Liam Neeson is just known as an action guy, i think people forget how great an actor he is. The scene where he breaks down thinking of how much more he could have done makes me cry every time, just heartbreaking
this was the first movie with him I ever saw. it was like 5th grade I watched this cuz I had an interest in the Holocaust at the time. lasting impact for sure
I saw this in the theater when it first came out; that scene, there was not a dry eye in the house. There was a little old man two seats away who was weeping.
Fun fact: Spielberg wouldn’t keep any of the money he earned from the movie because he felt like it was blood money so he gave it all to Jewish charities.
Spielberg was shot this movie right after wrapping up filming Jurassic Park and had to supervise its post production while filming Schindler's List. It's crazy to imagine going between shooting a movie about the Holocaust and editing the special effects spectical about dinosaurs.
Has anyone made two movies like that one after each other? The levels to both for different reasons. One is a masterpiece of storytelling and the other was a masterpiece of visual effects and something anyone can enjoy.
This is one of the few movies that everyone deems a masterpiece that I actually agree. Literal perfection, can't believe I only got around to watching it this year
I think it's actually from history. Goeth was a big man, and they had trouble hanging him. They use to have the video of his execution up, it was also featured in a documentary. I think it took 3 tries.
3 of my 5 all time favorite actors in an iconic movie! Leam Neeson, Sir Ben Kingsley and furious Ralph Fiennes! After all these years, still hurts to watch. Since Antisemitism is rising again all over the the world, we have to remember what happened once!
I like your intuitive reluctance to trust Schindler during the film's opening! So many people come in, knowing how the story ends - but you're in the right mindset, this guy is sketchy as hell - and he actually *was* sketchy as hell - he only redeemed himself much later! Good reaction!
Yep. A lot of reactors go into it thinking he's some kind of noble hero the whole time. The film is as much about his transformation as it is about what he eventually did.
What many people don’t know is that before Schindler came to Krakow he was working for the Nazis infiltrating Czechoslovakia and spying. He had a rather high rank in the nazi party and was well respected by the SS. In the end all of this helped him saving all these people, but he was no hero in the beginning, far from it.
I hear what you're saying and I agree with the sentiment. However, I think we should show kids true history and not fictional representations. This film is based off of a fictional novel that takes place during the holocaust and Oskar Schindler. Much of the movie is just made up. Does that make me a Nazi defender? It could, but in my case it does not. No way in hell. I detest any dictatorial government on Earth. I just obsess over history, reading for decades until the sun came up, while everyone else was partying. Just feel better that the scenes of Ralph Fiennes randomly shooting ppl in a concentration camp never happened in real life. That's stupid. However, in Poland near the end of the war, things got ugly. Mobile Death squads, random killings, the works. Yeah those happened.
Imo, Goeth didn’t change back in that sequence for no reason (although I don’t blame anyone for thinking so). He really did feel the power of pardoning those people. He felt it so much that he thought he could look in that mirror and pardon himself (whether it was of his own human flaws or his depraved actions, I couldn’t say). When he found that he didn’t feel change at all when he tried to lift himself up, he chose to take it out on everyone else. His ego saw his own shortcomings and decided to blame those he considered lesser and could persecute/execute with impunity. A microcosm of what the Nazi ideology, as a whole, is and was.
In real life even the Nazis knew he was too unhinged. He was relieved of command and sent to a mental health facility once Nazi leadership found out about his excesses. He was found in that mental health facility when the war ended, tried and executed by the Polish government- understandably. He was just a sick f5ck born at the right time to carry out his worst impulses.
This is the sixth highest rated movie on imdb with a 9,0. it won seven oscars, (best picture, director, screenplay, cinematography, art design, editing and of course John William's legendary score). Ralph Fiennes should have won too, still can't believe he didn't. I saw the soundtrack in concert once. And it was devastating. Everyone was weeping when the violin started. It's obviously Spielbergs most personal movie. I think this is one of the best directed movies of all time. And I don't even consider Spielberg as one of my favorite directors. But this one...goddamn.
There's a story where they brought actual Holocaust survivors to the set while they were filming, and Ralph Fienes was so convincing that he ended up having to console people who were tortured by the man he was portraying. Ralph can play the scariest people on film, but he's such a nice person off screen and I can't imagine what it was like for the survivors to see such a realistic depiction of what they went through.
I don't blame the survivors for being horrified out of their minds when they saw Fiennes dressed up as their torturer. They legitimately thought Goth, or however his name is spelled, came back to life to finish the job. As I said, I don't blame them for being horrified. It brought back too many bad memories for them. They had every justifiable right to be scared. I'm not making light of the situation, for the record.
