Schindler's List | First Time Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2022
- The story of Oskar Schindler, a German factory owner, and his heroic efforts to save over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. A chilling, soul-rending tale that highlights the absolute worst and best of humanity.
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Apparently Spielberg was so traumatised by each days filming that he asked Robin Williams to phone him and cheer him up with jokes and his force pf personality just to give a sort of balance back to his life....kudos to you both for watching....
He also refused to take a salary for the movie. He said it would be “blood money”.
And he asked for seinfeld video tapes during the shooting of this
I can believe it! This had to be a very personal story for spielburg. And you'd need robin by the end of the day to keep your sanity.
Didnt he call Robin to help Ralph Fiennes, because he was so traumatised with his role as Amon Göth. Especially after the real Mila Pfefferberg visited the Movieset of Plaszow and was scared to death because he was so realistic?
OT. Fiennes was robbed an Oscar for this role
Oskar Schindler is the perfect reminder that, no matter how flawed we may be as a human being, each and every one of us can do good. You don't have to be perfect to be a hero, you just have to step up and do what needs to be done.
If it was 2023, Schindler would have been cancelled yesterday. How many Hollywood actors have come out in support of Me Too and been ostracized because it came out that they groped someone or misbehaved 20 years ago when they were young and stupid? If you want to beat all forms of evil against human beings, you’re going to have a lot of imperfect allies. But we have to stop throwing the baby out with the bath water. Some of these issues are way too important. It’s more important to end crimes like these than it is to punish everyone for every bad or evil decision they ever made. Not because they shouldn’t be punished for what they did, but because it’s more important to protect future potential victims and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Hunting people down one by one for everything they did big and small won’t prevent it from happening again.
When they did the scene where the women were sent to Auschwitz, they didn’t want to film inside the actual concentration camp itself the film but filmed it at Belsen instead. Spielberg did this out of respect for those killed in the Shoah
That Liam Neeson 'just one more' moment gets me the most. Such amazing acting.
The best acting for me was Ralph Fiennes, he played a real disgusting man, but his performance was outstanding !
This probably never happened the way it was depicted in the movie. More likely Schindler confided to the survivors after the war that he could have saved more
@@pangkajitrue, but it doesn’t change the overall gist of the story. Movies are always a dramatization. It was probably even worse than the movie depicts.
The women's train sent to Auschwitz was not a clerical error. The camp second commandant Höss (Amon was already transferred at the time) resented Schindler and purposely sent the train there and asked the commandant to send 500 different women. Schindler went to Auschwitz to straighten it out. The whole thing took a week.
Correct, but was not Hoss that was not in command to Auschwitz. He was the D dipartiment director, and coordinator of "Operation Hoss", the completely distruction of Hungary's jews. The man who was corrupted by Schindler was the SS Obersturbahnfuhrer Richard Baer the last commander of Auschwitz.
I highly recommend, if you haven't seen it, the documentary "Hitler's Children". It has Goethe's daughter and the grandson of Rudolph Hoss, Reiner and many other descendants of "The Reich". It is very good.
That's not quite true. The women were sent to Auschwitz because of a policy that prisoners had to be quarantined and inspected before entering a new camp. Brünnlitz, where Schindler was taking them, was formally under the control of the concentration camp Groß-Rosen. The men were sent there for quarantine. The women were sent to Auschwitz because only female guards were allowed to inspect female prisoners and there were no female guards in Groß-Rosen. It's true though that it was difficult to get them out again. Schindler himself didn't go to Auschwitz, he sent a secretary. I'm sure you mean well but this is such an important topic and it's important to get the facts straight before spreading them on the internet.
Also, Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz, not Plaszow. He had nothing to do with Schindler.
@@hansmahr8627 I'm curious if any of the 5,000 female guards were executed. The cases I can find ended up being commuted to prison sentences.
@@gk5891 You're probably thinking of Ilse Koch. She wasn't executed because she was pregnant at the time of her first trial. Later on she got a prison sentence. However, female guards were executed, several of them in the first Stutthof trial in Poland for example. In 1946/47 there were the Ravensbrück trials in Hamburg, where five women were sentenced to death and executed. Irma Grese was executed in 1945 after being sentenced to death during the Bergen-Belsen trial. So no, women weren't treated in a more lenient fashion.
Generally, it needs to be said that Nazi perpetrators were pretty much only sentenced to death shortly after the war (with some exceptions of course like the famous Eichmann trial in Jerusalem). And even then, in most cases they were only executed if they committed serious crimes that were provable in court. That's why you get a lot of prison sentences and acquittals even in these early trials where the death sentence was on the cards.
