Saving Private Ryan

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Yr10 Media GCSE essay -  Saving Private Ryan                       David Mason 10G1

In this essay we will be looking at one of the comments that one of the reviewers of ‘Saving Private Ryan’. This particular reviewer raised the point of how the director ‘Spielberg spares the viewer nothing of the horrors of battle using every tactic at his disposal to convey the chaos brutality and suffering of war.’ I will be telling you about how far I agree with this comment. The main part of the film that I will be writing about is the opening scene of the film. My overall view of this film is that I think that it is a great portrayal of war and that Spielberg is not afraid of shocking his audience. This is one of the reasons why I think it has turned out to be such a classic. During the film I felt as if I was actually in the war because of all of the handheld camera shots that Spielberg uses throughout the duration of this film. One of the greatest things about this film is that Spielberg has crafted it in such a way that nobody is shown to be the weaker or the stronger side; it is shown as it actually was. At the end of the film I felt quite upset as the captain asks his wife ‘Am I a good man?’ even though he should know that he is a good man and is respected and looked up to by many people. I was upset by this because nobody has actually told him how great he actually is. I agree with this comment fully and I think that Spielberg has shown a very realistic view of the war.

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In the next part of this essay I will be talking to you about three incidents that I found that shows the viewer the chaos, brutality and suffering caused by war. This opening scene is particularly gruesome and it shows the viewer how many lives were actually lost during the war which is why all but one of the incidents I am writing about have something to do with this scene.

Incident 1. This incident will be on the chaos of war-   Spielberg uses the camera very well by going in close on the soldiers and also parts ...

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