How Creating Schindler’s List Almost Broke Steven Spielberg

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@jerrymcdaniel4539 6 ай бұрын

Ralph Fiennes is a great actor. I cannot think of anyone else that could have played that part so masterfully.

@cherryblossoms85 6 ай бұрын

I hated him in that movie well ok his character so yes he did great.

@Fiilis1 6 ай бұрын

@@cherryblossoms85 So Ralph did perfect job then 🤌

@ives3572 6 ай бұрын

"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."

@OswaldPHaygood 6 ай бұрын

Spielberg also said he would watch episodes of Seinfeld after shooting Schindler's List, in order to help him mellow out. Jerry found out about it, and then wrote the Schindler's List episode (Jerry making out during it) as an homage to Spielberg. (Thanks to Judge Reinhold for that story).

@seanbigay1042 6 ай бұрын

It's said that some days Steven was so depressed he'd call home to a very good friend and say, "Robin, please cheer me up." And Robin Williams would oblige.

@chiquita683 6 ай бұрын

@@seanbigay1042It took such a toll on Robin Williams he couldn't continue

@Kaboomboo 6 ай бұрын

And he listened to Adam Sandler's Hanukkah song and personally phone him saying it helped lightened the mood while filming it. He talked about it on Howard Stern.

@alemontreemydearwatson9775 6 ай бұрын

No movie will ever leave a scar on my soul like Schindlers List. But I hope we never forget .

@bursegsardaukar 6 ай бұрын

It's sad that Robin Williams can drive despair away from people at their lowest point (Spielberg during the production of Schindler's List and Christoper Reeves who was contemplating suicide after the accident that paralysed him) and yet he couldn't save himself from the despair that haunted him.

@JuhiSRK 6 ай бұрын

Lewy Bodies dementia is horrible.

@CraftyZanTub 6 ай бұрын

Robin died because he had advancing dementia and was slowly losing what he was.

@Sash-Vintage 6 ай бұрын

I remember watching the movie in 1994 with my girlfriend. The movie ended,for at least half an hr no moved,no one stood up from their seats,you heard the occasional crying To this day together with the holocaust TV series it shaped my view of history,values & how I live my life (Being German)

@racheljordan4718 6 ай бұрын

Rest in peace to all the lost souls in the Holocaust 🖤🥀🌷

@ruthgallagher9584 5 күн бұрын

Yes, and those in Gaza

@philipberthiaume2314 6 ай бұрын

I was a lifeguard, in the late 80's, early 90's. One of the locations I worked at was a Jewish Y. And I met a few ladies who had the German identity tattoos on their arms. They were all little or young girls who survived the camps of WW2. By the time I met them, they were elderly and their husbands had already passed. These ladies could do whatever they wanted, swim where they wanted, had the complete attention of staff and myself, where I was the manager. I sometimes think of them, and the meaning they brought to my life.

@ChampChamp2024 6 ай бұрын

Why tattoo them if you’re going to exterminate them, how come so many survived as well these so called death camps?

@torecastillo3366 6 ай бұрын

Meeting a a victim changed your life, wow. Good people don't judge, regardless of background our creed. Good to know your subtly racist.

@Digital_Necromancer 6 ай бұрын

The biggest threat to the people in the work camps was allied bombing. We should always remember the 6 bajillion though. Especially when they are mass genociding people they've had in the world largest concentration camp since the establishment of the Jewish state.

@naps4all 6 ай бұрын

@@torecastillo3366How cynical you are, to read these musings and only draw a conclusion of "subtle racism".

@torecastillo3366 6 ай бұрын

@@naps4all I'm sorry you are offended over nothing. I just don't care what happened in WW2 because normal people have moved on. People who cannot let go of the past, are doomed to relive it.

@turdl38 6 ай бұрын

My sweet papa (paternal grandfather) served in Germany and surrounding areas during the second World War. I asked him once if he'd ever seen a concentration camp in person. He said yes and paused a while, then asked me if I'd seen Schindler's List and went on to say it's the most accurate depiction he knows of. Hard? yes. Real and important? Also yes.

