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Swindler's List Reunion: Steven Spielberg Calls for Holocaust Stories to be Required Curriculum

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I don't doubt Trump will spearhead this idea.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/schindlers-list-reunion-behind-scenes-stories-mel-gibson-trauma-holocaust-should-be-taught-school-tr-1106706

Spielberg said, "It's not a pre-requisite to graduate high school, as it should be. It should be part of the social science, social studies curriculum in every public high school in this country."

For the director, it was the first time he'd watched the seven-time Oscar winner with an audience since it was released in 1993, and he and his actors noticed things they had missed.

Spielberg was surprised by the "long, lingering look" the real Emilie Schindler (played by Goodall) "gives her husband's grave" in the film's closing scene, featuring the real Schindler's Jews placing stones on Oskar Schindler's grave.

"It blindsided me," he said.

The director said this scene came about from his own insecurity, three-quarters of the way through filming, that people wouldn't believe the film was based on true events.

"I'm so known for films that are nothing like this, I didn't know that if people and the way they perceive me, and my own perception of myself, was enough to be able to present this movie as truth, which it was," Spielberg said. "I got really worried and it came to me, 'What if we can get as many of the Holocaust Schindler survivors and get them to put stones on Schindler's grave?' That was an idea that was never in the script

And it never happened in reality either.


 
Posted : 28/04/2018 7:28 pm
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