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There are a hundred corrections I could make but this film will speak for itself. They were brilliant by trolling us with the eye fade into thinking Captain Miller was Private Ryan with the eye fade. It gets me every time when they get the wrong Private Ryan. My Fathers name was James Frederick
They actually did have "bulletproof vests" at that time but not in the sense that we think of today. They used flak jackets but they were mainly issued to airmen on Flying Fortress bombers.
Not that they would do any good against a rifle bullet. Even today with our most modern vests, they might stop a rifle round from penetrating but you're still probably going to die from the impact because you can't stop internal bleeding. It's like getting struck with a baseball going 100 mph
@@BrettShadow hence my use of quotation marks on the words bulletproof, and vests in addition to my qualifier "not in the sense that we think of today".
Not true. Bulletproof vests at the time were very heavy quilted cloth and filled with lead or steel plates. You really can't move with any speed. Look at the "Godfather"- Luca Brassi is wearing a very heavy bulletproof vest, and that's what is sent with fishes inside as a warning. That was set in 1945.
Just in case you're interested, the two guys who were surrendering during the D-Day scene were Czech. They were saying, "Don't shoot. I didn't kill anyone." Also, Wade's death scene becomes more heartbreaking when you realize that he knew the second morphine shot would kill him. He knew he wasn't gonna make it and the decision was made to let him go comfortably.
Yup... first morphine shot, you paint a big "M" on the forehead of the patient (and the time if possible) so everyone knows he's already had a shot (and when). This was done to avoid someone delivering a second shot which is a lethal dose. So yeah... being a medic, he was VERY aware what he was asking for. Most soldiers dying on a battlefield can at least cling to some hope that they will wake up in a field hospital. But Wade knew there was no chance of surviving this, and after feeling the second syringe, all he had was the fear of what he knew was happening.
@@Mr.Ekshinreally depends on the person whether or not two doses is fatal. A bigger guy could probably survive 3-4 but would be absolutely unconscious or not understanding reality.
@@tomkapa - Two were typically fatal... maybe a big guy might survive two but definitely not three or four. Medics would use either a grease pencil (or sometimes blood) to paint a big "M" on the forehead of a patient, along with the time of day they'd had morphine administered. This was a warning not to give any more over the next several hours, lest the person die of overdose. Other head markings included a "T" to indicate if the person has a tourniquet applied (also time dependent, as the tourniquet needs to be loosened every so often or the limb will be lost).
I hate it when reactors spend the entire film trying to identify actors, and name other roles and films they've been in. It takes them (and us) right out of the story. I have a couple friends that do that, and I can't watch anything with them. The entire goal is to forget you're watching a film. Constant comments on actors, scenes, camera angles, lighting, etc... all they do is keep taking me right out of the immersion that the director is trying to impart.
@@Mr.Ekshinyea I agree tbh, it’s also especially weird that a lot of the ones that do that are the ones that suspension of disbelief works best on, so even though they keep reminding everyone it’s a production, they also are the most emotional as if they’re watching a real scenario with real consequences
Many vets left the theater during the opening scene, saying it was TO realistic. Mind you Spielberg made this to be realistic and to honor the vets. So if it felt like the vets were actually there, Spielberg nailed it.
TOO* I know it's already been corrected (in the replies) but making this big of statement and not using the correct grammar hurts. Please use correct grammar next time.
I had the same mistaken impression the first time I saw this film. Two different German actors. Mac Steinmeier was the German soldier who stabbed Mellish. He was basically trying to tell Mellish, “it will be quick. Shhhh. Shhhh.” The POW they released who killed Capt. Miller was German actor Joerg Stadler.
@@technofilejr3401after watching it a couple of extra times too over the years, they do have different outfits. The one that stabbed Fish was an SS shown on his collar and the POW was the normal Wehrmacht. Heer I believe is the infantry
@@gpaje They both look similar to the men killed in Neuville, behind the wall.. But I think Spielberg knew people would confuse them - it's arguable whether Upham thought it was the same guy too (further motivating him to murder him later, thinking he'd killed both Mellish and Miller).. Fog of War.
So many hated Upham even after the movie ended. But it's always easy for people to say "I wouldn't have hesitated with the ammo up the stairs". But you never know in the moment. Especially if you haven't seen combat or shot anyone before. There were many like Upham on both sides who made mistakes like that, It just happens.
Yes, the script shows the journey that different people had to take and not everyone is an instant hero. A lot of soldiers were fresh out of high school and had never been in such extreme circumstances, so they needed to learn how to respond, how to handle their fears and gain confidence and wisdom. Upham’s initial reactions don’t fit into the typical Hollywood style of constant bravery but it is a reality which existed.
It's difficult to say how you would react in a situation like that. Even the strongest man can die quicker (Vin Diesel) than someone who is more reserved like Upham, and even when he becomes more of a friend to the others, you can still see his fear. The German soldier who was released is obliged to go back to his unit. If he were a US soldier, he would be called a hero. It's called warrior's honour, and not all Germans were Nazis or knew about the crimes. I don't want to downplay what Germany did back then, and I think films about the Second World War are important. But they should also be credibly directed. Fury is an example of absolute bullshit.
@@Fettigkeit He wasn't expected to serve in direct combat, even if he was given training for it. It's easy to call a soldier who was given training and refused to use it to save his own life a coward. But if Upham had never been grabbed for the mission, he'd likely have served entirely in the rear with the intelligence groups onsite to make use of what he was there for: his brain and knowledge. It was the luck of the draw that he was thrown into the chaos and violence of actual combat. Bad luck for him, in many ways. Who can say what kind of man he'd be without this mission? Certainly he wouldn't be the same kind of man as he ended up becoming. It is easy to call Upham a coward. And perhaps it is still accurate to call him such. But it must be acknowledged that he was never meant to be in direct combat, facing life and death by inches and seconds. He is as close to an audience surrogate who has never signed up for combat, but thrown into it because he had no choice but to fight for his life. Far more of us who never served would have ended up making the exact same choices as Upham did, whether or not we would admit it. I am not ashamed to say I likely would have in the moment. I have never served in the military, and I cannot fathom how I'd handle such stress. But I doubt I'd have handled it much better than he did.
At the Academy Awards Steven Spielberg said in his acceptance speech, "this was a bunch of 18, 19 and 20 year olds who came together and saved the whole damn world."
@@ScowlingBatas a historian of WWII for over 20 years since childhood, I gotta say it’s the most frustrating thing I’ve seen. People have NO idea in America what kinds of doors they are opening. Because they widely aren’t taught about WWII. Most are unable to distinguish fascism vs communism because they lack critical thinking skills, and don’t want to read about it to educate themselves due to personal narcissism and ego. hell, in fact they don’t even know how a democracy works and they aren’t interested in one, because they can’t manage their personal finances well. So they blame it on “the Bolshevik leftists”
"I thought they weren't supposed to shoot the medics" You're not supposed to invade a sovereign nation either; the 'formalities' of warfare go out the window in real conflicts.
that depends, there is such thing as a legal invasion. the trouble is, while the defintion is clear, none ever agree when it actually happens. the russian invasion of ukraine technically falls under legal invasion based on statements made about ukraine by the un before the invasion, but ofcaurse it was condemned by the un as illegal anyway. similarly the US invasion of Iraq was legal, but is still widely condemned as illegal. international politics and diplomacy, not just war, often results in rules being ignored when inconvinient. War is just when its most blatant.
Vimy Ridge was a battle in WW1, in Northern France. The cemetery that Ryan is visiting would be in Normandy, about 200miles away. Vimy ridge was a significant battle, particularly for the Canadian troops.
