EXTRA CREDIT opportunities: TWO
HERE’S THE DEAL:
Out of the four (4) choices available (documentary, docudrama, and two films), you may choose to view and annotate up to two (2). Each will be worth 50 pts. for a total of 100 pts. possible.
Upon your return from the Thanksgiving holiday, I will post an EXTRA CREDIT assignment blog on Blogger.com. There you will find a paragraph writing prompt for each film. If you only do one, you will post your response; if you do two, you will respond to both in a single document that you will upload in the comment section. NOTE: You will have until the stroke of midnight on
[Sunday, December 13th] to complete the extra credit assignment/assignments.
FOUR FILMS:
1) DOCUMENTARY: The Goebbels Experiment – (2005) – [available on Netflix]
HERE’S THE DEAL:
Out of the four (4) choices available (documentary, docudrama, and two films), you may choose to view and annotate up to two (2). Each will be worth 50 pts. for a total of 100 pts. possible.
Upon your return from the Thanksgiving holiday, I will post an EXTRA CREDIT assignment blog on Blogger.com. There you will find a paragraph writing prompt for each film. If you only do one, you will post your response; if you do two, you will respond to both in a single document that you will upload in the comment section. NOTE: You will have until the stroke of midnight on
[Sunday, December 13th] to complete the extra credit assignment/assignments.
FOUR FILMS:
1) DOCUMENTARY: The Goebbels Experiment – (2005) – [available on Netflix]
Writing Prompt:
In The Goebbels Experiment the audience is allowed to hear the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for the Third Reich, read aloud by actor Kenneth Branagh. After viewing the documentary, create a “character sketch” of Goebbels—who was he? Your character sketch should take the form of a single, topic-driven, and well-developed paragraph.
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2) DOCUDRAMA: Conspiracy – (2001) – [available online at Amazon]
Writing Prompt:
Conspiracy dramatizes the 1942 Wannsee Conference. The film delves into the psychology of Nazi officials involved in the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" during World War II. In the film, the purpose of the conference is clear: how to facilitate the industrialized mass genocide of all Jews in Europe (a “Jew free Europe”). In a single, topic-driven, and well-developed paragraph, select and describe, in detail, at least three different reactions to the idea of the Final Solution presented in the film.
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3) FILM: Schindler’s List (R) – (1993) – [available online at Amazon]
Writing Prompt: FILM REVIEW:
In three short paragraphs, do the following: 1) In your opening remarks, offer a general impression of the film, 2) follow with a brief plot summary, plus a discussion of two (or three) of the film's significant features, and 3) conclude with your overall judgment of the film.
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4) FILM: The Hiding Place (PG) – (1975) – [Youtube]
Writing Prompt: FILM REVIEW:
In three short paragraphs, do the following: 1) In your opening remarks, offer a general impression of the film, 2) follow with a brief plot summary, plus a discussion of two (or three) of the film's significant features, and 3) conclude with your overall judgment of the film.
Before I started watching The Hiding Place, I wrote it off because the movie is old. The movie was actually really entertaining. As I was watching the movie, I had a little bit of a hard time understanding the people who were talking because their accents were very heavy. I’m glad I can now say that I’ve seen The Hiding Place because the movie is about an event that we should all be familiar with.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is about a Christian family, the ten Booms, who felt led to help Jewish people hide from the Nazis. The family built a little hiding place so the Jews would run and hide in there if the family thought there was a Nazi trooper knocking on the door. Sadly, the Nazis figured out what the ten Booms were up to and sent the family on a train to a concentration camp. After many years of suffering in the camp, the only family member to return home, alive, was one of the daughters. In the movie, there was many film features. One was irony. The ten Boom family were Christians who helped some Jews escape the Nazis persecution of Jews. As the movie went on, the ten Booms ended up being treated like the Jews. They got beat up by the Nazi soldiers and they were starved just like the Jewish people. Another feature in the film is foreshadowing. In the beginning of the film, the father put on a Jewish star even though he was not Jewish. His rationale was if everyone wore a Jewish star, then the Nazis wouldn’t know who to take and mistreat. By having the father wear the Jewish star early in the film, it showed that the father and his family were going to become like Jews later in the movie. Sure enough, that is what happened.
I liked the Hiding Place. I didn’t necessarily like the content, but the movie had some life lessons. The movie was good in that it showed how true Christian people are supposed to act, regardless of the consequences. I think The Hiding Place accurately portrayed how the Holocaust affected people around the world. I would definitely recommend others to watch the movie.
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ReplyDeleteThe Goebbels Experiment
ReplyDeleteJoseph Goebbels in the movie The Goebbels Experiment, started off his movie with his childhood. He speaks about how he had pneumonia in elementary school and also had a paralyzed foot. He would write in diaries and write poems. Goebbels went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Germanic studies. After that he got his doctorate and became depressed. His family become short of money, so he got a job for a bank in Cologne. As you start to see the bad in this, in the movie he says they wanted to throw out the Jews who would refuse to become Germans. Goebbels says that Hitler came to welcome them and he thinks Hitler is kind. Him and Hitler become acquaintances when Hitler gets Goebbels a job in Berlin. Goebbels is elected to the Reichstag in 1928. The Nazi party wins 12 seats. He says “One day soon, national socialism will be the religion among all Germans.” He calls his party his church. Goebbels soon begins to lose faith in Hitler. He says that they are becoming impatient of the Jews and will stuff their mouths shut. This is a primary example of how inhumane these people were. Goebbels said that experiments should be in laboratories not with millions of radio owners. He then says, “The strength of a good radio programming lies in creating the right mix of entertainment, enjoyment, instruction, education, and politics.” You see Goebbels and his propaganda tactics. He explains that propaganda should be left to those who understand it.
Schindler’s List
Schindler's List:I have always heard about how great and inspiring of a movie Schindler’s List is and I finally had the opportunity to watch it. My impressions of this movie were sadness but also gratefulness. At the beginning of the movie I was a little confused as to what was going on exactly and who was a good person and who wasn’t, but it all unfolded and made so much sense. Spielberg did an excellent job of showing history and the tragic Holocaust. I have seen many documentaries on the Holocaust, but this movie gave me a whole different feel of our history.
Some significant parts of the movie for me was when Schindler being hiring all of the Jewish workers to secretly save them. He was bribing all of the Germans with gifts and treats to let them feel like he was still on their side and did not care about the Jews. Schindler would get mad when he would hear that the Jews loved him and called his factory a “safe haven”. Schindler saved so many Jews from being sent to a concentration camp just by giving them a job with him. During the movie there is a scene where they begin rounding the Jews up to send them all to Auschwitz. Schindler types a list of every worker he has and they get sent to work for him instead of going to the concentration camp…or at least that is what they thought. All of the women end up not in root to Schindler’s factory in his hometown, but in Auschwitz. They get a glimpse of what their lives would be like if they were any other Jew. Schindler realizes what happens and luckily gets everyone back and safe with him. A very touching part of the movie to me was when the war was announced over and Schindler has his goodbyes with all of his Jewish workers. He begins to cry because he believes he could’ve saved more than 11,000 out of the 6 million Jews that died in the Holocaust.
Schindler is a hero and a man that should not be forgotten. I would recommend this movie to anyone. You see so many scenes of how they would dehumanize the Jews. When they killed the man with only one arm who was a worker for Schindler, just because they wanted to, that really gives you a point of view of how badly the Jews were treated. This movie ended with Schindler’s real life workers (who were still alive) with their actor/actress in the movie. It is crazy to realize something that seems like such a time that could not be real, was and that they were regular people just like us before they were tortured the way they were.