In conclusion, I think that Saving Private Ryan is a good film because it is very realistic and very effective

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      The film saving Private Ryan is based on the war D-Day. Saving Private Ryan holds the genre ‘war’ as it contains many sceans of fighting, gun shots and killing. It was directed by a very famous film maker called Steven Spielberg he released this film on September 11th 1998. Some of the leading actors in this film are: Tom Hanks as Captain Miller, Tom Sizemore as sergeant Horvath, Edward burns as private rieben, Barry Pepper as private Jackson, Jeremy Davies as private Upham and Matt Damon as Private Ryan. Overall the film is very gruesome and bloody. “Saving Private Ryan” has won 5 Academy Oscar awards including best director in 1999. There are a lot of handheld cameras in this film to make you feel as if you are actually there at the war.

     In scene one the director uses lots of different camera shots from present day to the past for example flashbacks. In this scene James Ryan visits the graves from the war that he was in with his family in Normany/ France, he then has a flash back to June 6th 1944. The director uses a low angled shot on Private Ryan then a mid shot on all of his family that he is with, they zoom in on Private Ryan kneeling down looking at captain miller’s gravestone this shows the audience that he misses captain miller and is thinking about the war that he was in fighting for his country. There is a mid shot on all of the flags that are there to show that they are in France even though captain miller and Private Ryan are from America. When there is a show of all the flags there is patriotic music playing like the national anthem music. The last couple of camera shots were on Private Ryan with all the graves in the background which shows how many soldiers actually died in the war and fought for their country. There is then a mid shot on Private Ryan crying and then goes into an extreme close up, this shows the audience that this is a very sad moment for Private Ryan as this foreshadows the beginning. We are given the true horror effect on the war. The sound effects on this scene are very effective as it plays patriotic music at the beginning of the film when Private Ryan goes to see captain miller’s grave, it plays this music as it is calm and shows the audience it is an important part of the film.

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   Scene 2 is a very long scene and is about the instant chaos. When the soldiers are ready to fight for their country inside the boat, the doors open and they are all shot and killed instantly. One of the first camera shots is a mid shot of all the soldiers in the boat before the doors opened, some looked very nervous, some being sick and some looked ready to fight, it then zooms out from them. After the soldiers have been shot in the boat they move to the beach, at this point they change the camerawork ...

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