The storyline of tribalism and deadly internecine conflict was based on the classic westernThe Big Country (1958)crossed with the Irish drama in David Lean""sRyan""s Daughter (1970).Oskar Schindler was an enterprising, womanizing Nazi Sudeten-German industrialist/opportunist and war profiteer, who first exploited the cheap labor of Jewish/Polish workers in a successful enamelware factory (Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik or D.Reward is the key." He demonstrated his reward principle with a prized, socialized and docile, gray-powder faced zombie named Bub (Howard Sherman).[The boy""s traumatic experience during the Holocaust led to his future as the character of Magneto.]In another prologue scene set in modern times ("in the not too distant future") in Meridian, Mississippi, 17 year-old teen Marie D""Ancanto (Anna Paquin) flirtatiously kissed her boyfriend David (Shawn Roberts) - and accidentally put him into a coma (for three weeks) when she absorbed his life energy with her latent mutant power.