HIST112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ignatz Bubis, Billy Wilder, Gambling
HIST112 Lecture Notes Wednesday 22nd March 2017
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The story
- The viewer never fully understands his motivation.
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o He was a drinker, gambler, womaniser, profiteer.
The Director
- Steven Spielberg
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- Become widely influential
- Within 2 months it grossed $321 million worldwide.
- It was broadcast without commercial breaks on NBC to give it status as just more
than another film.
- For Germany and the UK, possibly 1/3 and ¼ of the populations have viewed it.
Awards and Honours
- Received 7 academy awards, nominated for 12
- 1998 voted no.9 in the most 100 important American movies ever.
- Library of Congress laelled it ultually sigifiat i 4
Endorsements
- Pesidet Bill Clito told people to go see it!
- Oprah has recommended it.
Response of historians
- Few academics have criticised it on its historical accuracy.
- They oe said that fil didt potay the utality of the Holoaust eough. Didt
betray the terror of life.
- The holocaust was almost sanitised by this film.
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- Survivors said that it underlined its faithfulness to reality
- a autheti fil o the geoide of the Jeish people – Ralph Giordano
- Thats hat it as like. It feels like it happeed yesteday – Ignatz Bubis
- Billy Wilder (a director) – Afte the fist iutes I fogot I as athig a fil
Why has it been so successful?
- Hardly anyone would predict that this film would be so successful.
- Because of what was happening at the time of its release
- Film tried to convey a happy ending in a brutal time. That humans are still good.
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