Tom Hanks looking shellshocked in Saving Private Ryan
Summary Saving Private Ryan's D-Day sequence gets a few details wrong, reveals a World War II historian. Released in 1998, Saving Private Ryan follows Tom Hanks' Captain Miller as he leads a mission across occupied France to rescue the last surviving brother of the Ryan family. The World War II film is widely regarded as one of the best and most accurate war movies ever made, in particular due to its portrayal of the American landing on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.
“Here we have a little bit of mythology, the idea that no armor made it ashore at Omaha Beach. Actually, a lot of armor made it ashore at Omaha Beach . The reason I think that this line is in there is because you hear him refer to DD tanks. Those are duplex drive, like amphibious tanks that swam their way in.
“Although, when you see in this last part of the clip, the way the machine gun nest is portrayed is not necessarily all that accurate. It’s certainly right out there, completely vulnerable, and the Germans probably wouldn’t have had that many sandbags at a position like that. Authenticity was evidently very important to Spielberg, and he actually had the Saving Private Ryan cast undergo a version of military bootcamp prior to filming. With actors who had undergone some real military training and a focus on practical effects to bring the movie's action to life, the end result is a film that feels like a realistic portrayal of the World War II experience. This specific feeling, in fact, is one of Saving Private Ryan's greatest strengths.
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