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    The Pianist - directed by Roman Polanski

    I saw this movie yesterday and I thought it was really good.
    Has anyone else seen it?
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    It seems to me that I saw this movie a couple of years ago. There's an erotic movie with the same name, so I'm not positive that I saw the one you're talking about. I'm rather bad at remembering directors' names.
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    Yeah! I've seen it. Good movie. Heartbreaking! Some of us don't know how lucky we are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ReDSanchous
    It seems to me that I saw this movie a couple of years ago. There's an erotic movie with the same name, so I'm not positive that I saw the one you're talking about. I'm rather bad at remembering directors' names.
    So if i get you correctly ur basically saying you saw a movie about penises. How gay.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    I didn't say that I watched that movie from start to end. I just turned on the TV and watched for several secs. Then I just decided to learn the name of the movie, so I took a week's schedule and learned that the name was "The Pianist". So you get me wrong
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    the actor

    Was it the one with Adrian Brody?? (no idea if i spelled that right, btw....). It's was pretty good, if that's the one you mean. Really sad, tho. Plus, I play piano, so I thought it was good because of that as well. Like when he was in that room, and there was a piano, and he wanted so badly to play, but you just knew that if he did, he would get caught!! I think that was one of my favorite scenes...

    HOWEVER, if you are talking about a different movie, ignore me!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jessi
    Was it the one with Adrian Brody?? (no idea if i spelled that right, btw....). It's was pretty good, if that's the one you mean. Really sad, tho. Plus, I play piano, so I thought it was good because of that as well. Like when he was in that room, and there was a piano, and he wanted so badly to play, but you just knew that if he did, he would get caught!! I think that was one of my favorite scenes...
    That was one of my favorite scenes.

    Playing the piano was the most important thing in the world to this man. It saved his life during those terrible times.
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    I took a film class and we did a unit on R. Polansky.

    I guess every film he makes is based on his life in one way or another. So theres a good chance that the piano player in the movie was actually based on a real person he might have known in the war.

    Also i remember our teacher saying that the pianist was one of his closer to true stories.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    Wladislaw Szpilman (played by Adrien Brody) was an actual pianist, the movie was taken from his (auto?)biography. I watched an interview with polansky, however, and he said that some of the scenes were based on actual things that happened to him or he saw when he was young. he actually was saved from getting on the train to aushwitz (the scene where szpilman is told "walk, dont run" was from polansky's experience).

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