Watched Savin Private Ryan again, still gets me everytime...

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
One of the worst movies made in the last 10 years. So borrrrrring. I can just imagine the people you thought it up, "Let's make a film where some guys walk around in a big field for 2 hours and nothing happens to them."

😕

If that's sarcasm.......

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Every time this movie is brought up, someone has to go against the grain. He just want's to be noticed.

He's Ylen13 the Second.

- M4H

 

[BCYL]

I get choked up everytime I see the old Ryan salute Cpt Miller's grave at the end of the movie... No matter how many times I have seen the movie, I still get choked up...

Awesome movie... The first DVD I ever bought...

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: BCYL
I get choked up everytime I see the old Ryan salute Cpt Miller's grave at the end of the movie... No matter how many times I have seen the movie, I still get choked up...

Awesome movie... The first DVD I ever bought...

I choke up during the very first scenes as they walk through the cemetary!

 

[Babbles]

Probably the only guy action war flick where I get teary eyed when watching it.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: BCYL
I get choked up everytime I see the old Ryan salute Cpt Miller's grave at the end of the movie... No matter how many times I have seen the movie, I still get choked up...

Awesome movie... The first DVD I ever bought...

I choke up during the very first scenes as they walk through the cemetary!

My chicken chokes up during those scenes.

 

[Amused]

The moral to Saving Private Ryan is that we are ALL "Private Ryan." We ALL must "earn" the sacrifices made by the brave heroes who saved the world from tyranny and fascism during the 4 bloodiest years in world history.

I am actually amazed at how many people miss this obvious meaning to the story.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Amused
The moral to Saving Private Ryan is that we are ALL "Private Ryan." We ALL must "earn" the sacrifices made by the brave heroes who saved the world from tyranny and fascism during the 4 bloodiest years in world history.

I am actually amazed at how many people miss this obvious meaning to the story.

i thought it was because during the war, there was this law where brothers in combat were assigned to different battalions and different areas so it reduces the chance of all getting killed in a battle ...

it just so happens that all of his p. ryan's bros died in different missions of the war in different places...so they had to go out and save the kid....

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: Amused
The moral to Saving Private Ryan is that we are ALL "Private Ryan." We ALL must "earn" the sacrifices made by the brave heroes who saved the world from tyranny and fascism during the 4 bloodiest years in world history.

I am actually amazed at how many people miss this obvious meaning to the story.

i thought it was because during the war, there was this law where brothers in combat were assigned to different battalions and different areas so it reduces the chance of all getting killed in a battle ...

it just so happens that all of his p. ryan's bros died in different missions of the war in different places...so they had to go out and save the kid....

Um, it's not a true story. While there are stories somewhat like it, the story in SPR is not true. The closest true story is this:

Frederick 'Fritz' Niland of Tonawanda, NY was a Sgt in H/501 PIR. He was misdropped below Carentan on D-Day, but fought his way back to the 501 with his buddy Jack Breier. Although virtually every writer who tells the Niland family story manages to gaff-up the details, the basic facts are these; all three of Fritz's brothers, who were on active duty with the U.S. military, became casualties in less than three weeks. Oldest brother Eddie was on an Air Corps bomber, which was shot down in the C.B.I. on 16 May, 1944. His mother, Augusta, received the MIA telegram about Eddie on 8 June, 1944. Her other three sons were all participating in the Normandy invasion with the Army.

Robert, a.k.a. "Bob The Beast" Niland jumped near St Mere Eglise with D/505PIR, 82nd Airborne. Bob was killed in heavy fighting at Neuville au Plain on June 6th. Brother Preston was a lieutenant in the 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, and landed on Utah Beach. On 7 June, 1944, he was also killed in the area NW of Utah Beach. When Fritz returned from his misdrop circa 11 June, he rejoined H/501 and was decorated for grenading a German m.g nest at Hill 30 on 12 June. After learning that Fritz was probably the sole surviving son in his family, Fr. Francis Sampson, Catholic Chaplain of the 501, started paperwork to have Fritz sent back to safer duty in the U.S. The paperwork took quite a while to go through, and didn't come back approved until the end of the summer.

Fritz was NOT pulled out of the front lines, as Ambrose asserts in his books. Fritz remained in Normandy with the 501 until they sailed back to England on an LST.

Fritz remained with H/501 through the summer of 1944, suiting-up for two missions which were canceled, before the orders came through for him to return to the Zone of Interior. Fritz protested the order-he wanted to return to battle and avenge his lost brothers. Against his objections, he was overruled and sent back for M.P. duty in N.Y. state until the war ended.

One of his brothers did survive-Eddie returned from his MIA status many months later, having been in a Japanese P.O.W. camp. Mrs Niland did NOT receive three telegrams in one day regarding the loss of her sons,(I still can't figure out where Ambrose conjured-up THAT particular fiction-it was good Hollywood stuff for the movie though.) Also two, not three of Fritz's brothers were in fact killed in action. The story of the Nilands wound-up in two of Ambrose's books, and Hollywood screenwriters used the basic scenario of a 101st paratrooper who had lost three brothers as the starting premise for the screenplay of 'Saving Private Ryan'.

At any rate, "Saving Private Ryan" was written as a story with a moral to it. The moral is obvious: We are all "private Ryan." That was the whole basis for "earn this" and the "am I a good man" scenes.