History Film / SchindlersList

* ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: Amon Goeth tells Helen Hirch, "Hath not a Jew eyes?", a quote from Shylock (a Jew himself) from ''TheMerchantOfVenice'' (III.i) before making his AlmostKiss.

* FanDisservice: The film contains male and female full frontal nudity, but this is during the concentration camps entrance process, thus lacking any eroticism. This being despite the actors having normal healthy bodies, visibly clean, trimmed and hairless - the image of RealLife exhausted and starved prisoners naked and full of lice would be as horrible as traditional depictions of Hell.

* BrokenAce: Goeth

* FridgeLogic: Also DidNotDoTheResearch, but absurdly. They chose a motorcar which could not have been owned and used by Schindler in 1944 (a Daimler DE36 - in the scene where Schindler rode full speed towards Auschwitz to save the trainload of women mistakenly send to death) for the simple reason it has been '''designed in 1946''' in Britain. All other cars are appropriate for the time and country: the other Schindler car, a Horch, the car Goeth rides in Plaszow, a Mercedes-Benz etc. No explanation is given why this car has been hired for a film so meticulously researched .

** Topping it all, in RealLife she called him with a [[FluffyTheTerrible childish nickname]], "Monny". [[TheMoreYouKnow This is why]] she named his (posthumous) daughter "Monika".

* FridgeLogic: Also DidNotDoTheResearch, but absurdly. They chose a motorcar which could not have been owned and used by Schindler in 1944 (a Daimler DE36 - in the scene where Schindler rode full speed towards Auschwitz to save the trainload of women mistakenly send to death) for the simple reason it has been ''designed in 1946'' in Britain. All other cars are appropriate for the time and country: the other Schindler car, a Horch, the car Goeth rides in Plaszow, a Mercedes-Benz etc. No explanation is given why this car has been hired for a film so meticulously researched .

* FridgeLogic: Also DidNotDoTheResearch, but absurdly. They chose a motorcar which could not have been owned and used by Schindler in 1944 (a Daimler DE36 - in the scene where Schindler rode full speed towards Auschwitz to save the trainload of women mistakenly send to death) for the simple reason it has been designed in [[strong: 1946]] in Britain. All other cars are appropriate for the time and country: the other Schindler car, a Horch, the car Goeth rides in Plaszow, a Mercedes-Benz etc. No explanation is given why this car has been hired for a film so meticulously researched .

* FridgeLogic: Also DidNotDoTheResearch, but absurdly. They chose a motorcar which could not have been owned and used by Schindler in 1944 (a Daimler DE36 - in the scene where Schindler rode full speed towards Auschwitz to save the trainload of women mistakenly send to death) for the simple reason it has been designed in [[strong:1946]] in Britain. All other cars are appropriate for the time and country: the other Schindler car, a Horch, the car Goeth rides in Plaszow, a Mercedes-Benz etc. No explanation is given why this car has been hired for a film so meticulously researched .

* FanDisservice: The film contains male and female full frontal nudity, but this is during the concentration camps entrance process, thus lacking any eroticism. This being despite the actors having normal healthy build - the image of RealLife exhausted and starved prisoners naked would be as horrible as traditional depictions of Hell.

* FanDisservice: The film contains male and female full frontal nudity, but this is during the concentration camps entrance process, thus lacking any eroticism.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: When Schindler is having German soldiers hose down the Jews that have been stuffed into deathly-hot cattle cars, Goethe and the other Nazis initially laugh at what is apparently one of their own tormenting the Jews with a little taste of water, but Schindler ''keeps'' hosing the cars and even has drinking water and food brought to the train for the guards to give to the Jews every time they stop. By the end of the scene Goethe is staring at the scene with blank incomprehension; he has gone through humor, exasperation and boredom, and has now reached a point where ''he really cannot figure out what the hell Schindler is doing''. The idea that Oskar is trying to help the Jews just ''does not fit''.

