Who saw Schindler's List? I have a question, pls...

[bliss_eternal]

I only saw it once, and much of it is clouded by the the torrents of tears I cried during the ENTIRE film.

I seem to recall a bridge, walkway or road that they were walking on, and it seemed to be covered by a mosaic of headstones or graves. Is this an accurate memory from the movie? If so, was this based on an actual location in Germany or Poland?

Sorry if this seems morbid. I don't mean to be. Doing a personal project on film imagery fact vs. fiction (I love that show on History channel).

If anyone could help with this, I'd appreciate it...

[MissHoneychurch]

1. You remember it right

here is an article about the camp where some of the movie plays. The movie was made on the original places. The camp was located in Poland.

http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/plaszow.html

about the movie itself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindlers_List

[bliss_eternal]

2. Thank you for the link

it's so hard to read it, so much brutality to the innocent.

I found this link that talks about where Speilberg filmed. He wasn't allowed in, so he recreated a lot of the actual things seen in the film, included the road of graves I recalled.

site link

http://www.schindlerslist.com/best-movies-about-holocaust.html

Excerpt:

Production designer Allan Starski also built a replica of the forced labor camp Plaszow, one of the largest sets ever built in Poland. The movie set was constructed using plans from the original camp. Overall, the company built 34 barracks and seven watchtowers and also recreated the road into the camp that was paved with Jewish tombstones helping to make Schindler's List one of the best movies about Holocaust.

Thank you again for the links and for validating my memory on the film!

[MissHoneychurch]

3. your welcome

that movie impressed me also. I've seen it more than once by now. And I cry every time again.

[billyskank]

4. Never seen (or read) it, but

at my last job I was riding the elevator and noticed the manufacturer's mark "Schindler."

I spent the next five minutes giggling at the idea of Schindler's Lifts. :crazy:

[bliss_eternal]

5. LOL--

that's silly... :P

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. The first UNIX system I used was in a network administered by...

...a guy named Schindler.

/etc/passwd was, of course, Schindler's List.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Funny

We have "Schindlers Lifts" here too!

[Jamastiene]

7. I cried at the butality too.

There was a movie called Bent years ago that was about gay people during that time that really got to me too.

Consequently, when a research project came up in one of my classes, and my choices seemed to be limited to the KKK, nazi medical experiments, and Jeffrey Dahmer, I ended up having to choose Jeffrey Dahmer as my topic for research. I decided on him after a night of preliminary research, because the other two were MORE disgusting to me. I still can't get over the horrible things done during the holocaust.

[dryan]

9. The Nazis....

used to vandalize Jewish cemeteries and use the gravestones in footpaths. Eichman used to use them as stones in his garden.

[bliss_eternal]

10. Was there no end

to what they would do? To desecrate a cemetary, so they could 'decorate' their footpaths and gardens. It's beyond disturbing.

I was really struck by that image in the film--them walking up to the camp, with all those headstones beneath their feet...very difficult image to process.

[Jamastiene]

11. Not to mention the medical experiments.

Hollywood movies barely scratch the surface of some of the things they actually did. Depraved depraved people, the nazis were. If you want to see what sickened me the most, go to yahoo and type "nazi medical experiemnts" or nazi+medical+experiments. I'm talking seriously sick stuff they were doing to HUMAN BEINGS. It turned my stomach.

[bliss_eternal]

14. I know about those--

sick. All I can say about them is sick. It wasn't enough to ruin their lives, to take away their families, their livelihoods and homes. It wasn't enough to starve them and strip them of all dignity or even to kill them in front of their neighbors and loved ones.

No, they had to add sick experiments to it all.

[tjdee]

12. Why do they make so many Nazi films?

I quite enjoyed Schindler's list and a number of other WWII/Nazi films, but I wonder if Nazis aren't becoming comical characters at this point, like the white slave owners in slavery films. Like boogiemen or ugly witches.

IMO, that's slightly dangerous because the Nazis/slave owners *were* people. They had children, they enjoyed music, they fell in love, etc. Part of the atrocity in what happened is that these people were their neighbors, their countrymen. Considering what's happening in this country, I think we (and quite frankly the victims) are sometimes done a disservice by being presented the same kind of Ooga Booga Nazi characters over and over, even though obviously they committed horrific acts and that's the entire reason films are made about them.

I'm far more interested in the non-Jewish Germans of the day who weren't storm troopers, and why they allowed these things to happen. I'm more interested in how Jewish families pieced their lives back together after the war ended.

Back to Schindler's List, though, that girl in the red coat broke my heart. :cry:

[aePrime]

13. I have a confession

The first time I saw the movie, I didn't notice the little girl was red. Completely escaped me -- I'm not color blind or anything.

Afterward somebody mentioned the girl in red, and I was very confused. "It was all black and white!" I protested.