Not to lessen Ralph's acting ability, but it helps to remember that they toned Amon down for the movie, because the real one was so much worse than the movie version that they actually felt nobody would believe it was real. And this is what memory was being called back up for survivors.
@@headhunter1945 Still, the survivors of the Holocaust were afraid of Ralph Fiennes, thinking he was Goeth come back from the dead to finish the job. Like I said here, I don't blame them for being horrified out of their minds. They had a long memory.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Leopold Pfefferberg (the man who went through the sewers during the ghetto extermination and pushed the suitcases out of the street) was the one who lobbied hard for the movie to be made. He and his wife Mila were advisors for the movie. Mila is the one who had a panick attack when she first saw Fiennes in uniform.
John Williams initially declined to do the music. When the director came back to convince him to change his mind, Williams asked him “aren’t there better people to write this music”. The director replied “yes, there are. But they’re all dead.”
You thought Voldemort was evil. He's nothing against Amon Göth, one of the most evil people I have ever seen. When I saw this movie at 13 I actually thought Ralph Fiennes was evil. Couldn't separate the character from the actor at that time because it was so real. And that's how great he was in this movie. It's by far the best performance of his career. By far! And I say that as a huge fan who has seen basically everything he's in. We had to watch this in school. Traumatized me for a long time. Everyone was so quiet. I was about 13. After that I hadn't seen it for about 15 years. And when I finally rewatched it I remembered every single scene from it. It just stays with you forever. And it isn't one second too long.
@@jorgjorgsen7528you’re legitimately retarded if you think Biden is “evil”. Let alone as evil as a literal nazi. Then again I’m not surprised. Trump supporters run at about a room tempt iq on average
You are absolutely right: We read about this in books and learn about it in history class, but it's so much more powerful when you SEE it. To see faces, emotions, and the atrocities. They even had to hold back on showing some things, including many things Goethe did. Ralph Fiennes was absolutely amazing in this movie.
I really hate to be this person but the monster shown in this movie was named Göth. Goethe was a German writer from the 18th century who had obviously nothing to do with these atrocities.
I think the girl in the red coat signified the change Of Oskar Schindler. Until that he was merely a man who cares about money and all the horror didn't affect him much. But in that moment you can see in his face that something changed in him. Up until that point war was nothing but profit to him. Both times they showed the girl something changed. At the beginning he didn't really care, then he pretended he didn't care and then he couldn't pretend anymore. It might be a bit on the nose for some people, but I personally think it's brilliant.
I totally agree. And the Filmers (all of them up to the prodicers and down to the people who serves coffee to all) have somtimes to do this stuff to direct ALL people in the audition to put them in the rigth direction.
6:37 Nazis weren't socialists. They had a mixed economy that had both free markets as well as central planning. It was somewhere in-between the two extremes of the USA and the Soviet Union. You could describe the Nazi market as authoritarian crony capitalism. Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, Adler, Audi, Junkers, Krupp, BASF, Heinkel, DAPG (a German subsidiary of Standard Oil), Allianz…all private companies that prospered and profited handsomely under the Nazi regime, many by using slave labor from concentration camps. The Nazis also demolished all the labor unions and made union workers join a state-run one, instead. One of the first things Hitler did when he came to power was bail out a lot of large, privately owned companies and then re-privatized them. In fact, even the German rail industry and all of Germany’s banks had been taken over by the government when they became insolvent during the Depression, and Hitler spun them back out as private enterprises again. It is telling that Hitler believed that government ownership of free market enterprises would promote the weak and prevent the type of competition that ensured only the strongest companies would survive. However - the reason it wasn't pure capitalism was because it was also very authoritarian. If Hitler said your shoe factor is now making sandals, guess what, that's what you're doing. This is not the same thing as communism's ideal of "the people own the means of production," in some ways it is the opposite. But it IS similar to the centralized production plans the Soviet Union would later implement.
Very much appreciated your anger in watching this. I avoided this movie for years because it scared me so badly as a kid, but like you said, we need to remind ourselves of what happened. And keep reminding ourselves.
You talked about old Nazi's. In the film, there is a scene of a neatly dress SS officer reviewing female prisoners. He's the one who asks who is Oskar Schindler. That's Dr. Josel Mengele who organized medical experimentation on Jews, Romani, etc. in the camps. At the end of the way, he escaped to South America (as did thousands of SS officer). Mossad worked his case for many years but concluded it wasn't practical to abduct him as they has Eichemann. He lived on to died naturally.
