Comparing Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day
The purpose of this essay is to compare which of the two films (Saving
Private Ryan and The Longest Day) is the most emotionally effecting. I
am also trying to compare how each of the two films represent war and
soldiers to the audience.
The camera work in the two films is very different. The Longest Day
nearly always uses the "God" view where the camera is taking an aerial
shot of the action. The "God" view means that because you are above
all the action it feels like you are in control. The camera work is
also really smooth throughout the whole of the clip giving the
impression to me that the shot isn't really happening and it has been
manufactured. I don't know why the director chose to do the camera
work like this because it would've been a lot more realistic if the
camera moved around a bit more so it would've appeared like it was
like a documentary clip and was actually happening.
In Saving Private Ryan however the camera work is a lot shakier and
shuddered when a bomb went of as if the cameraman can actually feel
the vibrations from the explosion so it looks as if they were actually
there. This clip also uses the parallel camera shot where you are
right alongside the soldiers and you don't feel powerful or in control
at all it made the clip a lot more tedious for me anyway. I feel the
director of this film approached the camera work with a lot more
thought and consideration than the director of The Longest Day. This
clip also uses a lot of low angle shots and close ups it hardly ever
shows long shots except for the German bunkers and the beach at the
start.
For sou...
... middle of paper ...
...to show the audience that the Americans are not an invincible
army, but are in fact just normal people fighting for their country.
In The Longest Day, I feel the director was trying to represent the
opposite of what Saving Private Ryan did. The captain and his men seem
to have no fear whatsoever showing that they think they are
invincible. One example of this is when the captain is strolling
around talking to his men right in front of the enemy's machine guns
as if he isn't in the middle of a war.
Finally I think Saving Private Ryan was trying to portray that even if
you win, war is not a good thing, whereas The Longest Day was simply a
chance to show off that the Americans won that battle. I preferred the
Saving Private Ryan clip because it contained the best SFX, it was
honest and overall more emotionally moving.
In both Things and Forrest Gump the main character goes to the Vietnam War and leaves their family. In both of the stories the main character creates a strong bond with their fellow soldiers. Tim O’Brien, in Things, becomes friends with Jimmy Cross, Mitchell Sanders, Kiowa, Norman Bowker, Henry Dobbins, and Rat Kiley. In Vietnam, Forrest Gump becomes friends with Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. Both stories tell how close friends died and how the main character reacts. Along with the sad memories there are happy memories as well. O’Brien says that in their free time they played checkers and told stories to get their minds off the war. In Forrest Gump, Forrest played ping-pong and would play in front of his friends to entertain them. Him and Bubba
Since the beginning of time, war has been the go-to method for conflict resolution. The war itself has sparked turmoil. Yet no matter how many protest, war will most likely remain the best way to solve a global issue until the day peace has been unanimously settled. The war of 1812 lasted about 3 years. Britain's efforts to restrict the U.S. trade lead to this war.
The hero of The Red Badge of Courage, which was written by Stephen Crane in the late 1800s, was a young private named Henry Fleming, who was fighting for the North in the American Civil War. Like Pip, in Great Expectations, Henry was a commoner. He was new to the Army and few people knew his name. The main difference between Henry and the earlier heroes is that Henry was not born with leadership qualities or traits like bravery. In fact, in the first battle he fought, he proved himself to be a coward by running from it.
I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?"
camera then cuts quickly to a shot from the view of the door, just as
sides. A war of words is one thing, but truly to win or lose a war it
effect due to the basis of the film. This is used as an opening sequence
Book Critique of The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan, born in Dublin, Ireland in 1920, worked as a reporter covering the battles in Europe from 1941-1945 and then the final months of the Pacific Campaign. His articles were printed in both Reuters and the London Daily Telegraph. His first book was The Longest Day, published in 1959, selling over 4 million copies in 27 different editions. In 1962, a director named Darryl Zannuck made the book into a movie. Ryan's next book was The Last Battle, published in 1966.
and taken out, to make the film shorter. In the 2002 film a lot more
The book I read and am doing a presentation on is called Saving Private Ryan by Max Allen Collins. Saving Private Ryan is about the heroism of soldiers of soldiers and their duty during wartime, World War Two. This story is to remind you, the reader, that war is nothing but hell, orders on the front line can be brutal, and absurd. The story is set in Europe of 1944, as the Nazis are still advancing and taking over cities and countries. On June 6th, 1944, Captain Miller, and hundreds of other men leave Europe to accomplish one mission, Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day. When they get there, there will be a new task awaiting them.
The books, A Wrinkle in Time and And Then There Were None, both have many differences in the movie versions. The directors of both movies change the plot to make the movie see fit to what they may have imaged the book to be, while still keeping the story line the same.
Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg Saving Private Ryan is an epic war film directed by the world-renowned. Steven Spielberg. The movie received several awards, including five Academy Awards for best cinematography, best director, best effects. best film editing and best sound, it also picked up other prestigious awards. awards.
In Antigone, a tragedy written by Sophocles, a determined sister must bury her brother, but with the challenges of corrupt king, this daring act may be her last. The two poems, Invictus and If We Must Die, have a similar, but different concepts like Antigone. Invictus captures that throughout a journey, someone should never give up pride. Comparing to Invictus, in If We Must Die, a person should find the most honorable way to die, if death approaches. If We Must Die represents Antigone the best because in both selections they’re finding honor through their deaths.
The film Tomorrow When the War Began is a film based on the novel of the same title. John Marsden’s Tomorrow When the War Began is the story of seven teenagers who return from a camping trip to find their home town has been invaded. The producer of the film has excluded several settings from the book and also changed parts of the plot and the character’s characteristics. These differences occur to show the character’s development, to limit the duration of the film and to keep the audience engaged.
For a long time, when anyone thought of a war movie, they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck’s, The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan, who was the author of the book by the same name, and happened to be a D-day veteran himself, wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book wasn’t exactly a story involving characters, and neither was the film. The Longest Day is more a story of tragedy, glory, and courage surrounding one very important day. And even though mainly American and English filmmakers produced the movie, the movie and book both portray the Germans fairly. But the film added so much to the story that the book could not. Without some of the stunning visuals that the five (Zanuck went unaccredited, but was said to have directed over half the movie) directors put in the film, it would have been impossible to comprehend the scale of it all.