The opening scene Ryan goes to the grave of his brother, at the end he's at the grave of Capt. Miller's grave. His family is directly behind him at the first grave site, at the end, his family remains at a respectful distance, except for his wife who has no idea who Miller is. Ryan went home and never told anyone about that day in Ramell. WW II was fought by men; the average age of U. S. combat personnel was 26 years old. The SGT. in the assault boat wasn't putting food in his mouth, that was chewing tobacco. They were in very rough seas and it took hours for the soldiers to disembark the troop ships into the Higgins Boats. Not knowing when they would ever have a good cooked meal again, many of the soldiers ate a hearty breakfast before disembarking. The first group to load into the boats bobbed around in the water for several hours before heading toward the beach. Many get seasick during that time. The vomit wasn't the main problem, the blood in the boats created a psychological problem when the boats returned to bring more soldiers to the beach. In Vietnam, the average age of combat personnel was 22, not 19 as many people think. Also, the largest number of U. S. personnel killed in action in Vietnam those who enlisted not draftees. The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion was the only unit that stormed the beaches on D-Day that was made up entirely of Black Americans. They displayed unmatched bravery during the 48 hours it took to secure the beaches. Members of 320th, unlike the other units, had to remain on the beaches with no relief units, exposed to continuous enemy fire during the 2 days it took to secure the area. Because they were Black, the photographers never show them in the photos taken on the beaches that day. All shots showing the barrage balloons are taken at far away distances.The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion served for almost 150 days in France following the invasion. They continued flying their balloons over the beaches and eventually a portion flew over the port of Cherbourg before the worsening weather in October prevented ships from landing any more supplies. Spielberg researched small details, for instance, Pvt Jackson's right thumb has a black mark on it. That's actually a bruise that many U. S. riflemen had caused from getting their thumb caught in the loading mechanism from not locking the bolt back properly when loading/reloading the M1 Garand rifle. It was called "Garand thumb". Capt. Miller said he taught at Thomas Alva Edison High School. That's a Spielberg paying homage to Thomas Alva Edison High School in Philadelphia, PA. 54 former students from that school were killed in action in the Vietnam War, more than any other school in the nation. The Hitler Youth Knife is more literary liberty than fact. That knife is a hiking knife given to members of the Hitler Youth Corps, which was much like the Boy Scouts in training while being indoctrinated with the ideology of National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi). The only other group they were issued to were members of the SA. This knife was never part of a soldier of the Wehrmacht. As for the reaction of Carparzo and Mellish, it is highly unlikely an average G.I. would have known what that knife was and its symbolism. The matter of Mellish crying is also not likely as the Allies didn't find out about the fate of Jews in Europe until the first concentration camp was liberated April 4, 1945. The war in Europe ended May 7, 1945. So, following the real timeline, Mellish dies before the Allies knew anything about concentration and death camps. But, after-all, it is Hollywood. Saving Private Ryan is not based on the Sullivan brothers. Fritz Niland became the basis for Private Ryan. He was dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day and spent five days in the French countryside, eventually earning a Bronze star in combat for taking a French. Robert Rodat first came up with the plot in 1994 when he saw a monument in a cemetery in Tonawanda, New York. The monument was to the Niland Brothers - 4 young American men who fought in the Second World War. When three of the Nilands were reported killed, the surviving brother - Fritz - was sent home. This inspired Rodat to write his movie. There are 26 military cemeteries across Normandy, but the most famous and visited site is the poignant Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. In real life with the Nilands, it actually turned out later that another of the brothers was alive - he’d been held captive in a Burmese POW camp. Attempts to point out the "discrepancies" between the stories of Fritz Niland and James Ryan are often misguided, as Ryan is only based on Niland, and is not meant to be (or claimed to be) a completely accurate representation of him. The differences in the two stories seem to stem in part from the fact that the true story of Sergeant Niland and his brothers is often reported inaccurately. The character of Private James Ryan is a mixture of fact and fiction, with some of the fictional elements coming from the erroneous stories about the Niland brothers. The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht. Originally, the SS uniform differed from the Wehrmacht uniform-whereas the regular army wore field grey, the SS wore black, head to toe (although later the SS did adopt field grey and often wore camouflage pattern uniform. American troops were brown and they didn't wear jackboots. The lightning bolt SS insignia can be seen on the right collar lapel of the German as he passes Upham and reaches the bottom of the staircase. During the Battle at Ramelle, Upham became shell shocked and was unable to save a .30 cal team from a German soldier because he was too frozen with fear to do anything about it. He carried all the .30 caliber ammo at the battle of Ramelle, but was unable to do his job because he was always either pinned down or too afraid to move. He signified the loss of innocence in war and thought that soldiers could be civil, but he later succumbed to the evils of war and made up for his cowardice when he shot Steamboat Willie for killing Miller even after the latter had shown Willie mercy earlier. Not only did Upham represent the loss of innocence of war but he also symbolized the "Every-man". His illusion of neutrality faded when he finally had to pick and side and kill Steamboat Willie, his character revelation being how he finally understood the horrors of war. It became clear that Upham had turned into a hardened and true soldier because of the whole experience. Upham's rank was Tech 5 Corporal (E-5), that meant he was technician in a specialty area. His was maps and translator, he was not a combat infantryman and was never trained for front-line duty. Gunnery Sergent Hartman explained it this way in the movie Full Metal Jacket: "It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. "The way the next of kin was notified of their loved one was killed in action during WW II was by Western Union telegram delivered by a bicycle riding messenger. If you were being notified of multiple deaths as was the case in this film, notification was done in-person by a military officer, usually from the same branch of service as the deceased when possible. That's why the mother upon seeing the officer exit the car momentarily froze knowing that meant at least 2 of her boys were either KIA or MIA, as the priest exits the car, she staggers and completely collapsed. That is one of the most important scenes in the movie. The mother speaks no lines in the movie, yet her breakdown brought a flood of tears form movie goers in theaters across the nation. Another important scene is it is clear from the few lines Ryan's wife speaks that she has never heard the name of Capt. John Miller, this means John has never spoken to her about what happened that day in Ramelle. What many missed is listening to Ryan speaking at the Miller's grave of how he thought about what those 8 men did for him every day was not guilt, but commitment. There are units assigned to recover, bury and mark graves. Usually these were temporary battlefield cemeteries. As hostilities moved farther away, a more permanent site would be selected, at the family's request, whenever possible, the remains would be returned to the United States. At the Normandy Cemetery Visitors Center, you'll find the following inscription: IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED … WAS ENOUGH … SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.General Mark W. ClarkChairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969-1984
WRONG WRONG WRONG!! you keep posting this same innacuracy-filled diatribe over and over. Edit out the nonsense. How does anybody know which grave he first goes to? We never see a name. Jackson wasn't using a Garand M1--he was firing a 30.06 bolt action. The Hitler Youth were a Nazi youth group which every German boy was forced to join since the 1930's, and a knife like that could have been carried by any former member of the Hitler Youth. A Jewish soldier like Mellish would have been very aware of the concentration camps, the barbaric treatment and hatred shown to the Jews of Europe. The Death camps were not known of yet, but labor camps and widespread brutality were known.
Great summary but to add on abut the niland brothers, it turns out the oldest brother (robert) was alive and being held as a Japanese POW so at the end of the war. The niland family had 2 sons coming home instead one
The movie starts and ends in the real-life American Military Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, located on Normandy (France), with more than 9,000 burials. We needed someone like Steven Spielberg to film a masterpiece like this to explain us how horrible war is. War is wrong. Always. The more of 10,000 casualties on D-Day is a good example of it.
I thought it was the same guy when I watched it the first time. But it isn't. The soldier who killed Mellish is an SS recruit, he has the insignia on his lapel. 'Steamboat Willie' as he's widely known is the guy they set free and is not SS.
A very understated movie you two should watch is “Taking Chance”. It’s not an easy one but it is very well done and goes into great detail about the respect given to fallen Soldiers. The video was actually required viewing for me during my Captain’s Career course in the army
The Sgt gathering a dirt in a tin labeled 'France' with two others labeled 'Africa' and 'Italy'...at this point in the war the Americans had participated in three major amphibious assaults in European Theatre of Operations. North Africa in 1942, Italy in 1943 and Omaha Beach in 1944.
The Omaha Beach battle was filmed in about 4 weeks, for $12 million. The scene involved about 1,500 people including 400 crew, 1,000 volunteer reserve and Irish army soldiers, and dozens of extras and about 30 amputees and paraplegics fitted with prosthetic limbs to portray disfigured soldiers.
actually the soviets equiped their elite 'storm pioneer-sappers' with bullet proof vests, but like most modern bullet proof vests they don't really stop rifle rounds (they are equvilient to modern class II vests, you need class IV to stop modern rifle rounds and a theoretical class V to stop ww2 rifle rounds, yes ww2 rifles were 20-33% more powerful than even modern full cartridge rounds like 7.62x51). the soviets considered them worth the cost and weight however because urban and trench warfare involves alot of weaker pistol rounds (mostly from SMGs) flying around, aswell as grenade shrapnel. Japan also used them in ww2 [mostly snipers], and captured examples helped get the US military to adopt body armour, in the final months of the war a small number of US marines were issued M-12 and T-65 bullet proof vests, these were too heavy [heavier than both soviet and japanese vests. they tried to make them rifle proof) and so korean war vests were made lighter. it wasn't untill vietnam that similar designs were common.
- We Were Soldiers - HackSaw Ridge - Band Of Brothers (Show) - Platoon - Apocalypse Now - Full Metal Jacket - Black Hawk Down - Generation Kill (Show) - Hurt Locker
My order of viewing might be different, but this list is a good starting point. I'd put Band of Brothers next since it's done by the same creative forces behind SPR..
Great reaction like always, love this masterpiece. My grandfather serve with Sergeant Frederick Niland in 501 company, Sergeant Frederick Niland was the inspiration for this movie he had 3 brothers that were killed in action. This movie is based on a book. Robert Rodat (screen writter) was first inspired to craft the narrative upon reading Stephen Ambrose’s nonfiction retrospective D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. Rodat was fascinated by an honorary memorial dedicated to families who had lost multiple sons in the war. Rodat began writing Saving Private Ryan after studying the true story of Sergeant Frederick “Fritz” Niland. Fritz Niland’s brothers Preston and Robert had enlisted for service, and his brother Edward had volunteered. In May 1944, Edward was shot down over Burma and presumed dead. In June, Robert was killed on D-Day and Preston was killed on Omaha Beach. Frederick had gone missing during the Normandy Invasion, and the U.S. Army commissioned him to be rescued and sent home. An army unit under chaplain Fr. Francis Sampson identified Frederick’s location and sent him back to his parents Michael and Augusta Niland. Frederick’s brother Edward was also discovered to be alive and was rescued from a Burmese POW camp and also returned home safely. The rescues were the result of the U.S. War Department’s “sole survivor” policy, which was adopted in 1942 after the four Sullivan brothers who served in the U.S. Navy had all been killed during the sinking of the USS Juneau during the Battle of Guadalcanal. So, while Saving Private Ryan is unquestionably inspired by true events, the film's story of Captain Miller's risky mission to save one man is entirely fictional. And congrats for not mistaken some characters. A lot of reactors confuse the guy who was let go, and later shot Capt. Miller and then was shot by Upham, with the soldier who stabbed Mellish. They wore different uniforms: the prisoner who was released and later returned was regular Wehrmacht, and the guy who stabbed Mellish was SS, They chosen two actors for those roles that looked so similar they did that literally to tell the viewers that war is confusing. Steven Spielberg explained this. He most likely didn't kill Upham because he instantly recognized he wasn't a threat. Upham even takes his hands off of his gun and holds them up in surrender to the SS soldier. Not a lot of satisfaction in killing someone who's basically curled up in the fetal position. And Keep in mind, Upham was likely drafted for his translation skills, so he is A: not a volunteer, and B: not meant as a primary combatant. I don't blame him for freezing in that moment, no one knows how they'd react in a situation like that until they're actually in it. I like to think I'd do the right thing and go charging up those stairs to the rescue, but I could just as easily be shell-shocked in pants-shitting terror like he was. Our military today is an all volunteer service, no one is pressed into service like he was, so it's easier for people today to see his actions and just label him a dirty coward without understanding there is nuance to this story and that things were very different then. Soldiers today CHOOSE that life, he didn't, he just wanted to get back home without getting blood on his hands. Keep up the good work.
So the two guys after they took the trench that walked out with their arms up and were speaking in another language. They were actually saying in short they were from another country and were forced/conscripted into fighting for the germans. It makes the fact we shot them even worse.
Czech reactors identified them as Czechs forced into German service. They were shocked and saddened by that scene as the two would have seen the Americans as ‘liberators’. The older one was Czech actor and stuntman Martin Hub.
If they had been found fighting the germans I'd have sympathy for them. This shooting Americans and then turning around speaking Czech... Yeah, I'm not buying it.
@@TheTurinturumbar yes but it's still a war crime bro :( killed a soldier, even an enemy soldier who surrenders unarmed, or killed a soldier taken prisoner with his hands raised/tied, this is called a war crime. in the event of armed conflict (if you are taken prisoner) you will be very relieved to know that the enemy is not going to shoot you and then trample your body.. many countries are in favor of "kill and think about it afterwards" but in war there are rules as strange as it may be and as a soldier of the US army or any Western or European army if you prefer to kill an enemy so cowardly is forbidden or else we put ourselves on the same level as the barbarians, (hence the distinctive look of Cpt Miller) I would like to point out that my family and my grandfather founded a resistance unit in Guipavas in France in 44 to facilitate the arrival of the allies (documented for those interested in history) 🙂🖤www.resistance-brest.net/ word9.html
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic. 2. Impressive cast.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie. 4. There was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship. 5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. Outstanding leadership/management skills to dampen the friction between Horvath and Rieben. 6. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper, and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇 7. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder". A movie I'm in briefly.
