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"the panache that's what I bring to the table"

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redguru said:
By the way, the picture is my reply.
yeah it ID it when you quote
i thought you weren't around
damn he wins around 75-80% of my trivia events
 
Schindler saved hundreds of Jews by hiring them to work in an enamel factory, an industry that was relatively safe from the Nazi authorities because its products were needed for the war effort. But he needs help to run the factory, which the German authorities initially finance, and so he turns to a skilled Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, played with understated brilliance by Ben Kingsley.

"They put up the money and I do all the work," Stern says to his new boss. "What, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?"



"The panache," Schindler responds confidently. "The presentation."



As Schindler begins to turn what was a bankrupt factory into a successful one, he reclines one evening on a comfortable bed and says to his mistress, "It could not be better." In the very next scene, a Jewish woman in a ghetto home says to her husband, "It could not be worse." At the same time as Schindler is enjoying his good fortune, he also acknowledges that it is not luck that's responsible for it, but war.
 
"Who is that man?"
"Who is that man?" People in the story ask this question about Oskar Schindler more than once, making him as enigmatic a character as Rick Blaine in Casablanca--although in quite a different milieu--and one of the most intriguing characters in all of Spielberg's filmography. A womanizer, gambler, opportunist, and member of the Nazi party, Schindler--skillfully played by Liam Neeson--hardly seems the type of man who would break down and cry, ever. But at the end, when he realizes that he could have saved even more lives than he did, that's just what he does, shamelessly and uncontrollably.
 
When Stern hires a man with one arm and Schindler angrily asks him about it,Stern calmly says about the man, "Very useful," much to Schindler's disgust. Moments later, when a suspicious Nazi officer asks Schindler why he hired a man with one arm, Schindler says, matter-of-factly, "Very useful."
 
More significant than the humor is the irony. When the Nazi camp commandant Amon Goeth, played with chilling evil by

Ralph Fiennes, admires Schindler's silk collar shirt at a party, Schindler states with casual abandon, "I'd get one for you, but the man who made it is probably dead. I don't know."
 
I'm not awarding the karma to redguru
I'm awarding the karma to who in your opinion on/in elite best represents the Nazi war profiteer?
 
George Spellwin
 
I dunno... I mean, who here is being persecuted, having their lives stolen, then murdered out in the open? LOL

War profiteer = ANYONE on elite?

:confused:

Never really thought about that....
 
Spartacus said:
I'm awarding the karma to who in your opinion on/in elite best represents the Nazi war profiteer?

I don't know many members on Elite and I certainly don't know any beyond their posts. I'd have no idea who has such *business* acumen, but if I were to consider, solely, a couple of descriptive terms of Schindler, which you provided: 'womanizer/opportunist' then my guess is KB.
 
Don't think so, but rumors of a biteme alter circulate through the PM circuit from time-to-time.
 
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