RECOMMENDED: Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg 1998) Five years after he created one of the definitive films about the Holocaust with Schindlers List, Steven Spielberg returned to World War II with Saving Private Ryan and delivered what can arguably be called the one of the definitive films on D-Day in the process. The plot of the film is set in motion when General George Marshall learns that three out of four brothers have died in action and that the fourth brother, Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), has gone missing in action during the invasion of Normandy. As the General is informed that the brothers mother will have to be notified of the deaths of three of her sons on the same day, he decides that the last remaining brother needs to be found and sent home. Three days after having landed on the beaches of Normandy, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) is given orders to assemble a team to go find Private Ryan. Joining him are his right-hand man Sargent Horvath (Tom Sizemore), a translator (Jeremy Davis), a medic (Giovanni Ribisi), a sharpshooter (Barry Pepper) and three more privates (Vin Diesel, Edward Burns and Adam Goldberg). As the men make their way into war-torn territory and lives are lost, some of them start having doubts about the sanity of sending in more men to save the life of a single soldier but they ultimately pursue their mission anyway. Once they finally locate Ryan, it turns out that he is defending a bridge of strategic importance and the remaining soldiers in Millers team join the battle against the Germans who have the Americans heavily outnumbered. Featuring one of the most intense battle scenes ever committed to celluloid, Saving Private Ryan starts of with a 24 minute visual assault depicting the landing of the Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy. Rarely has a film depicted such relentless violence in such a convincing realistic manner, perfectly capturing the insanity of war and the total chaos of the landing at Omaha beach from the point of view of the men who stormed the beach. Whilst the final battle scene in the town of Ramelle is no snooze either, it is this opening madness that stays with the viewer long after the movie has ended. The film was a critical and financial success and received a plethora of award nominations and wins throughout the world. The film was also nominated for eleven Oscars, winning five of them, including a second Best Director statue for Steven Spielberg (the first one being for Schindlers List). https://youtube/watch?v=vwAxi4A2YcY
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:28:31 +0000
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