English title: (Saving Private Ryan)
Country: U.S.A. Time: 1998 Length: 170 minutes
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring Tom Hanks Edward Burns
Matt Damon Tom Sizemore Paul Giamatti
Awards: 71st Academy Award for Best Director and Best Cinematography Burns
Matt Damon Tom Sizemore Paul Giamatti
Awards: 71st Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography,
Best Sound Recording, Best Editing, Best Sound.
Best Picture, Best Director, 56th Golden Globe Awards.
52nd BAFTA Awards Best Sound, Best Sound,
Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects.
Genre of War: Documentary War Scenes
The movie's performance in the war scenes is very realistic, almost a true reproduction of the bloody scene of the battlefield at that time. Many World War II veterans gave the movie a very high evaluation, calling it "the most realistic movie reflecting World War II", especially the 26-minute-long spectacular scenes of the Normandy Landing. On the other hand, the movie explores a difficult issue of humanitarianism in war, whether the humanitarian spirit of using 8 people's lives to save a soldier should be used or not. From this point onwards, the movie improves the character of the movie as a documentary movie, and thus digs deeper into the justice and humanitarian spirit of the war
The movie recreates the magnificent scenes of the Normandy Landing that took place more than 50 years ago, and lets people witness the intensity and cruelty of the war in a horrifying way. Spectacular and grandiose war scenes, the bloody battle of Normandy, the entire beach was dyed red by the blood of the warriors. The movie shows the bloody battlefield in a documentary style, which is shocking. The director focuses on human relationships and human nature in the war. Critics generally regarded this movie as the best war movie ever made. But some thought there was too much gore in the picture, and the director thought he had only shown a fraction of the brutality of war
Tom Hanks (as Captain Miller)
Tom Hanks is the first actor in the last 50 years to win two Oscars, the first for his portrayal of Andrew Becket, an AIDS-infected attorney, in the film The Philadelphia Story, which Hanks played in the first film, The Philadelphia Story. -Beckett, Hanks' performance touched moviegoers. His second win was for his mesmerizing performance as the "lovable" Forrest Gump in Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump, for which Hanks won two Golden Globe Awards. Tom Hanks in the film "Apollo 13" in the performance of the same for it won countless applause and applause, and more so that the audience was mesmerized by his and Meg Ryan co-starred in the famous romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle".
In 1996, Hanks made his directorial debut, writing, directing and starring in the movie "That Thing You Do". The movie was a huge success in theaters; its theme song was also a hit, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
Hanks' other credits include "Bachelor's Party," "Women's Baseball Team," "Volunteers" and "A Very Different Man.
Edwards Burns (as Reiben)
He's the newest rising filmmaker in Goodwill, and he's just signed a several-year long-term acting contract with DreamWorks Pictures. Burns wrote, directed and starred in his debut feature, "The Brothers McMullen," which was revered by audiences and critics alike, and which premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize. With an investment of $25,000, this ultra-low-budget film grossed $10 million, making it the most profitable movie of 1995 in the United States. Burns went on to write, direct and star in the films She's the One and Don't Look Back. Born in Long Island, New York, Burns studied film arts at Hunter College, where the success of "The Brothers McMullen" brought his talent to the world's attention, and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford recognized him.
"Saving Private Ryan" was Burns' first time acting in a movie directed by someone else and saying lines written by someone else.
Tom Sizemore (as Mike)
He recently won the Best Actor award at the Madrid Film Festival for his portrayal of a wise-cracking Chicago police detective in the sci-fi 'cool adventure "Ruins. His portrayal of a righteous detective in Oliver Stone's The Lightning Thief was also well received. Sizemore's other credits include "Humans of Fire," "Devil in a Blue Dress," "Hot Fuzz," "Law Enforcement Humans," and "A Moment of Truth," among others.
Matt Damon (as Private Reese)
Matt Damon won this year's Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Mindhunter," for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, making him an iconic star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
Damon also starred in Francis Coppola's "The Rainmaker," and in between, he gave a compelling performance in "Live and Let Die," in which he succeeded in his role as a sanitation soldier with a deep sense of guilt over the Gulf War. He is also known for "Modern Cinderella" and "Rising Sun".
