Saving Private Ryan hit theaters 25 years ago. awalrusdarkly argues that it contains the scariest scene Steven Spielberg’s ever filmed:
We don’t always think of him that way, but America’s Great Populist Auteur became the most famous director in the world because of his abilities to push our emotional buttons. All of them. That means that for every shot of a bicycle soaring past the moon, there’s a shot of aSpielberg’s knack for horror is a skill that’s served him well throughout his career, but it’s never been better applied than it was to, his World War II masterpiece which turns 25 this month.
Private Mellish , the Jewish member of the detachment sent to rescue Ryan, gets a relatively simple assignment. He’s tasked with parking himself in a second story room and raining machine gun fire down on the German assault, while the group’s interpreter, the non-combat soldier Corporal Upham runs back and forth between gun nests, resupplying his ammo.
It begins with a pool of blood outside the door, as Mellish’s support man Corporal Henderson shoots down the first Nazi up the stairs. We don’t see this Nazi. We only hear his footfalls, then the thump of his body dropping, an unusual choice for a film so steeped in the visceral, unflinching reality of war. Then the blood flows out, quick and crimson like the blood coming out of‘s elevator doors, saturating the dusty floor.
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