One of the war films I am writing about is Saving Private Ryan. The author of Where Trouble comes by Davidson and Lytle would say that Saving Private Ryan is “Authentic”. Saving Private Ryan unlike other war movies they do not exaggerate or dramatize events. In Many war movies that we see today, when a soldier is shot and killed it does not look authentic. Hollywood directors seem to dramatize the death to much. Many times the soldier flops back and forth before hitting the ground. In a lot of movies there is barley any blood after the guy gets shot. In Saving Private Ryan when a soldier was shot and killed they fell straight to the floor without any theatrics there was blood all of the dead soldiers body. The movie is very gruesome and can be nausating at times. Saving Private Ryan does not care if your grossed out they want you to feel how they felt. Saving Private Ryan did not stereotype the American soldiers like other war movies do. The movie showed many deaths on both the enemy and the American side. The soldiers uniforms looked very real. The movie even shows accidental deaths which occurs alot during war. Many war movies dont show this. There was a scene in the movie where on of the soldiers puked when he reached Normandy. I think this is important showing the soldiers as human rather then perceiving them to be tough macho men. The small amount of sound In the movie makes the film seem more authentic. Other movies need the music to make the movie more dramatic. The movie has a whole looked real its almost scary. The movie was on location which is very important in getting a better feel for the place they fought at.
Davidson and Lytle would be very pleased with the work Steven Spielberg did in making saving private Ryan a accurate account of what happened. The movie was in the point of view the soldiers. This was done to show the viewers the reality of war. The main thing here was there were no sides just plain facts. Dispite what people say the movie companies are better off get the histroical facts right because that will get more viewers.
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Although I have not seen Saving Private Ryan, from what you are saying, I too believe Davidson and Lytle would agree and consider this movie authentic. It doesnt seem like it was made just for the money, but to convey the "true events" to the best of their knowledge. The movie I saw was very similar to what you described. the killings seemed real and not dramatized and most of the americans weren't dieing heroically (with the exception of one soldier).
I agree with a lot of points you made about Saving Private Ryan. I also enjoyed this movie greatly due to its how real it felt. I'll never forget how amazingly well captured the invasion of Normandy was and how the soldiers were not superheroes but boys with guns. The only real dramatized moment in the movie though, is the death of Tom Hanks. Rather than dying immediately as a normal soldier would, he dies while seemingly blowing up a tank and lives on to talk to Ryan. Other than that, Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece.
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