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There are war movies that entertain. And then there’s Saving Private Ryan — a film that punches you in the chest and leaves you sitting quietly after the credits, not sure what to do with yourself.
The film won the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival, and Martin Scorsese has also cited it as his ...
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Join me, WW2 Wayfinder on a powerful journey through Drop Zone C, where the legendary 101st Airborne Division parachuted into occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, as part of Operation Overlord.
Matt Damon’s improvised scene in Saving Private Ryan revealed the raw and honest side of a soldier caught in a war he hadn’t chosen.
Steven Spielberg had a plan for Saving Private Ryan. He kept Matt Damon away from the cast to make the on-screen resentment feel real.
Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan' endures as one of cinema's greatest-ever war movies, but it wasn't a completely fictional tale.
Even though the cast had attended boot camp in preparation, none of the actors in 'Saving Private Ryan' were ready for what was to come.
Shrek voice actor Mike Meyers has revealed that the iconic role was offered to him while he was in the midst of sobbing over Saving Private Ryan. Meyers added that his initial reaction was that Shrek ...
But Saving Private Ryan invades new terrain for a large scale Hollywood war movie with its graphic honesty in depicting battlefield carnage. In Spielberg’s body of work, the closest equivalent to its ...
The Sole Survivor Policy, which prompts the mission to retrieve Damon’s Private Ryan in the movie, was a real regulation. But who is his character based on? Everett Every post-1998 war film owes a ...
But Saving Private Ryan communicates the experience of war – the physical sensations, the responsibilities, and the mental scars – with unprecedented honesty.