Schindler's List was just played on TV here in China
Schindler's List was just played on TV here in China
Although I'm sure it's not the first time, but it's the first time I've seen it here. Although most of the English language movies they play on the 7 or 8 24/7 movie channels in China are in English, they dubbed this one in Chinese with English sub-titles, and I'm glad they did that. I think that the movie is a powerful and unforgettable lesson about the Holocaust and I'm glad that the Chinese people are able to completely understand everything about the movie.
I first watched Schindler's List in a movie theatre in Toronto when it first came out. In all the years that I watched movies in movie theatres I never before experienced the whole audience virtually frozen at the end, not moving out of their seats until the credits had run and the lights came on. I'm sure that in many cases a lot of the people wanted to hide their tears, and I admit to shedding tears myself. I'm not ashamed to say that I shed them again at the end of the movie today. A person would have to be made of stone not to.
On a trip to Israel I took after I saw the movie I toured the Yad Vashem Museum in Tel Aviv, and particularly noted the tree that Schindler was invited to plant on the Avenue of the Righteous after he was declared one of the Righteous among the Peoples. It had a pile of stones around it larger than any other tree on the avenue. For those who are unaware of it, it is a Jewish custom to leave a stone on a tombstone as you saw at the end of the movie as a sign of respect and that one was there and will always remember.
I assume that pretty well everyone has seen that movie, but if you have not, then you have missed something that nobody should miss.
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If you DID see that movie, what are your feelings about it?
Loved it. Will watch it over and over. I think the most jarring scene to me was of the Nazis clearing the ghetto and the little girl in the red coat running to and fro. Schindler it appears is watching everything and then when he sees that red coat on a cart full of dead people he realizes the horror of what the Nazis are doing and decided to do what he can to save people
I think you're right about what turned Schindler on. Spielberg may have meant her wearing red in a B&W movie in order to point out that fact. Good analysis on your part.
Schindler's List is often cited as one of the best movies ever made.
I think it was in the AFI top ten the last time they released one.
Do the Chinese censor movies or do they show the whole thing?
Interesting you asked about censorship of movies. I was thinking of writing an article about that. One of the most obvious, and in my opinion totally unnecessary examples of censorship was in the Kiera Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice where they totally omitted the ending where she was at Pemberley at night on her knees and Darcy came over to be with her and they spoke of what he should call her and kissed her repeatedly. They ended the movie with Mr. Bennet (Donald Sutherland) saying "If any young men have come for Kitty or Mary, send them in. I'm quite at my leisure." They also omitted the scene of Lydia in bed and Wickham standing in the room. The others have eluded my memory for the moment.
If you meant censorship in the movie Schindler's LIst, they omitted the scene of the woman in Amon Goeth's bed when he went out on the balcony shirtless with a rife and shot a prisoner at random. They tend to censor sexual scenes, but not necessarily violence because if they did they would have to censor all lthe Chinese movies with a lot of martial arts in them. What they should NOT have censored, but did, was the scene referred to by Trout Giggles where the girl in the red coat was a body being carted away, because, as Trout pointed out, it may have been the scene that changed Schindler's attitude. . They only showed a shortened scene where she was marching, then running away and hiding under the bed.
I have watched the film many times on TV, and never tire of it. The scenes of outright brutality, & the moments of tenderness bring me to the verge of tears.
It should be compulsory viewing for all senior students.
Good idea.
It's been a really long time since I've seen it, but it was an outstanding movie.
Absolutely. It's more than a movie. It's a history lesson and a warning.