Did you ever see the Roman Polanksi film The Pianist?

[quote]Roman Polanksi

Sorry about that Roman, if you're reading this.

I always do one typo when I OP.

Just one of those things.

I liked precisely the opposite parts of the film as you, OP. I liked it up to the point where they forced to leave the ghetto and only started liking it again once the Nazi appeared when the pianist was hiding.

Didn't Adrian have a full frontal in this movie? If not this one, perhaps another one, but I do remember either hearing that he was well hung, or saw it in a film.

How 'well hung' are you, gurl?

It was sort of bland. Holocaust movies had been done to death at this point and I don't think it really brought anything new to the table.

R5 sounds like a complete idiot!

I'm always moved by depictions of man's inhumanity to man. I thought Adrien Brody was wonderful ...what despair he projected in his face! 12 Years a Slave moved me as well. Chiwetel Ejiofor's scene when he joins the other slaves as they mourn and sing 'Roll Jordan Roll' and when he finally returns home he asks his family "Please forgive my appearance, I've been through a lot."..made me tear up. Lupita was, of course, fantastic!

Polanski on location.

The Nazi character's relationship with Brody was heartbreaking.

Brilliant film. No full frontal for Brody in the film unfortunately. I find Adrian incredibly hot but any kind of nudity in the film I guess would've detracted from it. He definitely deserved the Oscar for it. I remember when Polanski won director and the polarizing looks on the audience faces. Some stood up. Many just sat there shaking their heads. If the preferred balloting system for the best picture Oscar would've been implemented in 03 it would've won best pic I believe over Chicago.

If you read the autobiography, it’s so disappointing. He seemed so cold. I’m sure it was a way to survive, but it made me appreciate the movie much more.

It filled me with repulsion.

[quote]If you read the autobiography, it’s so disappointing. He seemed so cold

He wrote it literally a year after it all happened. He must have still been shell-shocked.

He wasn't a great writer, but he told his story well.

I thought it was an okay reasonably entertaining film like everything else I have seen by Polanski.

masterpiece

Every cliché inre the holocaust was used in that film. Fine acting.

^^^ except for tearful female headshaving

I'm so fucking sick of holocaust movies. I refuse to watch anything even remotely related to WWII, at this point. How many times do you have to tell us the same fucking story?

Thank you, OP and R18, for your incisive cultural commentary.

I think it's a masterpiece. It's a desperate, driving film. I will never forget when the old man in the wheelchair was tossed out the window, I almost walked out. I had such a visceral reaction to this film. I didn't cry during the movie because it's anti-sentimental. But when I was in my car alone driving home, I bawled for 20 minutes as a relief from what I'd just witnessed. I love, love, love this movie and it's incredible tale of survival. It's not really a Holocaust film since there's only a brief scene at the Concentration Camp. The whole movie is about the Warsaw Ghetto and Uprising, a period in history I'd no previous knowledge of. This is definitely one of the darker, more human films of the genre.

Thomas Kretschmann also made one hot Nazi.

Adrien Brody, IMHO, gives the most Oscar-worthy performance since Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind.