Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

The world premiere of "Schindler's List" is scheduled for November 1993, 11, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., USA. This is a day without any special significance.The film screening hall in the Kennedy Center is not large, and apart from social celebrities and political figures, only some particularly famous film critics are invited to participate.

Of course, in addition to these people, there are survivors of the concentration camps or their relatives convened by the National Jewish Association.Because this is not an ordinary premiere, all invited guests were asked to wear dark formal dresses.At the same time, it is also very rare that there is no speech from the producer or distributor before the official screening of the film, and the film critics did not raise their hands to ask questions, as if they had made an appointment.

The camera starts with an ordinary Jewish family, and the black and white film records yellowed memories, where the family sings a chant in a low voice.This is a not rich but very happy family, and everyone smiled knowingly at this scene.But such a happy scene was just a small fragment, and soon a black subtitle appeared, explaining the background of the story.

After the appearance of sound films, such black subtitles were regarded by the professors of the film academy as a heresy that cut off the storyline, and they were absolutely not allowed to appear again.But here, no one thinks there is anything wrong with the black subtitles.Because everyone has guessed the follow-up plot, the happiness is over, and the disaster has just begun...

Because of the insistence of Jed and Spielberg, the entire film was shot with almost no modern techniques.Railcars, jibs, large brackets, etc., that's only used occasionally.Most of the whole movie is shot with a black and white handheld camera. The slightly shaking picture not only reflects the historical nature of the story, but also makes people feel a little uneasy.

Just when people were ready to accept some painful plots, the scene of the movie switched to a grand reception.The men and women dressed in Chinese costumes are having a drink, and it seems that there is a happy and peaceful world between the drinks, and the leading actor of this film also appeared on the stage.He's a successful businessman, owning his own business in this troubled world, and he's got a fling with the Germans.In such social occasions, he not only made the ladies fall in love with him, but also made the German officers happy to make friends with him.He was not a very good person from the beginning, even he was a little selfish.

At first, he didn't sympathize with the Jews, he just regarded them as relatively cheap and useful hired labor.But under his intentional or unintentional arrangements, a small group of Jews finally escaped the massacre.Because the Germans need people who can work for them, even if they are Jewish.And who can bring the Jews out of the fate of being slaughtered?Schindler is one of them.However, the cooperation with the Jewish Stan has brought about some changes in Schindler's personality, even though he was still so bad at the beginning of his cooperation with Stan.Stan knew he had to work with Schindler so he could use his hired hands to protect some of his kind.

But Schindler's bad attitude still made Stan couldn't help but mock, "We provided funds and manpower, so what about you? Sir!"

Schindler replied lazily: "Me? I will be in charge of the company's publicity. I will not work, but just put on a facade."

Perhaps normally, Stan would throw Schindler out, but at this time, he chose to cooperate.Schindler's factory opened, and the last ark of the Jews was finally built.

In addition to the main story line of Schindler and Stan, there are many branch lines telling the tragedy of this fallen city.Little non-Jewish girls swearing and throwing stones at Jews; Jews being shot at random and numb bystanders; mothers sending their daughters into the crack where "one can hide" while they themselves lure Nazi soldiers away; There is also the killing of an old Jewish man indifferently on the one hand, but on the other hand, he can turn his head to comfort the German soldier who is frightened and crying. All the pictures flow quietly on the screen indifferently and calmly.There is no special artistic processing, no artistic exaggeration, because this is an extremely cruel art in itself.At this time, the movie seems to be a faithful recorder, recording those forgotten or remembered historical moments.

The girl in red who symbolizes hope appeared on the stage. Everyone thought that this might be the only bright color in the movie, but the two directors chose to "kill" the little girl very cruelly.Because in this story, the Jews are hopeless.In order to prevent the patients from dying too painfully, the Jewish doctors smiled and poisoned the medicines given to the patients.By the time the German soldiers rushed in and shot randomly, they had already passed away.And when the city entered the night, the flashing gunshots mixed with the piano sound of the German officer, which was unusually discordant but so harmonious.Even during the hunt for the Jews, the two German soldiers were still discussing whether the piano piece just now was composed by Beethoven or by Mozart.

