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TBISP production Info Flashcards

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Who directed the boy In the striped pyjamas?

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Mark Herman

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Mark herman’s most famous previous film was…

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Brassed off (1996)

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who was the producer for the boy in the striped pyjamas?

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David Heyman

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what company distributed the film?

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Miramax Films

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who played bruno?

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Asa butterfield

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who played Shmuel

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Jack scanlon

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who played Gretel

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Amber beattie

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what was bruno’s fathers name?

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Ralf

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who played bruno’s father?

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David thewlis

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what was the film based off

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A novel by John Boyne

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who plays bruno’s mother (elsa)?

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Vera Farmiga

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what is the name of the maid?

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maria

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who plays the maid?

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cara Horgan

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14
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who plays the grandpa?

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Richard Johnson

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15
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who plays grandma?

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sheilia hancock

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16
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who plays lieutenant kotler?

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rupert friend

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who scored the sound track?

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James Horner

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what three big movies has james Horner scored

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titanic, avatar and Aliens

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what did David Heyman’s production company (heyday films) also produce

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All the harry potter films and gravity

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who else contributed to the budget?

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BBC films and Miramax

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What year was the The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?

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2008

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How would you summarise what the film is about?

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This film is a Holocaust drama, and it explores the horror of a World War II Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys; one the son of the camp’s Nazi commandant, the other a Jewish inmate

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What was the budget for the film?

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$12,500,000

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What were the box-office takings in home market?

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$9m

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What were the box-office takings in the international market?

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$35m

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What were the takings from the video distribution?

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$12.4m

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What is Miramax Films?

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A distribution and production company

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What do Miramax Films aim to do?

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Bridge the gap between arthouse and mainstream cinema

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What big successes have Miramax had?

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Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love

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What were the names of the founders of Miramax?

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Bob and Harvey Weinstein

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31
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Who took over Miramax?

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Disney

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32
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Who did Disney sell Miramax to?

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Filmyard Holdings

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33
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What role did Asa Butterfield play?

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Bruno

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34
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What films did Asa Butterfield go on to star in?

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Hugo (2010) and Enders Game (20130

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What role did David Thewlis play?

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Bruno’s father Ralf

36
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What previous famous roles did David Thewlis play?

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Johnny in Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’ and he was also professor Lupin in Harry Potter films

37
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What sort of character is David Thewlis good at playing?

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He is good at giving humanity to to deeply unsympathetic characters

38
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What role did Vera Farmiga play?

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Bruno’s mother Alsa

39
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What award did Vera Farmiga win?

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British Independent Film Award for Best Actress

40
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What other films has Vera Farmiga featured in?

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Down to the Bone (2004) and Up in the Air (2009)

41
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What film did Vera Farmiga direct?

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Higher Ground (2011)

42
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Who played Pavel?

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David Hayman

43
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How many other films has James Horner scored?

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Over 100

44
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Why is it significant that James Horner scored The Titantic?

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The soundtrack became one of the best selling soundtrack albums of all time

45
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Horner apparently sought out director Herman and lobbied to score the film, so it is clear that Horner had a great deal of interest in the subject matter. Why might that be?

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Being Jewish himself, Horner also likely had a real personal interest in scoring the story

46
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What other score about Nazi regime did Horner compose?

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the score for Swing Kids:(1992)

47
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The main theme of the score, is first heard in the opening and is called what?

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“Boys Playing Airplanes”

48
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The main theme, as heard in the opening “Boys Playing Airplanes” is a note-for-note restatement of the theme which first appeared in what film? .

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The main theme, as heard in the opening “Boys Playing Airplanes” is a note-for-note restatement of the bittersweet theme which first appeared in “Swing Kids” in 1992 (albeit this time performed on solo piano)

50
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What other film dealing with youth and national socialism did James Horner score?

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Swing Kids (1992)

51
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The main theme of the score is a note-for-note restatement of the bittersweet theme which first appeared in what film?

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Swing Kids (1992)

52
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Could you make a case for thinking that the main theme is a recurring ‘Nazi’ theme for Horner?

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Yes you could as both Swing Kids and Boy in the Striped Pyjamas have similar subject matters

52
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Who wrote an interesting review of the film score ?

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Review by Johahan Broxton Movie Music UK

53
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What is a good word to describe the score’s main theme?

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bittersweet

54
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Who is the Director of Photography?

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Benoit Delhomme

55
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What other films about the holocaust incorporate a child’s point of view?

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Life is Beautiful (1997) and Fateless (2005)

56
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What award did ‘Life Is Beautiful’ (1997) receive?

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Oscar for Best Foreign Language film

57
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Who directed Life is beautiful (1997)

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Roberto Benigni (Italy)

58
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Who directed Fateless (2005)?

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Lajos Koltai (Hungary)

59
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What is a significant link between Fateless (2005) and Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)?

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The Auschwitz sets from this film were used in the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas which was filmed in Hungary

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David Heyman’s production company is called what?

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Heyday Films

61
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What else did heyday films produce?

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Harry Potter films and Gravity

63
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What scenes have you chosen for your close viewing ?

