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many h six hundred you do the
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make money at it. I don't
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about the extra food and clothes.
You get them paid for out of your

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own pocket. If we make a
combined approach, we could get more than

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four thousands of minor rrs. We
could relocate them in something like safety a

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Moravia. I don't know how many
can you smoke? The night? Two

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minutes? For everyone you smoke?
I smoked half. I've done all mechanical

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not except that. No, I
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that. No many? How many? Eight one hundred and fifty? Give

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a take pele? Take what stand? Give or take? What to count

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them? How many? I didn't? You can finish that page? What

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did Good say about this? You
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in me. You're not buying them, you're buying them. You're buying for

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each of these. If you're still
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tell me out of it. It's
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space of the body. Yeah,
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is life. Historical dramas have a
mixed history in Hollywood. In some cases,

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they have been criticized to the point
where they have been ostracized from film

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lore, or controversies have diminished their
staying power. Then there are exceptions.

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These films leave an undeniable impact that
time cannot diminish the message in power they

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carry. This week's film is one
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now as it was the thirty plus
years ago. It was released based off

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the novel Schindler's Arc by Thomas Kaneely, released in nineteen ninety three and directed

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by Steven Spielberg. Schindler's List tells
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who decides to use his wealth and
power to save over one thousand Polish

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Jews from concentration camps by bribing Nazi
officers, in particular the cold and callous

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Nazi General Aimon Death played by Ralph
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Sir Ben Kingsley and Mbeth Davitt's.
Spielberg was initially reluctant to take on the

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project. He passed it on to
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not mature enough to do the film. This includes Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese,

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Sidney Pollock, among others. Spielberg
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Holocaust Denial really began to gain traction
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United States. The next clip is
from The Today Show in twenty eighteen,

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celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the
release of the film. In this clip,

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Spielberg talks about the difficulties of making
the film and his decision to film

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the movie in black and white in
the fight that followed. I don't think

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I'll ever do something anything, as
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as the way this film affected personally
affected me and my family. And so

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this for me is, you know, something that I will always be proud

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oft of. I look back at
an interview you had done about the time

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of the release of this film and
you said somebody of the effect, you

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didn't expect it to be a hit. Was that was that the case?

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I didn't. I couldn't imagine based on

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the story that we told that an
audience would tolerate the just the amount of

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violence, you know, human against
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was in fact a hit, the
winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best

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Picture and Best Director, but Spielberg
says that now famous movie could have looked

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very different if studio executives had their
way. I was the only one that

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wanted to shoot the picture in black
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They didn't think they could sell like
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white. And at one point that
they were negotiating with me, they said,

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shoot it and we'll release the film
of black and white, but then

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we'll released the cassette in color.
And I said, no, this is

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I don't know the Holocaust in color. I wasn't around then, but I've

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seen documentaries in the Holocaust, and
anybody who's seen any documentaries, they're all

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shot in black and white. I
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this film. You're in crack eye, you're in some of the places where

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this actually happened. I know there's
cameras around and all the trappings of movie,

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but the scenes had to have taken
a personal toll on you, your

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crew, your cast. Yeah,
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were memorializing something, and it felt
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shooting in a cemetery. So there
was a kind of amazing a equanimity of

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respect, and it was quiet on
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No one was laughing, no one
was telling jokes. Now, twenty

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five years later, the film is
still teaching new lessons. Individual hate is

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a terrible thing, but when collective
hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide

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follows and we have to take it
more seriously today than I think we have

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had to take it in a generation. And now we're in an era that

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anti Semitism is on the rise,
enophobia. We all know what racism happened

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in Pittsburgh. Is this an important
time to re release this film? I

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think this is maybe the most important
time to re release this form. Possibly

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now is even a more important time
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three ninety four when it was initially
released. This film is quite powerful in

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its approach, both in filming and
performances. This includes the game a mental

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chess being played by Gath and Schindler. Both men are shrewd and keen touth

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smarting people. However, Shindler is
compassionate and wants to use his wealth and

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intelligence to save the Jews from peril, whereas Death is a sociopathic, cold

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blooded killer with no emotion or remorse. The next two clips show this.

