AMERICA FIRST doesn’t matter if it’s fact or fiction, let people enjoy a beautiful movie about a tragedy that happened and should be respected. Kindly fuck off.
Adrenaline pump won't learn if all we show is hostility. And TH-cam is not the platform for deprogramming a radical. Only face to face can we do that. We must be better men and wait until we get a chance to talk respectfully, even read and talk about the pros and cons if what they believe. and, with return trips mabye we can convince them to give openmindedness a chance.
Yeah. The line is filled with regret and guilt, and even horror - horror that he had ever valued any of these things above even a single life. A Jewish man. A woman. A little girl in a red dress. He saved so many, but is still racked with guilt over the ones he did not.
On the day of Judgement...Schindler stands before Christ The Lord..on his knees..his soul still ridden with guilt over not being able to save more...but then he feels our Lord's arms wrap around him in comfort...holding him close and then as Schindler's tear stained eyes open...God shows him the 1000's of lives he saved that night..of how he helped so many continue living and how many lives he's touched..its then that the guilt leaves Schindler's soul finally..replaced by calm..a peace that only God can give
He kept the only thing that matters in the end, his soul. If there is a judgment day when we all stand before GOD and answer for how we spent our lives. He is one of the very few that will have thousands of souls standing next to his, saying "He tried harder than any other, and he did enough. If this soul is not good enough for you lord, then none are.".
He was Bruce Wayne/Batman, we need more people like him in 21st century, I doubt there are no men like him left anymore anywhere, but probably there are humanist people like him even today somewhere and everywhere on Earth but are not recognized.
@@waynecampeau4566 What you have done with Christ will determine your reward (heaven) or punishment (hell) according to the teaching in the New Testament. A personal faith in the sacrifice and debt payment by Christ for your sins (rebellion) is the determining factor. Not how good you were on earth!
4:44 "A person... For this". That line just gets me. In the middle of his sorrow, he realizes a person, a human life, was barganed for a small insignificant piece of gold. And that is, for me, the most saddest realization of this film.
Being able to put a price on the value of a human life, during those times, was worth its weight in gold. The alternative was that there was no saving any of them, that pure blind hatred had created no room for greed or avarice to prosper. Let us be thankful then that greed and avarice won out over hatred for a lucky few, far too few. Gold saved lives, until those lives could be measured beyond something so insignificant as a small piece of metal.
I came to the comment section looking for someone else to focus on that. It really hit me. That's the line I always remember from this film (well, one of them)
it was 1993 a very good year for movies as was 1994 besides the competition was tense at the 66th Academy awards unlike today here were the nominees..... Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day as James Stevens Liam Neeson - Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
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His realization of "one person is dead... for this" in the context of "whoever saves one life saves the world entire" meant to him that in not saving that one life he lost an entire world. What an incredible weight to carry, how overwhelming that feeling must have been that he could have done more. I hope he found peace in his mind and heart and realized all the good he had done
Because that man doesn't need or want our comments or likes. In fact he didnt need the thanks he got. I'm sure if that man could have pulled the gold and forged the ring himself he would have done it in a back room and never would have expected so much as a thank you. A true act of kindness and respect.
I am from germany. This man, Schindler, he is a true german hero. He believed in what matters the most - the gift of life. Let us pray, that there will be more like him in the future. The human race needs examples like this.
I still believe Germany is the country of Beethovens, Gutenbergs, Nietzsches and Einsteins. What happened during the three decades from 1910-45 is a very unfortunate part of the history. Hard to imagine Germany as the land of Himmler and Nazis, the third Reich was pure madness - altogether a different country. But I think it serves as a good example of what happens when ethnic nationalism goes out of check.
True. I am not blaming Germany, I am just pointing out it was a unfortunate time for Germans and neighbours alike. So many good young people just walked into machine gun nests in the name of fatherland, guess how many thousands of writers, creators and scientists were lost during that time.
I agree. Almost an entire generation of people was lost during the war. Not just in germany, but in all countries involved. Who knows what good things they could have done for our world instead. It's hard to face these facts.
I think that he didn’t throw away the money ... I think the money he gave away to the Nazis, the high class appearance he gave to himself was actually all worth it so he could at the end have enough money at the end to “buy” those people.
@@user-xb7dp4vu3r Bruh, this movie was a Box office hit, the biggest oscar winner of its time, considered as Spielberg's greatest and people say it's an Era defining movie to this day. How is it underrated?
Great insight into the nuance, which I'm sure the writer intended. It does highlight the difference in Oskar Schindler's reality about those whom he originally accepted as a work force which was exploitable and "less superior". They are people now. People who matter.
It highlights the real meaning of life. How important a single life is. A meaning most people fail to understand. They say it's one person. But one person means much. Every soul means much
@@Kitiwake how so?? We don't put anything of "the prophet" Into our sermons we don't remotely speak about sure she's one of our founders and she made books about her visions but it's not obligatory to read them or believe them
Yep, the little girl in the red was the driving factor behind it all. The death of the little girl in red coat was the symbolism that innocence was killed.
Actually the dead body of that little girl in red is what shifted Oskar's heart and made him save this. She, in her death, was the catalyst that made Schindler realize the fruit of life.
Tai Mir he feels so bad. Imagine looking at a pen, and then the thought that the pen would have been a person. Maybe a mother, a kid, someone could have lived because of a pen he never would have considered. Then there are thousands dying today because of war and poverty and all these celebrities don’t turn an eye. Disgusting
Tai Mir. Oscar schindler was one true sholdier of love and ambassador of love............. He will never be forgotten. My grandmother from 🇩🇪 always new a true saint Ich leibe dich. Sir Oscar schindler. Desde chaplain timothy.
there was a limit to how many he could save without being scrutinized himself and having everything shut down. He got very near to being examined too closely. At some point it requires other people like him in other places to save more people. unfortunately there weren't (m)any
Christ has collected his soul unto himself..and relieved Schindler's soul of the guilt he felt by showing him the future's of those he saved that night..yes alot of those futures were hard and filled with pain..but they came thru it..and they kept moving forward because of 1 man's sacrifice
I get VERY emotional when he says "one more person". Just think about it, it doesn't sound like much to save just one more person, but it's one human life with feeling, a family, friends and a future. It's all about perspective. It's so sad it hurts my chest
he says 'one more person' because there would have always been another person that he missed out. He realised he couldn't save them all and that broke him. The helplessness.
Later on when Schindler and his wife were stopped by French Nationals, they had trouble communicating. Schindler gave the letter the workers wrote and signed to one of the people who stopped them to read and interoperate for the others of the group. After reading the letter, the French man burst into tears and explained it to the others of the group. They then helped Schindler and his wife get out of the area safely.
It’s subtle but I love it how he doesn’t say “Jew” but instead says people, person. All those victims were not only Jews, communists, polish, Serbs and Romanis’, Slovenes, Spanish Republicans, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals... they were people, they were humans - just like us.
Great stuff Well, that's why it beat Philadelphia for best picture. I don't think one winning over the other devalues the other, though - rather, the nominations are recognition that both were considerable feats in filmmaking. There's no reason to get upset because one or the other won - it was a difficult choice.
@@fahri.konevi It's originally said in the Hebrew Talmud, whether it has anything to the Quran version idk but this film is obviously referring to the Hebrew version
@@animatorofanimation128Hi! Thanks for your info. I didn't know it. The Sacred Quran contains many ayats from the Sacred Talmud and Gospel. It is very normal because of Three of those sent by Allah. Islam is the last chain 🔗 of Heavenly religion. By the way, There is only one religion. This is my understanding. Thank you for your reply 🤚🏽
@@animatorofanimation128 you don't need to adresse the talk as if it was stolen from the Hebrew version! cause wie do believe that Moses is a prophet, Solomon and David...Jesus the only true Massiah..and the last one Muhammed peace be upon of them all. God sent one message one religion with a lot of prophets at different times. you have to know that unlike any other book, the Quran is the true word of god that means that God is the only narrator of the Quran..and to go back to the verse it goes like this, ''Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely''Surah Al-Ma'idah [5,32] - The Quran
I love this scene because my grandpa on my dad’s side survived a camp called Büchenwald. He got very ill from malnutrition, and almost died, but one of the guards, for one reason or another, noticed this and decided to take my grandpa to the hospital. He could’ve shot my grandpa but decided to help him. For this reason alone, I can really appreciate the power of kindness and the difference one random act of kindness can make.
My Great Uncle served as a Medical Officer in Patton's 6th Armored Divison. Was commissioned as a Captain and left as a Major, but when I asked my cousins if he told where he served, he never told them. The 6th Armored and an Infantry Divison liberated Buchenwald. I can only think the horror he saw there. That's why he never told his children/my cousins. He was an MD for 40 years before be passed in late 1988..
That guard was very brave. I imagine helping a concentration camp inmate would have gotten him in big trouble with the Nazi’s top brass, yet he still helped. He may have committed other atrocities before or after that moment, but, at the time, it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that a man was suffering and he stepped up to help, consequences be damned.
In today's Germany he would be put in prison just for being a guard at the concentration camp even if he didn't harm anyone himself. According to German law being a guard at a concentration camp itself is considered to being and accomplice to the nazis
I really admire how he changed from some selfish buisness man whose only goal was to make a fortune into such a kind-hearted good person. He's defenitely one of the greatest men in history.
He 'changed' when he saw the liquidation of the ghetto, and had that moment of "Good God who am I working with??" when he saw the firing squads, SS units storming buildings, etc.
There's something to be said about the fact that it was his vast fortune that allowed him to save as many people as he did. It's not enough to be a good person and to want to save someone, you have to have the power to do so as well.
in the opening scene, he told his mistress that he finally got his way, the only thing that prevented him from becoming truly 'successful'. the lady asks him 'what is that? luck?' he answers: "war".
What we have is a man. A flawed human but who no matter his sins before and after still saved people, and risked his own life to do so. I’m glad others forgave what he could not within himself. I hope he is at peace.
He could barely have any positive feelings about the 1100 people he saved because he felt too guilty about other people he didn't save. One of the most selfless and unambiguously good people I've ever heard of.
It's not so much that he bought the people directly. He spend a lot of money on bribing Nazi officials to let him keep what was _pretty obviously_ a pretty inefficient operation running for longer, and to allow him to recquisition more "resources".
Those who was Brainwashed to believe they did those who joined thinking they was doing right only to realise too late it was wrong those who joined knowing what they was doing and loved it and those who had not chose
It's simple. The Nazis felt that they were anointed and their vision of the world was the way it had to be. When you truly believe that about a vision, you pervert your own mind to the point that any vile and humanizing act is justified inside of it.
How Neeson did not recieve the Academy Award for his performance in this film, rather Tom Hanks for his in Philidelphia, is beyond me. Sure Hanks did a fine job, but Neeson's is one which should have won because of its weight in human history.
Do any of you believe it was do to acting ability? It was agenda driven and frankly who gives a rip who won an Oscar. Description of being an Actor, "Here wear these clothes, stand here, say these words" that doesn't make them a genius it makes them a person who can't even play pretend without being told what to do and how to do it. Actors are even worse than Athlete's.
Spiff The Magnificent aha ok. Whilst you surely have already heard this question, i am going to ask you nonetheless: why arent you a pro athlete or a famous actor? Moneywise this would be a great choice for you! Anyways acting is not coming up with nothing, it is playing a role believeably -acting. You cannot easily do this. You are even more reliant on genetics with athletics. The vast majority of people cannot, no matter how much training, ever become a pro athlete. How is this job bad?
good acting loses to the popular all the time. as much as love Leo Dicaprio, I honestly think Matt Damon did a better job in "the Martian" than Leo did in "revenant"
@Harem Bobby Joe yes of course. Buuuut I don’t want to be a downer, but honesty is always the best choice. So ima just say that this movie is not totally truthful. This scene did not happen, and he may not have been as kind as they portrayed him. Also his motives may not have been great. But at the end of the day he did save many Jewish lives, so do with that what you will
@@Valcore123 Well I think its even clear in the movie his initial motives were not based on saving jews but financially driven but in the end he went broke keeping them all employed. He may not have had heroic intentions initially but he was a hero in the end.
@Joe Friedman I agree he was a hero. I’m just saying real life isn’t like movies where they show such an emotional change or climax or whatnot. It’s a lot more dull and complicated in reality. And that’s fine, it’s just that people many times believe that the movie is mostly true, when it’s not
To think this man started out as a selfish, money-obsessed cynic, businessman and profiteer who cared only about himself. When he found his humanity during the deadliest war in history and saved over 1,000 oppressed lives…he believed he didn’t do enough in the end. There are films like Titanic that make women cry… There are films like Terminator 2 that make men cry… And then they are films like Schindler’s List that make everyone cry!
"I didn't do enough" "You did so much." That part has me like "Whoa" I am German and my best friend in the whole wide world is a Russian jew, boy am I glad we were born way after the war.
"the term hero irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little." -Irene Sendler. Two heros, same sentiment.
"There will be generations because of what you did." "I didn't do enough." Probably the most powerful, emotionally overhwhelming exchange in cinematic history. And to me, a German, they have an additional layer of weight to them even. Such a great film.
The other incredible line is when Stern is writing down the list and asks him- "You are buying us? You are paying for every person on the list? This list is the absolute good, around it's borders there is darkness"
I am German as well. That added weight feels like it could crush my soul. I ask myself whenever I watch anything about world War 2. Or the holocaust...why...why did we do these things. We all know.."WHY" because of that funny little mustache waste of oxygen and space. My family was lined up against a wall in Germany. And used as leverage so my great uncle would join the werhmacht. The first thing he did when he saw American troops..was he threw his gun down and surrendered he didn't wanna take a life or hurt anyone..like the torture and senseless death he saw all around him.
Teutonic Bohemian It was an incredibly competitive year for lead actors. There was Neeson, along with Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father), Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It), Tom Hanks (Philadelphia) and Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day), with Hanks deservedly winning IMO. Any other year, one of those other guys would’ve won.
@@ifeelpretty5790 I've never actually heard of any of the other movies besides Philadelphia and I have no idea what it's about or why I should watch it. I don't particularly care about the city, no more than any other at least. Schindler's List both broke my heart and uplifted it. And it was real.
Hana A Philadelphia is just the setting of the movie and it deals with prejudice like Schindler’s List but not toward Jewish people. Tom Hanks plays a gay lawyer who gets fired from his firm after he starts showing symptoms of AIDS and ends up suing his former employers for discrimination and wrongful termination with the help of another lawyer, played by Denzel Washington. It’s a great and emotional movie with fantastic acting. Like Oskar Schindler, Denzel Washington’s character starts off on the other side due to his own paranoia and lack of insight toward Tom Hanks’ situation but he grows from his experience and passionately fights for justice. I’ve only seen Schindler’s List, Philadelphia and What’s Love Got to Do with It but I’ve seen Day-Lewis and Hopkins in other films and I know they’re some of the best actors of all-time. Fishburne, as Ike Turner, was both charismatic and terrifying in WLGTDWI, a tough combination to portray. Like I said, in my opinion, it was a very packed category with five incredible actors with only one award, in any other year one of them could’ve taken it.
This scene makes me realize how powerful movies can be. I cry everytime I watch this scene, especially the thing when he breaks down crying and the women run up to him. Steven Spielberg is a genius.
The first time I watched this movie I didn’t cry until he said “I could have got one more person and I didn’t!” That line just finally broke me. I think it was almost like because he cried I almost felt like I was able to cry, or maybe it was just the last bit of emotion that just made me break I don’t know. This movie’s great but I don’t know if I can watch it all again. It’s just so overwhelming.
Well, he was dealing w/ Amon Goeth...who honestly viewed their lives as even cheaper than that...he only sold them for large amounts because he knew Schindler wanted them so badly, and Goeth was as impulsive and greedy as it gets.
It touched my heart the way he scrambled to pick up the ring when he accidentally dropped it. That showed he cared so much and felt awful for dropping it. You are a beautiful soul Mr. Oskar and there is a special place for you in Heaven. I hope that one day you meet every person you helped save. God BLESS you.
Nick Craig nowadays people just wish for the world to end and tell us that the world it is rotten. It might be, but i remind them to think of the good. Theres good out there like presented in this movie :)
6 brillion wailing souls , he saved over 1200 , god bless oscar wilde, may his tree grow thick, strong and mighty and penetrate the skyline of tel-aviv like an almighty teutonic phallus.
This man, Oskar Schindler has driven me my entire life towards decency. My children will know his story and through them in some way "The world entire."
I feel the same way about Jeff Daniels and Kevin Conway's conversation under the tree in the film Gettysburg, when they talk about equality. That dialogue has also stuck with me my entire life and has greatly influenced my mind on equality. th-cam.com/video/HRB2dGI1vRM/w-d-xo.html Such a powerful scene.
I was in 8th grade when I saw this. My history teacher said we should ask our parents to take us to see it. My mom and I went and I can specifically remember hearing sobs from the theater at many moments but none so more than at this part. Probably one of the most emotional and important movies of my life even to this day.
Daniel Mustard this happened exactly to us. In 8th grade, our history teacher suggested us to watch the movie BUT she ended up showing it in class. I was the only one crying because nobody else paid attention.
The emotion in this scene is overwhelming. Liam Neeson does an incredible job. I have seen this film so many times but this scene gets me every time...tears flow
It makes other fluids flow within me, usually vomit. His overacting is underwhelming , the crappy violin music is nauseating , the script is laughable, and the historical accuracy is just plain ........
I just love how that guy gives up his own tooth in order to make the ring. It's so touching...even though they had nothing, they still did whatever they could just to give their savior that gift.
The irony of this scene is that instead of feeling a sense of joy, pride, accomplishment for saving so many he has such guilt and remorse for not saving more. That to me is a Godly Christ centered man.
@Adam Townshend Where do you think compassion and a good heart comes from? It comes from God, who is Jesus Christ. It's ironic that you try to separate God from the very nature that He is. God's very nature is compassion and good-heartedness and that potential lies is humankind too. "Godly" and "Christ-centered" is precisely what Schindler was displaying, albeit a lite version of it, still enough to do some good within a very corrupt world at a very dark time in history.
Servant of Christ compassion comes from within, not from God or Jesus , we are born compassionate, you look at children who know nothing about God, they are so so compassionate
If they didn't suspect him for spending his whole fortune on these people's lives, because they thought he was profiting in some way, then they wouldn't have suspected him for trading his car and pin, because they'd think it's part of his plan to profit even more.
@godlessmath Wow, that's really reaching, and it doesn't matter if he was secretly not broke or not, they thought he was trying to profit by what he was doing, regardless if it involved investing a car or a pin
@@hugh1297 well, it says in the film that the factory in Brünnlitz never actually made a single mortar shell that could be fired intentionally, but that Schindler simply purchased them from other factories and sold them to the army to keep up the charade that his factory was actually helping in the war effort. If the Nazis didn't know that Schindler was spending his own money to buy the shells (which bankrupted him), they would have no idea that he no longer had any money.
Oskar Schindler and John Rabe, 2 member of the Nazi party with a compassion like none other. One saves the Jews from camps, the other saves Chinese in the Nanking Occupation. Names to remember forever
Don't forget about Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a Nazi diplomat who warned Denmark that the Nazis would soon deport the Danish Jews, and subsequently had them all evacuated to Sweden, saving 95% of the Danish Jewish population from death.
The part that starts my breakdown is always the shaking in his hands after he gets the ring that causes him to drop it; you can see it in his scramble as soon as it falls: In that moment, he'd probably have traded his soul for just one more person. I think hearing what those words meant just broke the dam he'd been operating in front of and at the end of it all, the pain, regret and sheer magnitude of it all completely and utterly shattered him.
I remember being in highschool. And we had a guest speaker who was in a concentration camp. He said he was young and was forced to work. He asked the guard day after day what happend to his parents. The guard told him before his shower "youre using them" .... they took the fat from the dead and used it as soap.... i fucking broke down crying
I remember being in highschool. And we had a guest speaker who was in a concentration camp. He said he was young and was forced to work. He asked the guard day after day what happend to his parents. The guard told him before turning off his lamp "youre using them" .... they took the skin from the dead and used it as a lampshade.... i fucking broke down crying
@Vance G DeBravo Every single nation, culture and people have done atrocities. EVERY SINGLE ONE. This is one of the poorest and weakest excuses I have ever read.
The part that always gets me isn't him saying he could have saved one more person, it was his face. The realization that he could have saved at the very least, one more person.
The saddest part is, he cries he could have done more and saved more, that he could have sold more things and wasted so much money and in real life he died poor, he couldn't start any bussinesses back up successfully and had to live off the support of the people he saved. He was a true hero and gave everything he could to save the Jewish people.
The thought process he must have had right there. He could've bought more humans. And just the concept that you could even buy humans, as if they were cars or gold. And then you try to weigh whether human life is priceless or in actuality very cheap and that it's in any way in your hands to even make that call. If one has a conscience, it's a painful thought.
One of the great things about the film is that it doesn't gloriry Schindler. He was not unselflsh, because he set out to make a profit out of the war and he did so. He was also a scoundrel to women in general and to his wife in particular. But more than 1,000 people survived because he saved them. Not taking onto account all the offspring who wouldn't have been born if it was not for him. A masterpiece of cinema for sure.
so true...it wasnt a schindlers good moments story. It showed how much he was willing to use his influence with nazi party to make money....and ultimatly how he ended up with the legacy he's known for. Gives us faith in humanity. Its saddening to watch it and ask yourself how much you would have done, my answer is sadly, selfishly and awfully I would have tried and done "something" but simply would be too scared to go as far as he did. Im sure Im gonna have people hating me for that btw. Anyone who does, dont bother you wont get a reply
Mat Watson no...For what it's worth I can't hate you for that...there are some people who can go that far and 95% of us who can't I fall into the latter category I would like to say I would do something but none if us know know what we would do or are capable of in that situation
There's an asian saying "if someone seems too perfect, it would be a mirage ( a halucination in desert). Yes.Schindler was flawed. But that was made him so human. And so kind. He, a wartime profiteer, willing to goes destitude for saving 1200 people, and ashamed of his inability to saves more.
I'm a Palestinian and really this film is one of the best movies that I have ever watched in my life . Despite the suffering from the Israeli occupation I learnt not to hate . I feel compassion with every human being who suffered from racism and persecution.
It is important to remember that you are not an antisemite even if you you hate the actions done on the Israeli government. You are not a racist and you don't hate all Muslims even though you dislike certain practices within Islam and you hate the terrorists that kill innocent people in the name of Islam. That you do not hate all Americans even though you think their president is a clown. I think whay to many to day see the actions done by the few or an government as the true representative of said group or a nations inhabitants. Everyone have this your either with us or against us attitude that only results in conflicts.
When i was a kid i didnt understand this movie my dad watched this.... now i am an adult i watched it again....i literally cried like i lost something. This movie will be one of my favorites. Thank you Mr. Schindler you are my greatest humanitarian example. You are hero in my book.
Believe it or not, only movies make me cry. You have to put a lot of elements together; music, lights, editing, directing, acting, sound, words, and story, to make me shed one tear. Life is dull to me without any of those.
Although I am not Jewish. I join with my friend and his family during his grandmother birthday in unity. We place her marked tattoo number on our arms. I am so proud to be a part of this event each year. It is such a blessing. Thanks
all those you name were outstanding but for some odd reason the performance that stood out for me was caroline goodall as Emily schindler.cant explain why just thought she was perfect.
I always remember the part in IronMan where Ginseng told Stark: "You have everything and nothing." Schindler, at the end of the war, had nothing and everything.
I'm a grown man, and yet I couldn't hold back the tears when watching Schindler, breaking down after receiving the ring. And now; I still have trouble holding back the tears to this very day. This film really effected me, and still does. God bless that man, and those men, woman, and children who suffered at the hands of those evil Nazis. What a tragedy.
Post Apocalypse, Marooned on an island, Stranded in space .... I'll try to keep this one movie with me as reminder of the quality of being humane and benevolent.
I have always wondered how many others like Schindler were never recognized simply because they wanted to protect themselves and their families. I imagine a great many people who knew of the horror in the death camps worked to protect as many as they could, but their fear of discovery limited how many they felt able to help. Schindler was an incredible man, there were others like him we have come to know, they should all be recognized and loved, but I feel for those whose names we will never hear.
I am paraphrasing a quote I once heard about people in the underground railroad in the U.S. during the time of slavery, but it fits here as well. Evil is less often defeated by heroic deeds of valor, and more often by thousands of little kindnesses done not from courage, but simply because those doing them could do no more, nor less than to offer what little they could out of love for their fellow man.
Laughing achilles.. I recently went to Poland, and our tour guide, who was a Polish lady. The majority of her family had perished in the camps, and she said Schindler is the only one recognised as a hero, because of the film ' Schindlers List'. She reeled off many more names of people ( who to my shame, I cannot now remember) who risked there lives to save the victims heading for the death camps. Some saved more than Oscar Schindler, but again, as only Oscar Schindler was recognised via Schindlers List, only he is known about. I reckon, it would be a great idea to research and make films about the other hero's like Oscar Schindler. It would make better viewing than some of the crap on TV nowadays. And it would be more educational for future generations. As this tour guide stated, " our history is in grave danger of being forgotten."
@@Yorkie2 You may have seen this already but if not I suggest you watch it. It's only a minute and a half and I swear it brings a tear to my eye every time. Sir Nicholas Winton, often referred to as the British Schindler. th-cam.com/video/6_nFuJAF5F0/w-d-xo.html
The only moment I cried was the moment I realised that I wouldn't have done the same... I may not have spent the money to save as many as possible and it made me really upset because how hard it is to be a good man
Maybe you would. You were not in his situation. Schindler at beginning had almost no empathy for his workers, he overlook what is happening out there, for his own benefit, he gradually went to the point where he started to rescue them and he was also afraid and full of doubts, but he broke. All money he gained from their work he used to save them. Cash is important, but when it comes to human life and you have more money than you can spend, you realize a lot of things. Schindler did not start this story as a hero, he became one.
@@gentleheart7107 but there is a reason why the whole German nation went crazy. Good people don't show good to stay alive if they are not as powerful as Schindler...