@CrazyCatMom11 5 ай бұрын

My grandfather helped liberate a concentration camp. I'm not sure which one, but he helped his unit's photographer take photos and had copies made for himself. My grandfather's younger brother (who is now a spry 84 years old) has those photos and showed them to me a few years ago.

@alarcon99 6 ай бұрын

Robyn was such a beautiful soul 😢

@FeverMutt 6 ай бұрын

Pink haired feminist.

@masondegaulle5731 6 ай бұрын

Not enough souls like his and too many like ...that.

@susanmolnar9606 6 ай бұрын

The way Spielberg ended this film is absolutely moving. How could someone not get emotional.

@abraham7414 6 ай бұрын

Something I really liked about this film that I would like to acknowledge is the use of foreign accents on all the characters. It really maintains that comprehensibility for the primary English speaking viewers without the use of subtitles.

@davidlape7936 6 ай бұрын

I remember watching it in the theater and sobbing at the very end. Powerful movie. Incredibly sad part of history.

@donHooligan 6 ай бұрын

history? it is still happening, right now.

@jennifermorrow2872 6 ай бұрын

@@donHooligan not like this it's not.

@donHooligan 6 ай бұрын

@@jennifermorrow2872 Palestinians are Semitic, but Europeans are still Europeans.

@davidlape7936 6 ай бұрын

@@donHooligan Yes, you are correct and I apologize. I meant that part of history and emotionally I broke down crying. We live in a dark world. Thank you for your comment. Respect and blessings.❤️

@donHooligan 6 ай бұрын

@@davidlape7936 no need to apologize to me, ever. we are all in this, together... and i just try to share my perspective. i am quite crass about it, sometimes.

@jpac_ 6 ай бұрын

I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. It is so haunting I haven't watched again since.

@sureshmukhi2316 6 ай бұрын

Me too. I watched it when it came out, never watched it again except for shorts here in youtube.

@donHooligan 6 ай бұрын

it's still happening in Occupied Palestine.

@whatjake7898 6 ай бұрын

@@donHooligan Do not compare this to a territory that harbors terrorism and caused everything they are getting. No one believes the false narrative you push.

@sureshmukhi2316 6 ай бұрын

@@donHooligan are there forced labor, concentration camps, gas chambers, ghetto liquidation in Palestine?

@seanbigay1042 6 ай бұрын

This movie regularly comes in near the top of movies that can only be seen once. I think I can top this, though. For years after I saw this movie I completely forgot John Williams' haunting score. I had blocked it from memory, the way you sometimes block something too painful to be borne -- and for precisely that reason. It. Just. Hurt. Too. Much.

@pamelacommons7315 6 ай бұрын

Everyone should see this movie at least once 😢

@foxu8581 6 ай бұрын

I watched it thrice love the film

@xtbum3339 6 ай бұрын

A film that needs to be watched by all, at least once.

@deborahpaulin1188 6 ай бұрын

1000%

@Kat-tr2ig 6 ай бұрын

Especially by those who are perpetuating genocide right now, because apparently they learned nothing

@Dave-bj3pq 6 ай бұрын

😂

@Dave-bj3pq 6 ай бұрын

😂

@patinomaha1 6 ай бұрын

While I know it isn't possible, I wish everyone could see the camp for themselves. I've been to two of the camps including this one and seeing the evil than mankind is capable of saddens and scares the hell out of me.

@ingridfong-daley5899 6 ай бұрын

Ralph Fiennes also put on a ton of weight for his character's part, showing Goethe's degeneration and slothfulness as time goes on... The commitment to character in this film is exquisite.

