The turning point in the film comes, I think, when the squadron happens upon a German machinegun nest protecting a radar installation.
I identified with Upham, and I suspect many honest viewers will agree with me: The war was fought by civilians just like him, whose lives had not prepared them for the reality of battle. Upham ( Jeremy Davies), the translator, who speaks excellent German and French but has never fired a rifle in anger and is terrified almost to the point of incontinence. All of Miller's men have served with him before-except for Cpl. His advisors question the wisdom and indeed the possibility of a mission to save Ryan, but he barks, "If the boy's alive we are gonna send somebody to find him-and we are gonna get him the hell out of there." That sets up the second act of the film, in which Miller and his men penetrate into French terrain still actively disputed by the Germans, while harboring mutinous thoughts about the wisdom of the mission. Bixby of Boston, about her sons who died in the Civil War. Marshall ( Harve Presnell) in his Washington office, war seems more remote and statesmanlike he treasures a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote consoling Mrs. Miller ( Tom Hanks) and his men, the landing at Omaha has been a crucible of fire. Ryan be saved, and those who are ordered to do the saving. This landing sequence is necessary to establish the distance between those who give the order that Pvt. He staggers, confused, standing exposed to further fire, not sure what to do next, and then he bends over and picks up his arm, as if he will need it later.
The scene is filled with countless unrelated pieces of time, as when a soldier has his arm blown off. For the individual soldier on the beach, the landing was a chaos of noise, mud, blood, vomit and death. Spielberg's camera makes no sense of the action. In fierce dread and energy it's on a par with Oliver Stone's " Platoon," and in scope surpasses it-because in the bloody early stages the landing forces and the enemy never meet eye to eye, but are simply faceless masses of men who have been ordered to shoot at one another until one side is destroyed. The movie's opening sequence is as graphic as any war footage I've ever seen. The landing on Omaha Beach was not about saving Pvt.
In Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," thousands of terrified and seasick men, most of them new to combat, are thrown into the face of withering German fire.
In Hollywood mythology, great battles wheel and turn on the actions of individual heroes.
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