One of the most powerful scenes in all of cinema. The entire ordeal, Oscar is a hard man, uncaring, callous, seemingly unconcerned with the suffering of others. And now, here at the end, he finally let's the facade down, and you see the man behind it all. He held it together for so long, and did so much for so many. Truly a staggering moment.
3:43 “I threw away so much money, you have no idea.” Honestly how I felt about my alcoholism and how much I drank and how expensive an addiction it was during a time when a friend was incredibly sick and needed help paying medical bills... and I couldn’t help in the end with even a small donation. :*(
You couldn't. That's all. It was beyond your power then. The point is that you can make sure it never happens again in the future. Life is all about learning our so very hard lessons, & then using that knowledge to act as better people ever afterwards. Oscar Wilde said it best: life gives you the test first, & the lesson afterwards. Go forward, forgive yourself, & do much good while there is still time left to you. Bless you, my friend.
I hadn't seen this movie until after the Oscars and I was rooting for Tom Hanks in the movie where he had AIDS. Tom won. After seeing this movie and this scene I knew the Academy got it wrong.
"There will be generations, because of what you did."
Probably the most powerful line of all in this movie.
AMERICA FIRST Oskar Schindler was a real person though, he saved about 1000 jews
AMERICA FIRST He saved them from being killed by the nazis
@AMERICA FIRST Fiction? Lmfao...
AMERICA FIRST doesn’t matter if it’s fact or fiction, let people enjoy a beautiful movie about a tragedy that happened and should be respected. Kindly fuck off.
Hey John, Nazi much?
I cry everytime Schindler says: "I didn't do enough." Then he starts giving examples of how his earthly possessions could have saved more lives.
@Miguel Ar what do you mean? What'd he do?
@@adrenalinpump7601 You should maybe rethink who has been fed the propaganda here.
Adrenaline pump won't learn if all we show is hostility. And TH-cam is not the platform for deprogramming a radical. Only face to face can we do that. We must be better men and wait until we get a chance to talk respectfully, even read and talk about the pros and cons if what they believe. and, with return trips mabye we can convince them to give openmindedness a chance.
Its applicable today also, to all of us.
Same.
When he said, “I could’ve gotten one more person and I didn’t.” I don’t cry at many things, but that made me cry
Yeah, it breaks me too.
Thank You oscar schindler. My grandmother is alive for your grace.
For me this man is Saint not mother teresa
Timothy, God bless you indeed.
If your grandmother is alive because of this man, so are you.
Pay my respects to your grandmother...say to her the sin is ours as our ancestors did not act to restore humanity
@@mrs.niludas8941 wtf man ... Shut up
"I could have got one more person. And I didn't. And I didn't!"
Damn my heart breaks at that line :(
Makes me think of what I tell my students, "Never think of the what ifs, think about what you did. It's easier on the mind."
Yeah. The line is filled with regret and guilt, and even horror - horror that he had ever valued any of these things above even a single life. A Jewish man. A woman. A little girl in a red dress. He saved so many, but is still racked with guilt over the ones he did not.
He was so sincere.
On the day of Judgement...Schindler stands before Christ The Lord..on his knees..his soul still ridden with guilt over not being able to save more...but then he feels our Lord's arms wrap around him in comfort...holding him close and then as Schindler's tear stained eyes open...God shows him the 1000's of lives he saved that night..of how he helped so many continue living and how many lives he's touched..its then that the guilt leaves Schindler's soul finally..replaced by calm..a peace that only God can give
@@jessekarimoen9858 He was...maybe not in the way we'd expect..but he was..God is slow to anger but his anger showed
The man lost all his wealth and possessions, but gained something much more.
@Rose Marine NANI!!!!
He kept the only thing that matters in the end, his soul. If there is a judgment day when we all stand before GOD and answer for how we spent our lives. He is one of the very few that will have thousands of souls standing next to his, saying "He tried harder than any other, and he did enough. If this soul is not good enough for you lord, then none are.".
He was Bruce Wayne/Batman, we need more people like him in 21st century, I doubt there are no men like him left anymore anywhere, but probably there are humanist people like him even today somewhere and everywhere on Earth but are not recognized.
He got his soul back
@@waynecampeau4566 What you have done with Christ will determine your reward (heaven) or punishment (hell) according to the teaching in the New Testament. A personal faith in the sacrifice and debt payment by Christ for your sins (rebellion) is the determining factor. Not how good you were on earth!
4:44
"A person... For this".
That line just gets me. In the middle of his sorrow, he realizes a person, a human life, was barganed for a small insignificant piece of gold. And that is, for me, the most saddest realization of this film.
I was looking for this comment, this is genius.
Braulio Vazquez he did so much and still was broken realising his mistakes
Being able to put a price on the value of a human life, during those times, was worth its weight in gold. The alternative was that there was no saving any of them, that pure blind hatred had created no room for greed or avarice to prosper. Let us be thankful then that greed and avarice won out over hatred for a lucky few, far too few. Gold saved lives, until those lives could be measured beyond something so insignificant as a small piece of metal.
I came to the comment section looking for someone else to focus on that. It really hit me. That's the line I always remember from this film (well, one of them)
Amen
If you ever had the slightest respect for the Oscar awards, remember that Liam Neeson didn't win the Oscar for this.
I didnt.
Das Boot, one of the best anti-war films ever made, was nominated for six and went home empty handed.
it was 1993 a very good year for movies as was 1994
besides the competition was tense at the 66th Academy awards unlike today here were the nominees.....
Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett
Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon
Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner
Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day as James Stevens
Liam Neeson - Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
Tom Hanks won for Philadelphia. That is also an incredible performance.
Ralph Fiennes was nominated for best supporting actor. and lost to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive.
Really?
To this day, this scene still tears me apart…
“I could have got one more and I didn’t”
😭😭
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His realization of "one person is dead... for this" in the context of "whoever saves one life saves the world entire" meant to him that in not saving that one life he lost an entire world. What an incredible weight to carry, how overwhelming that feeling must have been that he could have done more. I hope he found peace in his mind and heart and realized all the good he had done
*when I first saw that movie and that scene, I cried... I still do*
it's not just that, but how quickly his friend shook his head to assure him he did all her could. HUGE tears!
Why is nobody talking about the guy who respected Schindler so much he was willing to give up his tooth to make that ring?
Everyone literally thanks him for what he's doing
Riccardo Occhipinti I meant people in the comments...
@@alicejames6499 ah, right . Understood
Because that man doesn't need or want our comments or likes. In fact he didnt need the thanks he got. I'm sure if that man could have pulled the gold and forged the ring himself he would have done it in a back room and never would have expected so much as a thank you. A true act of kindness and respect.
Because that was the least they could do
I am from germany. This man, Schindler, he is a true german hero. He believed in what matters the most - the gift of life. Let us pray, that there will be more like him in the future. The human race needs examples like this.
I still believe Germany is the country of Beethovens, Gutenbergs, Nietzsches and Einsteins. What happened during the three decades from 1910-45 is a very unfortunate part of the history. Hard to imagine Germany as the land of Himmler and Nazis, the third Reich was pure madness - altogether a different country. But I think it serves as a good example of what happens when ethnic nationalism goes out of check.
Whatever Black why 1910? Germany is not to blame for ww1
True. I am not blaming Germany, I am just pointing out it was a unfortunate time for Germans and neighbours alike. So many good young people just walked into machine gun nests in the name of fatherland, guess how many thousands of writers, creators and scientists were lost during that time.
I agree. Almost an entire generation of people was lost during the war. Not just in germany, but in all countries involved. Who knows what good things they could have done for our world instead. It's hard to face these facts.
you sound like a nazi
The way he quickly bends down to grab the ring like it’s the most precious item in the world to him. Such a great scene.
Especially contrasting that to the haphazard way he was packing clothes at the start of that clip
Apparently that drop was entirely accidental by the actor but they decided to keep it in because it fit so well
His face when he says "I threw away so much money" So powerful... great actor
Yeh , although I preferred his performance in The Big Man, so emotive and powerful,
@@yitzaklieberstein8126 its an underrated movie in my opinion. There nesson is a normal man, very natural
The moment of realization, just amazing
I think that he didn’t throw away the money ... I think the money he gave away to the Nazis, the high class appearance he gave to himself was actually all worth it so he could at the end have enough money at the end to “buy” those people.
@@user-xb7dp4vu3r Bruh, this movie was a Box office hit, the biggest oscar winner of its time, considered as Spielberg's greatest and people say it's an Era defining movie to this day. How is it underrated?
“One more person”
He could have said Jew but he didn’t.
Something about that just hits me right in the feels.
Great insight into the nuance, which I'm sure the writer intended. It does highlight the difference in Oskar Schindler's reality about those whom he originally accepted as a work force which was exploitable and "less superior". They are people now. People who matter.
It highlights the real meaning of life. How important a single life is. A meaning most people fail to understand. They say it's one person. But one person means much. Every soul means much
Yes that's a detailed not many people realize
@@bertinasalcedoramos8302 What is the detail that people do not realise?
