Saving Private Ryan: Pause At 55 minutes 45 seconds, this surreal outcome really existed

In 1998, Steven Spielberg released a film with an absolutely stunning impact with Saving Private Ryan, which won five Oscars. An absolute masterpiece of the genre, which has become a standard measure. “I didn’t want to come with my team to glorify what happened. I tried to stay loyal and believe” said Spielberg about his film. The credo was simple: to deliver an ultra-realistic and uncompromising war film. Light years from the longest day.

Pause at 55 minutes and 45 seconds…

Among the memorable sequences of the film is that, although much less quoted than the others, the German sniper. Crossing a ruined village in the pouring rain and encountering a terrified French couple with their young daughter, Squad Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) is ambushed by a sniper hidden in a belfry, who fatally stabs a soldier (Vin Diesel).

Leaving him to go out and die, the sniper is clearly trying to lure the other members of the group, who are tempted to help Caparzo, into the eye of his telescope. Gunned down by the group’s sniper, Private Daniel Jackson (Barry Pepper), he kills him with a bullet that literally passes through the frame of the German soldier’s rifle to hit him in the eye. An absolutely incredible shot on goal.

Here’s the sequence again…

Is such a shot possible with such accuracy? Yes. Because Steven Spielberg was inspired by the authentic fate of the gun that happened during the Vietnam War. He’s a Marine Carlos Hathcock, a US Army sniper as legendary as Chris Kyle, who did it.

During the Vietnam War, Hathcock shot down an enemy sniper, nicknamed “Cobra”, whom he had been stalking for a long time. It was a brief reflection of sunlight in his enemy’s telescope that allowed Hathcock to fire. When Hathcock went to check to kill the sniper, he found that his shot had passed through the enemy’s rifle without hitting the sides.