@just_kos99 6 ай бұрын

In an episode of classic Star Trek (Patterns of Force), Jewish actors William Shatner (raised Conservative) and Leonard Nimoy (raised Orthodox) had to dress up in German WWII uniforms. I've always wondered how they each thought about that. When I saw an article somewhere listing movies that really needed to be seen, but only seen once, my first thought was "Schindler's List." I saw it once, it was very moving and powerful, but I really couldn't bear to watch it again. Most shocking to me was Ben Kingsley about to beat the crap out of the guy in the bar -- I can just picture that in my head!

@marianparoo1544 6 ай бұрын

They enjoy the irony. Two of the actors who portrayed Nazis in Hogan's Heroes were Jewish, and they have often spoke about it.

@sureshmukhi2316 6 ай бұрын

Patterns of Force was actually banned in West Germany until the 1990s because in a way it glorified Naziism.

@sureshmukhi2316 6 ай бұрын

To think Ben Kingsley portrayed Gandhi, the man who promoted non violence.

@marianparoo1544 6 ай бұрын

@@sureshmukhi2316 It’s called acting

@sureshmukhi2316 6 ай бұрын

@@marianparoo1544 yes, and I was pointing out the irony just like you did.

@joannabaparileszczynska 6 ай бұрын

I was 17 when this movie came out, we were made to watch it with my school. It is without doubt, one of the best movies ever made.

@SDguy3030 6 ай бұрын

Gotta indoctrinate em young

@ericacook2862 6 ай бұрын

The most shocking part to me is watching it all happen again here in the US with few willing to recognize it.

@Cs13762 6 ай бұрын

which thing is it that you are saying is the same as the holocaust? surely it can't be so or it would be obvious what you are referring to. very offensive to holocaust survivors to use the term flippantly as part of a modern day political argument. there are holocaust survivors reading these comments seeing you write that 2024 US politics is literally the same as the events depicted in schindlers list.

@ILoveKimPossibleAlot 6 ай бұрын

Robin Williams is always the GOAT, thanks for sharing that fact!

@Ashley-vs8nu 6 ай бұрын

Robin pops in at the most random and needed of times for his friends.. miss him

@QuintenWhyte 6 ай бұрын

He was a real-life Genie

@bursegsardaukar 6 ай бұрын

Especially after the accident that paralysed his friend Christopher Reeves and Reeves was contemplating suicide...

@Ashley-vs8nu 6 ай бұрын

Wish there was someone there to be his genie

@homuraakemi493 6 ай бұрын

@@bursegsardaukarnot trying to be disrespectful but how can a man paralyzed from the neck down commit the no-no word? He has no working limbs

@janeck.8695 6 ай бұрын

Schindler's List was the most powerful movie I have ever seen. I wish all people of all nations would learn from it and not repeat the same mistakes.

@sureshmukhi2316 5 ай бұрын

Trouble is it was repeated. Pol Pot in Cambodia persecuted fellow Cambodians. In China, Chairman Mao sent many to "re-education camps" which were just a nice name for concentration camps. North Korea is still doing it now too.

@ives3572 6 ай бұрын

"There will be generations because of what you did."

@IamSnowbird 6 ай бұрын

I couldn't watch this movie in the theater. I knew I would need to take breaks. I watched it in 3 sittings and it was still hard.

@rosemarylusty8045 6 ай бұрын

"Sophie's Choice" more heart-rending. Meryl Streep's most ghastly and incredible performance

@sunshinecoolwater9528 6 ай бұрын

Powerful film. One of Spielberg's best films. Both Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes did a great job in their roles. I especially enjoyed the portrayal of Amon Göth by Fiennes, as I could identify myself in his position, so to speak...

@keelhe893 5 ай бұрын

I have always admired Spielberg and how he is gifted to depict serious topics in film. I think he honored his community with Schindler’s List the same way he honored my community with The Color Purple. He is an amazing producer/director

@btetschner 6 ай бұрын

7:19 Ben Kingsley is one of the most famous Bens in the world, he is a great actor!

@theylied1776 6 ай бұрын

The only two interviews I saw where Stephen Spielberg broke down were... The Color Purple and Schindler's List. He had to fight credits, news media, and the studios to make both of them.

