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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Thomas Keneally's ''Schindler's Ark'' was hardly an obscure book, having won the Booker Prize in the year of its publication, but the movie is on a whole different level; subsequent reprints of the book have even changed the title to match the film.
** Spielberg made several changes from the source material; in particular, he exaggerated Schindler's journey from [[Money, Dear Boy|money-grubbing]] [[Jerkass]] to hero. In the book and in real life, Schindler was trying to save as many Jews as possible almost from the moment the Final Solution was implemented. He even traveled to Hungary and met with representatives of Jewish organizations there to tell them what was happening in Poland as early as 1942.
* [[Award Snub]]: The director of [[Four Weddings and
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: Of course, do we expect anything less from [[John Williams]]?
** John initially refused to do the film because ''he didn't think he was good enough''. Spielberg's reply? "[[Last of His Kind|Anyone who is better is dead.]]"
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: At least ironic in Hindsight. Goeth lectures his men before an Aktion.
{{quote| Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now, the young will ask with wonder...about this day. Today is history, and you are part of it.}}
** A beind-the-scenes example is more straightforward; at one point [[
* [[Hype Backlash]]: It is VERY popular on review websites such as [[IMDb]] to bash this film for being cloying, melodramatic and [[Reality Is Unrealistic|unrealistic]], or simply [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|just too well liked.]] Extra points of it's being criticized by a [[Hate Dumb|Neo]][[Those Wacky Nazis|-Nazi]]
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Schindler himself, of course. He's not the only one though - step forward Itzhak Stern, who played an unspeakably huge role in getting a lot of people who would otherwise have been slaughtered early on into Schindler's Factory. Poldek also arguably qualifies, being cunning enough to survive both the failed escape attempt in the sewers at Krakow and moments later a direct encounter with Goeth. He even gets himself a job as Goeth's mechanic at Plaszow.
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