Its in the writing, don't mistake writing for history.
Ben Kingsley's performance is so underrated in this movie
I agree. I thought Stern was great
Agreed. He is a realy great actor
Kingsley deserved a Best Supporting Actor nod alongside Ralph Fieness..
The man is a chameleon. Completely transforms himself for his roles
He's the glue that holds it all together
"One more person, for this."
"Lord, let me get one more."
Two great men, the same words.
Hacksaw Ridge is a great movie :)
i thought the same thing..
@@AlbertGaming24 it was... But seventh day evangelists are nut cases.
@@Kitiwake you're a nutcase
@@Kitiwake how so?? We don't put anything of "the prophet" Into our sermons we don't remotely speak about sure she's one of our founders and she made books about her visions but it's not obligatory to read them or believe them
I think when he dwells on "one more person" he's remembering the girl in the red coat from Krakow.
That scene is heartbreaking.
Holy shit, thank you for pointing that out, it completely went over me. Damn, now I have to rewatch this whole movie, such a good movie.
Yep, the little girl in the red was the driving factor behind it all.
The death of the little girl in red coat was the symbolism that innocence was killed.
Well not really, she wouldn't have been eligible to be a worker. Just think about the one handed man :(
I think he realized how precious and important a human life is
"One more person"
The little girl in red
Yeah I thought the same thing, plus probably many more he saw senselessly killed
He did the best he could. That car and the clothes on his back were his last earthly possessions.
Actually the dead body of that little girl in red is what shifted Oskar's heart and made him save this. She, in her death, was the catalyst that made Schindler realize the fruit of life.
:'(
Shield her from director perverts!😭
How he saved so many yet he didn't boast or feel proud he felt ashamed that he could have and didn't save more A true hero
Tai Mir hero that it's remembered sadly
Tai Mir no he had bear the witness of his ego’ demise long before this
Tai Mir he feels so bad. Imagine looking at a pen, and then the thought that the pen would have been a person. Maybe a mother, a kid, someone could have lived because of a pen he never would have considered. Then there are thousands dying today because of war and poverty and all these celebrities don’t turn an eye. Disgusting
Tai Mir. Oscar schindler was one true sholdier of love and ambassador of love............. He will never be forgotten. My grandmother from 🇩🇪 always new a true saint
Ich leibe dich. Sir Oscar schindler. Desde chaplain timothy.
there was a limit to how many he could save without being scrutinized himself and having everything shut down. He got very near to being examined too closely. At some point it requires other people like him in other places to save more people. unfortunately there weren't (m)any
To have done so much, and yet felt like you had done so little. That is the mark of a truly wonderful man.
Christ has collected his soul unto himself..and relieved Schindler's soul of the guilt he felt by showing him the future's of those he saved that night..yes alot of those futures were hard and filled with pain..but they came thru it..and they kept moving forward because of 1 man's sacrifice
Look up Irena Sendler too.
I get VERY emotional when he says "one more person". Just think about it, it doesn't sound like much to save just one more person, but it's one human life with feeling, a family, friends and a future. It's all about perspective. It's so sad it hurts my chest
@SireVivitan What are you talking about?
@SireVivitan bloody eejit
I love when idiots delete their garbage comments. Go to hell dickbag 🖕🤣
@Syntheon such a polite reply. Kudos to you man.
he says 'one more person' because there would have always been another person that he missed out. He realised he couldn't save them all and that broke him. The helplessness.
If a man saves the lives of over a thousand people and his only thought is "I didn't do enough", that man is the true embodiment of a fucking hero.
Fuck yeh my dude, fuck yeh.
This would have been great on the ring "Ay man, yo a fucking hero"
Not a hero, a real god
Only god could tell if he was telling the truth or not. Maybe he was?
That's so true. God bless his soul.
Later on when Schindler and his wife were stopped by French Nationals, they had trouble communicating. Schindler gave the letter the workers wrote and signed to one of the people who stopped them to read and interoperate for the others of the group. After reading the letter, the French man burst into tears and explained it to the others of the group. They then helped Schindler and his wife get out of the area safely.
oh?
It’s subtle but I love it how he doesn’t say “Jew” but instead says people, person. All those victims were not only Jews, communists, polish, Serbs and Romanis’, Slovenes, Spanish Republicans, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals... they were people, they were humans - just like us.
And everyone who stood up against Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco
@@Mysil-bergsprekken tito was a partisan leader a communist fighting fascism
gayle ocuaman But he still had Labor Camps
@@Mysil-bergsprekken so did Stalin why isnt he on the list
@@Mysil-bergsprekken or Britain causing a huge famine
Tom Hanks was great in Philadelphia but the Oscar in 1994 without a doubt should have went to this guy
Mad Max doesn't the real Mad Max think so?
D. Banerjee whole thing is corrupt mate! The entire cast of this film should have won Oscars! It was simply outstanding acting all round!
Great stuff Well, that's why it beat Philadelphia for best picture. I don't think one winning over the other devalues the other, though - rather, the nominations are recognition that both were considerable feats in filmmaking. There's no reason to get upset because one or the other won - it was a difficult choice.
Youre an idiot , John Hannah in Four Weddings and a Funeral is by far the most worthy recipient, better movie too.
D. Banerjee Oscar for Oskar?
"He who saves one life, saves the world entire."
Richard Dalcin wisdom to live by, regardless of your faith or creed.
This is the Quranic phrase *"whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely* 5/32 Suratu'l Maide
@@fahri.konevi It's originally said in the Hebrew Talmud, whether it has anything to the Quran version idk but this film is obviously referring to the Hebrew version
@@animatorofanimation128Hi! Thanks for your info. I didn't know it. The Sacred Quran contains many ayats from the Sacred Talmud and Gospel. It is very normal because of Three of those sent by Allah. Islam is the last chain 🔗 of Heavenly religion. By the way, There is only one religion. This is my understanding. Thank you for your reply 🤚🏽
@@animatorofanimation128 you don't need to adresse the talk as if it was stolen from the Hebrew version! cause wie do believe that Moses is a prophet, Solomon and David...Jesus the only true Massiah..and the last one Muhammed peace be upon of them all. God sent one message one religion with a lot of prophets at different times. you have to know that unlike any other book, the Quran is the true word of god that means that God is the only narrator of the Quran..and to go back to the verse it goes like this,
''Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely''Surah Al-Ma'idah [5,32] - The Quran
I love this scene because my grandpa on my dad’s side survived a camp called Büchenwald. He got very ill from malnutrition, and almost died, but one of the guards, for one reason or another, noticed this and decided to take my grandpa to the hospital. He could’ve shot my grandpa but decided to help him. For this reason alone, I can really appreciate the power of kindness and the difference one random act of kindness can make.
My Great Uncle served as a Medical Officer in Patton's 6th Armored Divison. Was commissioned as a Captain and left as a Major, but when I asked my cousins if he told where he served, he never told them.
The 6th Armored and an Infantry Divison liberated Buchenwald. I can only think the horror he saw there. That's why he never told his children/my cousins. He was an MD for 40 years before be passed in late 1988..
Buchenwald was almost as reckless as Auschwitz. Many SS Soldiers would've been killed themselves for this Action
Paul, wow! That’s a great story. You’ll find good and evil people everywhere. You never know who will do it unto the least of these.
That guard was very brave. I imagine helping a concentration camp inmate would have gotten him in big trouble with the Nazi’s top brass, yet he still helped. He may have committed other atrocities before or after that moment, but, at the time, it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that a man was suffering and he stepped up to help, consequences be damned.
In today's Germany he would be put in prison just for being a guard at the concentration camp even if he didn't harm anyone himself. According to German law being a guard at a concentration camp itself is considered to being and accomplice to the nazis
I really admire how he changed from some selfish buisness man whose only goal was to make a fortune into such a kind-hearted good person.
He's defenitely one of the greatest men in history.
He 'changed' when he saw the liquidation of the ghetto, and had that moment of "Good God who am I working with??" when he saw the firing squads, SS units storming buildings, etc.
There's something to be said about the fact that it was his vast fortune that allowed him to save as many people as he did. It's not enough to be a good person and to want to save someone, you have to have the power to do so as well.
in the opening scene, he told his mistress that he finally got his way, the only thing that prevented him from becoming truly 'successful'. the lady asks him 'what is that? luck?' he answers: "war".
isn't is ironic that we praise his virtue, while what made him able to save these people is precisely what got 5 million Jews killed.
What we have is a man. A flawed human but who no matter his sins before and after still saved people, and risked his own life to do so. I’m glad others forgave what he could not within himself. I hope he is at peace.
He could barely have any positive feelings about the 1100 people he saved because he felt too guilty about other people he didn't save. One of the most selfless and unambiguously good people I've ever heard of.
The fact that the value of a person's life could be measured by a pin... good God. How could anyone have been a part of this?
