An epic drama with deep sense, exceptional director’s work and, of course, stunning music scoring – that all gives a faint image of one of my favorite movies ever - Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg. And for those who still haven’t watched this piece of art I strongly recommend doing it at the first opportunity available.
It’s never been easy to reflect properly the events that took place back in the history. And if those events bear a very negative emotionally character the task gets even harder. One has to be somehow spiritually connected with the subject to make people re-live the history watching the movie. Steven Spielberg used to hear a lot of stories about Holocaust from his granny and his Jewish roots made the needed connection work for him. He did want to create a film about those shocking events but didn’t feel mature enough to take up that ‘unmanageable’ work. But time came and he gathered the team and pulled himself together. Not hoping for big success and rather expecting the movie to flop, Spielberg set a small budget and shot a black-and-white documentary in Krakow within 72 days. He didn’t even use expensive cameras opting for handheld cams for a more realistic effect. According to witnesses, most shooting days were full of tears, for the director himself experienced hard times going through all the horrible scenes.
The choice of music was an especially responsible and challenging task for that would make half the impression. That’s when Spielberg turned for help to John Williams asking to compose the score to the whole movie. William, too, felt immature, despite the fact that he had an impressive music experience in his baggage. The composer was stunned by the film itself and got to work with great effort. Once the piano score to Schindler's List was ready, Williams also hired Itzhak Perlman to perform the main theme on violin too. The result was rewarding. The score was awarded “Best Original Score” at the 66th Academy Awards Ceremony along with the other 6 awards.
Unexpectedly for Spielberg, his B&W film was a box office success being rumored as one of the greatest movies made ever.
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