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Growing Up

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The two stills I chosen are from Almanya: Willkommen in Deutschland, the reason I choose these two is because of the charater development that both Hüseyin and Muhamed shown. We see Veli at the end of the film stay in is childhood home and planning on to rebulid it. I see this scene as Muhamed ending his childhood and/or youthful nature and focusing on become more of an adult. I say that even though he may seem like an adult he still has that childhood attachment to Coca-Cola. Near the beginning of the film we see that this attachment to the soft drink still cling on to him like a leech and attach itself to another living thing. The scene where Muhamed seems to possibly be sexually aroused to Coca-Cola and I say possibly be sexually aroused because the scene before showing the giant cola bottle showed the rear end of a woman. This scene can be played off for a laugh but it could also possibly mean that Muhamed’s craving of cola is more a lust for cola. Then near the end of the film is where I see the change when Muhamed became an adult. It would be the agurment with his brother and then their reconciliation. We finally see the two let all out after the death of their father and come to a nonverbal understanding. Then to show more of Muhmaed’s growth would be his last scene with the family. Is his dramtic decision to stay in Turkey seems to mirror his father’s decision to move the whole family to Germany.

Differences

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Thought out the film we are shown many different expression of the characters that gave off a feel of realism. The scene with the bathroom really shows the cultural and economic differences between Germany and Turkey. The family believed that Turkey was their true home but after spend a good portion of time in Germany and adapting to its cultural. When they returned to Turkey and saw their home again. The disappointing realization of how different Germany is compare to Turkey causing they to expression a small cultural identity crisis but Fatma near the end of film told her family of how Hüseyin maybe German on paper but if you were take him to the village the people there will vouch for him as a true Turk. That line helps describe her children cultural identity. I picked this scene of Hüseyin because it sums up the family’s expression thought out the film. That there are ups and downs no matter where you go

Title

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Throughout the film some of the characters get titles and/or special scene that shows who they are or what they are. The first special scene would be when Hugo Stiglitz is introduce. We the audience do not know who Hugo Stiglitz is but the film give a one minute narration of who Hugo Stiglitz is and what he portrayed to be. Later on the film we are then in Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s number 2. Unlike Hugo Stglitz Dr. Goebbels did not get a special scene of why he is Hitler’s number 2 instead one of the character give a short introduction of who he is. I don’t really see anything special about this character to considered Hitler’s number 2. They way he is portrayed seems bland for a high ranking Nazi official/officer there is no sense of intimidation when he introduced. Unlike when we were introduced to Hans Landa with his clam and cool demeanor he gives a sense of intimidation. There many other character throughout the film that are given titles but they don’t get a special shot or introduction scene.  Sgt. Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz does shows his ferocity of a bear when he first introduced. Hans Landa explains why he is caused “The Jew Hunter”, it is job he is tasked to do so but seems more like a detective then a Nazi officer. These titles that are given to these character should be and idea of a first impression of what the character is going to be most of these characters follow their title in a way I did not see coming

On the tracks

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The scene I picked is where both Georg and Heinz are stowaways on a train traveling to Marseille. In order for Heinz to meet with his family and for Georg to flee Europe to Mexico. I picked this scene because of the journey Georg is taking with Heniz. As they continued on the tracks tracks to Marseille it finally gives Georg some time to relax for a bit and plan out his next move in order to flee the fascist takeover of France and to acquire safe travel to Mexico but he also has to deal with his current problem which is Heinz’s injured leg. We only see Georg help Heinz out only once, which is when administer a sedative into Heinz’s leg to help with the pain but we only see him do that once after that Heinz just laid there as if he was asleep but we learned that he is actually dying when he already dead. We mostly get scenes of Georg reading and looking through the writer’s belongings which gives us more information of the writer which does help Georg out at near the end of his goal. I feel like the train tracks help give Georg time to prepare what he is going to experience next and help him become someone he is not.

At the end Nothing really changed

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The still that I have chosen is the very last scene of the film which in my opinion shows  a major context of this film is that of the performance of all the actors both as their main character and then as their character’s characters. This scene shows that Joseph Tura no matter what stage he is on he can not recite Hamlet’s soliloquy without someone being displeased. Which is very funny, because after watching his performance as a Nazi Officer and his performance as Professor Siletsky. We see that is indeed a great actor he is able to trick Colonel Ehrhardt, his cohorts, and even Professor Siletsky even for a short amount of time. We can also see that Joseph’s performance can also be extended to improve. When he had to think of a way to convince Colonel Ehrhardt and his cohorts that he is the “real”  Professor Siletsky. Then another good scene that shows the actor’s talent for a serious performance would be when they executing their plan to escape Warsaw. Using their costumes from the very beginning of the film we see them give their greatest live performance. The group is committed into a serious like how the Producer Jan Dobosz wanted it in the start and wish that performance they were able to escape to England.