选项:[the Father of Children, Schindler alive, Czech hero, British Schindler]
[单选题]During the Second World War about 30,000 Jewish people were given the safe asylum in Shanghai by Chinese people and escaped the atrocities of the Holocaust in Europe. One of them is Ho Fengshan who rescued thousands of Jews in Austria from the Holocaust by _________.选项:[hiring them in his factory , issuing visas to Shanghai , providing international safety zone in Vienna, providing secret passages to Shanghai]
[单选题] How many Jewish people were killed during the WWII under the leadership of Adolf Hitler?选项:[ Eight million., Five million., Seven million., Six million.]
[单选题]Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, a German spy and a member of the Nazi party who saved many Jews during the Holocaust by __________.
选项:[ issuing Jews the visas, illegal shipment of Jews, employing Jews in his factories , providing Jews with shelters]
[单选题]“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf”, the quote from the film Schindler’s List. The symbolic meaning of “the gulf” is ________. 选项:[hope, despair , the deepest sea, the death]
[单选题] The women in the train are talking about food like meat, potatoes, and eggs waiting for them when they see a child out of the train, making a gesture to them. The gesture implies that ___________.选项:[ good food is waiting for them, death is waiting for them, they are soon arriving, there is a danger in front of the train]
[单选题]After the war, the Jews give Schindler a ring to ________.选项:[maintain their relation, protect him wherever he goes, express their gratitude, express their good wishes]
[单选题]The film is shot in black and white for the reason that the use of black and white ____________.选项:[can give the audience the feeling of nostalgia, can give the audience an unforgettable effect, is the good representation of the Holocaust itself, can achieve a bad memoory of the Holocaust]
[单选题]After the war, Schindler says good bye to the Jews from his factory and starts his fugitive life. How about Amon Göth after the war?选项:[He has to flee., He is arrested and sent to the prison., He is captured and hanged., He is put in jail for life]
[单选题]During his speech, Schindler turns to the guards who are holding the guns and says that ______________.选项:[they can return to their families as men rather than as killers, they must leave factory quickly, it’s good time for them of dispose of all these Jews now, it’s good time for them to arrest all these Jews now]
[单选题]The film Schindler’s List tells the story about Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party who saved the lives of about _________ Jews during the Holocaust.选项:[400, 1,200 , 800 , 2,000 ]
[单选题]Nicholas Winton was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from __________ to Britain just before the WWII.选项:[Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, France]
[单选题]The war is over, and Schindler gives a speech to the Jews in his factory to depict himself as all except ________.选项:[a manufacturer, a criminal, a murderer, a profiteer]
[单选题]What happens the first day when Helen comes to work for Goeth?选项:[The dog bites her, She beats the dogs., She is beaten., She throws the bones at the dogs.]
[单选题]In the end Schindler has become a righteous person, a man of humanity and justice, a man ____________. 选项:[who helps Jews find jobs in different factories, who risks his life and saves as many Jews as possible in his factory, who gives Jews the visas to different countries, who gives Jews money and help them through the difficulties]
[单选题]John Rabe was a member of Nazi Party and a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army and his work to protect the Chinese civilians during the Nanking Occupation from 1937 to 1938 by ______________.选项:[special relation with Japan, his special identity, his relatives and friends in Germany, Nanking Safety Zone]
[单选题]In the film clip, we can see a train is carrying some women to the concentration camp. The white-and-black color, plus the flashing and changing of shadow and light can create an atmosphere of all except _________.选项:[horror, desperation, distrust, uncertainty]
[单选题]It is often considered that there are two clues for the film Schindler’s List, one is Schindler and his factory, and the other should be __________.选项:[the liberation of the Jews, the resistance of the Jews, the flourishing and decline of the Jews, the miserable fate of the Jews]
[单选题]At the end of the film, we can see Schindler’s Jews keeping walking, walking from the distance to us. At the moment, the black-and-white image is changing into colors. The change from black-and-white to colors means all except ________. 选项:[the good-bye to the Holocaust, bad memory of the past, flourishing of the generation of “Schindler’s Jews today”, the freedom and hope for Jews]
[单选题]She is beaten again just because ________.选项:[she throws the bones at the dogs, she takes the bone for his dog, she throws out the bones from dinner, she asks why she is beaten]
[单选题]After the war, the workers from Schindler’s factory sign their names on a letter and give the letter to Schindler because the letter ___________. 选项:[can prove these Jews’ identity, can tell the things these Jews have done, can prove these Jews are innocent, can help Schindler once he is to be captured]
[单选题]The film Schindler’s List is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, a (an) ________ novelist.选项:[Australian, American, Polish , German]
[单选题]At the beginning of the film, Schindler tries to keep in touch with German high officers to___________.选项:[establish his status, win women for them, please them, get factory from them]
[单选题]At the beginning of the film Schindler’s List, which one is not the identity of Oscar Schindler?选项:[A member of Nazi Party. , A fugitive. , A German spy. , An opportunist. ]
[单选题]Spielberg shot the film in black and white and approached it as ___________, to record the unforgettable history of the past.选项:[a documentary, a tragedy, a sort of nostalgia , a drama]
[单选题]Oskar Schindler was considered as an opportunist because __________.