Nonetheless a pin the holds the symbol that slaughtered them
It's not so much that he bought the people directly. He spend a lot of money on bribing Nazi officials to let him keep what was _pretty obviously_ a pretty inefficient operation running for longer, and to allow him to recquisition more "resources".
Those who was Brainwashed to believe they did those who joined thinking they was doing right only to realise too late it was wrong those who joined knowing what they was doing and loved it and those who had not chose
It's simple. The Nazis felt that they were anointed and their vision of the world was the way it had to be. When you truly believe that about a vision, you pervert your own mind to the point that any vile and humanizing act is justified inside of it.
@@hannessteffenhagen61Well yeah, he even says in the movie that he would be very unhappy if his plant manufactured a single working shell
How Neeson did not recieve the Academy Award for his performance in this film, rather Tom Hanks for his in Philidelphia, is beyond me. Sure Hanks did a fine job, but Neeson's is one which should have won because of its weight in human history.
This was overacted. Neeson himself said so. The Award should go for performance, not the historical weight of a particular story.
@@natanaellizama6559 But Neeson has a particular set of skills....
Do any of you believe it was do to acting ability? It was agenda driven and frankly who gives a rip who won an Oscar. Description of being an Actor, "Here wear these clothes, stand here, say these words" that doesn't make them a genius it makes them a person who can't even play pretend without being told what to do and how to do it. Actors are even worse than Athlete's.
Spiff The Magnificent aha ok. Whilst you surely have already heard this question, i am going to ask you nonetheless: why arent you a pro athlete or a famous actor? Moneywise this would be a great choice for you! Anyways acting is not coming up with nothing, it is playing a role believeably -acting. You cannot easily do this. You are even more reliant on genetics with athletics. The vast majority of people cannot, no matter how much training, ever become a pro athlete. How is this job bad?
good acting loses to the popular all the time. as much as love Leo Dicaprio, I honestly think Matt Damon did a better job in "the Martian" than Leo did in "revenant"
“I felt that the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them; there was no choice.".......Oskar Schindler is buried in Jerusalem,on mount Zion.
Oh he's a real person
@Harem Bobby Joe yes of course. Buuuut I don’t want to be a downer, but honesty is always the best choice. So ima just say that this movie is not totally truthful. This scene did not happen, and he may not have been as kind as they portrayed him. Also his motives may not have been great. But at the end of the day he did save many Jewish lives, so do with that what you will
@@Valcore123 well he had to have been something
@@Valcore123 Well I think its even clear in the movie his initial motives were not based on saving jews but financially driven but in the end he went broke keeping them all employed. He may not have had heroic intentions initially but he was a hero in the end.
@Joe Friedman I agree he was a hero. I’m just saying real life isn’t like movies where they show such an emotional change or climax or whatnot. It’s a lot more dull and complicated in reality. And that’s fine, it’s just that people many times believe that the movie is mostly true, when it’s not
To think this man started out as a selfish, money-obsessed cynic, businessman and profiteer who cared only about himself. When he found his humanity during the deadliest war in history and saved over 1,000 oppressed lives…he believed he didn’t do enough in the end.
There are films like Titanic that make women cry…
There are films like Terminator 2 that make men cry…
And then they are films like Schindler’s List that make everyone cry!
Nowadays people only cry on Ironmans death
You see modern day feminists,
Not all men are inherently evil.
@@jashpalsingh2929 true
@@jashpalsingh2929 Not everyone.
@@baruchben-david4196 I mean Iron Mans was sad but this, this scene that you are watching right here is what true legends cry to
"There are 1100 people who are alive because of you, look at them" Such a powerful moment, gives me goosebumps every time
"I didn't do enough"
"You did so much."
That part has me like
"Whoa"
I am German and my best friend in the whole wide world is a Russian jew, boy am I glad we were born way after the war.
If you weren't born after the war I would never hate Germany
Brian Holtzman you mean сука блять
"the term hero irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little." -Irene Sendler. Two heros, same sentiment.
You hold the hope of a future where war, on a world wide scale, is never seen again. Teach your children the waste and utter madness of any war.
@@ellabellacookie9662 Yet these two did a hundred times more than most.
"There will be generations because of what you did."
"I didn't do enough."
Probably the most powerful, emotionally overhwhelming exchange in cinematic history. And to me, a German, they have an additional layer of weight to them even. Such a great film.
The other incredible line is when Stern is writing down the list and asks him- "You are buying us? You are paying for every person on the list? This list is the absolute good, around it's borders there is darkness"
I am German as well. That added weight feels like it could crush my soul. I ask myself whenever I watch anything about world War 2. Or the holocaust...why...why did we do these things. We all know.."WHY" because of that funny little mustache waste of oxygen and space. My family was lined up against a wall in Germany. And used as leverage so my great uncle would join the werhmacht. The first thing he did when he saw American troops..was he threw his gun down and surrendered he didn't wanna take a life or hurt anyone..like the torture and senseless death he saw all around him.
@@55swordninja Your great uncle seems like he was a wise man. Liebe aus Finnland.
How did Liam Neeson not get an Oscar for this? Hollywood is cancer. Amazing film.
Teutonic Bohemian It was an incredibly competitive year for lead actors. There was Neeson, along with Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father), Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It), Tom Hanks (Philadelphia) and Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day), with Hanks deservedly winning IMO. Any other year, one of those other guys would’ve won.
@@ifeelpretty5790 I've never actually heard of any of the other movies besides Philadelphia and I have no idea what it's about or why I should watch it. I don't particularly care about the city, no more than any other at least. Schindler's List both broke my heart and uplifted it. And it was real.
Hana A Philadelphia is just the setting of the movie and it deals with prejudice like Schindler’s List but not toward Jewish people. Tom Hanks plays a gay lawyer who gets fired from his firm after he starts showing symptoms of AIDS and ends up suing his former employers for discrimination and wrongful termination with the help of another lawyer, played by Denzel Washington. It’s a great and emotional movie with fantastic acting. Like Oskar Schindler, Denzel Washington’s character starts off on the other side due to his own paranoia and lack of insight toward Tom Hanks’ situation but he grows from his experience and passionately fights for justice. I’ve only seen Schindler’s List, Philadelphia and What’s Love Got to Do with It but I’ve seen Day-Lewis and Hopkins in other films and I know they’re some of the best actors of all-time. Fishburne, as Ike Turner, was both charismatic and terrifying in WLGTDWI, a tough combination to portray. Like I said, in my opinion, it was a very packed category with five incredible actors with only one award, in any other year one of them could’ve taken it.
Politics
It’s mora like business show that is not interested by the talent
This scene makes me realize how powerful movies can be. I cry everytime I watch this scene, especially the thing when he breaks down crying and the women run up to him. Steven Spielberg is a genius.
The same for me.... I have often wondered if there are more people who find that scene so emotional.
"There will be generations because of you."
The first time I watched this movie I didn’t cry until he said “I could have got one more person and I didn’t!” That line just finally broke me. I think it was almost like because he cried I almost felt like I was able to cry, or maybe it was just the last bit of emotion that just made me break I don’t know. This movie’s great but I don’t know if I can watch it all again. It’s just so overwhelming.
That line gets me every single time
Me too.
same here
Same.
Me too
"Financially Bankrupt at the end of the war"
Nah, in money he is
But in kindness and humanitarian richness he is more than rich
That what financial means though
Yep, he's absolutely rolling in that, rightfully so as well
"I could’ve done so much more." That line always brings tears to my eyes no matter how many times I hear it.
"Just one more. One more person...that person is dead..."
That moment when you think about the Girl in the Red Dress.
Also that moment when you realise human life had been so cheapened that one could be exchanged for a small piece of shiny metal :(
SirCraigius in most cases i would of agreed with you but this one makes me wish they were cheeper so more could live
Well, he was dealing w/ Amon Goeth...who honestly viewed their lives as even cheaper than that...he only sold them for large amounts because he knew Schindler wanted them so badly, and Goeth was as impulsive and greedy as it gets.
the film is a masterpiece
Golden Spark if you think the red dressed girl was that important in the movie, then you didnt understand it
this part of the film had me in floods of tears....so powerful
It's a brutal story, but this, and the scene making the list, are among the most emotional!
The "making the list" scene gives me chills through my whole body: "The list is an absolute good. The list is life."
simon lawson
simon lawson I cried like a baby when he breaks down and says
.."I could haven gotten more out!"
yes indeed it is
It touched my heart the way he scrambled to pick up the ring when he accidentally dropped it. That showed he cared so much and felt awful for dropping it.
You are a beautiful soul Mr. Oskar and there is a special place for you in Heaven. I hope that one day you meet every person you helped save. God BLESS you.
Every time I watch this movie my faith in humanity is restored. No joke. Has me in tears without fail.
Mine too, it embodies what a real hero is capable of, and that shows us our true potential for good. Cried so hard at this.