Those graves are very much real in Franch. They aren't just symbolic markers. Those killed during the invasion are buried there. The French people have pledged to always care for their graves. While Private Ryan was fictional. It was based on Sargent Frederick Niland of the 101st Airbone. He fought his way through D-Day. On D+9 he was back at divion HQ and planned to check up on his brother Sargent Robert Niland of the 82nd Airbone. When he learned he had been killed on June 6th. Along with his other brother 2nd Lt. Preston Niland 4th infantry on June 7th. His 3rd brother Sargent Edward was believed to have been killed when his army airforce B-25 bomber had been shot down over Burma. Fred was ordered back to the US to finish his service state side as the last surviving of 4 brothers. Edward hadn't killed and instead had been captured by the Japanese. He remained a POW for almost a year until his liberation in May of 1945. The 2 surviving brothers lived until 1983 and 84. Saving Private Ryan was also inspired by the Sullivan Brothers who became famous for their sacrifice during WWII. They were 5 brothers from Waterloo, Iowa. George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941. Their Sister's boyfriend had been killed on the USS Arizona. They insisted on serving together. The Sullivan brothers were on the light cruiser USS Juneau when it was sunk during the battle of Guadacanel November 13th, 1942. All Five brothers were lost. The US military would later split up brothers so they would have a better chance of survival. The Fighting Sullivans had 2 naval ships. A destroyer in 1962 and a missile cruiser in 2002. Along with a Department of Defense Dependents Schools elementary school in Yokosuka, Japan named in their honor. As well as a street and convention building in their home town.
In field medic lingo, and EMS triage with mass casualties, the 4 most common categories are: Expectant= most critically injured, very likely to die. Unfortunately these patients are given minimal or no treatment, and more time is spent on the next category: Priority, where the injuries can be treated to save a patient. The next category is Delayed: injured, but it can wait or be given quick intervention ( i.e. broken arm, etc). The last category is Minimal: sometimes known as the "walking wounded", or minor injuries. The medic shot would be expectant, hence the morphine to ease him into death. Hope this helps!
Greatest war movie of all time. I’ve been watching this movie since like 2008ish I think. I still enjoy it till this day. I’m actually in the army now myself, I signed my contract in February, I’m coming close to a year now. Currently on my first deployment in Iraq. Great film.
Beach scene was a triage. "Expectant (dying) Priority (get to him quickly or it will get bad)...he's gone..(dead)" They are categorizing the priority of patient care for the wounded at the casualty collection point. We did the same in mass casualty incidents in Iraq. **also, as a war veteran, i am always amused at the surprise of people when they see war crimes in film. Everyone engages in it. All of us.**
I'm a 73 year old USNavy veteran (retired). Good reaction. About Upham on the stairs: on the one hand, nobody knows how they'll react until they are actually in the situation. On the other hand, there is, and can be, no excuse for Cowardice.
My step grandfather was there on D-Day serving in the Navy. He was lost in the water for hours. I know the opening scene is so difficult to watch, but its one of the most important film scenes in my opinion. It really brings life to what these men went through. It breaks my heart but greatens my respect for our previous generations. I'm not an emotional audience in movies, but the medic calling for his mama gets me every single time. Great reaction ❤
Bangalore is a place! Large city in southern India. The Bangalore Torpedo was used for cutting wire and infantry defences. Developed by a British Army engineer before WW1, he was part of the British Army in India (hence Bangalore).
While there may be a few "symbolic" headstones in that cemetery in France , the vast majority are indeed the actual remains of the dead - as they are in most military burial sites in the U.S.
Two of my uncles were severely wounded during the D Day invasion. One was in a glider that crash landed behind the German lines the night before the landing. He was the only survivor. The other one was wounded in the house to house fighting a few days after D Day. Germans were inside a house and he ran up and dived on the porch below a window. He tossed a grenade into the window and then threw another one that bounced back on the porch and wounded him badly. They both were permanently disabled and out of the war. Another uncle was killed when his bomber plane was shot down in 1943 over Foggia, Italy. We should never forget the sacrifices of the people from that generation. Not just the soldiers because the people at home sacrificed for the war effort too.
My uncle was in the Battle of the Bulge and lost an arm. I hear you. He used to wrap me up in his prosthetic arm which had a hook. I was always unnerved by that hook.
When you watch the series “Band of Brothers”, one of the guys mentions how much gear they were wearing and carrying; it was a huge amount and they still were expected to run, jump, crawl, wade through mud and water even with all the equipment they had to carry and the heavy boots and bulky clothing they wore. Their jackets were made of a material that was meant to help deflect fragments, but the materials used today for “bullet-proof vests” did not exist at that time. Also, there were just as many injuries to the entire body and a vest would only provide protection in one area. It isn’t as if shooters had the time to point and aim directly at the chest - all types of grenades, explosives of all kinds, flamethrowers, bombs, firebombs, mines, machine guns, were used along with traditional guns and a vest would not help against so many types of weapons and in such a variety of situations.
6:45, this was World War II, the flak vests that existed at the time wouldn’t stop a rifle or even a pistol round. Extra gear is extra weight that will weigh you down.
50:10 my guy, this isn’t Battlefield. You can’t really “take over” a tank that’s already had three frag grenades dropped inside. You wouldn’t be able to fit for a number of practical reasons, but also, you wouldn’t likely know how to operate the thing since it’s a German tank. Yes, during the Battle of the Bulge, paratroopers were seen jumping into abandoned Sherman tanks and using the main gun as a last ditch effort to hold back German attacks, but again, this was a last ditch effort. You wouldn’t do this as a surprise attack.
My very favorite artistic war film is the thin Red line that came out the same year as saving Private Ryan, but it kind of got overshadowed by it as well. The thin Red line is about the war in the Pacific
57 years ago this past June on a Beautiful Sunday afternoon 2 cars pull-down my parents driveway. Two Marine Corps captains and my pastor come to the house To tell my mother that my brother did not make it home from Vietnam June 02 1967. My brother was 20years old I was 9years old 🌹WE WILL NEVER FORGET 🌹🙏RIP 🙏🇺🇸
Remnants of that era are still with us. At the time, in middle America, the death benefit of the GI insurance often cleared the mortgage on the family farm. "Bought the farm" is still a euphemism for getting KIA.
Watch Empire of the Sun, another Spielberg movie set during WWII but focuses on a child separated from his parents. You should recognize the young actor.
Great reaction, guys. Genuine and from the heart. As I'm sure many others have suggested, you need to add "Band of Brothers" to your watchlist. One of the greatest HBO mini-series, you will fall in love with the men of Easy Company and their experiences. Based on true events.
Many volunteered to fight during this time; there were 16 and 17 year-olds who lied about their age to get in. Also, many of those guys you see walking by in the dog tag scene volunteered for the "airborne" - their training was even tougher and more rigorous. Wade grabbed the dog tags because they were treating them like game tokens, in front of their comrades in the airborne.
18:41, the grey haired officer on the right is USMC Captain Dale Dye Jr (retired). He is the military consultant for this movie and other war oriented films and tv shows like Platoon, The Last of the Mohicans and Band of Brothers. Captain Dye is a highly decorated Vietnam combat veteran. His company Warriors, Inc was brought in to train the actors in how to handle weapons and maneuver like soldiers of this film's time period. Quite often when he consults on a war movie the producers will actually allow him to play a character in the stories. So if you see Captain Dye in a movie its pretty much a sign that the producers are trying to be as authentic as possible.
They had a special screening for d-day survivors most of them walked out after a few minutes because it was to realistic to what it was really like. As far as shooting medics it is against the Geneva convention but during World War Two the Japanese didn’t sign it and intentionally targeted medics to prevent them from helping wounded soldiers.
One of the best WWII movies ever made! Nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture but won for: Best Director Best Film Editing Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Cinematography.
Tom Hanks said the first day he was on location he walked down to the beach and Spielberg was shooting the scene where the guy is picking up his arm. Hanks walked back up to the catering truck and told the rest of the crew, guys get ready for something different 😊
The follow up is Band of Brothers. A 10-episode miniseries about a parachute company that jumped into France the night before D-Day. A fairly accurate true story also produced by Spielberg as well as Hanks. Also has many great actors in their early or first roles.
A sad fact about when this movie came out, the opening scene was too accurate and realistic that a special 1-800 number was created for vets to call because of the PTSD flare ups. Vets that were there on the beaches of Normandy said that the movie was very accurate.
We have the same type of military graveyard here, and their bodies are indeed there. I've been too two funerals of guys I went to school with who served and passed. As of Jan 2023, there is 64,750 service members buried there.
The premise of this movie is based loosely on the five Sullivan boys from Waterloo Iowa. They enlisted in the navy. They were assigned to the ship Juneau. All 5 went down on the ship. The ship was torpedoed. Frank the oldest survived . Only him. ..they were in life rafts. He was hallucinating and dove overboard and was killed by sharks. There were 4 differentcbrothers from the same ship who went down. The military keeps close family being together in service. They were about to take separate assignments at the next port because they saw how dangerous it was. They were only a few days away. It was devastating.
Actually bullets cannot travel through water as you see here in the film. Their velocity slows down almost instantly. You can see it tested on MythBusters and I think even Slow Mo Guys did a piece on it. *EDIT:* I highly recommend watching the miniseries, _Band of Brothers._
This was really great. Since u asked for suggestions, u should consider watching 'Set it Off', 'Soul Food', 'The Best Man' and This Christmas'. U won't be disappointed.
13:15 they are doing battlefield Triage. Basically going through all the wounded and marking the ones that need critical attention , dead , or “flesh wound”
On every reaction I have heard everyone has mentioned that private Ryan didn't ask for it when the private from N.Y. told him that two of their guys already died looking for him. The guys at that time didn't get upset because they had to go find private Ryan, and two of their guys had gotten killed. The private from NY got upset, because they had finally found him with 2 of their guys getting killed,and he STILL didn't want to leave. So in other words they did that whole mission for nothing, because pvt. Ryan didn't want to leave.
im so glad you guys watched this, i definitely feel like its a must. being a son, and a father of 3 baby girls i wouldn’t ever want to leave behind, this movie shows a very realistic possibility and horrifying reality our ancestors had to live through
Mythbusters did bullets shooting into water. Rifle bullets like the machine gun uses, are too fast, they break up and lose effectiveness after only a foot or so. Pistol bullets were recovered whole, only slightly deformed from hitting the water, might be effective with 3 feet of travel into water. They tried a .50BMG, and it also fragments, no significant damage to things more than 5feet underwater and the violent splash shocks from it do most of it so it's difficult to see where it hits and how far it might stay intact.
