27 minutes and 14 seconds into this cinematic masterpiece, Steven Spielberg is self-unravelling

The movie reference on the landing

Almost everything has been said We have to save Private Ryanmasterpiece of war cinema directed by Steven Spielberg 1998. A film about the heroism of the American forces during the Normandy landings June 6, 1944 And the days that follow, while a team of Rangers is tasked with finding and protecting the young James Francis Ryan, parachuted behind enemy lines and whose three brothers died in combat. With a cast composed mainly of Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper and Matt Damon in the role of Ryan, We have to save Private Ryan it is a cult film, acclaimed by critics and large audiences when it was released in theaters.

While commemorations of the 80th anniversary of 6 June 1944 were taking place on the Normandy coast, We have to save Private Ryan spring in some cinemas and it is Available on Netflix from June 1st. The perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in it and stop in a very brief moment, during which Tom Hanks utters a phrase to double meaningwhich is as true for his character as it is for the viewer.

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A mythical sequence

We have to save Private Ryan, after a brief opening “these days” on the now very old James Francis Ryan, visiting the American cemetery of Colleville, represents in a long sequence of over 20 minutes the landing of the allied troops on Omaha Beach. Realistic and ultraviolent, as grandiose as it is terrifying, this single sequence cost a lot to produce $11 million and mobilized more than a thousand extras. About this mythical sequence, Steven Spielberg explained the point :

I wanted the audience to experience the same thing they call khaki pylon coming out of the landing barges and who, for the most part, had never experienced fire before. It was necessary to translate this chaos, this hell onto the screen.

The translation of this hell onto the screen is exceptional, and Steven Spielberg knows he succeeded. He knows it so well that he even concludes this unforgettable chapter of the filmA phrase uttered by Captain John H. Miller, embodied by Tom Hanks. In fact, while Miller and his men managed to storm the beach and clean the German bunkers, they can finally rest. HAS 27 minutes and 10 secondsWith a trembling hand, Miller raises the pumpkin to his lips when Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore), declares offscreen: “What a show.” To which, in close-up and almost facing the camera, Miller replies: “Yes, it’s true. What a show“.

We must save Private Ryan: “What a show.”

This sentence obviously applies to the two characters in the film, the two soldiers who have just been actors and witnesses of a REAL butcher’s shop, in a deluge of violence. It is a decisive moment in the history of the Second World War, whose unique character they have just grasped deep within their flesh. But this sentence is also”half“, as Steven Spielberg has just produced one of the greatest battle scenes in cinematic history, and he knows it. So this “What a show.”, this is also what they say, with their eyes riveted to the screen like those of Tom Hanks almost riveted to the camera, in mirrorthe spectators ofWe have to save Private Ryan.

So, in a sense, Steven Spielberg says to his audience: “look at the show (the war) that these men saw, and look at the show (my movie) you just saw“. With this staging on the face of Tom Hanks, the immersion and the proposed abyss are dizzying. Steven Spielberg then sends himself flowers, which suggests that he accomplished very well what he staged and then edited We have to save Private Ryanthat is, one of the largest stages, of all genres, in the history of cinema.

Source: Cine Serie

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