Truely the greatest movie ever done by Steven
…Johnson? Yeah, the was some great key gripping.
There was a key grip named Steven Johnson? Maybe they meant screenplay? But then Steven Zaillian did write Jack the Bear.
Did it go in the woods?
Don’t they all?
I thought Schindler’s List was an excellent movie. I’m a big fan of Liam Neeson and I thought he was amazing in it.
I’ve only seen Schindler’s List once or twice, however, because I found it to be really hard to watch (the same happened to me when I saw American History X, as much as I liked it, it’s not something I can watch over and over).
Yes it is a hard film to watch and Liam Neeson was really great.
What is amazing is that it is about an hour into the 3 hour movie before anyone gets shot. At first it is a man with one arm and then a woman who is openly critizing a Nazi. You think to yourself that if she just shut up she would be ok. Then of course you see people being killed for no reason at all.
Fines was fantastic as well.
My favorite thing from the movie is when the little boy tells who stole the chicken.
What was the deal with the little girl in the red dress?
Her grandmother was really the wolf in disguise.
Seriously? I saw it as Schindler noticing one person in particular who stuck out for him. Later on he sees her in one of the piles of bodies (or something like that, I only saw it once, when I was 15). It’s just one of the ways of showing how he personally got around Stalin’s saying of “Kill one person it’s murder, kill a million it’s a statistic.”
That’s how I interpreted it, anyway.
That’s a good way to interpret it. The way I saw it, it was a slight dig against the usual movie convention that “cute kids don’t die” Here’s this little girl, she finds a hiding place, surely she’ll be ok, and at the end of the movie you won’t feel quite so bad because hey, at least she made it out. Then you later see her in a pile of bodies, and you wonder how many other kids ended up like that…
We had to watch this movie in one of my classes back in highschool, and our teacher asked us this question. Hmm…let me see if I can remember.
Ok, she represented Schindler’s conscience. At first she’s alive, but then she’s dead, and when Schindler sees her in the cart, then that’s when he realizes he must do something to try to save as many of the Jews as he can.
At least this is what I can remember the teacher telling us…
The girl in the red coat is not a purely literary creation: she was real. Schindler spoke of her in later years (it’s in the book) and the movie incorporated it. (The novel/miniseries War & Remembrance either borrowed this or came up with a similar device independently as a girl in a red dress is followed through the “processing” at Auschwitz.)
The story of how the book came to be written is interesting, but it’s a spoiler. I will say this: Thomas Kenneally was delayed in L.A. and had to get his baggage repaired, and the baggage repairman told him one helluva story while he waited.