I agree. It is easy to play a bad guy but Fiennes manages to give this real life monster a soul, even it is black. Amon is a twisted, complex character to play. In the scene where he looks in the mirror and says, "I forgive you", Fiennes is illustrating the grandiose and narcissistic core of the character, utterly brillian!
I watched that movie several times. What I noticed is that this line is the first swear word in the film. There are no "F-Bombs" until than scene when Fiennes' character shows up. It is just one more way Spielberg makes you hate the guy.
Ralph was pure evil in this movie. I’ve seen ALOT of evil characters in movies but Ralph Fiennes played this perfectly. This, in my opinion, is the greatest and the most evil character I’ve ever and probably will ever see in cinema.
I've heard that a female survivor was introduced to the actor who played Amon Goeth when he was dressed up in his SS uniform to get her feedback on how accurately the actor was portraying Amon Goeth. Well the woman immediately started trembling in fright when she saw him. That's how true-to-life the actor portrayed Amon Goeth.
Villains are always my favorite part of movies. I remember the first time I saw this movie and the day after my parents got a call from school from a teacher seeing me doodle swastikas in my notebook. They were so proud of me.
This guy played his role so good that it gives us an idea how bad and rude the nazi's were, and like other people have said already this actor deserves an oscar
@@joni9497 well wise guy I suggest you to Reed some history books about Adolf and his third reich instead of saying something stupid about the nazi's being bad, ask the 6 million jews who died because of them
@@joni9497 the politics were bad you say, what about that one village in France were the Das reich division killed almost 600 men woman and children in cold blood how would you discribe that, also political. This was pure evil and rude what those ss bastards did. If you have a chance to go to Poland go and visit auswitch then you might understand why I say they were rude.
"On 13 September 1944, Goeth was relieved of his position and charged by the SS with theft , failure to provide adequate food to the prisoners under his charge, violation of concentration camp regulations regarding the treatment and punishment of prisoners ..." Ehm what? The guy was such an psychopath that even the SS said that's too much?
I believe the truth in general, is slightly different than how it's portrayed by Hollywood (not necessarily Schindler's List, which I believe is pretty accurate). There were quite a few high ranking German officers who took offence to the behavior of the SS, and this also occurred within the organization. There are numerous recorded accounts of this. Another piece of suppressed fact is that Hitler had quite a few Jews serving in his armed forces. The highest ranking of which was Field Marshal Erhard Milch who was second in command to Göring... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Milch
I will never understand why Ralph Fiennes didn't get an Oscar for this role. This is an anthology, perfect, if anyone deserves an Oscar, it's Ralph...???
Ralph Fiennes is naturally a very warm, happy guy. His great talent is that he can go deep inside of himself and create such a convincing picture of a political psychopath.I mean his face even looks like a great white's when annoyed.
@@michaela1970 No, it's very distracting. Just showing the actual clips with the dialogue conveys far more about the evil of the man than anything the music could remotely do.
Sean McCallum ....Have you seen the story about his daughter and how she found out about her dad. She found out about him when she saw Schindler’s List. Her name is Monika. Makes for compelling viewing how she reacts having Amon Goeth as her father. He was quite a man of physical stature with an imposing presence. Fascinatingly chilling how he was able to drop his humanity and morals to partake in genocide like the Shoah...
1:58 The bullet of the Mauser K98 rifle would go right through and kill the next one behind him. It was a very powerful rifle and its strength is well demonstrated in one of the scenes during the liquidation of the ghetto in Krakow, where 5 people standing in one line were executed with one shot. By the way, Amon Goeth did not play with inquiries about who had brought food outside of the camp. In such cases, he ordered the entire commando to be murdered.
Everyone talking about how the music ruined this video clearly doesn't know french, and how the darkness behind the lyrics being sung pairs perfectly with the hell that Goeth put Helen Hisrch through due to his attraction to her, and the hate he had for those he executed and sentenced to death. The song is 'Agnus Dei' Mylène Farmer, and it fits. End of story. Go watch the movie if you want to hear Ralph Fiennes speak in a german accent.
I liked how the Soviets carried that out too, in the middle of the street, no fanfare, just a rope around the neck and a clumsy kick the chair. A well-fitting way to remove him from the planet.
When survivor Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes on the set, she began shaking uncontrollably, as he reminded her too much of the real Amon Goeth.