The crew was in Los Angeles for the post-production of "Saving Private Ryan," and an important part of it was done in the Boston Music Hall, where composer John Williams conducted the renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tiger Woods Festival Chorus in the film's theme song. Williams and Spielberg both believe that music is an important part of the film's meaning and atmosphere, which accompanies Captain Miller and the soldiers in the search for Ryan's journey behind enemy lines is a set of long, slow tempo music, and at the end of the film when the cast credits, they chose a set of staccato goat drums as the end credits music, so that the mournful sound has been wrapped around the audience's heart, and can not be dispersed for a long time. The sound of the drums will be heard in the hearts of the audience for a long time, and will not go away.
Spielberg's name is closely associated with seven of the top 20 highest-grossing films in movie history. That includes "Jurassic Park," which he directed last year, and its sequel, "The Lost World," and "Men in Black," which he executive produced.
Spielberg won Oscars for best director and best picture in 1994 for his moving film "Schindler's List. Spielberg's "Schindler's List" won the Oscars for best director and best picture for his moving film, which made the so-called "Spielberg can only make commercial movies" a myth. Schindler's List" not only won seven Oscars, but also won the honorary awards of several critics' organizations and seven British Film Institute awards. Spielberg also won a Golden Globe for best director and a Directors Guild of America award for best director for the film, his second Directors Guild award after "The Purple Sisters".
Spielberg was also nominated for Oscars for "Aliens," "The Ark of the Law" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," which earned him a nomination from the Directors Guild of America for best director. His eight Directors Guild nominations put him on par with the likes of Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Fried Zenemann.
Spielberg's first movie was "Scotsman Express. Since then, nearly every one of his films has become a box office marvel, with "Jurassic Park," "Jaws," "Forever and Ever," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the Indiana Jones hero film series "Lawnmower Man" and "The Brave and the Bold" familiar to moviegoers around the world.
In 1984, Spielberg founded his own Amblin Entertainment. Under the Amblin banner, one can find some more box office giants such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future Episodes I, II, and III, The Goonies, Tornado, Men in Black, and The Mask of Zorro.
In 1994, Spielberg announced that he had joined forces with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form DreamWorks Pictures.
Spielberg was so passionate about sub philanthropy that he donated all of the proceeds won from "Schindler's List" to form the Justice Foundation. He also founded the Schoch Witness to History Foundation, which includes the accounts of 42,000 survivors of the World War II Holocaust in concentration camps. Spielberg is also chairman of the Starlight Foundation, which provides health care and entertainment for suffering children.
Spielberg was completely moved the first time he heard the music, and said he could imagine how audiences would feel sitting in a darkened movie theater listening to it. Said Hanks: "I think it's important to express such a feeling to the audience. Flesh and blood soldiers have to make sacrifices for the well-being of the majority of the population, and we made the movie to do something for those heroic souls, to remember this history as a tragedy of mankind's own making." Spielberg said, "Making a war movie is not so nice for me, my father often told me stories of war and he told me that war is not what it is imagined to be. So I want to make this movie as close to reality as possible, to let the audience see the scenes of gunfire and smoke in the war, listen to the sound of war and feel the breath of war.
In order to increase the sense of reality, Spielberg used an almost documentary approach to shoot the first 25 minutes of the landing scene. He didn't even think about the storyline before filming, but instead used a handheld camera to follow the soldiers on the landing for the majority of the time to get up close and personal," Spielberg said. Spielberg said, "That way I was like a war correspondent following the soldiers into battle, and I could actually film the whole landing."
In an effort to be both faithful to the story as a whole and true to the era in which it takes place, Spielberg worked again with "Schindler's List" cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. Spielberg said, "We couldn't make the film as a colorized World War II documentary, but as a color war documentary shot on location on the day of June 6, 1944." For this reason Kaminsky removed the protective lenses from the camera lenses, making this modern camera close to the old machines of the 1940s. (Without the mirror) light could enter the lens directly and reflect off it, which made the light more diffuse and softer than before. At the same time, the cinematographer had the film negative specially processed to lighten the colors, resulting in the effect seen in the film.
Another special technique in the movie was to use a 90-degree or 45-degree shutter to capture the landing scene. This allowed for thrilling shots of the actors moving without stopping and gunfire flying across the scene.
Spielberg was confident of a realistic recreation of the landing. He's serious he says: "Omaha Beach was a slaughterhouse back then. The whole beach was stained red with the blood of the soldiers, and the troops who landed on the attack were huddled together with the backup troops. I don't want to glorify what really happened, I just want to do my best to bring out the brutality of war in a realistic way."