* SamaritanSyndrome: Causes a HeroicBSOD for Schindler [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvGu3Y9e8y0 towards the end]].

* PsychopathicManchild: Goeth. He has tantrums like a child, does things on a whim, and likes to break his toys. Unfortunately, in this case, his toys are human beings being starved and worked to death, who he kills on the merest whim. Accent on the "merest" part (e.g., because they exist).

* PsychopathicManchild: Goeth. He has tantrums like a child, does things on a whim, and likes to break his toys. Unfortunately, in this case, his toys are human beings being starved and worked to death, who he kills on the merest whim. Accent on the "merest" part.

* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Happens to Schindler, who as the death tolls and dangers increase, becomes continuously more concerned with preserving human life and trying his hardest to keep people alive. Schindler himself believes - ironically - in the opposite, that war brings out the worst in people, and that if the war had not happened, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Amon Goeth would be generally a really nice guy]]. The movie itself suggests that war brings out the truth in people i.e. Goeth is really a CompleteMonster, and Schindler is really a good guy.

* GraveMarkingScene: The final scene of the film shows the actual Schindler Jews visiting the grave of the actual Schindler

* LittleDeadRidingHood: The only color shown in the movie (aside from a candle at the beginning, the Blauschein stamp, and the ending scene) is a girl in a red coat, shown hiding from the Nazis. [[spoiler:Later in the film, she is seen in passing again as one of a stack of corpses, only recognizable because the red coat is again the only color shown.]]
** Steven Spielberg wanted to use red because of the association with blood, and because Oskar Schindler really did see a toddler (Roma Ligocka) dressed in red - apparently she actually survived, and later wrote her own memoir titled ''The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir''.

* ItGotWorse: Jews several times remark that "it can't get any worse!" This leads to an IronicEchoCut:

* TemptingFate: At every stage of the Jews' predicament, someone comments that things can not get worse, or that they are now in a pretty good position (as workers that is). Justified of course, given this was barbarity on an unimaginable scale.

''Schindler's List'' is a 1993 film directed by StevenSpielberg, shot almost entirely in black and white. Loosely based on real events from WorldWarII, the film won seven Oscars; it holds a [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/schindlers_list/# 97% Fresh]] from RottenTomatoes. The film is based on the book ''Schindler's Ark'' -- which in turn is based on the actions of a man named Oskar Schindler.

** "The worst is over... now we are workers!"
** Schindler's female workers are seen happily boarding a train that will supposedly take them to Schindler's plant. [[spoiler:They get shipped to Auschwitz instead.]]

* SplashOfColor: The little girl in the red coat; the Sabbath candles; the Blauschein stamp.

Schindler's wife allegedly once said that Schindler himself did nothing remarkable before or after the war -- WorldWarII, that is. He was a businessman in Nazi-controlled Germany who, while trying to profit from the German invasion of Poland, ended up running a factory using enslaved Polish Jews as the workforce. As the Nazis started to send captured Jews to the concentration camps, Schindler resisted their actions. The movie's title comes from the "lists" he kept of skilled workers that he could not afford to lose...which just so happened to be every worker in the factory. At the cost of any sort of financial security -- he was bankrupt by the time the war ended -- Schindler ended up saving over a thousand people from being killed in concentration camps.

* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Happens to Schindler, who as the death tolls and dangers increase, becomes continuously more concerned with preserving human life and trying his hardest to keep people alive. Schindler himself believes - ironically - in the opposite, that war brings out the worst in people, and that if the war had not happened, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Amon Goeth would be generally a really nice guy]]. The movie itself suggests that war brings out the truth in people i.e. Goeth is really a Complete Monster, and Schindler is really a good guy.

** Schindler's female workers are seen happily boarding a train that will supposedly take them to Schindler's plant. They get shipped to Auschwitz instead.

* VillainousCrush: Geoth has one on Helen Hirsch, his Jewish maid.