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Thread ID: 11471 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-12-14
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[I][B]Spiel[/B] Informal n. 1. A lengthy, usually extravagant speech or argument intended to persuade. --- (American Heritage Dictionary)[/I]
“You will believe...”
Steven [B]Spiel[/B]berg’s “Jurassic Park” had people believing in and hoping for the cloning of dinosaurs from ancient and totally decomposed DNA, which is a physical impossibility. It also had people convinced of the skin textures and colors, and the thicknesses of flesh, that once surrounded the fossilized bones of creatures who had never been photographed, drawn or described by eye-witnesses. It convinced people of the ways that dinosaurs moved and even thought.
Steven Spielberg’s “ET, The Extra Terrestrial” had people convinced of the probability that Life exists in other parts of the Universe, and had people becoming sentimentally attached to and deeply sympathetic with a pure figment of someone’s imagination.
This should provide ample evidence of two things; that the majority of Humans are extremely gullible, and that Steven Spielberg is extremely talented at taking advantage of Human gullibility.
So now let’s have a closer look at Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler's List”:
This movie had totally convinced the majority of its viewers that every detail of the Jews’ “official version” of the Holocaust is unquestionably and undeniably true.
After all, it showed the very chambers in which millions of Jews were purported to have been systematically killed with poison gas, albeit that these non-operable mock-ups had been constructed by earlier film-crews, for earlier “Holocaust” documentaries, long after WWII.
After all, it showed piles of corpses in mass graves, albeit without mention of the fact that thousands of concentration-camp inmates had died from highly contagious diseases for which antidotes were not available, and without mention of the fact that the normal, regular and accepted way to dispose of large numbers of such infected bodies -- Human as well as herd-animals -- is to bury them in lye-filled pits. And of course, it called no attention to the fact that none of those corpses had been shaved bald, or that none of those corpses had patches of skin missing, even though claims had been made and accepted that the Nazi captors had regularly and systematically stolen the hair of all the women for sale to wig-makers, and that tattooed skin was used for making decorative lamp-shades.
After all, it showed hundreds of naked men and women running through concentration camps, with several close-up shots, to exemplify the humiliation and indignities to which the Jews had been subjected by their hundreds Nazi captors. But, it also added new footage of paid Jewish “extras” voluntarily stripping themselves naked for the cameras and eventual millions of worldwide movie-viewers, just as it added footage of paid Jewish actresses sobbing through the ordeal of having their real hair shaved off by other actors.
After all, it showed many people being killed in one form or another, including being shot at point blank range, albeit that the bulk of these killings were marvels of Spielberg’s “Special Effects” team.
After all, it showed how nasty and vulgar were the Nazi captors, with the F-word and several other profanities being used by them more than a few times, while the language of the prisoners was left devoid of such filth.
After all, it showed how sexually-attracted were the captors to their captives, such as in the scene where a man grabs a woman's breasts through a wet t-shirt. But, it gratuitously adds a protracted scene in which the movie’s hero, Oskar Schindler, is in bed, with his wife in the act of sex, leaving little to the imagination, amounting to no less than “soft pornography,” and for no reason other than to sexually titillate the audience.
In short, this pseudo-documentary contained every known element of every “exceptionally memorable” film ever made -- profanity, nudity, sex and violence -- and it appealed to and shocked every base emotion of the Human animal. It made people laugh, it made people cry, it made people angry, it made people sympathetic, it made people “horny,” it made people love some actors and hate others. But most importantly, and which is the hallmark of Steven Spielberg movies, it made people believe exactly what Steven Spielberg and his financial backers wanted people to believe.
By Joseph Sarandos December 14, 2003