Nick Craig nowadays people just wish for the world to end and tell us that the world it is rotten. It might be, but i remind them to think of the good. Theres good out there like presented in this movie :)
6 brillion wailing souls , he saved over 1200 , god bless oscar wilde, may his tree grow thick, strong and mighty and penetrate the skyline of tel-aviv like an almighty teutonic phallus.
If u don't cry there is something seriously wrong at the end of sindlers list
You watch a movie about the systematic killing of millions of innocents and you feel faith in humanity?
"I could have gotten one more person... And I didn't." That scene breaks my heart every time.
I just randomly decided to look this scene up and I'm bawling my eyes out.
This man, Oskar Schindler has driven me my entire life towards decency. My children will know his story and through them in some way "The world entire."
I feel the same way about Jeff Daniels and Kevin Conway's conversation under the tree in the film Gettysburg, when they talk about equality. That dialogue has also stuck with me my entire life and has greatly influenced my mind on equality. th-cam.com/video/HRB2dGI1vRM/w-d-xo.html Such a powerful scene.
I was in 8th grade when I saw this. My history teacher said we should ask our parents to take us to see it. My mom and I went and I can specifically remember hearing sobs from the theater at many moments but none so more than at this part. Probably one of the most emotional and important movies of my life even to this day.
Groundhog Day is a great 1993 film too
I agree
Daniel Mustard this happened exactly to us. In 8th grade, our history teacher suggested us to watch the movie BUT she ended up showing it in class. I was the only one crying because nobody else paid attention.
Im so hot i was born in a microwave Wow. What a sensitive class.
My school took us all to see it in the theater. I'm glad they did.
These kind of movies should be shown is schools. This is the best way of teaching hist
Mebbe we could get Harvey Weinstein to write the 2019 syllabus for British secondary schools ???
It is, at least at my country 🇵🇹
We’re watching it in ELA30, couldn’t wait till next class so decided to watch it myself.
I watched it in year 8 (7th grade)
I seen it in highschool
That nod at 3:26 from Ben and that laugh at 3:40 from Liam spoke a thousand words. What a brilliant acting. It’s heartbreaking
The emotion in this scene is overwhelming. Liam Neeson does an incredible job. I have seen this film so many times but this scene gets me every time...tears flow
It makes other fluids flow within me, usually vomit. His overacting is underwhelming , the crappy violin music is nauseating , the script is laughable, and the historical accuracy is just plain ........
Yitzak Lieberstein are you happy in life? Because I know nobody likes you
I just love how that guy gives up his own tooth in order to make the ring. It's so touching...even though they had nothing, they still did whatever they could just to give their savior that gift.
And he smiles in spite of the pain.
@@RicardoJoseReza and alcohol the liquid of life
@@abysswalker2594 Oh yeahhh
@@RicardoJoseReza sorry can’t tell if you’re agreeing or being a ass
He loses 3 teeth actually
He didn’t receive an Oscar: He WAS Oskar!
Ah!
I was crying until I saw your comment. Now I’m in tears from laughing
The irony of this scene is that instead of feeling a sense of joy, pride, accomplishment for saving so many he has such guilt and remorse for not saving more. That to me is a Godly Christ centered man.
Robert bishop I pray he found some sort of peace before he died some sort of balance but from what I have read survivors guilt is extremely vicious
It isn't "godly" or "Christ-centred", it's just compassionate and good-hearted. You can be those things without religion.
Not in his world,and not if you´re not christian
@Adam Townshend Where do you think compassion and a good heart comes from? It comes from God, who is Jesus Christ. It's ironic that you try to separate God from the very nature that He is. God's very nature is compassion and good-heartedness and that potential lies is humankind too. "Godly" and "Christ-centered" is precisely what Schindler was displaying, albeit a lite version of it, still enough to do some good within a very corrupt world at a very dark time in history.
Servant of Christ compassion comes from within, not from God or Jesus , we are born compassionate, you look at children who know nothing about God, they are so so compassionate
He was the greatest man ever! This a real story not a movie! I have a uncle that has been saved because of his mercy!!! Thanks we love you!
“There was one more person. I could’ve saved one more person... and I didn’t!”
That matters just as much to him as all the lives he DID save...
A man who saved hundreds of people breakdown crying in knees because he "killed" a person for a single gold pin that he kept
And he wouldn't even have kept it if he had thought to sell it to Goeth
If they didn't suspect him for spending his whole fortune on these people's lives, because they thought he was profiting in some way, then they wouldn't have suspected him for trading his car and pin, because they'd think it's part of his plan to profit even more.
@godlessmath They wouldn't start to suspect he was broke, they knew he was broke. He already gave them his fortune.
@godlessmath Wow, that's really reaching, and it doesn't matter if he was secretly not broke or not, they thought he was trying to profit by what he was doing, regardless if it involved investing a car or a pin
@@hugh1297 well, it says in the film that the factory in Brünnlitz never actually made a single mortar shell that could be fired intentionally, but that Schindler simply purchased them from other factories and sold them to the army to keep up the charade that his factory was actually helping in the war effort. If the Nazis didn't know that Schindler was spending his own money to buy the shells (which bankrupted him), they would have no idea that he no longer had any money.
Oskar Schindler and John Rabe, 2 member of the Nazi party with a compassion like none other. One saves the Jews from camps, the other saves Chinese in the Nanking Occupation. Names to remember forever
Don't forget about Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a Nazi diplomat who warned Denmark that the Nazis would soon deport the Danish Jews, and subsequently had them all evacuated to Sweden, saving 95% of the Danish Jewish population from death.
The part that starts my breakdown is always the shaking in his hands after he gets the ring that causes him to drop it; you can see it in his scramble as soon as it falls: In that moment, he'd probably have traded his soul for just one more person. I think hearing what those words meant just broke the dam he'd been operating in front of and at the end of it all, the pain, regret and sheer magnitude of it all completely and utterly shattered him.
exactly...
"One more person .. person is dead. I could have got one more, and i didn't"
Bravo Spielberg! Bravo Williams and *Bravo Liam Neeson* !
liam really nailed his acting. from a scumbag businessman to a selfless hero.
"If I had made more money"
A heartbreaking statement that would otherwise be detestable.
I remember being in highschool. And we had a guest speaker who was in a concentration camp. He said he was young and was forced to work. He asked the guard day after day what happend to his parents. The guard told him before his shower "youre using them" .... they took the fat from the dead and used it as soap.... i fucking broke down crying
This is the most cruel thing I ever heard in my entire life...
I remember being in highschool. And we had a guest speaker who was in a concentration camp. He said he was young and was forced to work. He asked the guard day after day what happend to his parents. The guard told him before turning off his lamp "youre using them" .... they took the skin from the dead and used it as a lampshade.... i fucking broke down crying
What are horrible thing to say of that guard.
😭😭😭😭😭
@Vance G DeBravo Go fuck yourself you fucking dipshit.
@Vance G DeBravo Every single nation, culture and people have done atrocities. EVERY SINGLE ONE. This is one of the poorest and weakest excuses I have ever read.
The part that always gets me isn't him saying he could have saved one more person, it was his face. The realization that he could have saved at the very least, one more person.
And the astronomy of being even able to name a material price for a human life. That would drive anyone nuts.
When he says "I could have done more" it breaks my heart every time.
No matter how many times I watch this part I always cry.
Princess101855 saw this in the theatre.. cried then. This scene gets me every time too.
I don't usually cry, but when he broke down crying on his knees it got me. And the scene when he saves a woman's parents.
The saddest part is, he cries he could have done more and saved more, that he could have sold more things and wasted so much money and in real life he died poor, he couldn't start any bussinesses back up successfully and had to live off the support of the people he saved. He was a true hero and gave everything he could to save the Jewish people.
He was also ostracized by german society in post war Gemany.
The thought process he must have had right there. He could've bought more humans. And just the concept that you could even buy humans, as if they were cars or gold. And then you try to weigh whether human life is priceless or in actuality very cheap and that it's in any way in your hands to even make that call. If one has a conscience, it's a painful thought.
One of the great things about the film is that it doesn't gloriry Schindler. He was not unselflsh, because he set out to make a profit out of the war and he did so. He was also a scoundrel to women in general and to his wife in particular. But more than 1,000 people survived because he saved them. Not taking onto account all the offspring who wouldn't have been born if it was not for him. A masterpiece of cinema for sure.
so true...it wasnt a schindlers good moments story. It showed how much he was willing to use his influence with nazi party to make money....and ultimatly how he ended up with the legacy he's known for. Gives us faith in humanity. Its saddening to watch it and ask yourself how much you would have done, my answer is sadly, selfishly and awfully I would have tried and done "something" but simply would be too scared to go as far as he did. Im sure Im gonna have people hating me for that btw. Anyone who does, dont bother you wont get a reply
Mat Watson no...For what it's worth I can't hate you for that...there are some people who can go that far and 95% of us who can't
I fall into the latter category
I would like to say I would do something but none if us know know what we would do or are capable of in that situation
He actually ended up bankrupt and lived in poverty for the remainder of his life.
