The Pianist

The film called 'The Pianist' it's directed and produced by Roman Polanski (Romek), who was born the 18th of August of the year 1933 in Paris, although he's polish-jewish. Poland was conquered by Germany in the year 1939, and he spent the last 6 years of his childhood alone because his parents were killed in the Holocaust. He travelled back to Paris when that happened. The film talks about this subject, the jews in the Nazi Germany with Adolf Hitler at the head. It is based on the autobiography 'The Pianist' by Wladyslaw Szpilman who's also the main character of the film. It is a deep story that talks about Szpilman, a pianist who is jewish and has to sell his piano for money. In their family they have very little money and as they are jewish, anyways they aren't allowed to have more. He meets a girl, called Dorota. They fall in love but they can't be together because Szpilman's jewish. Small time later the jews began to need to wear a white band with a 6-points star in color blue on the right arm to being differenciated from the others, and then they had to move to a place sorrounded by walls where there lived all jews. Although his family (specially his brother) didn't agree with him, he began working in a restaurant (only jews, of course) which was for richs. Richs didn't care about poors like Szpilman's family, but anyways he worked there playing the piano for them. Soon later they took him and his family to a concentration camp. A friend of him who was in the jewish polish could save him but not his family. He scaped and found a friend in the work area he was assigned. As one of the group of workers had to go each day to the village to buy 3kg of potatoes and bread for each worker, Szpilman's friend did it and in the sacs of him and his friend he hided a pair of guns. When they were walking in the nightime to the place they slept, they threw them over the wall to the jews that lived there. Szpilman decided he wanted to be on there no more, and he was going to scape. He told his friend to talk with some friends of him in the village and that way Szpilman could scape. He finally went living to a department 'near the wall but safe'. He saw how the jews in the other side of the wall attacked the germans. Soon later he had to move because his neighbor discovered he was jew. He went to the adress his friend said he had to go in case of emergency and he ended in Dorota and his husband's house. They welcomed him and he soon moved to a department (again) for himself which was near the german's police station. They locked him inside and brought him food. Time later Szpilman got ill right when Dorota and his husband were going to move to another home because they were in danger. They left Szpilman at the responsibility of a friend of theirs, but soon he discovered he was asking for money in his name. The germans bombed the building where Szpilman was and he hided in the hospital. There, he found some legumes and he cooked them. Even when he was at his limit he imaginary piano. Later he heard they were going to bomb the hospital. He ran and hide in a house that was already bombed and found a can with melon inside. Next day, when he was trying to open it, a german officer found him. There was a piano there, and he asked him to play it to proove he was a pianist. Szpilman played and the officer left him there. Germans went outside the country a week later and the polish people entered. Szpilman finally worked as a pianist for the polish radio. In my opinion this film is very engaging and also sad. I enjoyed watching it a lot.

Forrest Gump

The film I'm going to talk about today is very well-known and most of you may have watched it. I watched it not much time ago, though. This film's director is Robert Zeneckis, who also directed 'The Polar Express' (a film which is tradition to watch all Christmas in my family), 'Back to The Future' (which is great in my opinion) and lots of other well-known films. He won the 'Academy Award for the Best Director' after finishing 'Forrest Gump'. The film is an adaptation from a book by Eric Roth, which Zeneckis says is more focused on romance and Forrest doesn't look like a decent person. Forrest Gump's actor is Tom Hanks, and I consider he must be a great actor (although I haven't watched any other of his films) because to act as someone like Forrest might be hard. Jenny is Robin Wright, Gary Sinise is Lieutenant Dan Taylor, Mykelti Williamson is Bubba, and so on. The story is about Forrest Gump, a boy who has to wear some sort of a gadget to walk and straighten his column. The day he beggins school, after his mom has talked with the headmaster lots of times because his IC (Intelectual Coeficient) was 75 and the minimum they accepted was of 80, he got up the bus and only a girl let him to sit with her, her name was Jenny Curran. She became his best friend, and they grew up together, until college. Forrest fell in love with her and didn't understand why she wasn't with him. Jenny carried with a pretty hard life, with drugs and other things that made her life worst. Forrest, on the other side, as he did whatever they asked him to do so, he had much success in the military corp, then playing ping-pong, and so on with many other things. He became really wealthy and had a great life, altough he didn't really realised it. When his mom died, he was working in his 'Bubba-Gump' factory, which he decided to carry with his best friend, Bubba, who he met in the military corp, but dissafortunately, died in Forrest's arms, trying to save him. The whole story is told by Forrest while he's waiting for the bus to different people who stay there to listen to him. The last thing he talks about is that, one day, he decided, just to run. And he ran for 3 years. He said: "I slept when I wanted to sleep and I ate when I wanted to eat, and then I continued running. I felt like running.". He missed Jenny durnig that time. When he's telling the story to an old woman, telling her he's going to Jenny's house, she tells him he doesn't have to take the bus, because her house's no more than around 3 streets away! He went there and met Jenny, who had a child who, to Forrest's surprise, was his child also. Jenny and him began living together and the film ends when Forrest's with his son waiting for the bus at his first school-day.
Forrest Gump BSO
My two favorite minutes

"Les Choristes"

"Les Choristes", also known as "The Choir" it's a music-based on and drama film. Its director is Cristophe Barratier. He's an actor, director and musician. He studied in the "École Normale de Musique", in Paris, where he actually lives. He is also famous because of other two films, along with "The Choir", which are "Faubourg 36" and "La Nouvelle Guerre des boutons", which I haven't seen. In "The Choir", the main actors are Jean-Baptiste Maunier as Pierre Morhange, Gérard Jugnot as Clément Mathieu, Maxence Perrin as Pépinot; which are the ones I consider more relevant. Specificly, Jean-Baptiste became very famous and well-known thanks to this show. When the choir still had a white voice, they sang in concerts. The music of the film was composed by Bruno Coulais, altough in the most well-known song, "Vois Sur Ton Chemin", the lyrics were given by Barratier.




Vois Sur Ton Chemin video




                                     



The story is about Clément, a faded musician who starts working at an internate school, as he doesn't have nothing else to work at. Pierre Morhange is a kinda "rebel" guy that is in Clément's class. Morhange always ignores Clément, and shows as if he doesn't care about anything or anyone. Clément, as musician, starts a choir in his class without the head to know. At first it was very difficult to make it sound a bit acceptable. But, with the time, the guys improove. Pierre is never in class when they sing, because he's always punished in a room and he can't see anyone. But, in the night, he escapes that room and learn the songs the whole choir are learning. He has a privileged voice, altough he may not know it. His attitude doesn't change and he still doesn't want to sing with the choir. But, one day, Clément hears him singing and asks him to sing with the choir. And then ******** and **** (I'm not going to tell more because there's no need to spoil the film). I really recomend it, it's my favorite film.

I do like cinema because of many reasons. One of the main ones is that something like a film can make you feel emotions, such as when films make us cry. Other one is because of the music. Usually, music on films is quite good. I do like either animation films or real-actors films. I mostly prefer films with good music, comedies and/or some dramas. The purpose of the blog is to share my film likes and dislikes with other people, so that they can enjoy as much as I did.