There are always many unexpected plots in the movie. As the highest occupation officer of the fallen city, Captain Goethe fell in love with the maid who cleaned the room for him, a Jew who was regarded as an inferior race by the Nazis.The way Captain Goethe fights against his heart is to torture the maid constantly, so as to convince himself that he is not in love with anyone.At this time, Schindler became Goethe's best friend, and the two often drank and chatted.Goethe, who had many things in his heart, was drunk, and Schindler supported him.Captain Goethe said with a smile: "We have drank together many times, and I have hardly seen you drunk, which shows that you are a very restrained person. Restraint is control, and control is actually power."

And after getting along with Stan and his own personal experience during this period, Schindler has changed many of his views.He thought for a while and said: "Killing is not power, but judgment, which is different from power...power is that you have the right to kill a person, but you choose not to kill,... pardon, this is power. "

Schindler's words seemed to have touched Captain Goethe, and then he smiled and shook his head, "You are drunk!"

Perhaps Schindler's words really had a little effect. Captain Goethe woke up the next day and didn't get angry at the boy who broke his saddle. He even dissuaded a German soldier who tried to shoot a smoking Jewish woman. Tell your own valet how to clean your bathtub... Some viewers began to think that maybe this Captain Goethe is not a bad person, and there is still a little bit of kindness deep in his heart.But not long after Captain Goethe pardoned the servant boy, a shot rang out beside the boy.A second shot followed, and the boy fell in a pool of blood.

"God! Why?" Someone couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice.The director stifles the hope in the audience's hearts time and time again in the movie, pushing the whole movie into a hopeless world without any tomorrow.

The next shot is the title that made Jed collapse for a while. In order to "make room" for the new Jews, the Jews who originally lived here had to run around naked in the winter.If you don't run enough laps, you will be regarded as a "patient" and shot.In order to achieve the standard of not being a patient, an old man fell down again and again and got up again and again to continue running. He was surrounded by indifferent doctors and trembling fellows.No one dared to help, because if you behaved in any way that looked unhealthy, then your test was over, and you would be pulled aside by German soldiers to await your fate.In order to make themselves look more "healthy", Jewish women pricked their fingers and used blood as cosmetics to make their faces rosy.As for those children, the German army sang a gentle lullaby for them, and they closed their eyes in the quiet and soft sound.But when they woke up again, what greeted them was the cruel hell-Auschwitz concentration camp.There are also some clever children who escaped, and in order to survive, they hid in the cesspit and hoped that the German soldiers would not check here.

The story is still being narrated peacefully, the original black and white picture has become only a faint gray, and gray debris is flying in the sky.This is actually not dust, but the ashes of the Jewish bones burned by the German Nazis.Piles of corpses were pushed out, including such a bright red.Schindler finally couldn't bear it anymore, he found Stan and made a list.As the list increases, what disappears is Schindler's hard-earned half-life savings.

"This is the hope of life....Beyond the list is the abyss."

Schindler took these people on the list to his hometown and led them out of prison in the name of opening a factory.After arriving in Schindler's hometown, all the Jews still asked to be divided into two teams and go to the "shower room".When a group of women are herded into the "shower room", they hug each other tightly, waiting for the moment of judgment to come.In the darkness, from screaming in terror at the beginning to being silent later, they chose to succumb to fate.It was real water, however, that poured down the room, and they cheered their luck.But when they left the shower room, they found that the other group of people went to the real place - the crematorium.The original happiness and joy disappeared in an instant, here, there is no joy and hope!Since the children could not work, the Germans did not allow Schindler to take the children away, and the tragedies of separation of flesh and blood were staged in front of our eyes.

After returning to the factory, some German soldiers still wanted to come to Schindler's factory to kill people for fun, but the sophisticated businessman Schindler quarreled with the soldiers. In order to protect the group of Jews, he quarreled with the Germans.In the days that followed, Schindler's factory did not produce any products.In order to keep these people alive and bribe German officers, Schindler was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Finally, Schindler and his workers waited for hope, and Germany was defeated.But who can guarantee that the group of German officers and soldiers monitoring the factory will not have a frantic massacre of Jewish workers in the end?Schindler stood up again. He made a speech in the factory to all the workers in the workshop and the German soldiers with guns on the steps: "I just heard the announcement that Germany surrendered unconditionally. At midnight tonight, the war will end. Tomorrow, You set out to find your loved ones who are still alive, most of you...maybe not so lucky. After six years of killing, victims mourned, we survive. Many of you came to thank me...thank yourselves. Thank you Fearless Stan, and others who face death at any moment."Speaking of this, Schindler paused, "I am a Nazi, an arms manufacturer, a hard-working exploiter, and I am... a criminal. You will be free at midnight, I will be hunted, and I will meet you At [-]:[-], please forgive me by then... I must go for my life.” At this time, Schindler looked at the German soldiers on the steps and said calmly, “I know you have received reports from the leaders. Order, remove all the workers, you can do it now, they are all here, this is your chance. ... Otherwise, you can go home and be a human being, not a murderer"