The most sad part about this movie... All the horrors that are being shown here are toned down. Goeth was a monster. If Spielberg showed how he truly was no one would've believed it.
It's absolutely disgusting how they treated the people.
I was in 3 concentration camps on school field trips here in Germany. And I never felt more sad and depressed as at those Camps.
Actually, people would have believed it and he wouldn't have done it for that reason because he is Jewish and he wouldn't insult the families. He found it extremely hard to shoot the movie emotionally, because he wanted to put in as much as possible. The reason he toned down the movie because if he were more realistic, it would have had a PG18 rating and he wanted a wider audience.
@@hilaryc3203 And I remember reading an article in which he said that, as much as he wanted to be realistic about showing the horrors, there were some atrocities that he felt should not be depicted onscreen.
@@torontomame That was part of it yes, to respect the families.
@@torontomame using babies as target practice? No Director could do that. I know it happened but if he had shown that the majority of the audience would have walked out.
And we only got a short glimps of dr Josef Mengele walking through the camp. He was way worse than Goeth
Placing a stone on the grave serves as a sign to others that someone has visited the grave. It also enables visitors to partake in the mitzvah tradition of commemorating the burial and the deceased. Stones are fitting symbols of the lasting presence of the deceased’s life and memory. It goes back to ancient times when the mitzvah was to raise a pile of rocks over the grave. Every person who walked by helped maintain the marker by replacing or adding rocks, so the marker was stable across time. Eventually someone thought of adding a big rock with the personal information of the deceased.
Thank you for the background. I knew it was some kind of acknowledgement but didn't understand the reasoning behind it.
Yep. And that is the real grave of Schindler. I believe those stones became an official part of the grave when they were placed by the survivors and they cannot be removed.
Our study book of Old Testament history in school was called "These stones will shout". It always stuck with me as I would visit various memorials and grave yards over the years. From cairns to leaving stones to marker stones and buildings, all the way history speaks through the stones of lost life.
I'm a German and everytime I see this movie I'm feeling - I have no words for this feeling.
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Trauer, Fassungslosigkeit und Wut wechseln sich bei mir ab
I'm an Oberst, but was born in the US. This movie came out when I was 8. It was around the same time I started learning about WWII in school and learned what my name meant in German. These movies make me feel guilty just for existing sometimes, but these are incredibly important stories for all of us.
The violin player for the sound track is Isaac pearlman. He is the son of the two older pearlman's that Schindler brought into his factory. If he never had done that that musician would have never existed. As a violin player myself that touches me
@hallowedsilence. The correct spelling is Perlman. There is no (a) in that surname.
Itzhak Perlman is NOT the son of the 2 Perlman in the movie. The violonist's parents emigrated to the US in the 1930s. It's possible his parents and the persons in the movie were distant relatives, I'm not sure.
I was told that placing a stone on a grave is to always remember who is buried there, flowers unfortunately die but a stone is forever. When the movie was released in 1995 there were seemingly 6,000 Schindlerjuden alive around the world by 2022 that number is seemingly around the 9,000/11,000 mark, so Oscar Schindler saved many, many more than those who worked for him.
The reason the guards took away Danka and the other girls is that they couldn't see kids as essential workers. Credit to Schindler for a fantastic bluff because there is no reason to polish the inside of shell casing
I put that "buff" right up there with the one from "The Last Samurai." When Simon Graham buffs to get passed the soldiers guarding Katsumoto by describing Nathan:
"This is the President of the United States of America! He is here to lead our armies in victorious battle against the rebels!"
When the soldiers let them through Simond says "I think I'm going to throw-up now"
Wonderful reaction.
Couple of points:
1. The cousin of my wife's Grandfather was the jeweler who made the ring at the end of the movie.
2. Schindlers was very proud of what he did and many who knew him said he would not have the breakdown at the end regarding saving more.
3. Stones on the grave is jewish tradition. It shows that someone visited the grave . Stones also last essentially forever indicating that the presence of the deceased life and memory will go on forever.
4. Schindlers jews helped support him in his older age and paid for his body to moved from Europe to Jerusalem Israel.
Speilberg refused any payment for the making of this movie! He said it would be like taking Blood Money for it! This was toned DOWN from a lot of the actual horror that went on, he feared people would not believe!
Great reaction mate.
I love the use of the girl in red in the film.
She represents the changes in oskars feelings towards the Jews.
