Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan in Spain and Saving Private Ryan in Latin America), directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, was one of the highest-grossing films of 1998, also receiving 11 Oscar nominations and winning five.
The film tells the story of a group of soldiers, shortly after the Normandy landings, during World War II, who must find and take out of the war a soldier whose three brothers had died almost at the same time. Saving Private Ryan It is considered by critics to be among the 10 best epic films of all time. Here are 10 other facts that will interest you.
«Saving Private Ryan»: 10 facts as shocking as the movie
1. The idea for the film came to him Robert Rodatauthor of the script, after contemplating a monument dedicated to the American Civil War, in which 8 members of the same family appeared.
Curiously, there was a similar story during World War II, that of the four Niland brothersof Tonawanda, New York, of whom two survived, although for a time it was believed that only one had survived.
2. The landing scene in Normandy, with which the film begins, was chosen by the magazine’s readers empire as the “best battle scene of all time”, and was placed number one of the “50 great moments in film history”, by the magazine TV Guide.
3. The landing scene lasts 20 minutes, with the participation of 1,500 extra and a cost of 12 million dollars.
4. Most of the landing scenes were filmed in the ballinesker beachin Ireland, and from Ireland there are also the thirty amputees who appear in this part of the film.
5. The entire group of main actors, with the exception of Matt Damon, had to participate in a ten days military trainingbefore starting filming.
6. Spielberg chose Matt Damon for the role of Ryan because he wanted an American face little known to the American public, but just that year Damon won the Oscar for Good Will Hunting.
7. To make the beach have a red tone from the soldiers’ blood, they were used 40 barrels of fake blood.
8. The two German soldiers who kill when they are taking the bunkers and are surrendering were not German and what they were saying before the shots were: “Please don’t shoot me, I’m not German, I’m Czech, I haven’t killed anyone.”.
The Germans forcibly recruited Czechs to swell their troops and were called Eastern Battalions.
9. Saving Private Ryan It was the last film to win the Oscar for best edition that It was not digitally edited.
10. The combat scenes in Saving Private Ryan They were so realistic that some D-Day veterans walked out of the theaters during the landing scenes. They later claimed that they were the most realistic combat scenes they had ever seen on film.
Let’s conclude with a quote from the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who considered this film as a milestone in war films that he could not ignore during the filming of his film. Inglorious Bastards:
“The knife fight sequence between an American soldier and a German soldier towards the end of the film is as notable as the landing. I hate war movies that show a soldier killing his opponents without breaking a sweat, as if he were insignificant (…). It’s hard to kill someone, it takes sweat, and even then you have no guarantee of success. Spielberg admirably executed this scene with that dimension.”
It really is a memorable film, if you like war movies. Maybe you want to read the movies with the most Oscars in history.