Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Regisseur:

Steven Spielberg

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

Robert Rodat (written by)

Premierendatum:

24. Juli 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Kriegsfilm

Werbezeile:

In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving... One.

Plot:

Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.

Plot Keywords:

Medic | Army Rangers | Violence | Shelling | Hand Tremor

Filmpreise:

Won 5 Oscars. Another 52 wins & 53 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Numbing experience of SPR redeems baby boomers...

Besetzung

Tom Hanks	...	Captain John H. Miller
Tom Sizemore	...	Sergeant Mike Horvath
Edward Burns	...	Pvt. Richard Reiben
Barry Pepper	...	Pvt. Daniel Jackson
Adam Goldberg	...	Pvt. Stanley Mellish
Vin Diesel	...	Private Adrian Caparzo
Giovanni Ribisi	...	T-4 Medic Irwin Wade
Jeremy Davies	...	Cpl. Timothy P. Upham
Matt Damon	...	Private James Francis Ryan
Ted Danson	...	Captain Fred Hamill
Paul Giamatti	...	Sergeant Hill
Dennis Farina	...	Lieutenant Colonel Anderson
Joerg Stadler	...	Steamboat Willie
Max Martini	...	Corporal Henderson (as Maximilian Martini)
Dylan Bruno	...	Toynbe

Alternativ:

Soldat James Ryan, Der (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence, and for language.

Länge:

170 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Französisch | Deutsch | Tschechisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Philippines:PG-13 | Brazil:14 | Malaysia:(Banned) (theatrical) | Taiwan:GP | Malaysia:18SG (DVD release) | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) | USA:R (certificate #35942) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA (re-rating on appeal) | Australia:R (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Ontario) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:18A (British Columbia) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Chile:14 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-14 (re-rating) | Finland:K-16 (original rating) | France:U | Germany:16 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:16 | Ireland:15 | Israel:PG | Italy:VM14 | Mexico:B | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R15 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating on appeal) | Singapore:R(A) (original rating) | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating)

Drehorte:

Calvados, France

Firma:

Amblin Entertainment

Dies und das:

This is the last film edited on a non-digital editing system to win an Academy Award for editing.

Pannen:

Anachronismus: The tins that Sgt. Horvath puts earth in from each continent have the name written on them in felt tip marker (Sharpie). The felt tip marker was not invented until 1952.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Ryan's son: [running to comfort his father] Dad?
[flashback to D-Day]
LCVP pilot: Clear the ramp! Thirty seconds. God be with ya!

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "Will & Grace: The Third Wheel Gets the Grace (#4.1)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Fanfare for the Common Man

Numbing experience of SPR redeems baby boomers...

It's been over a year since first seeing Saving Private Ryan -- it's a worthy effort by Speilberg--his best since Shindler's List by far. You've probably heard about the amount of violence, blood, and gore and that's all true--it's got the Viet Nam movie style violence (and then some) but it's not gratuitous. Were it sanitized like early WWII movies, modern audiences probably wouldn't take it as seriously.

The movie has that trademark Speilberg style--the structure is all tied up and unified from beginning to end, the emotional symbols abound, the music swelling when he's working at your emotions, the hand held camera that worked so well in Shindler's List to give you a feeling of participation, camera angles and periods of silence to disorient you (like Shindler), suspense techniques learned from Hitch... It's a movie that stays with you for a period afterwards.

Hanks will be the early front runner for Oscar after this flick--Academy members like him AND it IS his best acting job ever. While Speilberg will likely be criticized for attempting to manipulate the audience's emotions while keeping a distance from the inner core of his characters, Tom Hanks reveals a really complex military leader in this story, and does so without overacting--somehow it comes from within. While you may not empathize deeply with many of the platoon, you will still feel something because of the relationship that is formed with Hanks.

After the initial set-up, you will have the opportunity to participate in the D-Day operation and experience the horror of it. Those who have been in a real war can comment about how realistic or not Speilberg captures its chaotic horror in this scene.

In my case I again feel very lucky that my draft number was high, so I never had to face Nam like many of my classmates. Speilberg reminds us brutally in "Saving Private Ryan" that we All have a debt to pay to the brave souls who have sacrificed so much for us. What Tom Hanks does with his performance is to remind us of this debt in a very personal way.