Behind-the-scenes Production of Schindler List

This novel is about how to repay Schindler for saving his life. Poldek Pfefferberg, who survived, decided to devote his life to telling the story of Schindler's saving Jews. 1963, Feiverberg tried to co-produce a biography about Schindler with MGM, but failed in the end. 1982, Australian novelist Thomas Keneally published Schindler's Ark after getting to know Feiweibao, and won the Booker Prize in one fell swoop. Sid Shenberg, president of Steven Allan Spielberg Music Company, wrote a book review for The New York Times. Spielberg was shocked by Schindler's story and even questioned the authenticity of the novel. He said, "What drives a person to give everything to save those innocent lives?" Spielberg, who has a strong interest, hopes that Universal Pictures can buy the right to film the novel adaptation. 1983 at the beginning, Spielberg meets Fiverberg, who asks, "When are you going to shoot?" Spielberg replied, "10 years later." Spielberg was not sure whether he could control the film about the Holocaust and tried to give it to roman polanski. However, Polanski refused to direct the film because he found the theme of the film too sensitive. His mother died tragically in the gas chamber of Auschwitz concentration camp, and he himself was a survivor of the Krakow ghetto. He hopes to direct his own Holocaust film (The Pianist in 2002). In addition, Spielberg also found Sydney Pollack and martin scorsese, but he didn't want to miss this work to warn future generations, so he asked Scorsese to direct the remake of cape fear. Billy wilder also plans to direct this film in memory of his family who died in Auschwitz. After hearing the shameless remarks of Bosnian ethnic cleansing and holocaust deniers, Spielberg finally decided to direct Schindler's List himself, because neo-Nazism began to rise after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Spielberg was a descendant of Jews, and he began to learn to accept Jewish traditions when raising children. Sid Shenberg agreed to film Schindler's List, but only if Spielberg directed Jurassic Park first.

Actor candidate

As early as the early casting, liam neeson auditioned for the role of Schindler. 1992, 12 In February, Spielberg saw his performance in the Broadway play anna christie and decided that he was the final choice to play Schindler. Warren beatty, kevin costner and Mel Gibb all want to play Schindler. Kennedly once explained in the book: Schindler is just a clown in the eyes of German Nazis. If the Nazis are compared to new york, Schindler is a hillbilly from Arkansas. The Nazis won't take him seriously, and he is making full use of it. To help Neeson prepare for the role, Spielberg asked him to study the video of Steve Ross, president of Warner Bros. Spielberg always thought that Ross's temperament was exactly the same as Schindler's.

Ralph Fiennes won the role of Nazi officer Amon Goss for his performances in Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia and New Wuthering Heights. Spielberg said of Fiennes: "I met a sexy devil. His performance is very subtle, and you will find a moment of kindness in his eyes, but then it will turn cold. " In order to play this role well, Fiennes not only gained 28 pounds, but also watched news films and consulted holocaust survivors who knew Goss, thus performing a murderous demon with both form and spirit. A survivor who experienced all the events trembled with fear when he saw Fiennes in Nazi uniform.

There are 65,438+026 characters with lines in the film. During the filming, the crew hired 30,000 extras, all of whom were descendants of Schindler Jews, and the actors who played the survivors were Catholics.

Shooting process

1993, the film crew of Schindler's List led by Steven Allan Spielberg arrived in Poland for the first time. Just as they were preparing to camp in Krakow during World War II, they suddenly received an urgent telegram from the National Jewish Association of new york: Don't disturb the dead, let them rest in peace. Spielberg read the news in a few words without saying anything. He immediately ordered the film crew to evacuate the Krakow concentration camp and move to a place dozens of kilometers away to set up the shooting set. At the same time, he left the film crew alone and flew directly to new york. Spielberg crossed the Atlantic Ocean and went to new york to apologize to the Jewish Association without sending a representative or using modern communication tools such as telephone, telegraph and telex. His humility and sincerity touched all the members of the Jewish Association.

Spielberg didn't use storyboards, but took the form of documentaries, and got inspiration from 1956' s Twisted Cross and 1985' s Catastrophe. Forty percent of the films are shot with hand-held cameras. Spielberg gave up the use of booms, camera stabilizers, zoom lenses and any equipment that can create a sense of security. This style makes Spielberg feel like an artist. Because of the limited tools available, he thinks there is absolutely no need to expect the film to be a commercial success. Spielberg has matured at this time. In the past, he always admired Cecil B. DeMille and David Lane, but in Schindler's List, he formed his own shooting style.

Photographer janusz kaminski compared the black-and-white style of this film with German expressionism and Italian neo-realism. He hopes that the picture of the film can show an eternal texture. However, it is difficult for the crew who have been shooting color movies to adapt to black-and-white movies, and allan starski, the artistic director, has to make corresponding adjustments. In order to avoid confusion between the characters and the background, Stasky had to make the background different from the characters, and the color of the clothes was quite different from the skin color and the color of the set.

When Schindler was cleaning the Jewish community in Krakow, he saw a little girl in red walking through atrocities and massacres between the SS who waved sticks and shot wildly and the driven Jews, with almost no injuries. This scene shocked Schindler. Spielberg regards this girl as a key figure in the transformation of the whole movie. In black and white photography, only the little girl used red. In Schindler's eyes, the little girl was the highlight of the whole black-and-white massacre scene-then the girl appeared again-she was lying on the corpse truck and sent to the crematorium. Release area time release area time release area time USA1993165438+1October 30th UK1994 February 18 Netherlands1994 March 3rd Canada1994. 8+05 Peru/KOOC-0/994 February 24th Germany/KOOC-0/994 March 3rd USA/KOOC-0/993/KOOC-0/5 Argentina/KOOC-0/994 February 24th Denmark/KOOC-0/994 March. Canada1993 65438+February 25th Japan 65438+February 26th 0994 Portugal 65438+March 4th 0994 Brazil1993 65438+February 30th Greece 1994. Japan, Italy 1994, March 4th, USA1994, France1994, March 2nd, Turkey1994, March 4th, Australia1994, February 10, Israel1994.