Oh man. We’re going to get a lot of “oh Jesus,” and not in the funny way. And “that’s awful” and maybe one or two “that’s beautiful”s Great movie. Spielberg had not yet finished his film masters degree after making this film, and in order to finish he had to submit an original work so he submitted this movie. Needless to say he passed the effing class.
Completely agree about prosecuting war criminals, regardless of their age. If they'd robbed a bank and finally got caught at 90, they might avoid prison (...?) but they'd have to make good for what they stole. So somebody who actually participated in genocide gets a pass for being old? That's perverse. Great commentary, by the way. Thanks very much. Subscribed and liked. 😎👍
Your reaction at the end was very succinct and profound. You hit all the main points and you were very real about it. I've been looking for a reactor like you.
I’ve watched a few of these reaction videos and you’re the only one who pointed out the brilliant move that the little boy pulled when he blamed the theft of the chicken on the man who had already been shot, the absurdity of Amon Goeth having an entire conversation with himself while lusting after Helen, and the amazing line about the drink “I think I better have it now”.
Thank you for appreciating the educational and moral value of this film. Those that forget the past are condemned to repeat it. The world must NEVER FORGET.
Jimmy, I said it before and I'll say it again, you need to see Ben Kingsley in ''Sexy Beast'' (2000), it is totally quite the opposite of his character 'Itzhak Stern' in ''Schindler's List'', and imo, one of the greatest villains in movie history, if not so, one of the greatest performances in a film. It is directed by Jonathan Glazer (who coincidentally just made a movie also 'bout the Holocaust) and it stars Ray Winstone and (''Al Swearengen'') Ian McShane!
I could never imagine in a million years that this part of history would ever repeat itself, and yet here we are. Again. The Jewish people have to fight for their right to just exist as humans. I can not get my brain to make sense of it! It's been 78 years. It has started all over again!
What’s insane to me, is Spielberg actually brought the violence down in this movie. Because he didn’t think people would actually believe it. Yet every Jewish survivor who has watched this movie said the same thing. “It was much worse than this.” Showing that people weren’t ready to hear the reality of what truly happened in those camps…
Amon Goeth has a black granddaughter and sadly for her if you look up photos of Goeth and her, she looks just like him. She wrote a best selling book, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me".
The real Göth, the man who was played by Ralph Fiennes, never lived to see he now has a black granddaughter, she even wrote a book about finding out about her roots, it’s called “My grandfather would have shot me” 😢
As difficult as it is to watch this movie, it is a MUST SEE film because it exposes the reality of the holocaust. One of the most poignant scenes is of the dead little girl in the red coast being carted to the burn pit because you remember her as living, breathing precious child who is murdered . . .she is but one of many millions. It is difficult to comprehend the level of evil that one human being can do to another human being. Throughout the history of man on Earth we know of great moments of love and charity and also despicable moments of hate and evil.
The girl in the Red coat isn't just to draw your eye but she symbolizes the knowledge. The Allies knew very well the Nazis intentions and they didn't care unless their stakes were threatened. They knew what was being done to them but they turned a blind eye.
Such a underrated BRILLIANT film that depicts World War 2 is "Come and See". Deffo on my top 5 favourite films of all time but it's not a easy watch so to speak. Anyway, great reaction mate!
Favorite? Most brutal movie I ever made it through. My father had been a Jewish partisan in the war and I wanted to see it to better understand him. That night I couldn't sleep. So I started to drink. And it occurred to me that I understood why I would find my father staring into a half finished drink in the middle of the night sometimes asking for an apology from the dead
Thank you for watching this movie, I truly believe that every grown up should watch it at least once to get a real hint of how bad it really was. Thanks
And this Film doesnet show the really bad things back then. If you like games, I recomend "Trough the Darkest of Times". Even I, a german citizen, have learnd new horrors trough this game (it is a good game and you are on the good side, and it is the first time a game was allowed by the goverment to enable the signs of back then (which are normally and generally forbidden by law in germany with hefty fines) because in the game they are not shown to glorify them). If you wnat even more gruesome deeds, search for Mengele, Konzentrationslager, Human Experiments, Twins ... in combination with the regiemes name. But if you have not balls of titanium or ovaries of platinum, keep a vomit bag ready. I really mean this. We have to view these pictures in history classes (higher history classes, when we were adult (18 yo and above). They are not "nice". They couldnt show them to minors. And even as adults, our parents and we could have opted in to skip these lessons. With no consequences.
