Who else thought he was actually playing it when the piano part came on? lol scared me half to death thinking he was going to give himself away like that
This is the piece he finally gets to play in concert at the ending credits scene. The piece is beautiful, but what's more is the fact that he gets to play what he's been holding in throughout the entire holocaust. Makes this scene even more amazing!
Jenni Lee Winter the reason why he is playing piano is, because he wants to forget everything what he saw, Nazies killed and massacred a lot of innocent Jewish people in Poland, slaughter, savagery, violence, he was thinking that innocent music sound is going to make him forget those terrible and heinous things what ever he saw around him, that is why he was doing it, by the way, you made this comment entire 13 years ago, are you still alive ?
This is one of the best films ever made. And certainly deserved it's 3 Oscars in 2002 (Best Actor, Best Director (Polanski) and Adapted Screenplay). It's very hard to watch because it's so brutal, but to me this was one of the crowning achievements in cinema over the past three decades.
Yes, this was a fantastic scene! I was baffled when I first saw it, thinking, "No! Didn't you understand?" Make it more full-on when he finally could play again, but it was for the German officer who found him, and he was starved and frozen. Such a great film.
oh my gosh. it is so tempting to play the piano especially if you haven't played it in a LONG time. it would've been incredibly hard for me not to play the piano! i kept on rewinding this scene over and over again! it is truly an amazing scene!
Omg the first time I saw that scene they had the music play but didn’t show his hands yet and I thought he was actually playing it 😂 I was like “WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU ALMOST MADE IT TO THE END OF THE WAR”
One of my most favourite movies.. just brilliant...but always loved the last scene when he walks outside in the Nazi coat... "Don't shoot I'm Polish" ..."what's with the effing coat?" "I'm cold!!!"
I seriously doubt if this apartment had its own bathroom, there was probably just one to cover the whole building, which he obviously wouldn't be able to use. I suspect he relieved himself into pots and the guy providing for him would replace these for him.
Friends all the scenes of Polanski are well articulated and well thought of-- Notice the challenge of the real making the character forget the misery at least for a second
The real Wladislaw was actually incredibly disgusting and feckless: He abandoned his family when they were sent to a concentration camp in order to save himself, then he joined the Jewish resistance but also abandoned them when they staged an uprising and it was time to fight; finally, he also coldly abandoned the kind German officer who discovered him when he was hiding in the ruins of Warsaw like a rat but didn't report him (as he had been ordered) and on top of that helped him hide and fed and clothed him, but when the officer was caught by the Soviets and sent to a gulag to die (where he died) he asked for help from Wladislaw who simply did nothing (he said later he wasn't sure whether to help him and claimed that he did try to help but it was too late and he had already been shipped off to a gulag).
My favourite scene is where the old man in the wheelchair is flung out of the window, and then the rest of the family is told to run, and as they turn away, the Nazi's open fire. I watched it in history class, and everyone's reactions to it was just amazing.
FRICKIN AMAZING MOVIE..HE DESERVED THAT OSCAR..plus the fact that not only the time period was real( obviously) but the story of Szpillman himself was real...this was one of my fav WWII set movies ever..the best part is at the end when he gives that smile while playing the piano on air again after war is over..it shows what hes been through and how much it meant for any of the targeted to still be alive..👏👏👏👏
I love this movie, but watching it makes me so sad :( His performance was incredible!! But being locked with something you love so much is just cruel, i would go crazy if someone did that to me too, ( i play oiano and the anxiety when you wish to play but cant its just horrible T.T)
He really did great in this movie made you feel his pain of watching his cohorts fight after he left with the couple. He had a real sense of I should have been there
The best scene,in my opinion, isn't this one. For me, it's a tie between the scene where Brody plays the piano for the nazi, or the scene not too long after it where he is shot at for wearing a german coat. That line he delivers is just classic. "Don't shoot. I'm polish. I'm polish." "So why the fucking coat?" "I was cold." Brilliant stuff. Right behind Schindler's list as far as Holocaust movies go with me
@gerberho He won an oscar because acting isn't just about the way you talk. Acting also involves the non verbal subtleties that go on and he led you to really believe that he was a suffering Jewish concert pianist in this move.
@JeeMcG Thank you very much! I don't understand patriotism- no one really "chooses" what nationality they are, so how could one be proud of something you have no control over? It's silly.
@Gorrrillla5 That ''piece'' (not song, because it hasn't got vocal xDD) is Bach's Chello Prelude. And yes, that piece in Hitman was awesome because that game goes well with classical music xD.
it was on tv a couple of weeks ago but i cannot watch dramas and such on tv cause the ads just kill it. The pianist has inspired me for world war 3. And if you say schindlers list is compared to this movie it has to be great.
lol dude when i was watching this movie in the 10th grade we all thought he was actually playing the piano but we are all like "ohhh! oh my god!" in relief because he was just imagining. lol my teacher snickered at us :P
The best scene in this movie would have to be when he was playing the piano for the German soldier. It was a very moving scene, bringing some humanity to the horrors of the last few years he had just witnessed.
@Magnolia296 Nice list. But you should probably add Saving Private Ryan to your list. I haven't seen black book, but now that you mention it I will netflix it soon.
the piano in this video is nice............what kind is it???....................every other piano used in this video is a steinway so i guess its a possibilty that that is a steinway
Whose the beautiful cello piece in G major played at the beginning of this video? I've seen this movie many times (and I love it), and the same piece is also in the movie Master And Commander. I always wanted to learn this piece on the guitar, but I need to find it to learn it.
true plaski is an amazing director and this film is to fantastic for words,but it does stagger me that so many people defend polaski,i just dont get all the sympathy for him.
@adam246811 maybe let's not get into this, coz the piece he is imagining playing is grandise polonaise by chopin, and i played it, and i know his fingering is right... after all, this movie is great.
@ColeTrain4EVER Google Katyn theres also a solid movie called Katyn. it occurred in 1940 as the soviets invaded Poland and shared it with Nazi's as a part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. Russia did not admit they did it until 1990.
@kostar500 on THIS scene. but in the scene I'm referring to it makes no sense, he's playing for a nazi on an abandoned building (near the end of the film) and the piano works like a concert one? tuned and all? ok, suspension of disbelief kinda shakes but everything's fine...
watched this in my us history class... i FUCKING LOVED THIS MOVIE my favorite scene was when the German soldiers gave him bread and jam i loled so hard and his face haha
Nanba, idhu pola sambavangal happened to tamil ppl in lanka, but no one captured it on screen as done by western directors. Innocent tamils faced what poles faced in the past.
@nkmarks he was 44 and she was 13 what is there to get?? like i said hes a brilliant director and this is one of the best films ever made but people like yourself jumping to his defence still staggers me.
