The film I picked is somewhat fitting for this month, and with everything that has been going on. I choose the official movie trailer for Saving Private Ryan, considered one of the all time greatest war films. The drama/action film by Steven Spielberg, was released in 1998. It follows Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) and the group of eight men tasked to find and retrieve Private James Ryan after his three brothers were killed in action during the last Great War, WWII. The audience sees the brutal reality of war and how mankind can triumph with courage, honor, and decency. This film is by no-means a family night movie, but for those that love an action packed, incredible realistic, gut wrenching film that makes you look deeper at yourself then this film is for you. The film opens on D-Day Normandy Beach, 1944, the largest most daring beach invasion of the Allied forces, and continues through the push towards Paris.
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These images are like the many you saw as child growing up in the history books, on The History channel, and multitude of books about WWII. Feelings of nostalgia, honor, and a sense of worth swell up as you watch the trailer. The narration is of different voices reading the telegram to Mrs. Ryan about her sons’ deaths. This is reminiscent of the thousands of letters home to mothers of soldiers lost in the war. The quick fading of stills of the beach landing with shots of the letters, all in gray scale again brings a feeling of actually war footage being seen. It then moved to grainy color images, like those early colored images you have seen. The ones where the colors almost look too bright. Again with voice over lines from the movie helping set the mood and tone of the movie. At the half way mark the trailer switches to clips of the film. The mood and tone switch as does the
These images are like the many you saw as child growing up in the history books, on The History channel, and multitude of books about WWII. Feelings of nostalgia, honor, and a sense of worth swell up as you watch the trailer. The narration is of different voices reading the telegram to Mrs. Ryan about her sons’ deaths. This is reminiscent of the thousands of letters home to mothers of soldiers lost in the war. The quick fading of stills of the beach landing with shots of the letters, all in gray scale again brings a feeling of actually war footage being seen. It then moved to grainy color images, like those early colored images you have seen. The ones where the colors almost look too bright. Again with voice over lines from the movie helping set the mood and tone of the movie. At the half way mark the trailer switches to clips of the film. The mood and tone switch as does the