Why did they colorize that little girls coat on Schindler's List?!


Question: Though the film is primarily shot in black-and-white, red is used to distinguish a little girl in a coat. Later in the film, she is seen dead. This character is based on Roma Ligocka, who was well known in the Warsaw Ghetto for her red coat. Ligocka in fact survived the Holocaust and, after the film was released, published a novel in 2000 entitled The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir.

According to Andy Patrizio of IGN, the girl in the red coat is used to indicate that Schindler has changed: "Spielberg put a twist on her [Ligocka's] story, turning her into one more pile on the cart of corpses to be incinerated. The look on Schindler's face is unmistakable. Minutes earlier, he saw the ash and soot of burning corpses piling up on his car as just an annoyance."

Andre Caron wondered whether it was done "to symbolize innocence, hope or the red blood of the Jewish people being sacrificed in the horror of the Holocaust" Spielberg himself has explained that he only followed the novel, and his interpretation was that "America and Russia and England all knew about the Holocaust when it was happening, and yet we did nothing about it. We didn’t assign any of our forces to stopping the march toward death, the inexorable march toward death. It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone’s radar, but no one did anything about it. And that’s why I wanted to bring the color red in."


Answers: Though the film is primarily shot in black-and-white, red is used to distinguish a little girl in a coat. Later in the film, she is seen dead. This character is based on Roma Ligocka, who was well known in the Warsaw Ghetto for her red coat. Ligocka in fact survived the Holocaust and, after the film was released, published a novel in 2000 entitled The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir.

According to Andy Patrizio of IGN, the girl in the red coat is used to indicate that Schindler has changed: "Spielberg put a twist on her [Ligocka's] story, turning her into one more pile on the cart of corpses to be incinerated. The look on Schindler's face is unmistakable. Minutes earlier, he saw the ash and soot of burning corpses piling up on his car as just an annoyance."

Andre Caron wondered whether it was done "to symbolize innocence, hope or the red blood of the Jewish people being sacrificed in the horror of the Holocaust" Spielberg himself has explained that he only followed the novel, and his interpretation was that "America and Russia and England all knew about the Holocaust when it was happening, and yet we did nothing about it. We didn’t assign any of our forces to stopping the march toward death, the inexorable march toward death. It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone’s radar, but no one did anything about it. And that’s why I wanted to bring the color red in."

I believe to identify her, to let the viewer know that even the innocent were killed, by seeing the red coat we knew right away who it was. It was a very moving movie

It was symbolic to Schindler's realization of the Jewish repression. Before he saw the girl, all he cared about was business. He would bring the Jews in, not to help them, but for profit.

You see the girl in two scenes. The first is when the Jews are taken from their homes, some are sent to camps and others are executed. This is the first glimpse of cold reality that "wakes" Schindler up in a sense.

The next is the exhumation of the corpses to be burnt. Schindler notices that the girl is dead, being carted away to the fire. This is when he realizes what he has to do. The little girl did nothing wrong, so how could the Nazis kill something so innocent. This is the same with all the Jews.

Hope that helped...

I'm not totally sure,but i just think it was a symbol of innocence and that innocence in that day and time really did not count for much.Innocence did not change someones fate.it did not save even a child from dying.let us not forget the child in the red dress.

I saw the movie too, since I know it is not
the most stupid thing to have just 2 children
in a family.
It is chinese invention, and see?
Them are advancing.

To identify an innocent little girl about to be killed.



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