一、整体把握
Before watching the movie,think about the following questions.And here are some uful materials on this movie,click to download it.
1. Review the history of the cond world war.What is the position of America in fighting with the Fascist countries?
2.Take family for example,what is the influence of the war?Do you think why human warring?Express your idea after you watching this film.
二、选段分析
Scene 1: General George Marshall parallels the dissicult situation of Private Ryan with a letter from the Civil war written by President Abraham Lincoln. |
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Gen.Marshall: I have a written a long time ago to a Mrs Bixby in Boston. So bear with me. “Dear Madam. I have been shown in the files of the War Department a state
ment -of the Adjutant General of Massachutts -'that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine that would attempt to beguile you from the grief' -of a loss but I can't refrain from tendering the consolation that may be found -in the thanks of the republic they died to save. May our Heavenly Father assuage the anguish of your bereavement -and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost -and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid such a sacrifice -upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, -Abraham Lincoln.”
That boy is alive. We are going to nd somebody to find him. And we are going to get him the hell out of there.
Task 1:Fill in the blanks of the scene
【Missing Words from the Scene】
bear with me
in the files of
in the thanks of
the hell out of there
Task 2:Language Notes
beguile 分散注意力 | grief 悲痛 | assuage 减轻痛苦 |
anguish 极度的痛苦 | bereavement 丧亲 | |
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【Beautiful Sentences】
1. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine that would attempt to beguile you from the grief' -of a loss
你受到这么大的打击，我再怎么安慰也无济于事。
Scene 2: Medic Wade reflects to his sleepless friends on his detached and awkward relationship with his mother back home when he was a kid. |
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Medic Wade: Well,actually the trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. Sergeant Horvath: How is that, Wade? Medic Wade: When my mother was an intern she ud to work through the night -and sleep through the day. The only time we talked was when she'd get home. I ud to lie in bed and stay awake as long as I could, but it never worked -becau the harder I tried the faster I'd fall asleep. That wouldn't have mattered in my hou. Ma would've come home, -shook me awake, chatted me up 'til dawn. She was never too tired to talk. That's probably the only time she could get a word in. Funny thing is, sometimes she would come home early -and I'd pretend to be asleep. Sergeant Horvath: Who, your mum? Medic Wade: Yeah. She'd stand in the doorway looking at me, -and I would just keep my eyes shut. And I knew that she just wanted to find out about my day, that she came home early just to talk to me. And I still wouldn't move. I'd still pretend to be asleep. I don't know why I did that. Task 1:Fill in the blanks of the scene 【Missing Words from the Scene】 lie in bed and stay awake the harder I tried the faster I'd fall asleep too tired to talk pretend to be asleep find out about my day why I did that Task 2: Language Notes |
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【Beautiful Sentences】
1. Actually the trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake. 倒头就睡的窍门就是努力不睡
Scene 3: Amidst the horror of World War Ⅱ,Captain Miller reflects upon his company’s unique mission in this brilliant Sielberg film. |
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Captain Miller: What's the pool on me up to right now? What's it up to? What is it? dollars, is that it? I'm a schoolteacher. I teach in this little town called Addley, Pennsylvania. In the last years, I've been at Thomas Alva Edison High School. I was the coach of the baball team in the springtime. I'll be doggone. Back home, when I tell people what I do for a living -they think, 'Well, that figures. But over here, a big, big mystery. So, I guess I've changed some. Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much my wife is even going to recogni me whenever I get back an
d how I'll ever be tell her about days like today. I don't know anything about Ryan. I don't care. He means nothing to me, it's just a name, but if going to Ramelle and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, hen that's my mission. You want to leave? You want to go off and fight the war? Alright.Alright, I won't stop you. I'll even put in the paperwork. I just know that with every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.
Task 1:Fill in the blanks of the scene
【Missing Words from the Scene】
the pool on me up to
up to
the coach of the baball team
that figures
He means nothing to me
that's my mission
the farther away from home I feel
Task 2:Language Notes
pool 赌注 | Addley 美国宾州的一个小城 | Ramelle 一个地名,Miller上尉要率众人去找瑞恩的地方 |
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【Beautiful Sentences】
1. Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much my wife is even going to recogni me whenever I get back
有时候我想是不是连我太太都不认得我。
2. I just know that with every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.
我只知道，我们每杀一个人，就离家越远。
Scene 4: Sergeant Horvath stuggles with the decision made about their mission: there is more ,much more to it now than they expected or wanted. |
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Captain Miller: What do you think?
Sergeant Horvath: You don't want to know what I think.
Captain Miller: No, Mike, I do.
Sergeant Horvath: Part of me thinks the kid's right.He askes what he’s done to derve this? If he wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home.
Captain Miller: Yeah.
Sergeant Horvath: But another part of me thinks,'What if by some miracle we stay and actually make it out of here? Some day we might look back on this and decide that saving
Private Ryan was the one decent thing we pulled out of this whole godawful, shitty mess. That's what I was thinking, sir. Like you said, Captain. We do that, we all earn the right to go home.
Task 1:Fill in the blanks of the scene
【Missing Words from the Scene】
derve this
some miracle
look back on this
the one decent thing
Task 2: Language Notes
miracle 奇迹 | decent 正派的;合符礼仪的 | |
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【Beautiful Sentences】
1. We do that, we all earn the right to go home.
救出他我们就可以回家。
Scene 5: Jame Ryan remenbers the last time all of his brothers were together.The other three have died in the war. |
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Ryan: I can't e my brothers' faces. I've been trying and I can't e their faces at all. Has that happened to you?