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First, while building a stockade at
a concentration camp, a Jewish woman who

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is a contractor tries to persuade Death
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His ruthless means of dealing with her
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Then, Schindler speaks with Helen Hirsch, a woman Death has selected from

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a concentration camp to become his maid, whom he becomes smitten with and due

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to this begins to abuse her both
verbally and psychologically. Here Schindler explained with

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great compassion why she is safe,
while showing care for her plight. There

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answer, one of you is a
very lucky girl. There is an opening

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a job away from all this backbreaking
work at a new villa. Which of

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you has a domestic experience? Yeah, On second thoughts, I don't really

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want someone else's mate, although annoying
habits have to undo I don't want to

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give him my call. What's her
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H yeah, she says, or
just got to take it down. I

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told her the entire foundation has to
be torn down and report. If not,

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there would be at least a subsidence
at the southern end of the barracks

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subsidence and then collapse. You are
an engineer, yes, my name is

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Deanna Haiker. I'm a graduate poxical
engineering from the University of Milan. I'm

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educated too, like Karl Marx himself. Shootah, come on, don't I'm

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only trying to do my charge.
I'm done, sir. She's fond of

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construction. I'm not going to have
arguments with these people. Shoot here.

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It will take more than that.
I'm sure you're right. And now,

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Shindler in hrsh I said to him, I don't know how I say this.

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I never could say it now.
I said to him, why are

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you beating me? He said,
The reason I beat you now is because

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you ask why I beat you.
I know your sufferings. It doesn't matter.

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I have accepted them, accepted them. One day he will shoot me.

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He want to shoot you. I
know, I see things. We

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were on the roof on Monday,
Young Glicia and I, and we saw

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the Hair Commandant come out to the
front door, and and down these steps

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by the patio r right there below
us. And and there on these steps

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he drew his gun and he shot
a woman who was passing by, the

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woman carrying the bundle through the throat. Just just just a woman on her

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way somewhere. You know. She
She was no fatter or thinner, or

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slower or faster than anyone else.
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The more you see of the Heart
Commandant, the more you see there

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is no set rules that you can
live by. You can't say to yourself,

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if I follow these rules, I
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shoot you because he enjoys you too
much. He enjoys you so much.

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He won't even let you wear the
star. He doesn't want anyone else to

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know it's a jew he's enjoying.
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she meant nothing to him. She
was one of a series neither offending or

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pleasing him. But you, Helen, it's all right. It's not that

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kind of a case. M Yeah. Right as the war ends, Schindler

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is bankrupt, due to massive bribes
he had to do to keep his workers

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and the Polish Jews safe from dire
circumstances at concentration camps. In our final

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clip, as Schindler plans to flee
due to being wanted for war crimes as

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a card carrying Nazi, the people
he saved give him a ring. As

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Schindler cries at those he couldn't save, he is reminded of those he did.

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We've written a letter trying to explain
things in case you were keptured.

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Have your work has signed it?
Thank you, Yes, Hebrew from the

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town that it says forever saves a
long life saves the world entire. I

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could have gone, I could have
got I could not ask her. There

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are eleven hundred people of our life
because of you. Look at them.

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If I've made more money, I
threw away. So please, funny if

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you have no idea, if I
just will be generations because of what you

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did. I didn't do enough.
Who did so much? This film is

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well deserving of every great review,
award and lasting impact it is received.

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And then some and honestly that could
not even do this film justice. There

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could be multiple reviews on this program
with powerful scenes, talking about the symbolism

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in the film with candles and yes, the little girl in the red jacket,

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and the effort all that were involved
in had to put forth. It

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is a film that everyone must see
once in their lives to understand that to

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do right, no matter how small
you think the impact might be, can

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have the greatest lasting ramifications. I
hope you join me next week when we

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begin our month long tribute to Orson
Wells with a special look at the fight

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he went through to make his seminal
film and, in my opinion, the

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greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane. And then in two weeks we will

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actually review Citizen Kane, as it
is my favorite film of all time.

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For WM and H and Matt Connorton
Unleashed, this has been a classic film

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review with Eric Pilcher mea never s