Fiennes' Goethe is believable as being a real person in front of us rather than Fiennes. His portrayal is striking because his mannerisms can often look hesitant, bored, or tired. It is the banality of evil in some ways that he portrays - the indifference. He rarely gets explicitly angry or passionate. It's as if he's playing a single player first person shooter videogame with people's lives. It's scary that this happened just 75 years ago - the scale and severity of it seems medieval.
The scale and severity of it seems medieval? The worst episodes in medieval Europe can't compete with twentieth century atrocities in terms of scale and severity.......the Spanish Inquisition is often mentioned but the killing they did (modern scholars put it at maybe 3000 people over a period of 150 years) was a single day's work for the likes of Hitler and Stalin.
Yes, sorry. I'm no medieval scholar I admit. I should probably take a leaf out of Terry Jones' book and not use the word medieval as a perojative. I'd like to say I was being metaphorical, implying that civilisation overall tends to increase, but that's not a good idea when it comes to history and is largely people's biased opinions rather than facts like the numbers you said.
I still don't understand why this man didn't get the Oscar for this. Fair enough, he portrayed a despicable, twisted SS officer...True enough, Amon Goethe did actually exist (and was rightfully hanged for what he did) ....but Ralph Fiennes portrayed him in such a way that I could feel and see just what power can do to a man who must have already been dangerously unstable before Hitler came into power and gathered his minions.So disturbing....What a phenomenal actor.
Amon Goeth was hunted down by allied forces, beaten to a pulp, thrown into a prison cell and eventually strung up at the gates of his death camp. Now that my friends was justice in action.
Goeth was found at an SS hospital by US forces at the end of the war, handed over to the Polish authorities and put on trial in Krakow in the building which now houses the archaeological museum. He was not hanged at Plaszow camp but in a corner of the courtyard at Montelupich Prison in the city.
@@yaminhaniyah2979 Thank you for your comment. I carried out extensive research on Goeth for a TV documentary some years ago and went to the former court room where he was tried and to the site of his execution in Montelupich Prison. After the execution Goeth's body was used for teaching purposes by the medical school in Krakow and then cremated and the ashes thrown into the Vistula.
It was said that the surviving Schindlerjuden who served as technical and historical advisors during filming were chilled to the bones when Ralph Fiennes first walked onto the set in full costume. They said he looked every bit the part. He was brilliant and he should have gotten the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
On a lighter note, I once cleaned Amon Goeth's bathtub and he told me that I did a terrible job but that he pardoned me; even so, as I walked away from his villa I kept looking over my shoulder.
Mark D'Aulerio I understand. Part of it is conditioning by society. Sometimes people see aggression and mistake it for passion. Very dangerous mistake.
Unfortunately this portrayal is very accurate, Spielberg had talked to survivors & his 2 slaves who had worked for him, Helena Jonas Rosenzweig is one, look her story up on Y.T., he was truly an evil, despicable person with no conscious whatsoever, if there is a hell I hope he has a front row seat!!!
He's in hell. He got what he deserved too. I was hoping he would have received life in prison (which I hear is worse than being executed) but hanging is just as good.
I agree,Ralph Fiennes is a great actor,and did an excellent role in this movie.But the real Amon Goeth was a total insensitive sick bastard,who deserved what he got,when he was hanged for all his atrocities,and war crimes. May he burn in hell for eternity!
The naming of the video is wrong. It is not about Amon Goeth (who was a discussing sh!t of a human being) but about the work of Ralph Fiennes as an actor doing a wonderful job of portraying such a demon. Mr Fiennes - I love you work Mr Goeth - If they hanged you a 1000 times over, you would still have gotten of light.
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Poor Herr Goeth. He watched international bankers collapse his beloved Germany over and over since 1870-1933. No wonder he wanted revenge on relatives of the Rothschilds.
"On 13 September 1944 Goeth was relieved of his position and charged by the SS with theft...failure to provide adequate food to the prisoners under his charge, violation of concentration camp regulations regarding the treatment and punishment of prisoners. SS doctors diagnosed Goeth as suffering from mental illness and he was committed to a mental institution, where he was arrested by the US military in May 1945" They don't mention that in this film do they...I guess the truth hurts.
The uniforms may look good, but what's a uniform worth if the person wearing it does terrible things? Now this guy is just a actor, but the real version of this guy, is someone no one would want to come face to face with.
