Chapter 123: Schindler's List

Wang Jie has always been in the free-range stage for Xiangjiang DreamWorks Group, due to the distribution of power in place, coupled with Wang Jie's understanding of decentralization, whether it is DreamWorks Pictures or Jiayi TV, it is a thriving scene. Mecca, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian and others of DreamWorks Pictures in this life did not have any bullshit like the original time and space new art city, because Wang Jie's dividends were very high, and Mecca and Shi Tian did not plunge into the stock market and real estate industry like the original time and space, and they had a stable huge income, who would take risks easily!

Wang Jie's layout in advance, so that Xiangjiang film four or five years ahead of the boom period, considerable profits, so that many people frantically poured into the film industry, especially some black background associations, Xiangjiang in the last year set up more than 100 new film and television companies, the impact of this is that the phenomenon of following the trend is serious, and most of them are shoddy, and the phenomenon of forcing artists to film is not uncommon. However, DreamWorks Group is sitting and watching the clouds rise and fall, I am immovable, Wang Jie's strong background, coupled with the prestige of Blackwater International, makes a group of community bosses dare not easily offend DreamWorks, and the relevant cooperation with DreamWorks is also a rule.

The Xiangjiang film industry will enter a period of recession in another four or five years, which is a historical inevitability, Wang Jie does not want and does not have the ability to reverse this trend, all he can do is to try to let some outstanding Xiangjiang filmmakers go out, retain a bit of vitality for Xiangjiang films, and wait for the rise of China to become rich and powerful.

On June 1, Wang Jie returned to William's Farm in the United States, he wanted to build a foundation for his eldest son, and at the same time accompany the pregnant Audrey Hepburn, and other women have their own careers.

While Wang Jie was busy refining the foundation building medicine, George Lucas and Spielberg came to William's Farm together. As soon as the two were ushered into the drawing-room and sat down, Spielberg said eagerly: "I beg Mr. Wilhelm to let me direct Schindler's List, and I can do it without any pay." ”

Wang Jie looked at this super director who had taken off the image of the former philistine and was a little middle two at this time, and said: "In principle, I promise you to direct, but you have to promise me a few conditions first, this is the script of "Schindler's List" that I rewrote, you can read it first." ”

Spielberg took the script and read it carefully in the living room.

Like the original time and space, the script tells that in September 1939, the German army occupied Poland within two weeks, and the Nazis ordered that all Jews in Poland must be gathered in designated cities for registration, and more than 10,000 Jews came to Krakow from the countryside every day. The Jews in Krakow elected a committee of 24 Jews to help the Jews gathered in the city to settle the problems of accommodation, meals, labor, and disputes.

German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler, who had just arrived in Krakow from his hometown, was tall, handsome, and well-behaved. He generously befriended German officers and SS soldiers in hotels and on various social occasions.

Schindler also went to the registry office and found a Jew named Yitzhak Steyn, who had worked as an accountant in an enamel factory in Liebz. Schindler intended to buy the poorly run enamel factory to produce edible utensils, supply military supplies, and make war money. He asked Steyn to be his accountant and assistant to run the factory. But what puzzled Steyn was: what did Schindler do? The funds were in place, and the factory was renamed Emalia. The SS stipulated that the wage for the employment of Jewish skilled workers was 7 marks per day, and that of other trades and women workers was 5 marks, but the full amount had to be paid directly to the government treasury, and the Jews did not receive a penny. And Polish workers are paid a little higher. As a result, Jews became Schindler's natural choice. The recruitment office was full of people, and Steyn carefully gave effective guidance to the applicants, helped his compatriots find suitable places, and secretly forged various qualifications for teachers and musicians who did not have the conditions to enter the factory, so as to avoid being blacklisted and sent away by the Germans in trucks.

One day, an old one-armed worker named Ruinstein came to thank Schindler in person. He said that he was almost killed by the SS, that he was grateful that the factory had saved him, and that he would repay him. However, while clearing the snow later, Ruinstein was pulled out of the ranks by German officers and shot. Schindler approached the Germans, and a senior SS officer told him that giving Jews a place in the business meant betrayal.

Once, when Steyn and many Jews were put on a train, Schindler rushed to the station, wittily reprimanded the German officer, and found Steyn at the window when the train started, and left him behind, blaming him for not forgetting to bring his work card in the future to avoid this misfortune.

On March 13, 1943, the Jews of Krakow were subjected to a horrific massacre. The SS drove into the ghetto with a herd of wolfdogs in military vehicles, and when they saw that one was killing the other, Krakow was full of murder, and all of them were like frightened birds. Bloody wind and rain, its condition is very miserable. Schindler, who had returned from riding with his mistress, stopped on the hillside and was greatly shocked by what he saw. The mistress, who couldn't bear to look at her, choked up and begged him to leave.