When all the preparations and maneuvers were over, the attention to the realism of every detail eventually worked its magic. When Spielberg shouted "live action," the actors were transported through a time tunnel to the bloody battlefield of 50 years ago. Tom Hanks said: "Before making this movie, I've never experienced that kind of adrenaline rush, because as soon as the shooting started, the whole shooting site was in chaos. People were falling down, bombs were going off near you one after the other, I could imagine soldiers falling in batches in a hail of bullets back then, and there was fear in our eyes, we knew none of it was real, but that's why we were really scared". Burns added: "We shot the landing sequence at the beginning of the whole movie, and that changed our attitude to shooting the later battle scenes. No one could have imagined beforehand how horrific the landing would be, and you really get a sense of the life-and-death tests that the soldiers had to bravely face back then." Barry, Pap said, "Sitting in the landing craft that day looking out over the Irish beaches I felt like a soldier in World War II, I started to think of things and I could feel the fear in the hearts of the soldiers all those years ago, they were exhausted, soaked to the skin and then jumped out of the landing craft only to be greeted by an intense barrage of gunfire. They watched their buddies die around them and all they could do was climb up onto the beach." Stéphane Ambrose, a renowned historian and author and a leading scholar of the Normandy landings, was the historical consultant for the movie. He commented, "This movie is a true recreation of the battle of that year, and it is without a doubt the most realistic and accurate reflection of the brutality of the war I have ever seen, both in terms of the deployment of the battle, and the soldiers' expressions, their language, their arguments and grumblings with each other, and their respect and love for each other. "
Leaving Ireland, the crew moved to England to shoot several other scenes. Tom Sanders and the rest of the crew haunted an abandoned British airbase in Hetfield, creating a French countryside full of sores and ruins, as well as a small bridge, which became the location for the climactic scene of the entire movie.
Sanders first created a 3-D model of the town, then used a carving knife to slice and dice his way through the model until it was a "ruin" of holes and ruins. Then, Saunders will be this group of "destroyed" model scaled up into a physical building. The use of two-dimensional model of the drawings, Saunders also designed a hidden passage and hiding places, and in the actual scene of the original construction, so that Spielberg can be in these hidden places from different angles to shoot the house and the street fighting scenes. After meticulous design, this ingenious location became the French town that was destroyed by German artillery fire. Here, the soldiers led by Captain Miller fought to the death against the Germans, and every house and every wall became a site of intense battle. Meanwhile Dale Dye's military expertise once again came in handy during the filming, as he literally formulated a battle plan on how to introduce the enemy into the town, how to ambush them, and how to fight the enemy tanks, to which Spielberg also offered his own suggestions.
The film crew went to great lengths to make these pampered actors into trained soldiers. They approached former U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Dale Dye, whose attachment to the military didn't fade with the end of his military career, and said, "I believe that in the hearts of the men and women who are fighting for their country, there is a kind of bloodlust in the hearts of the men and women who are fighting for their country. The actors had to experience firsthand the hard life of the military men and women to fully understand that feeling." So the actors were taken to the jingoistic battlefields of yesteryear, where they ate only canned food for every meal, crawled through mud and water, and even slept on the cold, muddy ground, and Dye said, "If I'm effective, the actors should have a direct sense of the sacrifices made by the soldiers who defended
their country by the end of their training. "
Dye and the crew of the Warrior Company he formed brought Tom Hanks, Edwards Burns and others to Camp Devil -- a military camp that specializes in training actors. From the very beginning, the actors were immersed in the film's environment, calling each other by the names of the characters they played, and learning a great deal of general military knowledge every day. In a total of **** ten days of training, the actors learned general weapons knowledge, close combat skills, independent combat tactics, and World War II army code words and sign language signals, and Diessel said, "Eventually we knew all of these combat In the end, we knew all of these combat skills and we felt like we were in character. We also mastered how to skillfully use weapons, and we were even able to skillfully disassemble and reassemble our M-1 rifles while blindfolded."
On the actors' first day of training in the camp, a cold wind and rain turned the loess into a quagmire, and the actors wondered if Dye could call the shots, with Goodberg even joking that he said, "I don't know what it would have been like if Stanislavsky had come to the camp for military training. Because you have to live in 'order' whether you want to or not, and the only way to get through it is to shut up and be a soldier here. And of course in the end we all benefit."
