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Contents 1 Malaysia 2 Lead 3 The Little Girl in a Red Coat 4 Editing Image description

[edit] Malaysia

Should be something on how it was initially banned in Malaysia, with the initially-stated reason for the ban being something along the lines of "It presents Jews in too favorable a light"... AnonMoos 18:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Source? I better find something on that in my papers. Alientraveller 18:04, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I just remember it from ca. 1993 media coverage at the time... AnonMoos 18:10, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lead

I think the lead could be expanded? Any ideas what to include? LordHarris 09:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I'd leave expanding the lead until we got as much possible information into the article, but certainly mention can be made of the film shooting on real-life locations in Poland, and the hand-held cinematography. Alientraveller 10:16, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok makes sense. LordHarris 10:35, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Little Girl in a Red Coat

from the article: "Though the film is primarily shot in black-and-white, red was used to distinguish a little girl in a coat. Later in the film, she is seen dead. Her name was Roma Ligocka, and she published a book called The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir."

Am I right in thinking that the girl in the movie is fictional and who Roma Ligocka is a holocaust survivor that saw the movie and then borrowed the image of the girl to tell her own story? The article seems to be saying that the girl in the movie is meant to portray Ligocka. Bygmesterfinn (talk) 09:14, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, if you read the whole paragraph, you'll understand Spielberg took inspiration from the real-life person, and killed her off to symbolise what could have been lost. Alientraveller (talk) 11:51, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I see that that's what the paragraph says, and that's also what is cited source says, but I'm questioning the accuracy of the claim from the source that this woman was an inspiration for the girl in the movie. I've not read Ligocka's book, but my understanding is that Ligocka does not make that claim. See, for example: http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/schindlerslist.php. Bygmesterfinn (talk) 02:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Is Chasingthefrog a reliable source? Alientraveller (talk) 11:09, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Image description

[[Image:Schindlers list red dress.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Schindler sees a little girl wearing a red coat, who is later killed]] I believe the description in the image box of the Girl in Red Coat need to be edited by deleting the term "who is later killed". I had done that but it got reverted. So I am giving my reasons here. I do agree as an encyclopedia, wikipedia can have spoilers with no warnings, but we should see the purpose also. For those who haven't seen the film that description is a terrible spoiler seriously diluting the feelings when Oskar see her deadbody.I was such an unlucky person! Also for those who haven't seen the film, the girl is just a character who gets killed in the haulocaust. There is not much of information in it. For those who have seen the film, they already know that the girl gets killed and there is no significance for those words in that way either. Please refer to the imagebox of the corpse in Saw (film). If it had the description "which is not actually a deadbody and is the psycho himself" or something, how terrible it would be. I am changing the description of the Girl in Red Coat image so as to state that its the only instance of colour in B&W scenes in the film--Anoopkn (talk) 13:14, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. Alientraveller (talk) 13:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Somebody changed the description to "one of the few" from "one and only". I think its the only color instance in the B&W scenes in the film. Pls check & modify the description, if needed--Anoopkn (talk) 06:51, 27 November 2007 (UTC)