Application of montage editing technology in Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a classic handed down from ancient times. The film deeply attracted the audience with its rich and true historical materials and profound and dignified historical feelings. The film Schindler's List is a blockbuster film made by Steven Allan Spielberg in 1993.
This film deeply exposes the terrorist crime of German fascism killing Jews, and becomes one of the most striking films in the world with its high artistry. The seriousness and extraordinary artistic expression of his thoughts have reached an almost insurmountable depth. As soon as the film was released, it immediately caused a sensation and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Film and Best Director, as well as the American Directors Association Award. In the Academy Awards, Schindler's List won the best film editing award. The excellent use of montage editing techniques in the film is also full of praise.
As an American film theorist said, "The main task of film lies in the stimulation of material and thought, and this stimulation comes from the factors of editing.
It is because of the excellent editing in Schindler's List that the audience can look back on that unforgettable history more truly.
At the beginning of the film, a Jewish family is praying, rendering a low atmosphere. The change from candle smoke to train smoke brought the audience from reality to that serious era. From a registrar on the platform to a row of registrars, this implies that the fate of Jews is getting worse and worse.
The editing in the film is complex and orderly, and the strategy is appropriate, especially highlighting those extremely negative plots, which left a deep impression on the audience.
When receiving, the flash lens of the camera flash is used to switch different pictures. Every time the flash flashes, the picture and music switch from the previous scene to the next scene. The music turns into the tangent point of the next plot. After the reception, sing a loud military song and switch to the military song sung by the marching soldiers on the road. However, the camera first switches to a German child who walks in front of the army and sings military songs. Through this, it profoundly reveals that anti-Semitism in Germany is so strong. Even children who should be childlike are proud of being Germans and oppose Jews.
Contrast montage is also widely used in movies. Schindler moved into the Jewish house at the same time when the Jews were expelled from their homes to the Jewish community. But I am very satisfied, which is in sharp contrast with the Jews who moved away. Jews have been unable to control their own destiny, and their nightmare has begun.
In Winston, he tried his best to protect Jewish celebrities and used a large number of cumulative montages, which highlighted Winston's eagerness to save people and made the audience worry about the fate of Jews.
The overall rhythm of the film is very successful. At the beginning, Schindler was a well-known Nazi hardcore and a speculator who was good at using various means to get the maximum profit. For example, when Schindler recruited a female secretary, it was more obvious that Schindler was a bohemian person. Even after Mrs Schindler's arrival, he hasn't changed much. When Mrs Schindler said, "Unless they know I'm Mrs Schindler." The next scene is switched to Mrs Schindler, who is already on the train. This shows that Schindler has no convergence.
However, after the bloody massacre of Jews by the Nazis, the baby in red simply walked among the people who suffered atrocities. Her steps are simple and light. As if she were an angel that only Schindler could see, the camera kept switching between the angel and Schindler, and humanity buried by money broke out from the depths of Schindler's soul. He became a just man and tried his best to save as many Jewish lives as possible with his wealth.
He began to bribe Nazi officers in various ways, which were based on the requirements of the shooting theme, to simplify things and to shoot things accurately, clearly, vividly, naturally and smoothly with the least number of lenses. The film does not use too many pictures to show how Schindler bribed Nazi officers, but fully expresses it through several simple clips. Schindler took off his watch in the previous shot, and the watch in the next shot was already worn on the wrist of the Nazi officer. Schindler had a lighter in his hand in the previous shot, and the lighter in the next shot was already in someone else's hand.
The use of interlaced montage in the film is a bright spot. First, in a Jewish concentration camp, a young couple got married. Their happiness, their joy and their desire for life all prove that they are real people. They are not snakes, insects, mice or ants in Nazi eyes, but doing what people should do. They have feelings.
At the same time, Pablo Alfaro shows that he can't restrain his true feelings and has a painful struggle with Helen in the basement. He didn't believe that he would really fall in love with such a beautiful Jewish woman. Poor Pablo Alfaro lost his rational judgment in the face of the best feelings of mankind. His madness showed the Nazi's abnormal personality naked. He is very sad, his will is not his own, but has been manipulated invisibly. He lost himself, so he couldn't get love.
Schindler's factory became a refuge for many Jews in the days when the Germans slaughtered Jews madly. When Schindler celebrated his birthday, he blew out the candles on the five-layer cake and kissed every woman around him. The Jewish girl in the factory took a Jewish girl and held their cake, wishing him a happy birthday on behalf of all the workers. Schindler kissed them. This kiss is fraternity, endless love, a Nazi businessman, a mercenary businessman, it is love that makes him tall and powerful. Based on the correlation between sound and action, the film organically combines the three lines to form a people-oriented melody, which allows the audience to deepen their thinking about human nature and war. It makes people realize something.
What moved the audience most was that the Soviet Red Army came to Krakow to announce the end of the war to the surviving Jews who worked in Schindler's factory. One snowy night, Schindler said goodbye to the workers, and his speech made people cry. At the same time, more than 1000 rescued Jews saw him off. They gave him an autographed testimony that he was not a war criminal. At the same time, they knocked out their own gold teeth and hidden gold jewelry, made gold rings and presented them to Schindler. The ring is engraved with a famous Jewish proverb: "Saving one life means saving all mankind". These pictures are interlaced, expressing the Jewish respect for Schindler.
The whole film is compact and coherent, with distinct rhythm. This is a great work, one of the most wonderful movies in the world and an epic of national death. It contains religious care and great pity for life. Even today, many years later, the impact and shock brought to the audience is beyond words, which moved all mankind.
The war is over and the light has come. Nothing is eternal and unsolvable. What we have to do is to remember this history and never forget it.