"Essentially, we have to think like a soldier, but it's really hard to actually become one," Rebins lamented he said, "We're winded, we're sleeping, we're rushing 5 miles with 40 pounds of gear, we're only able to sleep 3 hours a day, and you couldn't sleep at all because you'd be shivering from the cold in the tent. But after this, I had a strong sense of accomplishment." Sezmore admits that he didn't want to participate in military training at first, asking himself: why do I have to be a real soldier when I'm just playing one? But through the training, Sezmore gradually changed this view, he finally understood that in the army only rely on the strength of the individual is absolutely impossible to achieve any results, team spirit is the fundamental guarantee of victory. Said Sizemore: "If a teammate is in trouble, then you have to stop and help him, and that brought us closer together emotionally, so when we actually started filming, the feeling we had for each other sustained us as a whole."
Hanks said, "We play all these soldiers who are worn out and want to go home with increasing emotion by the day. I don't think we could have been as on point in our performance without Dye's help. He has always instilled in us the notion that when you think it's impossible to do something, it's actually perfectly possible to do it. When faced with a decision, people must be decisive."
Recreating the grandeur of the stunning Normandy landings more than 50 years ago was the biggest challenge Spielberg and the crew faced. One of the biggest challenges was finding the right location. Omaha Beach, a former battlefield that is now a protected historic site, had been transformed over the years. Artist Tom Sanders and others spent months traveling to beaches in France, England and Ireland, and found the perfect long, narrow beach in Ireland. The beach was very sandy
, the water was a golden yellow color, and it was backed by treacherous cliffs, all quite similar to Normandy. Saunders and his men quickly transformed this Irish beach into the Normandy beach that the Germans had made golden. On the beaches, they built hidden toons and barriers; on the shores, they built low protective walls made of a mixture of sand and lime and lined with barbed wire; and they built little bunkers on the beach, where the Germans rained down bullets and devoured the lives of American soldiers. An even more difficult task facing producer Bryce was finding the landing craft used in World War II. Bryce said, "There were tanks and other weapons, but there were no landing craft. We searched all over England and Scotland and found only a few. But interestingly
we found a large number of them in Palm Beach, California, and they were then shipped to England and repainted for the landing shoot."
Filming large-scale war scenes of course also requires many extras to play the soldiers, and the most convenient is of course to have serving soldiers playing the soldiers. To that end the Irish Army sent 750 men for the filming of the magnificent landing, many of whom actually took part in the filming of the Oscar-winning Best Picture, "Braveheart," directed by Mel Gibson.
Costuming and feeding such a large group of extras was an absolute headache, with the 750 extras divided into 15 groups of 50, with each group eating, changing costumes and wearing makeup in a completely different order, and then at the end of each day's filming, the groups would take over the order of the filming, and redo the process again, which was like a well-oiled machine that couldn't be deviated from. Of course, no World War II uniform has survived intact to this day, so costume designer Jonah Johnston had to re-design and re-make 3,000 authentic uniforms. Johnston also found a company that made boots for the U.S. Army during World War II and had them remake 2,000 pairs of boots in the same style. All the uniforms and boots were then given a special treatment to appear to have been baptized
after countless battles.
Johnstein also used the uniforms to show the character traits of the characters in the movie. Captain Miller is cautious, so the brim of his hat is always lowered and his eyes are in the shadow of his helmet; Reiben's uniform is always loose and dirty because he is always arrogant and rebellious; Jackson's uniform shows that he is a fighter who is always ready to load a bullet; and Upham's uniform is very neat because he has never been in a battle, but in the smoke of the war, his uniform is soon disfigured! .
Wearing the uniforms made the actors really feel like soldiers. Putting on the uniforms put us completely into character," says Diessel, "and looking out over the wide beach from the landing craft was a breathtaking feeling. At that point, I suddenly felt a great admiration for the soldiers who were brave enough to go forward back then.) In previous war movies, weapons were an important part of a soldier's costume. Prop master Simon, Atherton spent three months collecting and ordering 2,000 weapons to be used for filming. Atherton checked the safety performance of the guns every day to see if the bolt was stuck by sand or some waste to make sure that everything was in order. Safety was a major concern for the crew, and special-effects supervisor Nel worked closely with Spielberg to determine the actors' routes of movement based on the location of the explosions, spending months probing the safety of the explosives and rehearsing several times with the actors to make sure everyone was safe.
