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To: presidio9

I completely disagree with Kubrick's comments about "Schindler." The scene at the end, where Schindler is looking at his worldly wealth saying, "I could have gotten two more people for this ring, or five more for this car," is one of the most spiritually powerful scenes in all movie history. In a few words, Spielberg captures the fact that we are all imperfect, and that we can all, always, do better, yet the reassurance from the Jews who were saved tell us we all, at times, do good as well.


25 posted on 07/21/2006 11:36:02 AM PDT by LS
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To: LS


BTW, if any director is going to do a big studio 9/11 flick, it should be Senior Spielbergo.


28 posted on 07/21/2006 11:37:00 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: LS

Agreed and good point. What's wrong with making a film of a wonderful good that came out of a monstorous evil? Spielberg wasn't making a docu-drama about the Holocaust. He was making a film telling the story of one event within the bigger scope of the tragedy.


32 posted on 07/21/2006 11:42:02 AM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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To: LS
Kubrick's comment commits the common critical fallacy of not criticizing the text at hand...but thinking up some other 'text' and criticizing this text for not being the one you just thought up.
47 posted on 07/21/2006 12:08:03 PM PDT by Borges
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