Saving Private Ryan was released in 1998 and was directed by one of Hollywood's most famous directors Steven Spielberg

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Saving Private Ryan was released in 1998 and was directed by one of Hollywood’s most famous directors Steven Spielberg. His previous work has included Schlinders List and ET. The screen play was written by Robert Rodat and the music was composed by John Williams. The cast included actors such as Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Tom Sizemore. The film won 5 Academy awards including best Director and Best Sound Effects Editing.

The film is about a sectary who finds out that a Mrs Ryan received 3 telegrams telling her about her dead sons. So the army general decides to send out a special unit to bring her only living son home safe.They are sent in to save Private James Ryan who was a member of the parachute regiment.

The men led by the great Tom Hanks who are sent on a mission to retrieve a man from war and send him back to his mother. He is being sent back simply because all his brothers have died in the war and the army deems it necessary to send him back home before he dies so that his mother doesn't lose all her children. Throughout the movie the characters are fully developed and we care about each and every one of them. When they die we feel sad, and when they are sharing jokes we laugh with them. This is a truly great piece of cinema. It lets you know what these brave men went through and gives you a great sense of appreciation for what they did for us.

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When saving private Ryan starts the music begins to play, the music is a slow and sad military music. This makes the audience feel sad and feel as if the film is serious and really means something. The first image we see is of an American flag fluttering in the wind, the flag is faded and old which brings the audience back to the war and makes Americans feel patriotic and proud of their country.

Throughout the film the director shows how the soldiers would have felt very well.

The camera angle changes and moves across past each grave.

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