They were marking the graves for recovery of the bodies after the war. They had one of two dog tags so they knew who was buried. The tag left with the body was stood on edge between the two front teeth and then you kick the lower jaw so the tag is driven into the jawbone. That way the body could decay, but the tag would stay with the remains for identification.
To truly understand the gravity of D-Day take the opening scene and multiply by 5. The allied forces attacked the Normandy coast on 5 different beaches. The Americans at Omaha and Utah beaches, the Brits at Gold and Sword Beaches and the Canadians at Juno beach. Collectively, the allied forces moved inland to evidently free France. It took about another 18 months to end the war in Europe.
This your obligatory you have to see Band of Brothers now comment if you haven't already... Hanks and Spielberg were just beginning with this masterpiece. As epic, horrific and spectacular this film is in every way, the hardest part for me to see is still the knife fight with Mellish in the end. When trying to reason with the German as a person, it's far more intimate. It illustrates the pointlessness of War and we're all human. FUBAR
I was always taken back by how on the real D-Day the allies landed shortly after 6am and by 8am there were more than 4,000 allied casualties. That's absolutely mind boggling what these men went through and still won.
My grandfather was a tank driver in WW2 for the Canadian military. He started in N. Africa as an ammo runner for the Brits, then was moved to a Canadian tank crew for the invasion of Italy. Then got sent to a newly formed Canadian company at some point and trained until D-Day, he took part in the landings on Juno beach. He was later wounded outside Caen in France and that was the end of the war for him. He never talked about his service until the last few years of his life. One year we were having dinner at his house and this movie came on the tv he watched for about 30seconds into the beach scene then he walked out of the house. He said it was just too much for him and it brought back too many horrible memories. He talked to us about it for hours, it was the first time he ever spoke about what he went through to us. I remember my mom said he was a hero, my grandfather got mad at her and said " I'm not a damn hero, the heroes are the ones who never came home. I'm just a survivor " I still have all his service medals on the mantle with a few pictures of him and his crew sitting on the tank restocking it for the next objective after Juno was secured. Also got a few pictures from Africa and Sicily as well.
The group that had gone searching for Ryan were upset that he didn't want to go back,and that's why they called him an asshole. What they had gone through,plus two of their comrades dying in the process. For that reason he called Ryan an asshole,and not because they had to go looking for him.
The reason why Jackson was missing a lot of his shots in the end was due to him not switching back to the scope he had after killing the sniper in the tower
I remember watching this a week or so after release on a sunday. Had the next day off from work. Was so stunned by the movie i didnt talk until Tuesday.
The body’s get cleaned up by graves registrations and other soldiers that are voluntold to help bury and identify bodies by the dog tags. My neighbor was on Omaha Beach working with graves registrations, the stores he told would make your skin crawl.
Because the actual beaches in Normandy are considered memorial sites, and have a lot of markers, museums, and physical remembrances, it would not have been possible or appropriate to film there. The D-Day sequences were shot on beaches in Ireland and in parts of England.
That first 20 minutes is a reminder that war isn't all about heroism. Often, it's about being killed with no chance to do anything about it, or panicking despite your training, or doing awful things because you see awful things every day.
I was going to recommend "Hacksaw Ridge", a true story that takes place on Okinawa during WWII, but someone already did. I was drawn to watch it because my father was on Okinawa during WWII. I remember that when I was 10 or 11, I was snooping and found a shoebox full of my dad's photos from Okinawa. My dad sat down with me and explained what was in the photos--until he got to a photo of an entrance to an underground passageway. He started to say something about going in with flame throwers then suddenly shut down. He never spoke of Okinawa again.
THANK YOU for realizing that the mother probably thinks that ONE son was killed. Most reactors don't pick up on that. Even when she collapses on the porch she still hasn't heard that it's actually THREE!😢
This movie is based on a real family from North Tonawanda, NY. That one son was shot down over Burma, one killed on the beach at D-day and 2 parachuted into Germany during D-day. One of the paratroopers was killed the other was the inspiration for Ryan. He was found by a priest and was sent home. After the war his brother that was shot down over Burma was found to be alive in a POW camp and also returned home.
Most comments I have seen say the German soldier on the stairs is not the same one they had captured; they note his uniform, insignia, badges, etc indicate he is different. But at the end, Upham does shoot the same soldier who had been ”let go”, who shot Capt. Miller.
Please do remember this is 1944 and the military weren’t quite as advanced and well equipped as today. There are no sharks in the English Channel. There were special regiments of troops which cleared bodies and tidied up the beach so that the thousands of troops which landed subsequently didn’t see any of the carnage.
The bodies are indeed buried in the American cemetery. The average age of U. S. combat personnel during WW II was 26 years. This war, as for U. S. personnel was fought by men, not "boys". When the USA entered the war the military draft age was 20-45. During the Vietnam era, it was 18-25. The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht.
My father turned 18 in 1942 and was immediately drafted. This was as a result in changes to the draft law after Pearl Harbor that lowered the draft age from 21. I've read many accounts of other soldiers being drafted at 18 as well from 1942 onwards. The average age of the World War II draftee was older than the Vietnam War draftee simply from drafting a much larger percentage of American men from a much wider age range. Men from 18 to 45 were being drafted for World War II, but the older men weren't drafted for Vietnam.
@@place_there9104I wrote, "When the USA entered the war the military draft age was 20-45. The USA entered the war in December 1941. The age was changed after the country entered into a state of war with the Axis powers.
If you have time, the 10 episode series “Band of Brothers” is considered one of the best television productions of all time. Spielberg and Hanks were behind it - and Hanks co-wrote episode 1 and directed episode 5. It was followed by a documentary titled “We Stand Alone Together”, and an entertaining ‘video diary’ by one of the actors about the 2 week training sessions the cast had before filming. The series provides history, helpful information and a chance to get to know actual veterans.
6:25 Not keeping out water. Sand. No bullet proof vests for soldiers in WW2 12:36 WW2 helmets were metal pots. Only good for shrapnel and to keep water off the top of one’s head 34:30 Medic death scene gets me every time.
there were ww2 bullet proof vests actually, not only did the soviets use them for elite troops starting in 1940, but by 1945 the us had their own (also small numbers for specialists). there were American bullet proof vests used on Okinawa.
6:43 "How come they don't wear bulletproof vests or anything?" This was 1944. Kevlar was invented in 1965. Anything before that would have been basically plate armor. It was just too heavy. They would have drowned immediately or been too slow going up that beach.
This movie triggered PTSD in some of my military comrades. But to a man, they all said it had to be seen, experienced, and ultimately faced straight on. These men then came home rolled up their sleeves and rebuilt the world we have and enjoy today. Calling them HERO's doesn't do them justice. They were SAVIOR'S of humanity.
Appreciate your reaction... Another spectacular WW2 movie is Fury with Brad Pitt .... A couple of notes about Matt Damon ... He did this before Good Will Hunting but SPR post production took longer so GWH came out first. In the scene where Matt Damon and Tom Hanks were talking about home, director Steven Spielberg asked MD to just make up a story about home. That's what we got in the scene. ❤
It's not the guy they let go that killed the jewish soldier, it's a common thing that a lot of people mistake in this film, I wish Steven Spielberg never used a similar looking guy because everyone that reacts to it mistakes him for Steamboat Willy.
Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall was the first individual to be promoted to the new rank of General of the Army, on December 16, 1944. Five silver stars, in a circle.
Yeah, her flippant attitude for the entire movie was so cringe worthy. The guy got it. Understood the gravity of it all. Understood real people went through things like this. She was just plain ignorant and obtuse at best and outright disrespectful at worst.
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There are a hundred corrections I could make but this film will speak for itself. They were brilliant by trolling us with the eye fade into thinking Captain Miller was Private Ryan with the eye fade. It gets me every time when they get the wrong Private Ryan. My Fathers name was James Frederick
A modern war movie to react to is, Tears Of The Sun
Next black hawk down reaction please
Bullet proof vest weren't invented until 1969. This was in the 40's
They actually did have "bulletproof vests" at that time but not in the sense that we think of today. They used flak jackets but they were mainly issued to airmen on Flying Fortress bombers.
@@BrooklynBeTheBoro Flak jackets were to protect from flak (fragmentation)... hence the name. Nothing more than rolled and layered nylon.
Not that they would do any good against a rifle bullet. Even today with our most modern vests, they might stop a rifle round from penetrating but you're still probably going to die from the impact because you can't stop internal bleeding. It's like getting struck with a baseball going 100 mph
@@BrettShadow hence my use of quotation marks on the words bulletproof, and vests in addition to my qualifier "not in the sense that we think of today".
Not true. Bulletproof vests at the time were very heavy quilted cloth and filled with lead or steel plates. You really can't move with any speed. Look at the "Godfather"- Luca Brassi is wearing a very heavy bulletproof vest, and that's what is sent with fishes inside as a warning. That was set in 1945.
Just in case you're interested, the two guys who were surrendering during the D-Day scene were Czech. They were saying, "Don't shoot. I didn't kill anyone." Also, Wade's death scene becomes more heartbreaking when you realize that he knew the second morphine shot would kill him. He knew he wasn't gonna make it and the decision was made to let him go comfortably.
Yup... first morphine shot, you paint a big "M" on the forehead of the patient (and the time if possible) so everyone knows he's already had a shot (and when). This was done to avoid someone delivering a second shot which is a lethal dose. So yeah... being a medic, he was VERY aware what he was asking for. Most soldiers dying on a battlefield can at least cling to some hope that they will wake up in a field hospital. But Wade knew there was no chance of surviving this, and after feeling the second syringe, all he had was the fear of what he knew was happening.
One of the best in all film making. There were many Czech conscripts at Omaha beach. How many people who saw this in the theater knew that?
@@DanielGrigg-d2n probably only those who can understand the language. First time I saw the movie I was like, "WAIT, WHAT?!?!"
@@Mr.Ekshinreally depends on the person whether or not two doses is fatal. A bigger guy could probably survive 3-4 but would be absolutely unconscious or not understanding reality.
@@tomkapa - Two were typically fatal... maybe a big guy might survive two but definitely not three or four.
Medics would use either a grease pencil (or sometimes blood) to paint a big "M" on the forehead of a patient, along with the time of day they'd had morphine administered. This was a warning not to give any more over the next several hours, lest the person die of overdose.
