How does the director Steven Spielberg create suspense in the opening moments of the film, "Saving Private Ryan"?

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How does the director Steven Spielberg create suspense in the opening moments of the film, “Saving Private Ryan”?

Having watched the film ‘saving private Ryan’ and looked in detail at the first half an hour, Steven Spielberg directed a great movie with big names and big awards such as: five academy awards including best director; several Oscars, good reports from more than seventy critics; Spielberg received a uso merit award from the USO metropolitan Washington; he also got the highest public civilian award from the department of the army. Another point to show how good this film is, is to show how it got the highest top grossing motion picture of 1999.this is a perfect example of the achievements this film has made.

I think Steven Spielberg chose this film because of his Jewish origin and his feelings towards world war two; and to educate people around the world on what the war was like and what people endured throughout the war. ‘Saving private Ryan’ has stayed on the footpath and maybe even stepped ahead of great movies such as ‘bridge on the river kwai’ and the ‘dirty dozen’.

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This is not surprising since he has made such good movies in different genres with well known titles, including ‘jaws’, ’shindlers list’ (which is also about the suffering of Jews in world war two) and ‘Jurassic park’ which are all world wide known titles.

‘Saving private Ryan’ is about fighting the Nazis in Germany and for the first half an hour is pure action of the American army taking a beach on the Normandy front, which is very realistic and shows hoe horrible the war can be.

After taking the beach, a band of men are taken on a suicidal ...

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