He starts off using them for financial gain. Then when sees her he changes to helping them. And finally when he sees her again. Dead. He changes to saving them.
So she highlights the changes in his character. ❤😔❤
Amon Goeth had a black grandaughter, Jennifer Teege, that wrote a book called
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.
Supposedly that one soldier freaking out during the burning was the actual actor having a bit of a breakdown.
Hi there. My fathers family was obliterated during the Holocaust. I watch quite a few reactions to this movie because it hits so close to home for me. Out of my paternal grandfathers' family (I carry his last name) there were 3 survivors out of the 90 we've traced. Since he was a Polish Jew that is literally more than 3 times the average survival rate. I say that not as an exaggeration pre-war Poland had more than 700,000 Jews and fewer than 5,000 survived.
Anyway I say all that just to let you guys know the comment about feeling "numb inside" is, I think, the most sincere thing I've heard during one of these reactions.
Also, the thing with the pebbles/rocks on the grave is just a thing we do when we visit the grave of a loved one that's passed. It's my understanding some Christians bring flowers, Jews do not because flowers are dying. We leave a pebble on the grave and, if the person was particularly important to us, we plant trees so something of them may continue to live and grow after we are gone. That is why, at the end, they mention Oskar was invited to plant a tree in Israel. The tree is still there.
If you are interested, there are so many heroes and people that showed amazing courage and bravery. Most of them are lost to history, but a couple that are known are Nicholas Winton (do a youtube search for him, he saved over, I believe, 600 children and never mentioned it to anyone. Someone in his family found his scrapbook when he was in his 90s....just watch the clip it's amazing) and a man named Chiune Sugihara. Sugihara was a Japanese government official that saved many hundreds from certain death. His story is not nearly as well known as it should be.
There are two more historical figures in the movie. Unnamed, but there's Auschwitz camp director Rudolf Hoess (who was also hanged for crimes against humanity) and camp Dr. Aka Angel of Death Dr. Josef Mengele ("Who is Oskar Schindler? How old are you, mother?") who was never arrested for his crimes (though he was charged and tried in absentia) and spent the rest of his life in Argentina, outliving Schindler and dying after suffering a stroke in 1979. To quote Matthew McConaughey, ain't that some shit.
Spielberg was given permission to film inside Auschwitz, but did not want to do so, so constructed a mirror version of the parts of camp they were going to use directly outside the gates. Some of the Israeli actresses became so traumatized filming the shower scene, production had to be halted for three days. Mila Pfefferberg was so traumatized upon seeing Ralph Fiennes "spot on" portrayal of Amon Goethe that she had a panic attack and he immediately broke character. Schindler's List isn't so much about watching a movie as it is going through an experience and I imagine filming it was just as hard. It never fails me to remember that in the end we, the audience, have the gift of being able to get up, walk out of the theater, and go back to our lives, that was have lives to go back to. That's why I think we have an honor and a duty to be a witness to those who didn't.
I think it was the real Mila who had the panic attack, not the actress who played her. Then again I’ve also heard it was Helen Hirsch who had the panic attack so idk
@@popejaimie It was the real Mila, yes. I don't remember reading anything about the actress who played her even meeting Ralph Fiennes...in the movie they don't ever cross paths. I've heard that it might have been Helen Hirsch too, but I have a theory on that. Embeth Davidtz had stated in an interview that she didn't want to meet Hirsch before the movie was done filming because she wanted to make her performance authentic and without going into it with preconceived ideas. And then for whatever reasons, (most likely having something to do with not wanting to meet their actor counterparts) somehow managed to morph into her meeting Ralph Fiennes instead of Mila... (which doesn't make any sense to me anyway) and also the two actresses do resemble each other.... But yes, it was real life Mila Pfefferberg.
In Germany we watched this movie in history class grade 6. We was 12-13 years old
This film just kills me. I can't. I've been to Auschwitz and seen it for myself and spoken with survivors and I just can't. This still goes on, today. We've learned nothing and it breaks my heart. Great reaction, I subscribed.
I have been to Auschwitz as well. It took me about a week to get over just being there. I struggled to talk about it for a while. I think everyone should go there if they can.
@@johnl7710 yeah, my stomach still clenches when I think about it and I went years ago. And the holocaust museums I've been to.... nightmares for days
MAGA is as close to Hitler then we will hopefully ever see! Not being political because MAGA isn't political....it's pure HATE!