@btetschner 6 ай бұрын

0:01 We watched Schlinder's List for a class when I was in junior high at Burwell Public Schools (BPS) AKA District 100.

@videogamevalley7523 6 ай бұрын

I saw this movie as a teenager and it was difficult to watch but it let me see how there are good people and evil people in the world. I would recommend this movie to watch to people who haven’t seen it (also warning them that it is a hard watch)

@rosedalton442 6 ай бұрын

I love this movie so much I cried during this whole video Great work

@danidavis7912 6 ай бұрын

One of the best WH vids yet.

@pedroballadares5253 6 ай бұрын

Glad to hear the Real Voice , thanks 😊 👍🏼!!

@matthewalexanderlemma8000 6 ай бұрын

For some reason, the Motion Picture Academy really doesn’t like Steven Spielberg. When it came to “Schindler‘s List,” though, they had no choice but to honor him with the Best Director award. They did the same in the following years with “Saving Private Ryan,” although that film I guess was easier to stiff when it came to the Best Picture award. Hey, Weird History, why not do a vid on the craziness of “Godfather III”? Would be a rather interesting examination of a very polarizing film.

@6thwilbury2331 6 ай бұрын

Wow, interesting stuff... I always refer to this movie is "the best film I never want to see again." (Which is weird, because I saw it three times within the first year it came out.)

@wirelessdirk 6 ай бұрын

Ah, the real narrator again. What a treat!

@JuhiSRK 6 ай бұрын

A deep, horrific subject matter & you're more focused on the damn narrator. Pathetic.

@kyle6209 6 ай бұрын

I wish we had more directors like Spielberg

@purpleldv966 6 ай бұрын

Great topic choice! Thank you!

@SupersonicFX 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for bringing back Tom Blank as the WH narrator 🙏🏻

@jenniferlonnes7420 6 ай бұрын

He never left.

@munchcat 6 ай бұрын

Huh? He never left. He's just been busy with other off-shoot channels, like Weird History Food.

@kyonkochan 6 ай бұрын

The fact that you have to censor the awful details of Schindler's List because of KZbin guidelines to appease advertisers is a bit of an insult to the people who died. At least I feel like if you're going to show the movie you have to really show it because it's meant to be inhumane and heart wrenching.

@kakadaf3 6 ай бұрын

I find myself not watching a move, but reliving past life....

@EricGranata 6 ай бұрын

Robin was a true bro. 🥹

@denisegore1884 6 ай бұрын

One of the most important movies ever made. It gives me perspective on what is a hard life.

@marianparoo1544 6 ай бұрын

Decency. He was always proud of his Judaism. Remember the painting episode of Night Gallery?

@textmachine09 6 ай бұрын

Robin williams damn. RIP.

@MWEric 6 ай бұрын

took me six attempts to get pass the children hiding in the outhouse scene one day I watched the entire movie.

@kiniburk 6 ай бұрын

One of a handful of movies I only watched once.

@Cyndi87 6 ай бұрын

My 14 year old is entering high school this year and I'm still debating if I should show her the film or have her watch it in school

@sureshmukhi2316 5 ай бұрын

14 should be old enough. I suggest you let her watch it either way.

@yanetquesada2165 5 ай бұрын

I also watched in my high school world history class

@edlin.o 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for being aware of the importance of such content especially during a time when antisemitism is trending again. We will not forget what happened to our grandparents and we will keep surviving for them. Am Israel Hai 🤍💙 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי

@SuzanneBaruch 6 ай бұрын

עם ישראל חי

@monicahyland8641 6 ай бұрын

We need the story of Robin Williams, he is a legend ❤

@pfkmsandiego 6 ай бұрын

awesome upload. thank you

@z704w40 6 ай бұрын

Classical movie. Extremely emotional. I still can remember seeing this one in a bios in the afternoon and a lot of people crying including me.