The cousin of My wifes grandfather was the jeweler who made the ring at the end of the film. Schindlers Jews helped support him until his passing and paid for his body to be flown to and buried in Jerusalem. He is the only Nazi party member buried in Israe.
I liked Liam Neeson's movie Unknown (2011) with Diane Kruger. It's a pretty good action thriller. Another really good WWII movie is Defiance (2008) with Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber which takes place in Nazi occupied Belarus. It's about the Bielski brothers who saved 1,200 Jews. Definitely worth the watch.
Oh, i second this. If you havent seen Defiance yet, Jimmy, you really should. It's one you would really like. And you reacting to it would give me an excuse to watch it again :}
Incredible movie, in England we learnt a lot about the holocaust in school as it obviously had more of an effect on the country's recent history. We actually had a school visit we could go on to Auschwitz when we were about 14. I went and it was an unbelievable site. VERY noticeably quiet for a major tourist site in the area. I would highly recommend visiting at least once, Poland is also a relatively cheap country to travel to and from. If you think this movie pushes the reality of it on you, you can't imagine the scale of the camp itself, its absolutely huge. Very pleased to see you do this movie by the way, its a very important movie for anyone to watch.
Some years ago I worked in Munich and when my parents visited one of the places my father wanted to see was Dachau, which was just a short train ride away. Towards the end of our visit we were standing at the end of the camp and my father asked me if I'd noticed anything. I had no idea what he was talking about, but he had noticed the silence - not of the other visitors but of nature itself. Despite the trees on the perimeter of the camp, there wasn't even the sound of a bird and the water in little brook at the end of the camp was completely still.
Ralph Fiennes played this role to the hilt👍🏾👍🏾 I'm glad Mr. Spielberg finally got honored at the Academy Awards 👍🏾👍🏾after he got snubbed for "The Color Purple"💜(10 nominations and No Best Director nomination for "The Color Purple💜)
In old towns in europe, there are still bullets holes in the walls after execution of the jews. The old speaker systems are still up to. Not working but there is a reminder of what happend.
The little girl in the red coat. Among the testimonies after the was, was one from a father whose family was taken from him in the street. He had recently purchased his little girl a red coat and because she was wearing it, he could pick them out in the crowd from a distance..watching them vanish from his life forever. Spielberg reportedly used the red coat in honour of the lost daughter, and all the children lost to their parents.
You have a new subscriber! Great reaction! And thank you for sharing this with people who may not know anything about the Holocaust! Never Forget! Never Again!
We had this movie obligatory at elementary school in history class (Czech republic), meaning at about age of 10. We were horrified. And my father was old enough to remember many things himself. The scariest thing is how recent this time was. I mean whole human history is a mountain of bones but nowadays we are supposedly greatly civilized and nice. For example deeds depicted here were done by very advanced civilized people...
You know at first I read this comment and I thought "Damn, this is a terribly violent movie for ELEMENTARY school kids to watch, you all must have been traumatized" but after seeing the rise of antisemitism among young people, yeah, this needs to be required viewing starting young, 10 is a good age. Make them watch it on an endless loop until they get it. Never again means NEVER again.
10 really is too soon to see this movie. Spielberg himself said you should wait until 18. That's what he made the actress of the girl in red promise. She broke that promise and watched it at 11 and was traumatized, even blamed her parents for having let her play in that movie. It's only years later that she understood the importance of that movie and felt proud to be in it. Personally, I would wait for someone to be at least 15 to watch it.
I always say it, Liam Neeson, Ben Kinsley and Ralph Fiennes deserved the Oscar. Masterful performances, although none of them won an Oscar. Tom Hanks and Joe Pesci won, other superb actors, but this film has to be planned so that everyone can watch it at some point and next to the television. a photo of these 3 actors together with the great Steven Spielberg, a masterpiece.
This book, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past, by Jennifer Teege . . .she is the granddaughter of the psychopath Amon Goeth. It's an interesting read.
I personally think he would absolutely denied any relation to her. To shoot her would be to acknowledge her which would have been far more repellent to him.
There is a YT clip of a black woman's experience living in Nazi Germany. She was not persecuted, she had Jewish school friends who "disappeared," but in fact her entire family was evacuated from Hamburg to Munich to escape the bombing. She married a black US GI and went to the US to live. She said her first experience of racism against her was in the US, and her black mother in law when they met, said, if you had been white, you would not be allowed to enter my house.
