Saving Private Ryan Analysis
“Saving Private Ryan”
Most Americans these days are scared to watch war movies and some prefer to not watch them at all. However, wars are a part of our freedom as Americans and we should not be as afraid to watch them. “Saving Private Ryan” is a great movie to start with and should show everyone how lucky we really are as Americans. It’s a story designed in a WW2 setting and starts out on the famous Omaha Beach. It’s about a man named Captain John Miller(Tom Hanks) and his squad who are trying to save a man who they call Private Ryan. Most critics agreed that this film was exceptional, and gave it great reviews.
One aspect of the film that the reviewers found to be positive was the producing by Steven Spielberg. Lyman states that, “It is almost certainly the most intense and realistic war film since “Platoon”(par 5). This shows that this film fits into typical war movies and is exciting and worth it to watch. Another critic agrees, stating, “It is Steven Spielberg's soberly magnificent new war film,” and it is “the ultimate devastating letter home”(Maslin par 1). In these times, which is set around 1944, they sent letters back home to their families to communicate with them …show more content…
Lyman states it has: “sumptuous visuals and state-of-the-art sound”(Lyman par 1). This shows that even for 1998, the graphics and special effects are way ahead of its time and are almost like a time capsule back to WW2 when it actually happened. Another critic agrees, stating: Though the experience it recounts is grueling, the viscerally enthralling “Saving Private Ryan” is anything but” (Maslin par 3). This shows that Maslin thinks it’s very gory, but is very worth watching and has phenomenal graphics. These statements make it obvious that it has very nice graphics and special effects; and that it has great illustrations of some of the actual battle scenes that happened in
Most Americans these days are scared to watch war movies and some prefer to not watch them at all. However, wars are a part of our freedom as Americans and we should not be as afraid to watch them. “Saving Private Ryan” is a great movie to start with and should show everyone how lucky we really are as Americans. It’s a story designed in a WW2 setting and starts out on the famous Omaha Beach. It’s about a man named Captain John Miller(Tom Hanks) and his squad who are trying to save a man who they call Private Ryan. Most critics agreed that this film was exceptional, and gave it great reviews.
One aspect of the film that the reviewers found to be positive was the producing by Steven Spielberg. Lyman states that, “It is almost certainly the most intense and realistic war film since “Platoon”(par 5). This shows that this film fits into typical war movies and is exciting and worth it to watch. Another critic agrees, stating, “It is Steven Spielberg's soberly magnificent new war film,” and it is “the ultimate devastating letter home”(Maslin par 1). In these times, which is set around 1944, they sent letters back home to their families to communicate with them …show more content…
Lyman states it has: “sumptuous visuals and state-of-the-art sound”(Lyman par 1). This shows that even for 1998, the graphics and special effects are way ahead of its time and are almost like a time capsule back to WW2 when it actually happened. Another critic agrees, stating: Though the experience it recounts is grueling, the viscerally enthralling “Saving Private Ryan” is anything but” (Maslin par 3). This shows that Maslin thinks it’s very gory, but is very worth watching and has phenomenal graphics. These statements make it obvious that it has very nice graphics and special effects; and that it has great illustrations of some of the actual battle scenes that happened in