Directed by Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg
Time: 1998
Starring Tom Hanks/Edward Burns/Matt Damon/Tom Sizemore/Paul Giamatti
Length: 170 mins
Country: USA
Awards Status:
71st Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Recording, Best Editing, Best Sound.
Best Picture, Best Director, 56th Golden Globe Awards.
52nd BAFTA Awards Best Sound, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and more.
Plot:
When millions of troops land in Normandy during World War II, Lt. Miller leads a small team of eight men deep behind enemy lines to find James Ryan, a soldier in the airborne unit. Because he was the youngest of four brothers in his family, his three older brothers had all been killed in action. General Marshall, fearing that another accident to this lone child will cause his grieving mother to despair, makes the decision to return this only son to his mother at all costs.8 Men risk their lives to find a man who does not know whether he is alive or dead, and are greeted with a baptism of fire and a reawakening of the value of life. The journey to salvation is also a road to death, and humanity is tested in the midst of war.
Spielberg: great director, businessman and philanthropist
Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, USA, in 1948. Spielberg's first movie was "Scotsman Express". His movies have been shortlisted for several Oscars and he himself has won the Oscar for Best Director. He is known as the man at the helm of Hollywood. Many of his films are about the theme of love, and almost every one of them has caused a great deal of excitement, such as Jaws, E.T. (Aliens), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, A.I. (Artificial Intelligence), and Minority Report, to name a few. Of the top twenty highest-grossing films in movie history, seven are tied to Spielberg's name.
In 1994, Spielberg announced that he was joining forces with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to form DreamWorks Pictures. At the same time, Spielberg was passionate about philanthropy, donating all of the proceeds won from "Schindler's List" to form the Justice Foundation. He also founded the Schoch Witness History Foundation, which includes the accounts of 42,000 survivors of the World War II Holocaust in concentration camps. Spielberg is also chairman of the Starlight Foundation, which provides health care and entertainment for suffering children.
Actor:
Tom Hanks is the first actor in nearly 50 years to win two Oscars, the first for his successful portrayal of an AIDS-infected attorney in "The Philadelphia Story," and the second for his portrayal of Forrest Gump in Robert Zemeckis' "Forrest Gump". Other films in which he starred include Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Bachelor's Party, Women's Baseball Team, Volunteers, and A Very Different Story.In 1996, Hanks made his directorial debut, writing, directing, and starring in the film, The Thing You Do, which was critically acclaimed.
Born in Long Island, New York, Edward Burns studied cinematic arts at Hunter College, where he wrote, directed and acted in his debut feature, "The Brothers McMullen," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995 and won the Grand Jury Prize. He later wrote, directed and acted in the films "She's the One" and "Don't Look Back," which brought his talent to the world's attention.
Matt Damon won an Oscar for best original screenplay for "Mindhunter," for which he was nominated for a best actor award and became an icon alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Damon also starred in Francis Coppola's film The Rainmaker, and in between, he gave a compelling performance in Live and Let Die, in which he successfully portrayed a sanitation soldier with deep guilt over the Gulf War. He is also known for "Modern Cinderella" and "Rising Sun".
Realistic reproduction of the intensity and cruelty of war
The movie recreates the magnificent scenes of the shocking Normandy Landing Battle more than 50 years ago, which is a horrifying witness to the intensity and cruelty of war. Spectacular and grandiose war scenes, the bloody battle of Normandy, the entire beach was dyed red by the blood of the warriors. The movie shows the bloody battlefield in a documentary style, which is shocking. The director focuses on human relationships and human nature in the war. Critics generally regarded this movie as the best war movie ever made. However, some people think that there are too many bloody scenes in the picture, while the director believes that he has only shown a one-size-fits-all view of the brutality of war.
Documentary war scenes
The movie's performance in the war scenes is very realistic, almost a true reproduction of the bloody scenes of the battlefield at that time. Many World War II veterans gave the movie a high evaluation, calling it "the most realistic movie reflecting World War II", especially the 26-minute-long spectacular scenes of the Normandy Landing. On the other hand, the movie explores a difficult issue of humanitarianism in war, whether the humanitarian spirit of using 8 people's lives to save a soldier should be used or not. From this point onwards, the movie improves the character of the movie as a documentary movie, thus digging deeper into the justice and humanitarian spirit of the war.