There's this guy in the U.S. that idolizes Hitler! Bet nobody can name him
been to buchenwald as a field trip back in 10th grade. as the daughter of a polish father and a german mother it felt really weird for me to stand on the very ground my "ancestors" got murdered and were the murderers at the same time. cant really put it into words well but it kind of caused a mini identity crisis for me.
My Godparents survived in similar fashion. My Godfather was ‘permitted’ to work on tanks/tank parts. My Godmother, for whom I am named, spoke of some of the atrocities witnessed, though I’ve always felt she kept the worst to herself- buried somewhere deep. Almost hard to imagine a ‘worse’ with some of the things she did share😔 They immigrated to America where my Godfather went on to invent and patent many things, including some still used daily around the world. Sometimes I think about the descendants of the wicked who no doubt use them. Redemption!💔❤️🩹❤️
They were grateful for the opportunities they felt America afforded and granted them all the days of their lives.
Resilient people… and I’m not just speaking of my Godparents!
Your tears are a tribute to all who suffered. Thank you for reacting to this; it’s such an important film💜
On a MUCH lighter note- a great Ralph Fiennes flick: Game Show. Also a true story!!
Stay safe & love much💖
I'm glad for you that they survived, and while your Godmother didn't share everything that happened, I'm sure she wanted to spare you some of her pain.
Thank you. I have zero doubt you are correct💔❤️🩹❤️
@@howrued1500 You're welcome, God bless.
I really appreciated your reaction to this film. Your comments were insightful and your humane response to what you were watching were full of empathy for the suffering of others.
Spielberg contacted John Williams to compose the music for this film. After reading the screenplay, Williams told him he wasn't worthy of writing it. "I know," Spielberg told him. "Everyone who is worthy is dead." Williams wrote it.
I truly believe that this movie would not have had the quite the same emotional impact of it was completely in color. B/W just give it a more historical and grittier feel and takes you back to the days of films that actually were in the 1930s and 40s
A rough movie to be sure but so important that people remember or these types of atrocities can repeat. Thanks for reacting to such a difficult movie. My heart went out to you as I knew you were in for a tough ride.
Yes, at the end, when subtitles are on, it explains who each person is who visits Oscar’s grave. They were the actors alongside the actual person or family. The woman with Ben Kingsley was the widow of Isaac Stern for example.
This is another really heavy one 💔
What gets me the most in that scene when Oskar breaks down crying is his emphasis 'one more PERSON. A person.'
I am sure someone already wrote this but, when you watch with subtitles, they wrote "schittler's jews today". Some of them actually represented in movie and they walk side by side. Or relatives of the characters in the movie. Ben Kinglsey is walking with his chracters wife for excample. It is amazing to see 1 persons actions saved this many lives and they continue to live with their kids and grandkids.
This movie isn't just a beautiful piece of art, it just doesn't tell an effective story. It also explains why even one person can change a lot.
Although I watched this movie at a young age, I can say very clearly that after watching it, I became a different person.
When John Williams was asked to write the score he said ‘Steven, you need a better composer than I am to do this film.' And he said, 'I know, but they're all dead.'
It's such a beautiful score!
I don't understand. When he said "...but they're all dead", did he refer to Jewish composers who experienced the Holocaust themselves or other genius composers like Beethoven, Mozart etc.?
@@franzliszt8957 the second, I believe
@@larrybell726 Considering the subject of this movie, I suspect the first.
@@franzliszt8957 He was referring to the composers.
This is one of the most important films ever made. I saw this as a young kid and it has had a huge impact. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
An incredible true story. My grandparents were survivors. Their stories are heart wrenching. I would recommend The Pianist next if you haven't seen it yet. Also a true story about the Holocaust. Also incredibly well done.
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil". great quote, thanks for sharing it
I know its unworthy to use a video game quote, but I feel the quote itself is strong enough to warrant it
"Ignorance is the greatest weapon of tyranny, and old wounds open all too easily. I am merely a fool who created a monster I am now powerless to stop. And so I will play my role to the bloody end"
- Admiral Aken Bosch (Freespace 2)
Whether tyranny and oppression are your purpose or not, once you use ignorance and fear to promote your cause, Pandora's Box opens and cannot be closed. This is unfortunately the lesson we never seem to learn
The score was by John Williams and won the Oscar that year. The violin solos are played by Itzhak Perlman, considered one of the world’s greatest violinists.
There have ony been three Spielberg films not scored by John Williams. The Color Purple (music composed by Quincy Jones), Bridge of Spies (scored by Thomas Newman), and Ready Player one (scored by Alan Silvestri).The first film he chose Jones because he wanted a specific feel to the music. For the second one I believe John Williams was having surgery for a pacemaker. For the last one Williams was already working on another film-Spielberg's The Paper. Every other film of Spielberg's was scored by John Williams (who also won an Oscar for Schindler's List.