选项:[he got a factory confiscated from Jews, he made ammunitions used by German armies in his factory, he wanted to make fortunes by taking advantage of war, he wanted to move his factory to his hometown]
[单选题]Some historians attribute the Holocaust to the following reasons except _________. 选项:[German economic difficulties after WWI, race-centric ideology, Hitler’s personal passion, anti-Semitic tradition in Europe]
[单选题]During World War II, many concentration camps and Ghettos were established in Europe, among them is Auschwitz concentration camp which is located in _________.选项:[Soviet Union , Poland , Holland, Germany ]
[单选题]Ho Feng-Shan was a Chinese ____________. When he was Consul-general in Vienna, Austria during World War II.选项:[secretary, social worker, diplomat, volunteer]
[单选题]The night before the Holocaust, Schindler is riding the horse on the top of the hill with _________. 选项:[his servant, a Jewish girl, his wife, his mistress]
[单选题]In the film Schindler’s List, Schindler moves his factory from Poland to his hometown in Czechoslovakia for the purpose of _________. 选项:[avoiding being captured, getting cheaper workers , making more money , protecting more Jews]
[单选题]In the opening scene of the film, we can hear the sound of match striking. Two candles lighted by a match, and whole Jewish family is standing around the dinner table and the lighted candles to ___________.选项:[pray to the God, observe the Jewish Sabbath (犹太人的安息日), sing for the peace, wait for the breakfast ]
[单选题]During the Second World War, the Nazi party, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, tried to kill all the Jews in Europe. This plan eventually turned to genocide. Genocide here means _________.
选项:[种族灭绝 , 大屠杀, 不可告人的计划 , 反人类罪]
[单选题]Schindler’s List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed by __________.选项:[James Cameron, Roman Polanski , Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis]
[单选题]When he hears the gunshot faraway from the Ghetto. He stops, and looks down at the unusually chaotic streets below. He feels _______.
选项:[relaxed, shocked, frightened, tired]
[单选题]Oskar Schindler was named Righteous among the Nations by the _________ government.选项:[American, Polish, Czech, Israeli]
[单选题]In the opening scene of the film, the red flame of the candle stands for all except _________.选项:[the hope for life, the hope for victory, the hope for peace, the hope for freedom]
[单选题]Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, World War II resulted in millions of death. “Holocaust” here means _________.
选项:[偷袭珍珠港 , 犹太人大屠杀, 南京大屠杀 , 卡廷惨案 ]
[单选题]During World War II, Concentration camps and Ghettos for Jews are mostly located in __________. 选项:[ Holland, Poland, Soviet Union, Germany]
[单选题]After reading the review of the book Schindler's Ark and meeting Pfefferberg in 1983, Spielberg expressed enough interest in putting the story into a film. But later he tried to pass the project to other film directors. Why?
选项:[Because Spielberg was taking on another Holocaust Drama then., Because Spielberg was worried that the topic would cause controversies., Because Spielberg’s mother was killed during the Holocaust., Because Spielberg was not sure whether he was good enough to make the film. ]
[单选题]This film Schindler’s List has achieved a great success. It has won ______ Oscar Awards out of twelve nominations.选项:[six, eight, five, seven]
[单选题] In the film clip，train carrying some women is leaving for _________.选项:[ Auschwitz concentration camp, Schindler’s factory in
[单选题]Against the black-and-white image, the little girl dressed in red is walking along the street. Which following statement is not right?选项:[The little girl dressed in red means the life., The little girl dressed in red seems more beautiful., The little girl dressed in red gives the audience a hint., The little girl dressed in red seems very striking and impressive to the audience.]
[单选题]There is a film which focuses upon the experiences of a German businessman who used his Nazi Party membership to create a protective International Safety Zone in Nanking, China, helping to save thousands of Chinese from the Nanking Massacre in late 1937 and early 1938. The film is called _______________. 选项:[Nanking, 1937 , John Rabe , Nanking, Nanking, The Flowers Of War]
[单选题]In the film, there is the bargaining between Schindler and Amon Goeth about buying Jews. Schindler and Amon Goeth are separated by the dark shadow (actually a pillar). The shadow between them shows ____________.选项:[they are making a black deal, they are both members of the Nazi Party, they are in completely opposite position, they can hide themselves from others]
[单选题]In the opening scene of the film, the grey smoke rising upward from the candle can be easily associated with the smoke from chimneys of gas chambers in concentration camps, symbolizing all except __________ in the concentration camps.选项:[the loneliness, the darkness, the death, the horror]
[单选题]Schindler changes from a member of the Nazi party, a businessman, a criminal to a righteous person, a man of humanity. What makes his dramatic change?选项:[His personal experience, especially the Holocaust and the Jews he used to employ., The influence from his wife., His contacts with other German officers., His childhood experience.]
[单选题]The film director Roman Polanski turned down the Spielberg’s proposal of making the film Schindler’s List since__________________. 选项:[he was not interested in the topic , he was directing the film Pianist, another Holocaust Drama then, he knew producing such a film about Holocaust would spend a large mount of money, he could not accept the truth that his mother was killed at concentration camp]
[单选题]The action of Ho Fengshan was recognized after his death, and he was awarded the title “Righteous among the Nations” by the _________ government in 2000.选项:[Austrian, American, Chinese, Israeli]
[单选题]Nicholas Winton’s rescue action went unnoticed for half a century until in 1988 _______ found a detailed scrapbook in their attic, containing lists of the children, their parents' names, the names and addresses of the families that adopted these children. 选项:[his neighbor, a thief , his daughter, his wife]
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