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The 3 scenes are: Bruno running in the forest, Bruno and Shmuel in the gas chambers and looking for the football in the cellar

64
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During the first section of the running scenes why do you think the fixed tracing cam is used?

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Possibly to represent how he thinks he knows what he is doing and his thoughts are steady. The audience however is anxious.

65
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Slow motion is used in the motion tracking shot - why?

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is this expressive of his perspective?

66
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There are rapid edits of the clothes changing scene - why is this?

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Not sure? create tension? drama?

66
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What is a sound bridge? Where is it used?

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The use of his mothers voice to show that he is conscious that his parents must be looking for him

67
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Why did they delete the scene of the jew in the Berlin street?

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They probably wanted to maintain the feeling that the boy was unaware, naive and innocent

69
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Why did they use a crane shot

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Making his Mother look diminished and vulnerable

70
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Why did the Director use a Reverse tracking shot from the door of the gas chamber ?

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This is the last shot of the fim - you start with a close up of the door and the camera moves backwards down a track showing all the sets of the striped pyjamas showing its not just about these two boys.

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What did David Thewliss say about how he acted the last scene?

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‘I did not know how I was going to do the last scene’ - he told the director he could not work out what was the appropriate emotion - in the end - he has this open-mouthed expression of bafflement. He did not know in advance how he was going to play it - he was doing it intuitively

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Describe one sequence you have chosen in the forest

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One sequence is where he goes on his final mission to help find S’s father - he is running with a spade thorugh the forest the soundtrack is lyrical - he joins Shmuel at the fence and changes into striped pyjamas. He digs a hole under the fence - in a way he is digging his own grave

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Describe the sequence where they are driven to the gas chambers and the use of camera shots

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The shot of them going to the gas chambers is intercut with the Father and Mother looking for him. There is use of hand-held cam where the boys are being driven towards the gas chamber . The rhythm of rescuers and is intercut with expectation that the boys would be rescued in time- this is a tragic play on a Hollywood rescue convention - they are racing through the woods looking for him building to a climax. There are separate edits of the reactions of the father and mother. The mother is weeping and the father has an open-mouthed unreadable expression. Both are in separate locations as well as being separated by the editing. She is outside the camp and he is inside the camp. She is never quite part of that world. The last shot of a human being was the father with an open-mouth. It is pouring with rain throughout the last sequence. The final scene is the reverese tracking shot.

74
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Who wrote the book that the film was based on? Did it have the same title as the film?

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John Boyne. Yes

75
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Which scene uses the typical Hollwood conventions of horror?

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This anticipates and substitutes for the shot that the film can never show you at the end i.e. pile of dead bodies through showing a pile of discarded dolls. The scene uses the conventions of horror e.g. inability to see, things suddenly come into view, the flickering torch, (the cellar is a scene at the end of psycho) It moves to build up a sense of anticpation that he is going to stumble across something horrific.

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Describe the dinner table scene

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The dinner party with Grandfather and Lt Kotler as guests - lack of non-diagetic music - clattering of knves and forks. The camera cuts between individual faces - fast-editing with no event between the cuts - so it becones very static - no music - sense of tension - suprise development that Kotler’s father is a dissident exile - made uncomfortable to be told his father is a coward and traitor

77
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Give an example of a family theme explored in the film

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Father and son relationship

78
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How is the father and son relationship explored in the film?

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Brunos admiration for his father and his concern that he might be a bad man. There is the scene ‘are you proud of your father?’ Bruno says nothing. Also Kotler’s story about his father.

79
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What other themes are being explored in the film?

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Father-son relationship and maintenance of innocence and loss of innocence

80
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What other holocaust film are there incorporating a child’s viewpoint

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Life Is Beautiful

81
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What evidence do you draw on to explain why the film is good?

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addresses important issues; although aimed at a maintsream audience it breaks Holloywood conventions in its ending; it has an appropriate, understated but emotive score by major composer James Horner who also composed the soundtrack for another film about the Nazi movement; the acting is very strong

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What do you think of the performance of the child actors?

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The child actors were well-cast because they don’t have to act - they are being themselves as they have expressive faces. They show childish innocence and how vulnerable that is - there is a kind of bubble around Bruno’s world

and the art is how they are filmed

83
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Why is David Thewliss performance good?

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David Thewliss is playing an unsympathetic role but he effectively demonstrates some humanity by showing that he does care for his family and what he does he does out of a sense of duty. The first shot of him is not in uniform and he is explaining in a kindly manner to his family why they have to move from Berlin. The next scene he is wearing SS uniform and you see him more as a cruel and brutal figure.

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Why is Vera Farmiga an effective actress

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She effectively expresses important changes in her character. She moves from being a graceful, elegant loving wife to becoming a desparing , anguished, angry wife burdened by the horror she has discovered (being previously unaware that extermination was happening). She also moves from being someone who has internalised the Naxi ideology to someone who can overcome it. This is demonstrated at one point when she thanks Pavel for binding Brunos knee. It is a struggle shown through a prolonged close-up and silence but she does manage it. This suggests that she can change and prempts that she will change.

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