If you have 15 minutes to spare, I would very much appreciate any feedback on this video I uploaded onto YouTube yesterday. It's basically my response of sorts to some criticisms Terry Gilliam made of Schindler's List (1993) in an infamous interview for Turner Classic Movies.
In the video, I address various topics, including Stanley Kubrick's own alleged remarks about Schindler's List as quoted in a book by Eyes Wide Shut co-writer Frederic Raphael, and how that book has been discredited by several of Kubrick's friends and family members (thus instilling some ambiguity into the question of whether Kubrick's comments about Schindler's List are actually legit). Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan, Steven Spielberg and Michael Herr have all publicly dismissed the book as a work of fictional malice.
Other things are addressed in the video, too, including Gilliam's accusation that Steven Spielberg's movies "always" leave audiences with "answers instead of questions."
Some of the people who have watched this video have accused me of being snarky. This is true. But since Gilliam is snarky in his own interview, I see no better way of getting his attention than to respond in a similar tone. It's like what Flannery O'Connor once said: when you're talking to the deaf, you need to shout.
So far, the video has gotten a lot of angry comments; somebody has even called me a "tool" on another social network for making it. What many of these comments prove, to me at least, is that there are still thousands of people out there on the Internet who dislike Schindler's List with such a burning passion that they absolutely refuse to consider arguments in defense of the film. Even after concrete evidence has been laid out before them.