Other head markings included a "T" to indicate if the person has a tourniquet applied (also time dependent, as the tourniquet needs to be loosened every so often or the limb will be lost).
My favorite part of these SPR reactions is the inevitable “is that Vin Diesel?!”
and bryan cranston lol.
I hate it when reactors spend the entire film trying to identify actors, and name other roles and films they've been in. It takes them (and us) right out of the story. I have a couple friends that do that, and I can't watch anything with them. The entire goal is to forget you're watching a film. Constant comments on actors, scenes, camera angles, lighting, etc... all they do is keep taking me right out of the immersion that the director is trying to impart.
@@Mr.Ekshinyea I agree tbh, it’s also especially weird that a lot of the ones that do that are the ones that suspension of disbelief works best on, so even though they keep reminding everyone it’s a production, they also are the most emotional as if they’re watching a real scenario with real consequences
Right?! Same with the Hunger Games reactions. "Is that Lenny Kravitz?"
@@bluej511The Cranston is rare and even more rare is someone noticing he has 1 arm
Many vets left the theater during the opening scene, saying it was TO realistic. Mind you Spielberg made this to be realistic and to honor the vets. So if it felt like the vets were actually there, Spielberg nailed it.
Spielberg also didn't want to make the usual Hollywood Rambo war film.
*TOO not TO
smh.
The only way to make a movie depicting war, make it real.
@@Reblwitoutacauseis that seriously all you took from what the OP said?
TOO* I know it's already been corrected (in the replies) but making this big of statement and not using the correct grammar hurts. Please use correct grammar next time.
I had the same mistaken impression the first time I saw this film. Two different German actors. Mac Steinmeier was the German soldier who stabbed Mellish. He was basically trying to tell Mellish, “it will be quick. Shhhh. Shhhh.” The POW they released who killed Capt. Miller was German actor Joerg Stadler.
Wow I always thought it was the same guy
@@technofilejr3401after watching it a couple of extra times too over the years, they do have different outfits. The one that stabbed Fish was an SS shown on his collar and the POW was the normal Wehrmacht. Heer I believe is the infantry
Took me 2 decades to figure that out.
@@gpaje They both look similar to the men killed in Neuville, behind the wall.. But I think Spielberg knew people would confuse them - it's arguable whether Upham thought it was the same guy too (further motivating him to murder him later, thinking he'd killed both Mellish and Miller).. Fog of War.
Thanks JV! Respect your tears, my Grandfather served in WWII
Wow Thanks!! You're Grandfather is a legend!
So many hated Upham even after the movie ended. But it's always easy for people to say "I wouldn't have hesitated with the ammo up the stairs". But you never know in the moment. Especially if you haven't seen combat or shot anyone before. There were many like Upham on both sides who made mistakes like that, It just happens.
Yes, the script shows the journey that different people had to take and not everyone is an instant hero. A lot of soldiers were fresh out of high school and had never been in such extreme circumstances, so they needed to learn how to respond, how to handle their fears and gain confidence and wisdom. Upham’s initial reactions don’t fit into the typical Hollywood style of constant bravery but it is a reality which existed.
My experience is that the vast majority don’t hesitate. He’s that 1 in 10,000 coward
It's difficult to say how you would react in a situation like that. Even the strongest man can die quicker (Vin Diesel) than someone who is more reserved like Upham, and even when he becomes more of a friend to the others, you can still see his fear. The German soldier who was released is obliged to go back to his unit. If he were a US soldier, he would be called a hero. It's called warrior's honour, and not all Germans were Nazis or knew about the crimes. I don't want to downplay what Germany did back then, and I think films about the Second World War are important. But they should also be credibly directed. Fury is an example of absolute bullshit.
I loved Upham, people don't realize that he's not a coward, he's just human, unfortunately by the end he lost his humanity.
@@Fettigkeit He wasn't expected to serve in direct combat, even if he was given training for it. It's easy to call a soldier who was given training and refused to use it to save his own life a coward. But if Upham had never been grabbed for the mission, he'd likely have served entirely in the rear with the intelligence groups onsite to make use of what he was there for: his brain and knowledge. It was the luck of the draw that he was thrown into the chaos and violence of actual combat. Bad luck for him, in many ways. Who can say what kind of man he'd be without this mission? Certainly he wouldn't be the same kind of man as he ended up becoming.
It is easy to call Upham a coward. And perhaps it is still accurate to call him such. But it must be acknowledged that he was never meant to be in direct combat, facing life and death by inches and seconds. He is as close to an audience surrogate who has never signed up for combat, but thrown into it because he had no choice but to fight for his life. Far more of us who never served would have ended up making the exact same choices as Upham did, whether or not we would admit it.
I am not ashamed to say I likely would have in the moment. I have never served in the military, and I cannot fathom how I'd handle such stress. But I doubt I'd have handled it much better than he did.
At the Academy Awards Steven Spielberg said in his acceptance speech, "this was a bunch of 18, 19 and 20 year olds who came together and saved the whole damn world."
and now right-wing nationalists and fascists are making a comeback, it's frustrating
He was in error, the average age of U. S. combat personnel during WW II was 26 years. Grown men fought this war for the U. S. A.
I just rewatched the speech. He doesn't say that at all. Stop misquoting him on every reaction video of this movie.
@@ScowlingBatas a historian of WWII for over 20 years since childhood, I gotta say it’s the most frustrating thing I’ve seen. People have NO idea in America what kinds of doors they are opening. Because they widely aren’t taught about WWII. Most are unable to distinguish fascism vs communism because they lack critical thinking skills, and don’t want to read about it to educate themselves due to personal narcissism and ego. hell, in fact they don’t even know how a democracy works and they aren’t interested in one, because they can’t manage their personal finances well. So they blame it on “the Bolshevik leftists”
@@ScowlingBat Histrionic personality disorder is treatable. You should seek professional help.
"I thought they weren't supposed to shoot the medics"
You're not supposed to invade a sovereign nation either; the 'formalities' of warfare go out the window in real conflicts.
I have older friends that severed in combat and they said a nervous guy will shoot anything that moves including his own troops
that depends, there is such thing as a legal invasion. the trouble is, while the defintion is clear, none ever agree when it actually happens. the russian invasion of ukraine technically falls under legal invasion based on statements made about ukraine by the un before the invasion, but ofcaurse it was condemned by the un as illegal anyway. similarly the US invasion of Iraq was legal, but is still widely condemned as illegal.
international politics and diplomacy, not just war, often results in rules being ignored when inconvinient. War is just when its most blatant.
Vimy Ridge was a battle in WW1, in Northern France. The cemetery that Ryan is visiting would be in Normandy, about 200miles away. Vimy ridge was a significant battle, particularly for the Canadian troops.
The opening scene Ryan goes to the grave of his brother, at the end he's at the grave of Capt. Miller's grave. His family is directly behind him at the first grave site, at the end, his family remains at a respectful distance, except for his wife who has no idea who Miller is. Ryan went home and never told anyone about that day in Ramell. WW II was fought by men; the average age of U. S. combat personnel was 26 years old. The SGT. in the assault boat wasn't putting food in his mouth, that was chewing tobacco. They were in very rough seas and it took hours for the soldiers to disembark the troop ships into the Higgins Boats. Not knowing when they would ever have a good cooked meal again, many of the soldiers ate a hearty breakfast before disembarking. The first group to load into the boats bobbed around in the water for several hours before heading toward the beach. Many get seasick during that time. The vomit wasn't the main problem, the blood in the boats created a psychological problem when the boats returned to bring more soldiers to the beach. In Vietnam, the average age of combat personnel was 22, not 19 as many people think. Also, the largest number of U. S. personnel killed in action in Vietnam those who enlisted not draftees.
The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion was the only unit that stormed the beaches on D-Day that was made up entirely of Black Americans. They displayed unmatched bravery during the 48 hours it took to secure the beaches. Members of 320th, unlike the other units, had to remain on the beaches with no relief units, exposed to continuous enemy fire during the 2 days it took to secure the area. Because they were Black, the photographers never show them in the photos taken on the beaches that day. All shots showing the barrage balloons are taken at far away distances.The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion served for almost 150 days in France following the invasion. They continued flying their balloons over the beaches and eventually a portion flew over the port of Cherbourg before the worsening weather in October prevented ships from landing any more supplies.
Spielberg researched small details, for instance, Pvt Jackson's right thumb has a black mark on it. That's actually a bruise that many U. S. riflemen had caused from getting their thumb caught in the loading mechanism from not locking the bolt back properly when loading/reloading the M1 Garand rifle. It was called "Garand thumb".
Capt. Miller said he taught at Thomas Alva Edison High School. That's a Spielberg paying homage to Thomas Alva Edison High School in Philadelphia, PA. 54 former students from that school were killed in action in the Vietnam War, more than any other school in the nation.
The Hitler Youth Knife is more literary liberty than fact. That knife is a hiking knife given to members of the Hitler Youth Corps, which was much like the Boy Scouts in training while being indoctrinated with the ideology of National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi). The only other group they were issued to were members of the SA. This knife was never part of a soldier of the Wehrmacht. As for the reaction of Carparzo and Mellish, it is highly unlikely an average G.I. would have known what that knife was and its symbolism. The matter of Mellish crying is also not likely as the Allies didn't find out about the fate of Jews in Europe until the first concentration camp was liberated April 4, 1945. The war in Europe ended May 7, 1945. So, following the real timeline, Mellish dies before the Allies knew anything about concentration and death camps. But, after-all, it is Hollywood.
Saving Private Ryan is not based on the Sullivan brothers. Fritz Niland became the basis for Private Ryan. He was dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day and spent five days in the French countryside, eventually earning a Bronze star in combat for taking a French. Robert Rodat first came up with the plot in 1994 when he saw a monument in a cemetery in Tonawanda, New York. The monument was to the Niland Brothers - 4 young American men who fought in the Second World War. When three of the Nilands were reported killed, the surviving brother - Fritz - was sent home. This inspired Rodat to write his movie.
There are 26 military cemeteries across Normandy, but the most famous and visited site is the poignant Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. In real life with the Nilands, it actually turned out later that another of the brothers was alive - he’d been held captive in a Burmese POW camp. Attempts to point out the "discrepancies" between the stories of Fritz Niland and James Ryan are often misguided, as Ryan is only based on Niland, and is not meant to be (or claimed to be) a completely accurate representation of him. The differences in the two stories seem to stem in part from the fact that the true story of Sergeant Niland and his brothers is often reported inaccurately. The character of Private James Ryan is a mixture of fact and fiction, with some of the fictional elements coming from the erroneous stories about the Niland brothers.