The little girl in red may be based on testimony at the Eichmann trial. On of the witnesses described being separated from his wife and little daughter. His little girl was wearing a brightly colored coat, and he watched her until she was a tiny speck in the distance. He never saw her again.
Schindler's List is more than a movie. It's a historical document portraying the inhumanity of fascism and the absolute humanity of people with a soul trying to combat it. A film like this will never be made again and I hope future generations witness it to learn from it. Most films you just view. This film makes you a witness.
@@warager4753 They were violent thugs from the start. Hitler was in prison for starting an armed rebellion against the German government in which people died. The party used people like the brown shirts to intimidate their opponents with violence and threats. They carried clubs and knives and used arson to attack people that disagreed with their views. Violence was far more common than conversation. And long before Auschwitz, they murdered their own leaders and followers as well as political dissidents and who they perceived as enemies of the Reich and the Nazi party. Don’t forget Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass in 1938 when they destroyed 7;000 Jewish businesses and arrested 30,000 Jews and put them in concentration camps. All this was well before they graduated to “The Final Solution” of complete extermination. So yes, they didn’t start with the death camps but they had no trouble justifying them. I’m not Jewish but it’s still a huge overreach to label a person a Nazi because they have a different viewpoint. A real Nazi would at least use an axe handle to break out their teeth just for being disrespectful. Then later either lock them up or kill them without any concern. Don’t just quote a snippet from history that supports your views. Antifa is more Nazi like than anyone at this point.
@@warager4753It's a projection. People shout "N.azi" to discredit the other, to mark them as "don't consider this way of thinking, because there is only 'my way' of thinking. They a.ren't people to deal with". Which makes them... exactly what?
@@heros2110 It's not necessarily projection. Depends on the individual shouting "Nazi." Some do so irresponsibly, others show receipts. I suggest a rule of thumb. If you don't want to be compared to the Nazis, don't say the things they said or do the things they did. They were, for the most part, normal people who became more and more radical over time. They were not Martians whose story has no lessons for later generations. Hitler was once just a politician flying around Germany looking for votes.
"Divine Intervention"? The scene with the Hinge-making prisoner escaping death because 2 separate pistols malfunctioned? The Character was the Rabbi who Schindler invites to celebrate the Sabbath near the end of the movie!
My father served in Patton's 3rd Army 41-45 (687th FAB)....Thru Normandy, the battle of the hedgerows, Battle of the Bulge... One of his last duties in Europe was helping "clean up" Buchenwald concentration camp in the spring of 45....He brought back pictures he took there.....Any depiction of the "camps" in this movie are toned down!!!!
More like the laziness of Goeth not cleaning up his guns as often as he should. But yeah, rabbi Lewartov was incredibly lucky. By the way, the "I was shoveling coal because the machines were calibrated this morning" was a lie he invented to try to save his life, that's why he didn't say it immediately, it took him a moment to think of that lie.
Yes, he's now wound up. And THAT is the purpose of the MOVIE. These things are horrifying but always remember that the purpose of the movie is to GUIDE YOUR THINKING.
Some scenes were not shot at all. Goeths crimes were so cruel, sadistic and inhumane that the producers thought the viewers might perceive them as constructed only for the film, thus damaging the whole work. Goeth often rode through the death camp, and when he wore a simple cap, the camp inmates could be reasonably sure that nothing would happen. However, when he wore his officer's cap and white gloves, the inmates were in absolute danger of death. One, in his eyes wrong look or a wrong greeting was enough and he began to murder without restraint, after he had tortured his victims before in indescribable sadistic way. I am German and the so-called "German culture of remembrance" is a matter of course in our country. Every day, for example, there are documentaries on at least two channels which show among other things the background of how Hitler was able to lever out parliament to come to power, the crimes of the GESTAPO (Secret state police) in their torture cellars, the deportation of the Jews, underlaid with original images from the concentration camps, the cruelest war crimes of the SS, which followed the Wehrmacht on the campaign and then brought unimaginable suffering to the rest of the population, which was also filmed at the time. (Some already in color, which makes the whole thing seem even more bizarre). Trenches, on the edges of which Jews were killed by the hundreds with shots to the neck, etc., etc., etc. There are also "Stepstones". Small memorial plaques laid in the ground, so-called Stolpersteine, are intended to commemorate the fate of people who were persecuted, murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide during the National Socialist era. The square brass plaques with rounded corners and edges are inscribed with letters hammered in by hand using a hammer and hammer letters, showing e.g. who was deported in that house. They are usually set into the sidewalk or surface of the respective sidewalk at the same level in front of the last freely chosen homes of Nazi victims. On December 29, 2019 the 75,000th Stepstone was laid in Memmingen. In the German extermination camps, the women and children were gassed first, so that no more Jews could be born and grow up. Very few Germans wanted to have known about the concentration camps, which of course was complete nonsense. For example, thousands of apartments were suddenly vacant because the Jewish residents had been deported during the night. The very next day, "Aryan" Germans, mostly belonging to the party cadre, moved in. Then hundreds of civilian German guards were employed in the death camps, who were even proud of their "work" and bragged about it to their acquaintances and friends. I could give many more examples, which prove that it was total bullshit, when it was claimed not to have seen anything and not to know what was happening there. In any case, I am a little proud of the fact that in Germany, even more than 75 years after the war, these unimaginable crimes against humanity have been and are being dealt with.
