Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan
American fiction often portrays real-life experiences of a given period in history. Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan was based of the true story about the Niland brothers, who fought in the second world war in the Pacific theatre and the European theatre. Three of the four were presumed dead and after finding out that the last brother dropped in with the 101st Airborne in Normandy on D-day, captain Miller had orders to assembled a team and set of to find him. Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, being set in the Pacific theatre during the second world war. Desmond Doss who is a combat medic as only one goal, save his brothers in arms. One can compare this to Saving Private Ryan because both Doss and Miller have one mission, save people. By examining
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Part of me thinks the kid's right. What's he done to deserve this? He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But another part of me thinks, what if we stay, and by some miracle we actually make it out of here alive? Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, vile mess.
SS panzers and german troops push the town all the way to the bridge in fierce close quarters combat. The remaining Gi’s including Captain Miller, pvt. Ryan and a few others are about to blow the bridge when Captain miller is shot retrieving the detonation wire. He pulls out his sidearm and fires at an approaching tiger tank. After his eight shots, the tank bursts into flames as a American P-51 destroys it. Ryan, Reiben, and upham rush to Captain Miller's aid but it is too late. With is last remaining breaths he whispers to Ryan “earn it… James… earn this”.
Captain Miller lead his brave squad on a mission they thought was not important but realize i was more than that. They succeed on saving private Ryan, and he returns home safe. In the Niland brothers case only two of the four are killed in action and two survive and return home. After being sent home Fritz became an MP for the duration of the war and was later awarded a bronze star for his service, he passed away on December 1, 1983. One great film based on compelling true
Part of me thinks the kid's right. What's he done to deserve this? He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But another part of me thinks, what if we stay, and by some miracle we actually make it out of here alive? Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, vile mess.
SS panzers and german troops push the town all the way to the bridge in fierce close quarters combat. The remaining Gi’s including Captain Miller, pvt. Ryan and a few others are about to blow the bridge when Captain miller is shot retrieving the detonation wire. He pulls out his sidearm and fires at an approaching tiger tank. After his eight shots, the tank bursts into flames as a American P-51 destroys it. Ryan, Reiben, and upham rush to Captain Miller's aid but it is too late. With is last remaining breaths he whispers to Ryan “earn it… James… earn this”.
Captain Miller lead his brave squad on a mission they thought was not important but realize i was more than that. They succeed on saving private Ryan, and he returns home safe. In the Niland brothers case only two of the four are killed in action and two survive and return home. After being sent home Fritz became an MP for the duration of the war and was later awarded a bronze star for his service, he passed away on December 1, 1983. One great film based on compelling true