Looking at the empty factory, Schindler was worried. After much deliberation, he decided to go to the SS commander Amon Gott and ask him to approve the establishment of the Emalia factory as an attached labor camp and to resume production. Gort tweeted that there are a lot of conditions that must be met to achieve the goal, and this is the opportunity to earn it a vote. Schindler naturally understood and said that if he helped him, he would give him a satisfactory reward.

Schindler arrived at the Prashov labor camp and took the opportunity to meet with Steyn. Steyn told him not to forget to give gifts to the SS officers and their families on their birthdays, and that he must also pay his respects to the people of the Ministry of Finance and the Quartermaster Bureau on time, and that the expenses of the SS headquarters had to be paid on the first day of each month. In exchange for the right to open a concentration camp metalworking plant. During the days of the German army's frenzied slaughter of Jews, Schindler's factory became a refuge for many Jews. Schindler celebrated his birthday by blowing out the candles on the five-tiered cake and kissing every woman beside him. The Jewish girls in the factory, with a Jewish girl and their cakes, wished him a happy birthday on behalf of all the workers, and Schindler kissed them, but he did not expect to get into trouble.

An order was placed on the radio to call all living Jews to assemble in the square at once. The Jews, who had just arrived in the concentration camps from Hungary, did not know what fate awaited them. Amon Gott ordered the extermination of all sick Jews. Hearing that the officers said that they would strip and check their bodies, the women broke their fingers and squeezed out the blood to apply it to their faces and lips to increase the color of blood.

On the platform, the Jews in the stuffy tanker were scorching under the scorching sun and thirsty. Schindler handed Goth a cold soda to Gott, who was sitting on the platform, and suggested calling a fire truck to amuse himself by spraying the Jews with a water tap. So Goth ordered the soldiers to carry it out, and the Jews greeted the fountain of life with their mouths. Schindler ordered the soldiers to spray more on the roof of the car, and Gort, who was watching him, realized something, and the smile on his face suddenly retracted.

The Gestapo arrested Schindler on charges of violating the FΓΌhrer's racial laws by inadvertently kissing the Jewish girl who gave him a cake on his birthday night. Gort explained to the head of the Gestapo, Julius, and interceded for Schindler, solving the problem with money. Schindler was released on bail after receiving some warning.

In April 1944, more than 10,000 Jews had been killed in the Jewish ghettos of Krakow and Prashov. Amon Gott was instructed by his superiors to exhum the bodies that had already been buried, to incinerate them, and to transport the remaining Jews to Auschwitz. When Schindler learned of this, he asked Gott to give his accountant special treatment.

Seeing that the factory would not be sustainable, Schindler planned to return to his hometown, but Steyn said that he could continue to open the factory, and of course he had to hire new workers. Schindler was grateful to him from the bottom of his heart. A line of tears slipped from the eyes of Steyn, an accountant with an uncertain future and unpredictable life and death. Schindler's heart suddenly awakened something.

When Schindler came to Gall with a suitcase full of money and said that he was going to buy his workers, Gott asked in confusion: "Why? You must have another purpose, you have to be honest with me!" Schindler said, "So I don't need to train the workers anymore, and it's good for the army, I want to produce munitions." "Schindler asked Gott to make an offer, how much is a Jewish worker?

In the factory office, Schindler smoked cigarette after cigarette and dictated the list to Steyn, who was typing, and he finally bought Goth and Julius with money, leaving all the children behind, and he saved innocent lives one after another. As his list grew longer and longer, Schindler showed a strange "greed", and he went to Julius again and again, trying to give as many places as he could.

Steyn's hands trembled as he held the long list he had typed. On the last page of the list, there is a blank slot, which is reserved for Helen Kaith, Gort's Jewish maid. Gott, of course, refused to hand her over to Schindler, saying that he would never send her to a concentration camp, but would take her back to WYN and live with her. Schindler reminded him that it was just wishful thinking. But Goth said he would rather take Helen Cayce into the woods and shoot her in the head. But in the end, Gort retreated, compromised, and handed Helen Keith over to Schindler for 14,800 marks to work in a labor camp.