One of the preconditions for genocide is grievance; the perpetrators of genocide are almost always completely convinced of their own victimization by the groups they target. This allows normal people to perform heinous acts which seem psychopathic, but are well within the pattern of normal behavior across history. Your ancestors and mine very likely wiped out neighboring tribes many times over thousands of years. If we dismiss the Nazis as crazy, we ignore the darkness in our own hearts at our peril.
This movie should be required watching at every single public high school in our country. With the rise of anti-Semitic violence in our country right now it's important that we never forget the atrocities in our past. We cannot afford to repeat them.
Absolutely right. The anti-Semitism and Islamophobia needs to stop. The Israeli government doesn't represent the beliefs of all Jewish people, and Hamas doesn't represent the beliefs of all Palestinians, or Muslims in general.
Agreed with being against the rising anti semitism plus the rising islamophobia but uh, about the repeating atrocities bit... there is a genocide by UN definition, happening right now to Palestinians.
History not remembered tends to repeat. Please listen to words of politicians, and people in general, who promote violence and division. When it is time to vote, choose wisely. Don't let the horror happen again. Stop war. Choose life.
I learn a lot from listening to smart people talk, and this means you man. You just sound like a filmmaker to me. Maybe you already are. Just saying thanks for the attention to detail and coming from a real place. All the best brother. woo hoo!
everyone needs to watch this movie: excellent portrayal as to what and where fear of others, racism, superiority, arrogance, propaganda, religious persecution and ignorance of fact, can lead you
I can't remember the name of the book but my 5th grade teacher read us a book about Jewish children in Poland hiding from the Nazis during WWII. This movie put on screen (and then some) what we had imagined from the stories.
I'm not sure if anybody knows, but this book is actually fiction -it's just based around what Schindler did. It's like the movie Titanic basically. It's totally fiction, but elements surrounding it were real. I think accuracy is important.
No, it's not totally fiction. Many events come from the testimonies of jews Schindler saved. Like for example the "hinge-guy" and the gun jamming, this happened to rabbi Lewartov. And so on. Some characters and events were altered for simplicity, like for example the maid Helen Hirsch. In reality, Goeth had 2 maids, not one, so the Helen in the movie is a composite of those 2 maids. Same for Stern, his role in the movie is a composite of 3 real people.
Not exactly. The only thing fictional about Titanic were Jack and Rose, and Rose’s family. Everything else is factual. Nearly all of Schindler’s list is historical reality, except that Spielberg toned down Goeth, because he felt people would view as an unrealistic character, would thus lesson its impact.
You may know this from history like I do and thank God, but today's young people aren't learning history, it's being destroyed and rewritten by Bold print on the internet and in schools so the US and the world is now in big trouble (the loudest voice isn't always the truthful voice). We must always know and display history good and bad, not just the parts we want to hear, there were good people caught up in bad situations, some cowered down and turned a blind eye, while others refused to choose the safe route they instead did what was right and that takes true courage.
Apparently the pistols jamming is a real story. As in a rabbi from those camps actually survived like that, dont know if being a rabbi counted or not 😊 but talk about crazy situations .
There’s a documentary about the children of some of these nazi murderers, including the daughter of Goeth. She suffers terribly because of her unwanted legacy and feels guilty, even though she was just a little girl and knew nothing. Others refuse to believe that their fathers could have done this, believing it to be propaganda and one even sees his father as a hero despite his crimes. I’m just thankful that for all the monsters, there’s always the angels. So proud my dad fought against the nazi regime. This movie is a masterpiece, and a lesson to all that despite how bad we think we have it, at least we don’t have to live minute by minute as the camp inmates did. We are so lucky.
