Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller looking shaken after D-Day in Saving Private Ryan
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Historian Dan Snow has praised Saving Private Ryan's legendary D-Day scene for its accuracy, passionately explaining why the movie is so well-remembered right from its opening scene. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the 1998 World War II movie follows a group of soldiers led by Captain John Miller searching for Private James Ryan after his brothers are killed during D-Day.
They went to enormous trouble to create what it must have looked like and felt like on Omaha Beach, which was the bloodiest of the five beaches which were assaulted by Allied troops on D-Day. This scene, for me, just encapsulates the sheer horror of what it must have been like going ashore. First, what I like is there's a calm before the storm, you see them going in these landing craft, heavily laden down.
And we see the corpse with "Ryan" marked on his kit. Now, in Saving Private Ryan, the Ryan family are made up, but it's based on the true story of the Niland family. Two of them were killed on and around D-Day, another one was killed in Southeast Asia, and a final family member was brought home and protected so as not to cause even more trauma to the family.
The opening scene is not the only harrowing moment to happen throughout the film's 170-minute runtime, but it helps introduce Saving Private Ryan's cast, with a focus on Hanks' Miller. Coupling character introductions with an accurate depiction of D-Day makes the movie feel more realistic, even if the characters in the story didn't exist in real life.
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