In Judaism, when honoring someone who's deceased, instead of placing flowers at the grave you place a rock. Because flowers die and decay - but a rock is forever.
Thanks so much for the authentic and honest reaction. My mom grew up as a child during WW2 and it’s close to my heart. Seattle in the house!
I wonder what kind of mental toll playing Ammon Goeth so well might have had on Ralph Fiennes. Reportedly at one time during filming, Spielberg had some survivors of the camp in the film on set and they saw Ralph Fiennes in uniform and were visibly shaken.
But, as a measure of how people can heal, some of the survivors when meeting Ralph Fiennes at a reception, were quite taken by his good looks and personality. At least according to some interviews I have seen.
Thank you both for putting your kind selves through this. You set an example, by taking this on in a public setting. Good wishes to you and may it get shared on and on. Being witness, is such a sacred task. lest anyone ever forget that humans did this to their fellow humans, and may again. The chance is lessened every time we are forced to witness and remember and teach every generation. Bless you both.
FYI, Spielberg put the little girl in red to honour a family. The father had purchased his little girl the red coat, and when the nazis were rounding up the jews he was separated from his wife and children. Because of that little red coat, he could watch his family disappear into the distance longer because the red coat stood out in the crowd. His wife and children were murdered (which is why they later show her body in the cart, to confirm) and his story is chronicled in the Holocaust archives. Some crazy cow tried to convince people the little girl was her when the film came out but she was an attention seeker. It had been confirmed that the father had lost all of his family in the camps.
Well you are making many assertion there and if you could guide me to source where these assertions came from , that would be great . I enclose a tv interview with Spielberg himself and its seems to be a totally different motive for its inclusion. interview here ruclips.net/video/QbZlsL0AD4o/видео.html
@@bestistmate I'm not going to guide you to the source. LOL. I don't hand hold adults, who can research it themselves. The information I gave is all over the internet - be a big boy and look it up yourself Ha.
@@hilaryc3203 I have just hand hold you to the horses mouth , so your research and conclusions are not true , unless Steven is lying .
@@bestistmate OFFS. You saw something , and I saw something that was different, both came from the same source, so if this means so much to you, write the man and effing ask. LOL
@@hilaryc3203 Respectfully ,Schindler mentioned how the girl in red coat was being ignored by SS in the street and Steven said he could not believe that the west was doing the same and doing nothing to stop it. Why would i need to write to him when he answers the question . There may be a link to that what you say but i cant find it so please show me . I time stamp again the exact moment he talks about it. Please tell me what you heard from those words concerning that subject. ruclips.net/video/QbZlsL0AD4o/видео.html
The emotional part of SL for me is at the end when Oscar weeps,”I could have done more….”
He had a “Mighty Change of Heart” that is spoken of in the Book of Mormon.
It reminds me that I don’t want to feel that way at the end of my life
I remember watching this movie in history class in high school. Such an important and powerful and absolutely heartbreaking (to say the least) film. Incredibly difficult to watch but truly a masterpiece. And great reaction as well!
a film that everyone should watch so we never forget and never repeat
you guys are wonderful. I always cry at the ending portions of this film. I have watched it several times. I would have been surprised if you had no tears.
I love the realisation that all the survivors were walking with the actors. It took me about ten years to realise
And Steven Spielberg's grandparents went through this they live through this and they told him what they experienced and saw when they were in the camps Steven gets his inspiration from I guess you can call it from his grandparents who survived this horror
You have to see “Life is Beautiful,” Rescuers stories of Courage,” and “The Pianist.” Different than Schindler’s List, so amazing!
You're right, we have to keep, not just TELLING these stories, but experiencing it as you did. I adore your real emotion at the end. I'm from MI, close to where you hail from, and we didn't actively experience this war, so all we have are the memories and stories of these families. My dear nephew is 3, he's half Jewish, his father not quite orthodox, but nonetheless, this movie is a WHOLE different experience with him in my life!!
The rocks on the grave is a sign of respect to someone according to the jew tradition.
Yes, the people at the end are the real Schindler Jews with the people who played their role in the movie. But, in the version I saw in french, there was the name of each person (even the little girl who give a birthday cake to Schindler).
Ben Kingsley was with the widow of Itzhak Stern who's dead in 1969 and yes, the woman in the wheelchair is Schindler's widow, Émilie. It's Liam Neeson who put the roses at the end.
