Personally, I would like to say that the film with the better sequence is Saving Private Ryan because it shows us the detail of what really goes on if you were to be at that specific location
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On the beach in Northern France, an American Soldier searches frantically for his lost arm. Gunshots emerge from all angles of the screen. As this soldier helplessly goes from one place to another, there are more dead bodies piling up on Omaha Beach in Northern France. As this soldier collects his separated arm from the battlefield and walks off into the horizon, Tom Hanks enters a rather explosive battle. He leads his men into battle with nothing more than guns and a helmet. This is Spielberg’s view of D-Day.
The ‘Longest Day’ directed by Daryl Zarwuck in 1962. It doesn’t use colour and begins this scene at the moment of landing on Omaha Beach with gunshots firing at you. The tank-traps which are placed in the water are abnormally large compared to modern day ones. Although this film is black and white, the shading of the sky tells us that’s its bright and possibly sunny. The film sequence begins at sea with rough waves but nice weather. The sky is probably digitally mastered because of how the clouds look. There is a lot of diagetic sound in the background. E.g. fighter planes flying across the skies but not seeing them. The camera then focuses out of the main ship and shows us that there are more ships, one next to the other. The sirens on the beach get louder as the soldiers are getting nearer the beach. As the ship arrives, bullets start flying and bodies start falling. However, the camera focuses more on how the people swim. I.e. On shore rather than all the gunshots that go on in the background. The tank-traps, in this version of the film, prove useful to the soldiers because they act like a shelter against flying bullets so that they do not get hit easily. The lighting effects our mood significantly in this film because it’s the only thing we can rely on to tell whether the area that the camera is in is either dangerous or not! If we see that the area is light then it might be the fact that that area is safe. Where as the areas in the shadows might be that the areas that are dangerous. The sound-track helps us establish a lot in this film because of the pace of the music and the style. It tells the audience whether or not the place the characters are in is dangerous depending on the music or sound being played. The weapons the characters carry varies from one person to another because only the soldiers of a high rank would carry one. The setting/landscape of this film is important because you are shown the important objects that reflect what is going on in the film.
