Efforts toward “sound” that transcends the boundaries of “Schindler's List” and “Spielberg films”

The meaning of the song that plays in the background of “The Girl in the Red Coat”

However, the musical characteristics of this work do not end there. Spielberg and Williams rarely use underscores in scenes depicting Nazi atrocities against Jews. The score is silent during the demolition of the ghetto, in which those unilaterally designated as incapable of work are removed, and in scenes where SS officer Armon Gate (Ralph Fiennes) randomly shoots at workers from the mansion. It quietly invites the viewer into the scene of senseless slaughter.

If you want to compare this kind of depiction to previous Spielberg works, consider `` Empire of the Sun '' (1987), in which the strings roar like military boots marching to stage the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. However, in ``Schindler's List,'' Spielberg and Williams emphasized the scene by placing emphasis on songs, source music (music from around the world in the movie), and sound effects, which weighed more heavily on the audience's psychology than the underscore would. It will give you a shock.

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For example, in the case of Lieder, the scene in which Schindler is on a hill overlooking the demolition of the ghetto and is fascinated by a girl in a red coat is a prime example. Depicted in part color, " OYF'N Pripetshok ", a song best known among Jews in the Middle Ages and Eastern Europe, is used, and is one of the supporting elements of the melancholy production. There is.

The song includes the Yiddish lyrics "Jewish history is written in tears," and Spielberg's grandmother, a Jewish American, used to sing it to him and his two sisters, which led to its use. Then, in the scene where the Jewish prisoners are incinerated on the hill of Huyova Gurkha, Williams' music, with Hebrew liturgical text as the lyrics, plays a sort of "requiem" for those who were treated without dignity.

Also, in the shot where the Nazis first appear, " Erica ", a song loved by German soldiers, is played, and an SS officer plays J.S. Bach 's " English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV" on a piano placed in a Jewish family's home. 807 '' and overlaying it with the flash of gunfire, the somewhat symbolic appropriation of source music can be seen. Rather, the pleasantness of the song itself creates a contrast with the tense images and reveals the violent nature of the Nazis.

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