Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind
enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in
action.
Director : Steven Spielberg
Writer : Robert Rodat
Stars :Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore |
Saving Private Ryan Storyline
Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of
the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a
beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action.
Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan,
is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The
United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an
opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth
brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller
and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home
to his mother... Written by
J.Zelman
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User Reviews
The most realistic harrowing battle scenes ever filmed...
Steven Spielberg makes a
unique motion picture in regards to the D-Day invasion of World War II
just in the gritty reality of the detail… For more than twenty minutes
he revives for us the landing at Omaha beach… No one was prepared for
how horrific it really was… No one understood what was going on: The
terror, the chaos, the maelstrom of bullets, the near-deafening
explosions…You really got a sense of what these guys had to go through…
Within that perplexity, the focus settles on six soldiers under the command of Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) after they've survived their terrible hours breaking through the first line of German defense, they're given a strange perilous mission, to find one man, Pvt. Ryan (Matt Damon), a paratrooper who's somewhere behind German lines… For them, it's an abstruse order, but they have to get it done…
Throughout the film, Spielberg's attention to detail is amazing… For me, the most chilling scene in the movie is the death of an American officer… It's one of the most intimate… It's also a slightly confusing moment because two German characters resemble each other so greatly…
Toward the middle, a German soldier called "Steamboat Willie" is introduced… By the end of the film, he has become the 'bad' German… Later in the movie, another German is involved in the final fight… He takes part in an exceedingly painful scene of hand-to-hand combat with the American soldier… The two German soldiers have similar short haircuts and black uniforms… Because they looked so much alike, many of us have believed that they're one character… They're not, and the distinction of the two is very significant…
Within that perplexity, the focus settles on six soldiers under the command of Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) after they've survived their terrible hours breaking through the first line of German defense, they're given a strange perilous mission, to find one man, Pvt. Ryan (Matt Damon), a paratrooper who's somewhere behind German lines… For them, it's an abstruse order, but they have to get it done…
Throughout the film, Spielberg's attention to detail is amazing… For me, the most chilling scene in the movie is the death of an American officer… It's one of the most intimate… It's also a slightly confusing moment because two German characters resemble each other so greatly…
Toward the middle, a German soldier called "Steamboat Willie" is introduced… By the end of the film, he has become the 'bad' German… Later in the movie, another German is involved in the final fight… He takes part in an exceedingly painful scene of hand-to-hand combat with the American soldier… The two German soldiers have similar short haircuts and black uniforms… Because they looked so much alike, many of us have believed that they're one character… They're not, and the distinction of the two is very significant…
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