The first time I started looking at sources was when we were assigned to find the encyclopedia articles on our topic. I found two or so pretty nice encyclopedia articles that were on my topic and also directly related to my movie. My movie, Schindler's List deals with this main guy named Oskar Schindler, and the encyclopedia article had several pages just about him. I have not looked much into the articles and so I do not exactly know how I am going to incorporate them into my research paper. The other source that I thought I would use from the beginning is a book I read in high school about a Holocaust surviver, the book called Night by Elie Weisel. It is a very well written and extremely sad story about Elie, his family and everything they were put through. I did not realize that this book and the movie Schindler's List are about two totally different sides of the Holocaust, however, I could possibly compare the two and talk about that. There is also the book Schindler's List which I have not looked into but I assume I will use it to compare the book and the movie.
There are many arguments I can make about my topic, like why even make the movie? What message does it convey? I think these basic questions/arguments are some ways to show that this was an important event in history and to make a movie about the man Oskar Schindler who saved so many Jews from being killed is something people should be able to watch and learn more information about. Watching this movie was a very sobering experience that almost brought tears to me. I had to turn my head away at many scenes because of the brutality of it. A lot of the times when I watch movies I think "oh this isn't actually happening so I can stop being so freaked out, or cry" but with this movie when I was watching it I was realizing "wow all of this actually did happen". This was probably the hardest part of watching the movie, knowing that it was a true story and all of these people were treated so horribly and killed. More questions/arguments like why it was made in black and white? Even though they show a girl in a red coat. This is an important symbol and I know there is a reason for why the producers decided to show this one girl with a red coat in the movie. This might be the hardest part to argue, however, I think it was to show how when people see such mass murder they are taken aback but don't really realize the importance until you point out specific individuals it makes more of an impact. And I think showing this little girl in a red coat obviously stuck out in the movie, because it is in black and white but then when it shows her being dumped into flames it has more of an impact because even though she was just another one of the massive group of dead Jews she was a person too . This girl in the red coat is actually a Holocaust surviver, who has a movie produced about her survival. So I do not exactly know why they would show her being killed. I do think it was a way of showing how there were so many and another little girl just being added to the pile was nothing for the Holocaust.
I really love the book I chose, Night because it is such a remarkable story. I loved reading it, and like I said in my previous blog I pretty much hate reading. Even though I am not sure if I can even use this book because it relates to the other side of the Holocaust it is my favorite source.
Here are some links that I could possibly use for internet sources:
This site is more about background information and informative info that some might not know, and it helped me to understand reasons behind the Holocaust.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_Holocaust_happen
This second link is something that I just found and I think is pretty cool. It lists all the people's names that Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust. I don't really know how it will be helpful but I think it's pretty neat. It also has information about Hilter, Schindler, the Nazis and more.
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Schindlerslist.htm
This is just the wiki of the movie but it has information about symbolism in the movie and other useful facts that could help me write my paper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_List#The_girl_in_the_red_coat
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