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...Liam Neeson stars as a wayward savior...
...suborn them with bribes and favors, first to advance his own interests, later to protect his workers, are filmed in the high formal style of the 1930s and '40s. The style is as cool and calculated as Schindler himself, played with a kind of impenetrable bonhomie by Liam Neeson. The work here comes close to satirizing the antique conventions of espionage dramas...
...profiteer and a war hero. He was chummy with the Nazis; he saved many Jews. Oskar Schindler, the prime mover in Steven Spielberg's epic act of witnessing, had a little majesty and a lot of mystery. He remains that way to Liam Neeson, the screen Schindler. "I still don't know what made him save all those lives," says Neeson, 41. "He was a man everybody liked. And he liked to be liked; he was a wonderful kisser of ass. Perhaps he was inspired to do some great piece of work. I like to think -- and maybe it comes...
...took a while for Spielberg to realize he needed the 6-ft. 4-in. Irishman as his Schindler. He knew Neeson as the vengeful Darkman, as a man accused of child molesting in The Good Mother, as the one decent fellow in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives. Spielberg had even tested the actor for Schindler. Then in January the director saw Neeson play the passionate, saintly seaman in a Broadway revival of Anna Christie. And that's when he made the top of Spielberg's list. The director told himself, "I want that great actor in this movie...
...actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking in the obscure diction of the Muppets' Swedish Chef. And Liam Neeson, wonderfully direct as Anna's would-be redeemer of a beau, lurches from anger to perplexity. He is like a backward child with an oversize soul...