The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht. Originally, the SS uniform differed from the Wehrmacht uniform-whereas the regular army wore field grey, the SS wore black, head to toe (although later the SS did adopt field grey and often wore camouflage pattern uniform. American troops were brown and they didn't wear jackboots. The lightning bolt SS insignia can be seen on the right collar lapel of the German as he passes Upham and reaches the bottom of the staircase. During the Battle at Ramelle, Upham became shell shocked and was unable to save a .30 cal team from a German soldier because he was too frozen with fear to do anything about it. He carried all the .30 caliber ammo at the battle of Ramelle, but was unable to do his job because he was always either pinned down or too afraid to move. He signified the loss of innocence in war and thought that soldiers could be civil, but he later succumbed to the evils of war and made up for his cowardice when he shot Steamboat Willie for killing Miller even after the latter had shown Willie mercy earlier. Not only did Upham represent the loss of innocence of war but he also symbolized the "Every-man". His illusion of neutrality faded when he finally had to pick and side and kill Steamboat Willie, his character revelation being how he finally understood the horrors of war. It became clear that Upham had turned into a hardened and true soldier because of the whole experience. Upham's rank was Tech 5 Corporal (E-5), that meant he was technician in a specialty area. His was maps and translator, he was not a combat infantryman and was never trained for front-line duty. Gunnery Sergent Hartman explained it this way in the movie Full Metal Jacket: "It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill.
"The way the next of kin was notified of their loved one was killed in action during WW II was by Western Union telegram delivered by a bicycle riding messenger. If you were being notified of multiple deaths as was the case in this film, notification was done in-person by a military officer, usually from the same branch of service as the deceased when possible. That's why the mother upon seeing the officer exit the car momentarily froze knowing that meant at least 2 of her boys were either KIA or MIA, as the priest exits the car, she staggers and completely collapsed. That is one of the most important scenes in the movie. The mother speaks no lines in the movie, yet her breakdown brought a flood of tears form movie goers in theaters across the nation. Another important scene is it is clear from the few lines Ryan's wife speaks that she has never heard the name of Capt. John Miller, this means John has never spoken to her about what happened that day in Ramelle. What many missed is listening to Ryan speaking at the Miller's grave of how he thought about what those 8 men did for him every day was not guilt, but commitment.
There are units assigned to recover, bury and mark graves. Usually these were temporary battlefield cemeteries. As hostilities moved farther away, a more permanent site would be selected, at the family's request, whenever possible, the remains would be returned to the United States. At the Normandy Cemetery Visitors Center, you'll find the following inscription: IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED … WAS ENOUGH … SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.General Mark W. ClarkChairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969-1984
WRONG WRONG WRONG!! you keep posting this same innacuracy-filled diatribe over and over. Edit out the nonsense. How does anybody know which grave he first goes to? We never see a name. Jackson wasn't using a Garand M1--he was firing a 30.06 bolt action. The Hitler Youth were a Nazi youth group which every German boy was forced to join since the 1930's, and a knife like that could have been carried by any former member of the Hitler Youth. A Jewish soldier like Mellish would have been very aware of the concentration camps, the barbaric treatment and hatred shown to the Jews of Europe. The Death camps were not known of yet, but labor camps and widespread brutality were known.
Great summary but to add on abut the niland brothers, it turns out the oldest brother (robert) was alive and being held as a Japanese POW so at the end of the war. The niland family had 2 sons coming home instead one
Wasn't the first Mickey Mouse cartoon called "Steamboat Willie"? am I mistaken?
Thanks for all the details.
@@Reclining_Spuds Yes, the captured German soldier mentioned it when he talked about how much he liked America.
@Nomad-vv1gk this is what I thought. However, what of the German connection referenced in your piece?
The movie starts and ends in the real-life American Military Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, located on Normandy (France), with more than 9,000 burials. We needed someone like Steven Spielberg to film a masterpiece like this to explain us how horrible war is. War is wrong. Always. The more of 10,000 casualties on D-Day is a good example of it.
JV recognized everyone i love it. So the guy walking down the stairs isn't the same guy that they let go.
I thought it was the same guy when I watched it the first time. But it isn't. The soldier who killed Mellish is an SS recruit, he has the insignia on his lapel. 'Steamboat Willie' as he's widely known is the guy they set free and is not SS.
A very understated movie you two should watch is “Taking Chance”. It’s not an easy one but it is very well done and goes into great detail about the respect given to fallen Soldiers. The video was actually required viewing for me during my Captain’s Career course in the army
The Sgt gathering a dirt in a tin labeled 'France' with two others labeled 'Africa' and 'Italy'...at this point in the war the Americans had participated in three major amphibious assaults in European Theatre of Operations. North Africa in 1942, Italy in 1943 and Omaha Beach in 1944.
The Omaha Beach battle was filmed in about 4 weeks, for $12 million. The scene involved about 1,500 people including 400 crew, 1,000 volunteer reserve and Irish army soldiers, and dozens of extras and about 30 amputees and paraplegics fitted with prosthetic limbs to portray disfigured soldiers.
They really didn’t have bullet proof vests back then. And they’d certainly be too heavy.
and they wouldn't be very effective vs most of the bullets used.
I think that's right. much too heavy.
Even today you'd need ceramic insert plates against the .30-06/7.92x57 used in WW2. It'd be impractically heavy.
actually the soviets equiped their elite 'storm pioneer-sappers' with bullet proof vests, but like most modern bullet proof vests they don't really stop rifle rounds (they are equvilient to modern class II vests, you need class IV to stop modern rifle rounds and a theoretical class V to stop ww2 rifle rounds, yes ww2 rifles were 20-33% more powerful than even modern full cartridge rounds like 7.62x51). the soviets considered them worth the cost and weight however because urban and trench warfare involves alot of weaker pistol rounds (mostly from SMGs) flying around, aswell as grenade shrapnel.
Japan also used them in ww2 [mostly snipers], and captured examples helped get the US military to adopt body armour, in the final months of the war a small number of US marines were issued M-12 and T-65 bullet proof vests, these were too heavy [heavier than both soviet and japanese vests. they tried to make them rifle proof) and so korean war vests were made lighter. it wasn't untill vietnam that similar designs were common.
- We Were Soldiers
- HackSaw Ridge
- Band Of Brothers (Show)
- Platoon
- Apocalypse Now
- Full Metal Jacket
- Black Hawk Down
- Generation Kill (Show)
- Hurt Locker
And the Great Raid.
Patton
O what a lovely war
Hacksaw Ridge!!
My order of viewing might be different, but this list is a good starting point.
I'd put Band of Brothers next since it's done by the same creative forces behind SPR..
Fury, We were soldiers, American Sniper, 13 hours :secret soldiers of benghazi!!!!!!
1917 and Dunkirk are also amazing!
Great reaction like always, love this masterpiece. My grandfather serve with Sergeant Frederick Niland in 501 company, Sergeant Frederick Niland was the inspiration for this movie he had 3 brothers that were killed in action. This movie is based on a book. Robert Rodat (screen writter) was first inspired to craft the narrative upon reading Stephen Ambrose’s nonfiction retrospective D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. Rodat was fascinated by an honorary memorial dedicated to families who had lost multiple sons in the war. Rodat began writing Saving Private Ryan after studying the true story of Sergeant Frederick “Fritz” Niland. Fritz Niland’s brothers Preston and Robert had enlisted for service, and his brother Edward had volunteered.
In May 1944, Edward was shot down over Burma and presumed dead. In June, Robert was killed on D-Day and Preston was killed on Omaha Beach. Frederick had gone missing during the Normandy Invasion, and the U.S. Army commissioned him to be rescued and sent home. An army unit under chaplain Fr. Francis Sampson identified Frederick’s location and sent him back to his parents Michael and Augusta Niland. Frederick’s brother Edward was also discovered to be alive and was rescued from a Burmese POW camp and also returned home safely.
The rescues were the result of the U.S. War Department’s “sole survivor” policy, which was adopted in 1942 after the four Sullivan brothers who served in the U.S. Navy had all been killed during the sinking of the USS Juneau during the Battle of Guadalcanal. So, while Saving Private Ryan is unquestionably inspired by true events, the film's story of Captain Miller's risky mission to save one man is entirely fictional.
And congrats for not mistaken some characters. A lot of reactors confuse the guy who was let go, and later shot Capt. Miller and then was shot by Upham, with the soldier who stabbed Mellish. They wore different uniforms: the prisoner who was released and later returned was regular Wehrmacht, and the guy who stabbed Mellish was SS, They chosen two actors for those roles that looked so similar they did that literally to tell the viewers that war is confusing. Steven Spielberg explained this.
He most likely didn't kill Upham because he instantly recognized he wasn't a threat. Upham even takes his hands off of his gun and holds them up in surrender to the SS soldier. Not a lot of satisfaction in killing someone who's basically curled up in the fetal position. And Keep in mind, Upham was likely drafted for his translation skills, so he is A: not a volunteer, and B: not meant as a primary combatant. I don't blame him for freezing in that moment, no one knows how they'd react in a situation like that until they're actually in it. I like to think I'd do the right thing and go charging up those stairs to the rescue, but I could just as easily be shell-shocked in pants-shitting terror like he was.
Our military today is an all volunteer service, no one is pressed into service like he was, so it's easier for people today to see his actions and just label him a dirty coward without understanding there is nuance to this story and that things were very different then. Soldiers today CHOOSE that life, he didn't, he just wanted to get back home without getting blood on his hands. Keep up the good work.
So the two guys after they took the trench that walked out with their arms up and were speaking in another language. They were actually saying in short they were from another country and were forced/conscripted into fighting for the germans. It makes the fact we shot them even worse.
Czech reactors identified them as Czechs forced into German service. They were shocked and saddened by that scene as the two would have seen the Americans as ‘liberators’. The older one was Czech actor and stuntman Martin Hub.
If they had been found fighting the germans I'd have sympathy for them. This shooting Americans and then turning around speaking Czech... Yeah, I'm not buying it.
@@TheTurinturumbar yes but it's still a war crime bro :( killed a soldier, even an enemy soldier who surrenders unarmed, or killed a soldier taken prisoner with his hands raised/tied, this is called a war crime. in the event of armed conflict (if you are taken prisoner) you will be very relieved to know that the enemy is not going to shoot you and then trample your body.. many countries are in favor of "kill and think about it afterwards" but in war there are rules as strange as it may be and as a soldier of the US army or any Western or European army if you prefer to kill an enemy so cowardly is forbidden or else we put ourselves on the same level as the barbarians, (hence the distinctive look of Cpt Miller) I would like to point out that my family and my grandfather founded a resistance unit in Guipavas in France in 44 to facilitate the arrival of the allies (documented for those interested in history) 🙂🖤www.resistance-brest.net/ word9.html
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic.
