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I really like Gilliam, but I think he's way off in his reading of SCHINDLER'S LIST. I know he's exaggerating a bit in order to be witty and clever, but I've never once thought of SCHINDLER as having a "happy ending". Again, I get what he's saying "in general" about the dark-shaded Kubrick view against the bright-shaded Spielberg view, but it still sounds a bit off to me when applying that to SCHINDLER. The "Hey, we're saving people!" comment is cheap, and worthy of my pals down the pub on a Saturday. I can think of few films which addressed the Holocaust in a more mature, and genuinely (I really do mean "genuinely", Terry) moving way than SCHINDLER'S LIST.
I don't think Gilliam is trying to be 'witty and clever'. You need to remember he's quoting Kubrick in the 'failure and success' bit.
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