As a french, when I was 15, I met a survivor of the Holocaust with my classmates. This guy was deported at 12.
If you're interested, you should watch these movies :
1) Le voyage de Fanny (Fanny's travel)
2) Un sac de billes (A bag of marbles)
3) Au revoir, les enfants (Goodbye, children)
These are french movies about the Holocaust but they're all adaptations of real stories.
PS : I read on Internet there's a woman who's the grandaughter of Amon Goëth and she says he could kill her if he knew her because she's biracial
Great reaction guys keep it up! Two other good movies like this one are Defiance with Daniel Craig and The Pianist with Adrian Brody both made after true stories, I hope one day you react to them. 👍
You are an artist Nick.....your inserts added so much to the reaction....well done!
May I suggest The Green Mile....The Shawshank Redemption....get Jen some tissues.
Thanks! Shawshank is one of my favourite movies, actually. Either one of those would be another tear-jerking reaction.
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How about Pan's Labyrinth? I dont know why, but every time I think of Green Mile, I always remember that one... both a serious movie with a touch of fantasy...
@@Flix2Us What both said please
During the scene where the bodies are dug up and burned, there is a Nazi soldier freaking out, screaming at the camera and then shooting his gun at the fire. That wasn't acting. That actor really did lose it. Despite the fact that it was all pretend, it was still horrible, with the fake rotting bodies and the real fire, and it was all too much for him. And one of the ladies in the film was on the set for real: Mila Pfefferberg, who was contracted as a consultant. When Ralph Fiennes showed up in costume, he approached with a smile to shake her hand, and she fell into a fit of trembling, she was to terrified by his similarity to the real Goth. (It really was uncanny; look up pics of him.) Yes, the realism was extraordinary and a real work of art.
Abraham, Lot, Isaac and Jacob were nomadic shepherds, always looking for green places where men and animals could drink and rest. To find the places where their loved ones were buried, they erected mounds of stones. This custom has been handed down from generation to generation, even when the Jews left the desert and settled in the cities and when they dispersed all over the world. On the graves of cemeteries, Jews always lay stones instead of flowers to remember their loved ones and also the origins of their people.
You seem to have watched a version w/o the texts at the end. So there's a part where the movie stops while Amon is getting hanged and you're supposed to read some info about him. There are also some info about what happened to Schindler, as well as the names of the people visiting his grave.
The answer Garth gave to his judges at his war crimes trial was that he shot some of the prisoners to " encourage the others." He was a total Psychopath.
The camp was built on an old Jewish Cemetery, the road into the camp was paved with the headstones from the Cemetery literally forcing the Jewish inmates to walk daily on their ancestors graves, an act of profound disrespect.
Stealing gold and other valuable items from the dead was referred to by the Nazis as "Economic Processing."
Strange that Ray Finnes has played some of the worst monsters in recent cinema history; Voldemort and Amon Garth. He was so spot on in his portrayal that one of the people Spielberg hired as a consultant, who had known Garth, suffered an attack of PTSD, years after the fact upon seeing him.
Towards the end of the war, the Nazis returned to the scenes of their earlier massacres to dig up and reduce the evidence to ashes in fear of the retribution of the Allies after the war.
The Selection was done to separate the old, women with children, and those who were considered too weak to work.
Those sent to the right, life in the work camp, to the left, the gas... so a simple flick of the hand or thumb to one side or the other decided your fate.
Joseph Mengle, among his many other crimes was one of the SS Physicians in charge of the Selection at Auschwitz.
Stones are left on a headstone as an act of remembrance.
He was named as "Righteous Among the Nations," by the Holocaust Memorial in Israel.
The ending scene shows the real people together with the actors they were portrayed in the movie. The man lying down the rose at the end was Liam Neeson
Placing stones on graves is an ancient custom for Jews. It is permanence of remembrance. Flowers die, stones remain forever. There are more ancient beliefs around that, but in the modern world the meaning is more passive. Spielberg was so depressed making this movie, that he telephoned Robin Williams everyday so Robin could make me laugh.
I have seen a couple of reactions to this movie but this was the best. I love the quotes you included and reserched. You totally felt what this film meant. Some survivors were shown previews of tthe film and when asked what they though a few said it was not brutal enough. The real woman that was Goegh maid saw Ralph Fiennes in uniform on set and imediatly started to tremble and sob with fear.
He is buried on the mount of olives in Israel. Quite astonishing considering how he began. But it does show humanity does exist.
