I first watched "Saving Private Ryan" when I was in elementary school. I watched it again when I was undergraduate. This review should be the third time. My previous impression of this film is that as one of the benchmarks of American war films, it has a proficient and sophisticated production in every field. It is a typical Hollywood war genre, although sometimes the typography is quite over-exaggerated. For example, there are typical Hollywood shooting methods such as the camera is pushed to the face with cool lines.
After reviewing it today, I have a new perspective on this film. In my opinion, "Saving Private Ryan" is the first mainstream war film in the United States that uses the Vietnam War film to shoot the theme of World War II.
In the past, the core of traditional American World War II movies were mostly romance films, dramas, and thrillers. The front line of war was almost never the core of the movie. In this kind of movie, it is difficult to see machine guns, tanks and blood plasma. Moreover, traditional World War II movies generally do not arrange for the main characters to subvert their own values or ideas due to their encounters in the war. For example, you can hardly imagine seeing the US military killing prisoners of war in traditional US World War II movies. Although these two movie elements are not the first to appear in Vietnam War movies (I think they are "Wings", "No War on the Western Front" and other earlier silent films), the most important and well-known carrier is the Vietnam War movies, and this The two elements together form the core of "Saving Private Ryan".
However, the tone of "Saving Private Ryan" is different from the classic Vietnam War movie. The tone of the classic Vietnam War films is often rebellious and provocative. The distrust, doubts, and even resistance to the system spread in every corner of the Vietnam War movies. It's different for "Saving Private Ryan". In this film, although there are occasional doubts, the image of the system is positive and positive in the most important and brightest moments. At the beginning of the movie, the scene in which the military leaders ordered Ryan to be rescued from the office tells us that the system pays attention to and respects each individual. At the end of the life of the protagonist Miller, the seemingly unstoppable tank was promptly eliminated by Allied aircraft, which is a testament to the system's ability to protect individuals. At the end of the movie, Ryan, who is already an elderly person, and a large number of his family members came to the soldiers' graves, telling them that they had had a fulfilling and happy life, and they bound individual happiness with the success of the system. Just like the fear that the audience will forget, the bright military melody that sounds from time to time in the film reminds the audience that this is a main theme movie. There may be many reasons for Spielberg to do this, but one of the important reasons must be to win bigger awards during the awards season. The irony is that such a well-made film with the main theme, but lost to "Shakespeare in Love" in the Olympiad Best Picture selection that year, this proves once again that you can't always expect the academy to judge. idea.
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