2. Impressive cast.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie.
4. There was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship.
5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. Outstanding leadership/management skills to dampen the friction between Horvath and Rieben.
6. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper, and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇
7. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder". A movie I'm in briefly.
Those graves are very much real in Franch. They aren't just symbolic markers. Those killed during the invasion are buried there. The French people have pledged to always care for their graves.
While Private Ryan was fictional. It was based on Sargent Frederick Niland of the 101st Airbone. He fought his way through D-Day. On D+9 he was back at divion HQ and planned to check up on his brother Sargent Robert Niland of the 82nd Airbone. When he learned he had been killed on June 6th. Along with his other brother 2nd Lt. Preston Niland 4th infantry on June 7th. His 3rd brother Sargent Edward was believed to have been killed when his army airforce B-25 bomber had been shot down over Burma. Fred was ordered back to the US to finish his service state side as the last surviving of 4 brothers.
Edward hadn't killed and instead had been captured by the Japanese. He remained a POW for almost a year until his liberation in May of 1945. The 2 surviving brothers lived until 1983 and 84.
Saving Private Ryan was also inspired by the Sullivan Brothers who became famous for their sacrifice during WWII. They were 5 brothers from Waterloo, Iowa. George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941. Their Sister's boyfriend had been killed on the USS Arizona. They insisted on serving together.
The Sullivan brothers were on the light cruiser USS Juneau when it was sunk during the battle of Guadacanel November 13th, 1942. All Five brothers were lost. The US military would later split up brothers so they would have a better chance of survival.
The Fighting Sullivans had 2 naval ships. A destroyer in 1962 and a missile cruiser in 2002. Along with a Department of Defense Dependents Schools elementary school in Yokosuka, Japan named in their honor.
As well as a street and convention building in their home town.
In field medic lingo, and EMS triage with mass casualties, the 4 most common categories are: Expectant= most critically injured, very likely to die. Unfortunately these patients are given minimal or no treatment, and more time is spent on the next category: Priority, where the injuries can be treated to save a patient. The next category is Delayed: injured, but it can wait or be given quick intervention ( i.e. broken arm, etc). The last category is Minimal: sometimes known as the "walking wounded", or minor injuries. The medic shot would be expectant, hence the morphine to ease him into death. Hope this helps!
Another Great "WAR" movie based on a more recent *[1990's]* True story is *(Black Hawk Down)* it to has a star studded cast
Greatest war movie of all time. I’ve been watching this movie since like 2008ish I think. I still enjoy it till this day. I’m actually in the army now myself, I signed my contract in February, I’m coming close to a year now. Currently on my first deployment in Iraq. Great film.
The greatest generation. Forever grateful for their courage and for protecting our freedom. Lest we forget
Beach scene was a triage. "Expectant (dying) Priority (get to him quickly or it will get bad)...he's gone..(dead)"
They are categorizing the priority of patient care for the wounded at the casualty collection point.
We did the same in mass casualty incidents in Iraq.
**also, as a war veteran, i am always amused at the surprise of people when they see war crimes in film. Everyone engages in it. All of us.**
I'm a 73 year old USNavy veteran (retired). Good reaction. About Upham on the stairs: on the one hand, nobody knows how they'll react until they are actually in the situation. On the other hand, there is, and can be, no excuse for Cowardice.
My step grandfather was there on D-Day serving in the Navy. He was lost in the water for hours. I know the opening scene is so difficult to watch, but its one of the most important film scenes in my opinion. It really brings life to what these men went through. It breaks my heart but greatens my respect for our previous generations.
I'm not an emotional audience in movies, but the medic calling for his mama gets me every single time.
Great reaction ❤
Bangalore is a place! Large city in southern India. The Bangalore Torpedo was used for cutting wire and infantry defences. Developed by a British Army engineer before WW1, he was part of the British Army in India (hence Bangalore).
One of the other MUST SEE war movies is Hacksaw Ridge. The story is unbelievably inspiring and Andrew Garfield is brilliant in it.
While there may be a few "symbolic" headstones in that cemetery in France , the vast majority are indeed the actual remains of the dead - as they are in most military burial sites in the U.S.
Two of my uncles were severely wounded during the D Day invasion. One was in a glider that crash landed behind the German lines the night before the landing. He was the only survivor. The other one was wounded in the house to house fighting a few days after D Day. Germans were inside a house and he ran up and dived on the porch below a window. He tossed a grenade into the window and then threw another one that bounced back on the porch and wounded him badly. They both were permanently disabled and out of the war. Another uncle was killed when his bomber plane was shot down in 1943 over Foggia, Italy.
We should never forget the sacrifices of the people from that generation. Not just the soldiers because the people at home sacrificed for the war effort too.
My uncle was in the Battle of the Bulge and lost an arm. I hear you. He used to wrap me up in his prosthetic arm which had a hook. I was always unnerved by that hook.
Great reactions..... Least we never forget
When you watch the series “Band of Brothers”, one of the guys mentions how much gear they were wearing and carrying; it was a huge amount and they still were expected to run, jump, crawl, wade through mud and water even with all the equipment they had to carry and the heavy boots and bulky clothing they wore. Their jackets were made of a material that was meant to help deflect fragments, but the materials used today for “bullet-proof vests” did not exist at that time. Also, there were just as many injuries to the entire body and a vest would only provide protection in one area. It isn’t as if shooters had the time to point and aim directly at the chest - all types of grenades, explosives of all kinds, flamethrowers, bombs, firebombs, mines, machine guns, were used along with traditional guns and a vest would not help against so many types of weapons and in such a variety of situations.
6:45, this was World War II, the flak vests that existed at the time wouldn’t stop a rifle or even a pistol round. Extra gear is extra weight that will weigh you down.
50:10 my guy, this isn’t Battlefield. You can’t really “take over” a tank that’s already had three frag grenades dropped inside. You wouldn’t be able to fit for a number of practical reasons, but also, you wouldn’t likely know how to operate the thing since it’s a German tank.
Yes, during the Battle of the Bulge, paratroopers were seen jumping into abandoned Sherman tanks and using the main gun as a last ditch effort to hold back German attacks, but again, this was a last ditch effort. You wouldn’t do this as a surprise attack.
My very favorite artistic war film is the thin Red line that came out the same year as saving Private Ryan, but it kind of got overshadowed by it as well. The thin Red line is about the war in the Pacific
57 years ago this past June on a Beautiful Sunday afternoon 2 cars pull-down my parents driveway. Two Marine Corps captains and my pastor come to the house To tell my mother that my brother did not make it home from Vietnam
June 02 1967. My brother was 20years old I was 9years old 🌹WE WILL NEVER FORGET 🌹🙏RIP 🙏🇺🇸
Remnants of that era are still with us. At the time, in middle America, the death benefit of the GI insurance often cleared the mortgage on the family farm. "Bought the farm" is still a euphemism for getting KIA.
Watch Empire of the Sun, another Spielberg movie set during WWII but focuses on a child separated from his parents. You should recognize the young actor.
Great movie. I love this one. Another Spielberg masterpiece.
Great reaction, guys. Genuine and from the heart. As I'm sure many others have suggested, you need to add "Band of Brothers" to your watchlist. One of the greatest HBO mini-series, you will fall in love with the men of Easy Company and their experiences. Based on true events.
Many volunteered to fight during this time; there were 16 and 17 year-olds who lied about their age to get in. Also, many of those guys you see walking by in the dog tag scene volunteered for the "airborne" - their training was even tougher and more rigorous. Wade grabbed the dog tags because they were treating them like game tokens, in front of their comrades in the airborne.
18:41, the grey haired officer on the right is USMC Captain Dale Dye Jr (retired). He is the military consultant for this movie and other war oriented films and tv shows like Platoon, The Last of the Mohicans and Band of Brothers. Captain Dye is a highly decorated Vietnam combat veteran. His company Warriors, Inc was brought in to train the actors in how to handle weapons and maneuver like soldiers of this film's time period. Quite often when he consults on a war movie the producers will actually allow him to play a character in the stories.
So if you see Captain Dye in a movie its pretty much a sign that the producers are trying to be as authentic as possible.
They had a special screening for d-day survivors most of them walked out after a few minutes because it was to realistic to what it was really like. As far as shooting medics it is against the Geneva convention but during World War Two the Japanese didn’t sign it and intentionally targeted medics to prevent them from helping wounded soldiers.
One of the best WWII movies ever made!
Nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture but won for:
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Cinematography.
43:02, that line always tears me up - Tell her I was with the last brothers I had left and I wasn't going to desert them.
Tom Hanks said the first day he was on location he walked down to the beach and Spielberg was shooting the scene where the guy is picking up his arm. Hanks walked back up to the catering truck and told the rest of the crew, guys get ready for something different 😊
The follow up is Band of Brothers. A 10-episode miniseries about a parachute company that jumped into France the night before D-Day. A fairly accurate true story also produced by Spielberg as well as Hanks. Also has many great actors in their early or first roles.
A sad fact about when this movie came out, the opening scene was too accurate and realistic that a special 1-800 number was created for vets to call because of the PTSD flare ups. Vets that were there on the beaches of Normandy said that the movie was very accurate.
09:00 is the most powerful shot, because in the end when we are dying or are super scared we still call for our mom
We have the same type of military graveyard here, and their bodies are indeed there. I've been too two funerals of guys I went to school with who served and passed. As of Jan 2023, there is 64,750 service members buried there.
Saving Private Ryan is the greatest war film ever made. Great reaction! 👍🏿
The premise of this movie is based loosely on the five Sullivan boys from Waterloo Iowa. They enlisted in the navy. They were assigned to the ship Juneau. All 5 went down on the ship. The ship was torpedoed. Frank the oldest survived . Only him. ..they were in life rafts. He was hallucinating and dove overboard and was killed by sharks. There were 4 differentcbrothers from the same ship who went down. The military keeps close family being together in service. They were about to take separate assignments at the next port because they saw how dangerous it was. They were only a few days away. It was devastating.
Actually bullets cannot travel through water as you see here in the film. Their velocity slows down almost instantly. You can see it tested on MythBusters and I think even Slow Mo Guys did a piece on it.
*EDIT:* I highly recommend watching the miniseries, _Band of Brothers._
great moving film. i saw it in theaters. almost no one could move when it ended. everyone was just in awe, i think. emotionally broken.