@jocelynastheart2732 6 ай бұрын

Steven Spielberg movie are truly amazing, Schindler List is so powerful! Everytime I watch it I want to become a better person, the fear of being taken away from your own homes and family must have been beyond horrible.

@gerhardpistorius5207 6 ай бұрын

A true champion film maker.

@MariaMartinez-researcher 6 ай бұрын

Excellent.

@btetschner 6 ай бұрын

6:35 The Girl In The Red Coat was a topic of instruction when we watched Schlinder's List for one of our junior high classes. It was explained, by the teacher, that is was an image that symbolized the ruthlessness of the time and place.

@kurokumo8169 6 ай бұрын

I remember reading that book was hard it’s not that long of a book but if I recall I put it down for a week or so about halfway through it was just so sad. I picked it back up I finished it it was a long time ago.

@ronm6585 6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@alia7368 6 ай бұрын

not surprised to hear that everyday citizens had pro-SS sentiment was still alive and well, out in the open during the filming of the movie...IN 1993!

@Mario87456 3 ай бұрын

2:47 Actually he did, he just had the money for his salary go to the USC Shoah Foundation which he ALSO founded. So essentially he was only pretending not to take a salary in order to make himself look good. Which I am afraid unfortunately worked so well that it’s told he didn’t take a salary as if it was a fact even though it isn’t since he had the salary used in a different way.

@WaiferThyme 6 ай бұрын

The bit about Robin Williams was a surprise but is so perfectly Robin. I cried the entire time watching this movie and have only been Able to watch it once.

@matthewsermons7247 6 ай бұрын

There is no way a movie like this could be received the same way in today's hyper-polarized society. If a critically acclaimed film about the Underground Railroad came out, half the country would lose its collective sh!t.

@matthewwilton7778 6 ай бұрын

People don't go to movies nowadays because they all suck, not because they hate blacks or jews. Just because a movie tanks, doesn't mean people hate the people the movie represents

@imame1433 6 ай бұрын

Those half don’t believe the holocaust happened 😡

@jann2408 14 күн бұрын

Es ist einfach der gesamte Film der unter die Haut geht. Was mich schockiert das die jehnige die das Mädchen im roten Kleid gespielt hat jetzt mit den Konsequenzen klar kommen muss.

@wadekeith5201 6 ай бұрын

Could you do one on saving private Ryan

@rykris1755 6 ай бұрын

Antisemitism and antizionism/antigenocide are two very different things but this film was very important because people needed to know and see what a horrible thing people of the jewish faith as well as homosexuals and disabled people went thru. Disgusting this happened and genocides still are happening right now in chad and palestine

@evilhellokittie 6 ай бұрын

I was hoping it'd be this narrator

@jerrymcdaniel4539 6 ай бұрын

This was a rough movie to watch but the ending scene was a little over the top but overall a masterpiece and a necessary masterpiece that I hope people will never forget but I know that is futile thought.

@Esrom_music 6 ай бұрын

Divinely guided. Breaks my heart to hear that kind of crazy. How is it that we humans evolved to believe in magic.

@tremorsfan 6 ай бұрын

When Kubrick was trying to make The Aryan Papers he was asked what he thought about Schindler's List. He said it wasn't a holocaust movie, it was a success movie.

@SuzanneBaruch 6 ай бұрын

To this day I still cannot watch this film. But I'm very glad Spielberg made it.

@rumbuzz1 6 ай бұрын

Today I had seen The Pianist and I was thinking about Schindler's List. Very heavy content. It still shocks me that the world had let this happen.

@joywebster2678 6 ай бұрын

And yet everyone is supporting anti Semitic actions again without thought. USA withholding ammunition from Israel as Hesbollah out of Lebanon, supplied by Iran attacks.

@BartholomewFrederickTheThird 3 ай бұрын

@@joywebster2678🤥✂️🍆✂️🍆🍷

@bluee_auroraa 3 ай бұрын

gracias por dar las pronunciaciones correctas, me encantó el video

@edwardleemiller-eo8jp 6 ай бұрын

Spielberg left Jurassic Park immediately after principal filming for Schindler’s List, leaving JP’s post-production direction in the hands of George Lucas.