I've had to see this movie back in 1993, and I was 14- was bawling out of the theater at the end... there was no easy way to say about it. Still hard to see this one no matter how many times I see it.
As a German i was in Dachau 35 yrs ago - it´s like yesteterday 🤔🤮😰
As a German I really appreciate the little bit of research you seemed to have done beforehand (or you just knew) anyways its very important to know these things
Thank you for taking the time (and mental energy) to watch this piece of history
I truly believe Spielberg intentionally had the German Woman in the red coat, same as the little girl, in Episode Nine of Band of Brothers. As she is burying the bodies of the Holocaust victims, to show and connect both sides of the experience. I don't think there are coincidences in his work. If not, he would appreciate the observation and irony.
Music by Izaak Perlman together with John Williams.
Darth Vader's helmet was inspired by the "kabuto", the helmet used by the samurai.
But yeah, the Imperial uniforms were inspired by the SS uniforms, which incidentally were produced by Hugo Boss, which is still a popular brand today despite the Nazi connection.
Really good reaction video mate. Enjoyed watching it.
The actress playing Helena Hirsch is Embeth Davitz who starred with Robin Wlliams and Sam Neill in "Centennial Man".
I went to school with her at The Glen High school Pretoria South Africa she used to do cross country running there's photos of her in my school album ❤🎉❤
The actress playing the little girl in the red coat is Polish. Oliwia Dabrowska. She now works helping Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
I just regret that Hollywood never thought of making a film about the greatest hero of all , saving 30,000 Jews , his name ARISTIDES SOUSA MENDES , Portuguese , at the time consul in Bordeaux who saved around 30 thousand people from death by issuing visas to pass to border , even though it was closed by the Portuguese government , he went against the order , later being dismissed from his position and never being able to hold any position again , dying in poverty
Please please look up Nicholas Winton . A very quiet humble British man who saved so many children on The Kinder Transport. Our dearly loved Queen Elizabeth 2nd knighted him. Sir Nicholas Winton. God bless you Sir Nicholas and Your Majesty.
The reason why he spilled the other man’s coffee on the work paper was to make it look older and more worn out, I’ve seen people do it with coffee grains in painting
How is it possible for people to watch this great movie only decades after it was released? This is one of the finest movie in history.
Although John Williams composed the score for the movie, Itzhak Perlman was the violinist for the theme song.
Great reaction! This is my favorite movie and I’ve watched it countless times. Still the part with the one-armed man being shot is something I’ve not been able to watch after the first time I saw it at 13 years old. I don’t know why either because I absorb everything about the Holocaust that I can and have heard the most terrible recounts of atrocities which, of course have caused nightmares but something about that particular moment of that film is something I can’t bring myself to visually witness again.
Check out Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who also saved so many lives. And if I remember correctly, nearly lost her own. I only wish I could show that same character in the darkest times.
A true hero brags not of who he saved, but mourns those he could not save.
The couple who got married are Joseph & Rebeka Bau. Read their book 'Dear God have you ever been hungry?'
Something that always stays with me is the different calorie rations from the ghettos to the camps.
At work camps they were existing on 480 calories a day.
How they could stand much less work is amazing. Well, most did not live.
My grandfather worked in the displaced person's camp following the liberation. He helped many come to the States over the years. So I grew up knowing survivors and hearing first hand about their struggles. Struggles that did not end the day Hitler died.
Just sad that the format you watched meant the actual subtitles in the film were removed in place of your closed captioning. There was so much extra information that didn't display and it's frustrating that you couldn't see it because of a formatting procedure.
Schindler was a damn fine man, a very troubled one throughout most of his life but a damn good man at heart. He always dreamed of being rich and he gave everything he had and dreamed of so that his Jewish workers might have a chance.
Thank you for this. It is a part of history that needs to be told.
I had the extreme honor of working in an Assisted Living facility several years ago now, where many residents were of the Jewish faith.
One of those residents was a survivor of the holocaust, he even showed me the now worn serial number that had been tattooed on his arm for identification.
He told me a story I would like to share, to keep his part alive.
When the war ended and he was finally free, he walked all the way back to the small village where he was originally from. When he arrived, it was night. Several other men had also made this journey from other camps, hideouts, and so on. The town was destroyed.
So that night, these few men that were strangers, who all had just survived hell, made a campfire and to sit around. They began to tell their stories to one another. What happened, where they'd been, and what they had seen. They cried, and held one another, for now they each were all the other had in the world.
His story has stuck with me ever since.