The Jews on the list were registered in the square and sent by train to Zvitau Brunnliz in the Czech Republic, where the munitions factory was located, in two groups, men and women. Schindler told the Jewish men who had arrived earlier that the women's train had left Prashov and would soon arrive at the munitions factory. The women's train was moving, and the carriages were full of jubilation. However. Instead, the train arrived at Auschwitz, where the women were ordered to strip naked and bathe and disinfect, and the horrors of the legend finally befell them, and the people were terrified. A distraught Schindler rushed to Auschwitz and demanded the return of his workers from the camp leaders. Under the combination of hard and soft, the leader who accepted the bribe wanted to replace it with another 300 people. However, Schindler disagreed, and at his insistence, the ringleader finally relented. He also lectured German soldiers against shooting and killing Jewish workers in munitions factories. One day, Steyn came to report to Schindler that all the shells produced by the factory were of substandard quality, and he was afraid that the military would sue him. Schindler, however, calmly stated that he would go and explain to the Germans. He told Steyn that the shells they produced were not of good quality, and he was very happy. For seven months, he did not produce a qualified product. At the same time, he spent millions of marks to supply his workers and bribe German officials, and at the same time used the money to buy some artillery shells from the arms market as products of military factories to prevaricate the German army. In doing so, Schindler was bankrupt and on the verge of bankruptcy.

Germany finally surrendered unconditionally. Schindler solemnly announced to all the workers that they would be able to go their separate ways to find their loved ones from tomorrow. And look back to dissuade the German soldiers who were guarding the factory, lay down their arms, return home, and stop being the executioners of the Nazis. The soldiers hung their heads and quietly left. Afterward, Schindler proposed a three-minute silence in memory of the countless innocents who had been killed. Before leaving, Schindler instructed Steyn to give all the factory to the workers. The workers melted down the dentures and took out the gold and forged them into a rustic ring, on which was inscribed in Hebrew with the verse: Whoever saves one life saves the whole world. A Jew handed Schindler a cover letter signed by all the workers in case he was arrested, with the signatures of all of them.

Schindler was so excited that he burst into tears and couldn't help himself. In the face of the incoherent Schindler, Steyn said in earnest that he had spared 1,100 Jews, and that their descendants would never forget it. Schindler said, "If I just...... I could have got more. If I'd made more money. I threw away so much money...... I'm so ridiculous and squandering...... Schindler fell to his knees on the shoulders of his accountant, and the workers gathered around to hug their savior. Schindler was gone, and the people followed him for a long time, watching him until the end.

In 1958, Schindler was awarded the Medal of Justice by the Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial and invited to plant trees on the Avenue of Justice.

Schindler died on October 9, 1974, and he was buried in a Catholic manner on Mount Zvitazil in his hometown, where many, many surviving Jews and their descendants come every year to pay their respects.

The original novel "Schindler's Ark" was published in 1982, Wang Jie appointed Bantam Books to buy the distribution rights and film and television adaptation rights of the novel as soon as the novel of Thomas Keneally was completed.

After more than two hours, Spielberg solemnly put down the script and said excitedly: "Very great script, especially your proposal to shoot it on black and white film and add a little girl's dazzling red to it, I admire your talent very much, I think this film should be directed by you yourself." ”

The real name of the girl in the red dress in the script is Rome Ligoka. Unlike her character in the film, she survived the war and wrote a biography called "The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir."

Wang Jie shook his head solemnly and said: "You have a natural prejudice against me from the first meeting, don't blindly deny it, you are not optimistic about me because of half of my Chinese blood, let's put aside your views and prejudices first, during World War II, the fascist group gave the people of the world a painful injury, especially the Jewish nation and the Chinese nation, and these two pains are flowing in my blood, I don't want to relive this pain again, I am afraid that because of this pain, I will not be able to pick up the director's tube." ”

Spielberg said with a slight sympathy: "I am not like this, but we must endure this pain and let this history reappear in front of the world." ”

Wang Jie said: "I only have three requirements for you, first, all the cast and crew in the play are determined by me, rest assured, I will not choose randomly, I will respect your opinion; second, all the dialogue of the film must be in English as the dialogue subtitles, so that people around the world can understand "Schindler's List" as much as possible Third, you don't shoot in the concentration camp in Krakow, just rebuild a concentration camp scene next to it, it doesn't matter how much it costs, I, King William Rothschild, will give it to you, I will give you as much as you spend on this movie, after the release of this movie, except for the principal, no matter how much the box office profits, I will donate the money to the Jewish Crucifixion Fund for free. ”

Hearing Wang Jie's last sentence, even George Lucas on the side was a little moved, you must know that the first rule of the Jewish nation is not to harm their own interests because of any conditions.

Although he agrees with Wang Jie's generosity, Spielberg still said seriously: "I have read some materials in Krakow, and I know that whether it is a studio or other locations, if you build a set, it is difficult to reproduce the situation of that year, and we have to let history reappear in the world ......."

Wang Jie interrupted Spielberg sharply, "No, don't, don't go to the concentration camp, please don't disturb the souls of the dead, let them rest there in peace!"

Spielberg froze suddenly, he felt as if something was blocking his chest, and at this moment, he realized that the young man in front of him was so tall and majestic. George Lucas and Spielberg got up at the same time and bent solemnly towards Wang Jie.