Derrick Pfohl he actually lived off donations made from the Jews he saved
There's an asian saying "if someone seems too perfect, it would be a mirage ( a halucination in desert).
Yes.Schindler was flawed. But that was made him so human. And so kind. He, a wartime profiteer, willing to goes destitude for saving 1200 people, and ashamed of his inability to saves more.
When they all started to hug him... so emotional
I'm not ashamed to say this is one of few movies that made me cry.
One of the greatest scenes in film.
Gets me every time!
gets you how exactly ??
Me too no matter how many times I watch it.
I'm a Palestinian and really this film is one of the best movies that I have ever watched in my life .
Despite the suffering from the Israeli occupation I learnt not to hate .
I feel compassion with every human being who suffered from racism and persecution.
That's beautiful. And yet, two wrongs don't make a right.
It is important to remember that you are not an antisemite even if you you hate the actions done on the Israeli government.
You are not a racist and you don't hate all Muslims even though you dislike certain practices within Islam and you hate the terrorists that kill innocent people in the name of Islam.
That you do not hate all Americans even though you think their president is a clown.
I think whay to many to day see the actions done by the few or an government as the true representative of said group or a nations inhabitants. Everyone have this your either with us or against us attitude that only results in conflicts.
re-watched it for many times using boxxy software and with subtitle. one of my fav movie ever !!!!!
JungMikesh Thapa look up how many deaths happened because saying hundreds of thousands just like that without knowing is wrong.
I have never met you but I love you. From living being to another. Be well.
When i was a kid i didnt understand this movie my dad watched this.... now i am an adult i watched it again....i literally cried like i lost something. This movie will be one of my favorites. Thank you Mr. Schindler you are my greatest humanitarian example. You are hero in my book.
Am I the only one who cant keep his tears to this scene? So powerful...
This is one of the few movie scenes that makes me cry every single time.
mee too
Me too bro. I was close but when he broke down crying my vision got blurry.
Ofc not
No, no, you are not the only one...
Liam Neeson is awesome in this. Extremely moving moment. I believe Speilberg's greatest achievement.
Speilberg said himself that this was the hardest movie he ever made. It was extremely emotional for him.
Chukwillard It was indeed very draining for him, he often called Robin Williams who would tell jokes to cheer him up during filming.
LOL robin willian did it into sanity
So much meaning is contained in the statement that, "I could have gotten one more person out - and I didn't - and I didn't."
When they embrace him when he’s crying that’s when it gets me every time.
Yes. Me too. Sobbing like a baby.
Mercy and compassion shall cover you...
Believe it or not, only movies make me cry. You have to put a lot of elements together; music, lights, editing, directing, acting, sound, words, and story, to make me shed one tear. Life is dull to me without any of those.
Although I am not Jewish. I join with my friend and his family during his grandmother birthday in unity. We place her marked tattoo number on our arms. I am so proud to be a part of this event each year. It is such a blessing. Thanks
I really think that Ben Kingsley in this movie deserved a nomination For Academy Award... Neeson and Fiennes are supreme... But Stern is... My god!
Kingsley did win an academy award for his performance in Schindler's List
Estrella neeson didn't even win an Oscar for this movie
all those you name were outstanding but for some odd reason the performance that stood out for me was caroline goodall as Emily schindler.cant explain why just thought she was perfect.
He won for Gandhi
Sir Ben Kingsley
one of the best films ever made
Agreed
+End Marxism
Liar
End Marxism
Is that supposed to make me mad?
83pan beautiful.
The BEST !!!
Saddest line in the whole film, “I could of got more”.
I always remember the part in IronMan where Ginseng told Stark: "You have everything and nothing."
Schindler, at the end of the war, had nothing and everything.
3:10 and 4:48...My goodness, Spielberg (and John Williams) really know how to touch your heart and soul.
Just perfection by Williams and how well that music suited the scene and Spielberg directing.
If this is to be Williams' last Oscar win, so be it. I hope not, but if it is, what a hell of a score he created.
I'm a grown man, and yet I couldn't hold back the
tears when watching Schindler, breaking down
after receiving the ring. And now; I still have trouble
holding back the tears to this very day. This film
really effected me, and still does. God bless that
man, and those men, woman, and children who
suffered at the hands of those evil Nazis. What
a tragedy.
Watching it im like
"Im a man this movie wont break me"
At this scene i had to lock the door incase anyone came in
It's almost like a stereotype when people say men shouldn't cry....
Every single time you watch this your heart breaks a little more.
Propaganda will do that to you sometimes. Never, ever, trust a person who "thinks" with their emotions, and I say that with the utmost sincerity.
Liam Neeson definitely deserved an Oscar for this movie.
Post Apocalypse, Marooned on an island, Stranded in space .... I'll try to keep this one movie with me as reminder of the quality of being humane and benevolent.
This scene allways turn me into a complete wreck...
One of the most moving scenes in History, let alone Cinema history, Spielberg genius from the heart at its very best....no more words.
This has stuck with me this line for decades ❤️
"I didn't do enough." This makes me cry every time.
I have always wondered how many others like Schindler were never recognized simply because they wanted to protect themselves and their families. I imagine a great many people who knew of the horror in the death camps worked to protect as many as they could, but their fear of discovery limited how many they felt able to help.
Schindler was an incredible man, there were others like him we have come to know, they should all be recognized and loved, but I feel for those whose names we will never hear.
I am paraphrasing a quote I once heard about people in the underground railroad in the U.S. during the time of slavery, but it fits here as well. Evil is less often defeated by heroic deeds of valor, and more often by thousands of little kindnesses done not from courage, but simply because those doing them could do no more, nor less than to offer what little they could out of love for their fellow man.
Like John Rabe !!!
Laughing achilles.. I recently went to Poland, and our tour guide, who was a Polish lady. The majority of her family had perished in the camps, and she said Schindler is the only one recognised as a hero, because of the film ' Schindlers List'. She reeled off many more names of people ( who to my shame, I cannot now remember) who risked there lives to save the victims heading for the death camps. Some saved more than Oscar Schindler, but again, as only Oscar Schindler was recognised via Schindlers List, only he is known about. I reckon, it would be a great idea to research and make films about the other hero's like Oscar Schindler. It would make better viewing than some of the crap on TV nowadays. And it would be more educational for future generations. As this tour guide stated, " our history is in grave danger of being forgotten."
@@Yorkie2
You may have seen this already but if not I suggest you watch it. It's only a minute and a half and I swear it brings a tear to my eye every time. Sir Nicholas Winton, often referred to as the British Schindler.
th-cam.com/video/6_nFuJAF5F0/w-d-xo.html
The only moment I cried was the moment I realised that I wouldn't have done the same...
I may not have spent the money to save as many as possible and it made me really upset because how hard it is to be a good man
Maybe you would. You were not in his situation. Schindler at beginning had almost no empathy for his workers, he overlook what is happening out there, for his own benefit, he gradually went to the point where he started to rescue them and he was also afraid and full of doubts, but he broke. All money he gained from their work he used to save them. Cash is important, but when it comes to human life and you have more money than you can spend, you realize a lot of things. Schindler did not start this story as a hero, he became one.
@@gentleheart7107 but there is a reason why the whole German nation went crazy. Good people don't show good to stay alive if they are not as powerful as Schindler...
@@gregtheflyingwhale It is the greatest test, to do the right thing in the midst of madness and fear.
One of the most powerful scenes in all of cinema. The entire ordeal, Oscar is a hard man, uncaring, callous, seemingly unconcerned with the suffering of others. And now, here at the end, he finally let's the facade down, and you see the man behind it all. He held it together for so long, and did so much for so many. Truly a staggering moment.
Because through his (selfless and heroic) actions he learnt the value of human life (worth more than a stupid gold pin that's for sure).
3:43 “I threw away so much money, you have no idea.” Honestly how I felt about my alcoholism and how much I drank and how expensive an addiction it was during a time when a friend was incredibly sick and needed help paying medical bills... and I couldn’t help in the end with even a small donation. :*(
Man fuck you for making me crying-
You couldn't. That's all. It was beyond your power then. The point is that you can make sure it never happens again in the future. Life is all about learning our so very hard lessons, & then using that knowledge to act as better people ever afterwards. Oscar Wilde said it best: life gives you the test first, & the lesson afterwards. Go forward, forgive yourself, & do much good while there is still time left to you. Bless you, my friend.
@@h.calvert3165 wise words, bro!
@@heiner1504
Thank you. I only steal from the best! ☘️😉☘️
“Sounds” like you’re sober now, knowing better, doing different. Godspeed my friend 🙏🏽
I hadn't seen this movie until after the Oscars and I was rooting for Tom Hanks in the movie where he had AIDS. Tom won. After seeing this movie and this scene I knew the Academy got it wrong.
Still makes me cry. No matter how many times I have watched. 😔