JV shed a lot of tears and underands these guys disposition. Not sure if he is a military man or police officer but mad propers.
This was really great. Since u asked for suggestions, u should consider watching 'Set it Off', 'Soul Food', 'The Best Man' and This Christmas'. U won't be disappointed.
13:15 they are doing battlefield Triage. Basically going through all the wounded and marking the ones that need critical attention , dead , or “flesh wound”
There's a reason we call them the Greatest Generation...like my Grandfathrr and great uncles. Eternal respect to these Heros!
On every reaction I have heard everyone has mentioned that private Ryan didn't ask for it when the private from N.Y. told him that two of their guys already died looking for him. The guys at that time didn't get upset because they had to go find private Ryan, and two of their guys had gotten killed. The private from NY got upset, because they had finally found him with 2 of their guys getting killed,and he STILL didn't want to leave. So in other words they did that whole mission for nothing, because pvt. Ryan didn't want to leave.
6:40 - If I may borrow from Longshanks: "Bullet-proof vests cost money, the dead cost nothing."
They filmed at the actual Normandy Cemetery. Apparently, Captain Miller's grave actually belonged to a real soldier from the 2nd Rangers named Miller.
Thanks...I really enjoyed this. "We Were Soldiers" with Mel Gibson should be your next watch! Have a great week! 😃
"Earn it" at the end is a message to us all not just Pvt. Ryan.
im so glad you guys watched this, i definitely feel like its a must. being a son, and a father of 3 baby girls i wouldn’t ever want to leave behind, this movie shows a very realistic possibility and horrifying reality our ancestors had to live through
Mythbusters did bullets shooting into water.
Rifle bullets like the machine gun uses, are too fast, they break up and lose effectiveness after only a foot or so.
Pistol bullets were recovered whole, only slightly deformed from hitting the water, might be effective with 3 feet of travel into water.
They tried a .50BMG, and it also fragments, no significant damage to things more than 5feet underwater and the violent splash shocks from it do most of it so it's difficult to see where it hits and how far it might stay intact.
Cool! Thanks for the reminder. It's been years since we've seen that episode
They were marking the graves for recovery of the bodies after the war. They had one of two dog tags so they knew who was buried. The tag left with the body was stood on edge between the two front teeth and then you kick the lower jaw so the tag is driven into the jawbone. That way the body could decay, but the tag would stay with the remains for identification.
That's not how those dog tags were designed.
To truly understand the gravity of D-Day take the opening scene and multiply by 5. The allied forces attacked the Normandy coast on 5 different beaches. The Americans at Omaha and Utah beaches, the Brits at Gold and Sword Beaches and the Canadians at Juno beach. Collectively, the allied forces moved inland to evidently free France. It took about another 18 months to end the war in Europe.
This your obligatory you have to see Band of Brothers now comment if you haven't already... Hanks and Spielberg were just beginning with this masterpiece. As epic, horrific and spectacular this film is in every way, the hardest part for me to see is still the knife fight with Mellish in the end. When trying to reason with the German as a person, it's far more intimate. It illustrates the pointlessness of War and we're all human. FUBAR
^^ its mandatory!
I was always taken back by how on the real D-Day the allies landed shortly after 6am and by 8am there were more than 4,000 allied casualties. That's absolutely mind boggling what these men went through and still won.
My grandfather was a tank driver in WW2 for the Canadian military. He started in N. Africa as an ammo runner for the Brits, then was moved to a Canadian tank crew for the invasion of Italy. Then got sent to a newly formed Canadian company at some point and trained until D-Day, he took part in the landings on Juno beach. He was later wounded outside Caen in France and that was the end of the war for him. He never talked about his service until the last few years of his life. One year we were having dinner at his house and this movie came on the tv he watched for about 30seconds into the beach scene then he walked out of the house. He said it was just too much for him and it brought back too many horrible memories. He talked to us about it for hours, it was the first time he ever spoke about what he went through to us. I remember my mom said he was a hero, my grandfather got mad at her and said " I'm not a damn hero, the heroes are the ones who never came home. I'm just a survivor "
I still have all his service medals on the mantle with a few pictures of him and his crew sitting on the tank restocking it for the next objective after Juno was secured. Also got a few pictures from Africa and Sicily as well.
The group that had gone searching for Ryan were upset that he didn't want to go back,and that's why they called him an asshole. What they had gone through,plus two of their comrades dying in the process. For that reason he called Ryan an asshole,and not because they had to go looking for him.
Bullit proof vests don't stop rifle bullets. A metal insert might, but they add weight and don't cover everything..
I'm not even sure they had them back then. Kevlar wasn't invented until 1965, so anything back then would have to be too heavy to be practicable . . .
The reason why Jackson was missing a lot of his shots in the end was due to him not switching back to the scope he had after killing the sniper in the tower
I remember watching this a week or so after release on a sunday. Had the next day off from work. Was so stunned by the movie i didnt talk until Tuesday.
The body’s get cleaned up by graves registrations and other soldiers that are voluntold to help bury and identify bodies by the dog tags. My neighbor was on Omaha Beach working with graves registrations, the stores he told would make your skin crawl.
Because the actual beaches in Normandy are considered memorial sites, and have a lot of markers, museums, and physical remembrances, it would not have been possible or appropriate to film there. The D-Day sequences were shot on beaches in Ireland and in parts of England.
The guy who stabbed melish wasn’t the man they let go. But the guy they let go was there obviously and killed captain miller
That first 20 minutes is a reminder that war isn't all about heroism. Often, it's about being killed with no chance to do anything about it, or panicking despite your training, or doing awful things because you see awful things every day.
The D-Day Opening Scene From Saving Private Ryan Has To Be One Of The Best Opening Scenes
I was going to recommend "Hacksaw Ridge", a true story that takes place on Okinawa during WWII, but someone already did. I was drawn to watch it because my father was on Okinawa during WWII. I remember that when I was 10 or 11, I was snooping and found a shoebox full of my dad's photos from Okinawa. My dad sat down with me and explained what was in the photos--until he got to a photo of an entrance to an underground passageway. He started to say something about going in with flame throwers then suddenly shut down. He never spoke of Okinawa again.
"Someone kill that guy" in reference to a wounded kid is WILD dude
THANK YOU for realizing that the mother probably thinks that ONE son was killed. Most reactors don't pick up on that. Even when she collapses on the porch she still hasn't heard that it's actually THREE!😢
This movie is based on a real family from North Tonawanda, NY. That one son was shot down over Burma, one killed on the beach at D-day and 2 parachuted into Germany during D-day. One of the paratroopers was killed the other was the inspiration for Ryan. He was found by a priest and was sent home. After the war his brother that was shot down over Burma was found to be alive in a POW camp and also returned home.
Most comments I have seen say the German soldier on the stairs is not the same one they had captured; they note his uniform, insignia, badges, etc indicate he is different. But at the end, Upham does shoot the same soldier who had been ”let go”, who shot Capt. Miller.
IMBD indicates it too :)
Please do remember this is 1944 and the military weren’t quite as advanced and well equipped as today. There are no sharks in the English Channel. There were special regiments of troops which cleared bodies and tidied up the beach so that the thousands of troops which landed subsequently didn’t see any of the carnage.
I'll never get sick of Private Ryan Reactions! Here we go! Especially young ppl!
The bodies are indeed buried in the American cemetery. The average age of U. S. combat personnel during WW II was 26 years. This war, as for U. S. personnel was fought by men, not "boys". When the USA entered the war the military draft age was 20-45. During the Vietnam era, it was 18-25. The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht.
My father turned 18 in 1942 and was immediately drafted. This was as a result in changes to the draft law after Pearl Harbor that lowered the draft age from 21. I've read many accounts of other soldiers being drafted at 18 as well from 1942 onwards. The average age of the World War II draftee was older than the Vietnam War draftee simply from drafting a much larger percentage of American men from a much wider age range. Men from 18 to 45 were being drafted for World War II, but the older men weren't drafted for Vietnam.
@@place_there9104I wrote, "When the USA entered the war the military draft age was 20-45. The USA entered the war in December 1941. The age was changed after the country entered into a state of war with the Axis powers.
If you have time, the 10 episode series “Band of Brothers” is considered one of the best television productions of all time. Spielberg and Hanks were behind it - and Hanks co-wrote episode 1 and directed episode 5. It was followed by a documentary titled “We Stand Alone Together”, and an entertaining ‘video diary’ by one of the actors about the 2 week training sessions the cast had before filming. The series provides history, helpful information and a chance to get to know actual veterans.
6:25 Not keeping out water. Sand.
No bullet proof vests for soldiers in WW2
12:36 WW2 helmets were metal pots. Only good for shrapnel and to keep water off the top of one’s head
34:30 Medic death scene gets me every time.
there were ww2 bullet proof vests actually, not only did the soviets use them for elite troops starting in 1940, but by 1945 the us had their own (also small numbers for specialists). there were American bullet proof vests used on Okinawa.
@ Okay. Great. Some vests, for some soldiers (very few). For the vast majority - nothing to protect them but luck.
6:43 "How come they don't wear bulletproof vests or anything?" This was 1944. Kevlar was invented in 1965. Anything before that would have been basically plate armor. It was just too heavy. They would have drowned immediately or been too slow going up that beach.
This movie triggered PTSD in some of my military comrades. But to a man, they all said it had to be seen, experienced, and ultimately faced straight on. These men then came home rolled up their sleeves and rebuilt the world we have and enjoy today. Calling them HERO's doesn't do them justice. They were SAVIOR'S of humanity.
Appreciate your reaction... Another spectacular WW2 movie is Fury with Brad Pitt .... A couple of notes about Matt Damon ... He did this before Good Will Hunting but SPR post production took longer so GWH came out first. In the scene where Matt Damon and Tom Hanks were talking about home, director Steven Spielberg asked MD to just make up a story about home. That's what we got in the scene. ❤
It's not the guy they let go that killed the jewish soldier, it's a common thing that a lot of people mistake in this film, I wish Steven Spielberg never used a similar looking guy because everyone that reacts to it mistakes him for Steamboat Willy.
Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall was the first individual to be promoted to the new rank of General of the Army, on December 16, 1944. Five silver stars, in a circle.
This movie is about World War II, which happened in the 1940’s. Bullet proof vests hadn’t been invented when this war was going on.
25:28 "'Take a knee'? You're gonna force him on his knees?!"
...........bruh... what?
Yeah, her flippant attitude for the entire movie was so cringe worthy. The guy got it. Understood the gravity of it all. Understood real people went through things like this. She was just plain ignorant and obtuse at best and outright disrespectful at worst.