Hopefully, one day, the people who are "in charge" around the world will start making better decisions. Ones that don't wind up sacrificing or negatively affecting generations to come.
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John Williams. Won an Oscar for this!
At the end, the actors accompanied the real life survivors...or close relative of the person they played in the film. The rose was placed on the grave by Steven Spielberg .
16:42 The German guy didn't like it when the kid he was carrying back was shot. "What's that shit supposed to mean? Have you gone mad? You could have shot me with that shit gun!"
Ya’ll need to watch The Pianist AND Valkyrie! Both of those movies were also based on a true stories.
There is a new movie that's come out called One Life which is about a englishman Sir Nicholas Winton who rescued hundreds of children from certain death and brought them to England and found them homes families to live with. He kept it all secret even after the war its a beautiful story and the film stars Sir Anthony Hopkins. Its incredible and well worth the watch. Stories like Schindlers, Sir Nicholas and Desmond Doss show the how much one man can truly do if u really try and dont give up.
10:24 - The 34th rule of acquisition
you got me
Yes, at the end you see the actors accompanied by the people they portrayed
@16:14, the German soldier wasn't mad about the man shooting the boy, he was mad that he used his rifle, because (this is a translation to the best of my ability) "Are you crazy? You could've shot ME with your shitty rifle. You were so close to killing ME"
And that, my friends, is what we call a "Masterpiece."
Late to the party here but Vaders helmet is based on a Samurais, there's tons of imagery from WW2 in Star Wars but also tons of imagery from Japan too, ie Obi is a sash for a kimono, lightsabres are katanas.
"I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness ; I hear the approching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything change for the better, that this cruelty to shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more." Anne Frank
We are in a trouble times again. But the sun and the moon still shine. Love, hope and sweetness, for all of us. ❤️
When Schindler was saying that "you have to understand. Geoth is under enormous pressure" ... he wasn't saying he agreed with him, he was saying, you have to understand that, he IS under pressure, and if you give him the smallest reason or excuse, you will die. To survive, you have to think like your enemy, even though, at this point, Schindler hasn't made his full transformation just yet ... he's still in the process. However, he's starting to see that the things he (and his accountant) are moving toward may attract too much suspicion, and he's not fully convinced he wants to go down that road. Remember, if Schindler's eliminated, EVERYONE will also be killed, sooner of later. When Schindler states, "He can't enjoy it", he's just in disbelief ... he can't reconcile his behavior with his actual immorality, and figures that the pressure on him is making him do these things. He again, isn't ready to commit and is trying to make sense of it all.
BTW, I don't think you actually understood fully ... yes, the people at the end were BOTH, the actual survivor AND the actor/actress who played them in the movie BUT ... there were people who place a rock that were alone ... they were actual survivors that were NOT portrayed in the movie so, no actor/actress to walk with them.
Also, about you're question about "sympathizers" ... yes, there WERE a LOT of them, and they were the first to be killed. In fact, if they hid, didn't kill or were caught behinds their own enemy lines without orders to do so, they were hung from trees, lampposts, etc. in public, usually outside of their own towns by the SS, who placed signs on them, hung from their necks, stating how they were traitors and cowards.
In the end there were the actors and the people they played, yes. And Liam Neason laying down a rose 🌹
Ya reactions were amazing 🤩 ya got a new fan now.
"The List...... is Life."..... (I cried when I wrote this).
In addition to the mitzvah explanation to the rocks it is also because the rocks on the graves as a more permanent reminder....flowers are temporary and die after a couple days, whereas rocks last forever. And yes the actors with the actual survivors.
Dunno what was up with your copy (maybe having subtitle son messed with the graphics), but the original movie has the names listed in text as the survivors place rocks at his grave, like Helen Hirsch, Mrs. Schindler, etc all next to the actors that played them- often the child actors. It also noted with text, "the Schindler Jews today" when it went to color with them all in a line.
Best film ever made.
Loved your reactions to this masterpiece 🙏💓
*"Train of Life"* is another great movie on this topic.
Though...
In the movie casting several bigger names were considered for roles (Liam Neeson was still relatively new) but Spielberg refused because he didn't want the stars to overshadow the topic at hand.
How weird is it that at the same time Spielberg was creating this depiction of the horror and heart of humanity that he was also working on an island park with dinosaurs?
I love that you put quotes in the skips you took in the watching.
Such a powerful movie. Hard to watch but very important.
The end is the actual survivors and their families (or their descendents) that the actors portrayed, not the actors.
No it was not the families it was the actors and the people they portrayed