@jessicamobley3041 6 ай бұрын

I've seen Schindler's List probably dozens of times. To the point that though I'm now visually impaired and can't visually see it as well I know the entire movie from start to finish I think we watched it at least three times in school and as someone who's always been enthralled by the events of the Holocaust and so moved by the accounts of the survivors I washed it on my own quite a few times thinking about watching it again this weekend since my husband's never seen it😊

@btetschner 6 ай бұрын

5:15 Liam Neeson is one of my favorite actors.

@sherisse10 6 ай бұрын

It took me over 3 years to watch it in its entirety. I’d watch it in parts because I’d be too broken up to continue.. I’d put it away then on a rainy day put it back on and so on. I hadn’t known for years about family lost in the death camps.. it was held secret from us grandchildren.

@geoffreyrichardson8738 6 ай бұрын

Some stories come with a price that should be avoided, like Heath Ledgers role as the joker in the Batman film, didn’t end well

@johnrawten197 6 ай бұрын

Genocide throughout history has always been awful stains on world history. What I do not understand is the aftermath of WW2 and the genocide of 12 million Germans is never covered. We are talking innocent Germans who had nothing to do with the war. What makes one more important than the other? They murdered innocent Germans in those same camps. It's almost like certain people don't want everyone to learn about. Innocent people being wiped out is horrible no matter who they are!

@yourhuckleberry6757 5 ай бұрын

Where's Abraham from ? 😅

@arieldeg4156 6 ай бұрын

Cool, now please talk about the Nakba. Absolutely no one is denying the atrocities the Jewish people went through, but we have to question why Zionists have now been allowed to commit the same atrocities to other people.

@rigastreaming 6 ай бұрын

First. But seriously, with current events people should inform themselves more about what antisemitism can lead to

@LightWeightHercules 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for pointing out that many seem to ignore that

@afroahmed3989 6 ай бұрын

But does that statement includes all the semites or just the jews , cause jews aren't the only semitic people in the world you know

@Taragoola 6 ай бұрын

Antizionism isn’t antisemitism.

@rigastreaming 6 ай бұрын

@@Taragoola When people shout "from the river..." there's not much to debate about what is meant. And that's what I mean. Blatant, obvious and seemingly proud antisemitism.

@SDguy3030 6 ай бұрын

@rigastreaming I think at this point people are waking up to the menace that is zionism, and it's not just worked up "anti semitism".

@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n 6 ай бұрын

And the Goeth in the movie wasn't as bad as the real Goeth, if you can believe that!

@thumpyloudfoot864 6 ай бұрын

Empire of the Sun is my favourite Spielberg movie....

@danam0228 5 ай бұрын

That's amazing about rhe weather, very unamazing about some of the locals doing some of the things they did

@jrmckim 6 ай бұрын

I think "Come and See" blows away every other ww2 movie. It's from the perspective of a young Russian soldier.

@Tully_23_32 6 ай бұрын

Thomas Keneally is Australian by the way, but don't worry bout mentioning that

@highnoon9333 6 ай бұрын

I am Jewish and grew up hearing about how this is the most important film for Jewish people of all time. For some reason I've never seen it (nor have I ever made out in the theater while it was playing). People think I'm crazy. I just think it would be too hard to watch.

@susanmolnar9606 6 ай бұрын

Seinfeld reference interestingly snuck in.

@Mariape.Morris 2 ай бұрын

Peliculaza, me llega al alma 💔

@noragibson5293 6 ай бұрын

All of them

@btetschner 6 ай бұрын

Steven Spielberg is one of my favorite directors, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, James Cameron, David Lynch, and Sam Raimi.

@btetschner 6 ай бұрын

Schlinder's List won Best Director at the Academy Awards in 1994, the year I graduated from junior high. The film was released on December 15th, the same day 29 years later I would graduate with my Associates Degrees.