Perhaps Schindler's speech played a role, and the German soldiers put away their guns and left the factory.And Schindler showed a "cunning" smile, he was still the same Schindler, but there was a different Schindler in his heart.Naturally, the workers in the factory would not let Schindler "flee". They jointly wrote a letter of guarantee to guarantee Schindler's innocence.And a worker used his gold tooth to make a ring for Schindler and entrusted Stan to give it to Schindler.

When Schindler got the ring, Stan gratefully told him, "There is a saying in Hebrew, 'Whoever saves a life saves the world!'"

Perhaps this sentence touched Schindler's heart, and he said with tears: "At that time, I might be able to take some people out of Poland. ... What do I want this car for? It can replace 10 people! And this brooch, it's made of pure gold, it can be exchanged for two more people!" Speaking of this, Schindler shook his head, "I live too extravagantly! If I..."

Stan stopped him from continuing to say, "Thank you for the people you saved. Thank you for the descendants of the people you saved."

And Schindler could only cry bitterly.

At the end of the film, the ending of everyone is cross-introduced. Captain Goethe was hanged; Descendants, put a stone of gratitude on Schindler's tombstone one by one... The camera gradually zooms out. In the distance of the grassland, it seems to be Schindler's figure, and the camera gradually loses focus...The last black On the freeze-frame screen, a line of white words reads "For commemoration! For gratitude! For redemption!"

No one made a sound, until even the staff list was played on the screen and the lights were turned on, still no one spoke.Under the lights, many people's faces were covered with water.After a long silence, the applause rang out like a tide under the leadership of someone. Everyone stood up to pay tribute to this great movie, and the applause that Spielberg and Jed received was even louder.Although it was the premiere, no one could ask questions, as if any question would tarnish the film.After people left the venue one after another, reporters outside the Kennedy Center surrounded Clinton, who was then President of the United States.

Clinton made no secret of his love for this film, "This is a painful process, and the pain reaches the deepest part of my heart. Thank you for having such a great artist in our country, who presented such a great work of art in front of us. No words can describe it, and I sincerely recommend that everyone go to the cinema to see this movie."

Another political figure interviewed was the German ambassador to the United States. He also said very sincerely: "First of all, on behalf of our country, I apologize again for the crimes we have committed; secondly, I am very grateful to Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Mr. Erman, this work brought by two great artists. When I was watching the movie, I was very sad and cried sadly. That tragedy was not only Jewish, but also German. But the Germans did not Because of this, we will stop introspecting. Our tragedy is that we deserved what we deserved, and we are still atoning for the past. If this movie is introduced to Germany, I would suggest that Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister and Your Excellency the Speaker all watch this movie, just Like the last sentence, for remembrance! For gratitude! For redemption!"

Some other celebrities and politicians who were interviewed also expressed their love and touch for this work, and a reporter even issued such a report on the spot, "There is no need to doubt anymore, the greatest movie in 1993 has just been released !"

"I heard you donated your salary too?" Spielberg asked.The movie didn't make Spielberg a dime, and to give himself peace of mind, Spielberg donated his pay to the National Jewish Association.

"Yes." Jed nodded, "I heard that a girl from Hopkins University was going to the east to investigate another massacre that happened in the same era, so I decided to fund her. I established a group called "Nanjing Historical Truth Investigation Foundation", in addition to funding her, I also entrusted a team of lawyers to go to China to collect some evidence. Just like the words I insisted on stamping on the back of the movie, I am not for revenge, just hope Some people and some things can be remembered."

Spielberg looked at Jed, "Sometimes, I even suspect that you are Chinese."