拯救大兵瑞恩Saving Private Ryan英文影评
Devastating. If, for some reason, I was asked to write a one-word review of Saving Private Ryan, that would be the term I would u. As was true of director Steven Spielberg's other masterpiece, Schindler's List, the impact of this motion picture must be experienced; it cannot be adequately described. No film since last year's The Sweet Hereafter has left such a aring and indelible imprint on my mind and soul. This movie did not need to be relead at the end of the year to be considered for a flood of Oscar nominations; it's so forceful that no one who es it will be able to forget it -- not even Academy members with two-month memory spans.
Saving Private Ryan opens with a 30-minute cinematic tour de force that is without a doubt one of the finest half-hours ever committed to film. This quence, a soldier's-eye view of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, is brilliant not only in terms of technique but in the depth of viewer reaction it generates. It is certainly the most violent, gory, visceral depiction of war that I have ever witnesd on screen. Spielberg spares the viewer nothing of the horrors of
battle, using every tactic at his disposal to convey the chaos and nless waste that lies at the core of any engagement. We are prented with unforgettable, bloody images of bodies being cut to pieces by bullets, limbs blown off, entrails spilling out, and a variety of other assorted examples of carnage. And, when the tide comes in with the waves breaking on the body-strewn beach, the water is crimson. Tho who are at all squeamish will find the opening of孝思不匮Saving Private Ryan unbearable. This aspect of the film almost earned it an NC-17 rating; only the fact that Spielberg rigorously avoids even a hint of exploitation convinced the MPAA to award an R.
In addition to showing what happens when projectiles rip into the soft flesh of the human body, the director employs other methods to capture the esnce of battle - hand-held cameras, a slight speeding up of the images, muted colors, and veral different kinds of film stock. Put it all together, and it adds up to a dizzying, exhausting assault on the ns. As good as the rest of Saving Private Ryan is, and it's very good, the D-Day attack on Omaha Beach is the quence that everyone will remember most clearly.
中国梦内容Most World War II movies fall into one of two categories: heroic tales of glory and valor or biopics (my all-time favorite film, Patton, falls in the latter camp). Saving Private Ryan is neither. Instead, it's a condemnation of war wrapped in a tale of human courage and sacrifice. In many ways, the picture painted by this movie is more grim than the one Oliver Stone prented in Platoon, which has often been cited as the most daring anti-war film to come out of Hollywood. Saving Private Ryan quickly and brutally dispels the notion that war is anything but vicious, demoralizing violence that makes a cruel joke out of the human body and spirit. Although the film is only looly bad on a true incident, it's hard not to accept the characters and events as real.
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Saving Private Ryan begins with a short quence in modern-day France that shows one man visiting a particular grave in the a of white cross that marks the memorial to tho who died liberating the country. From there, the film slips more than five decades back in time, to June 6, 1944. The D-Day invasion at "Bloody Omaha" Beach forms a prologue to the main story. Following the opening half-hour quence, we learn that two of the four Ryan brothers died in this action, while a third perished elwhere. The mother 作文童年趣事
情人节是几号is receiving all three telegrams on the same day. The U.S. army chief of staff, General George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell), is stirred by the grief-stricken woman's plight, and decides to nd a group of men into the French countryside to find and rescue the fourth son, paratrooper Private James Ryan (Matt Damon).
Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), a hero and survivor of the Omaha Beach battle, is chon to lead the team of eight men who goal is, in Miller's words, like finding "a needle in a stack of needles." His hand-picked team includes six men who have rved with him throughout the war and one newcomer: Upham (Jeremy Davies), a French/German/English translator who has never en active combat. Together, they strike out across the French countryside, heading in the general direction of Cherbourg. Along the way, they learn that skirmishes in small towns can be as deadly as the attack on the beach.
There's nothing especially complex about the structure of Saving Private Ryan. The film, which runs nearly three hours, is bookended by two major battle scenes. In between, sm
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aller fights alternate with quiet, character-building moments that flesh out the soldiers, allowing them to escape the threat of stereotyping. Spielberg, along with writer Robert Rodat and the actors, ensures that everyone in the movie is developed into a multi-dimensional individual for whom we can grieve if and when they die. They are "citizen soldiers" -- ordinary men caught in the teeth of extraordinary circumstances. With the exception of a little manipulation at the end (when tears are actually a welcome source of relief from the film's intensity), Saving Private Ryan rigorously avoids toying with our emotions.
Although this is not Tom Hanks' highest-profile role, it is one of his best performances. His portrayal of John Miller is the perfect mix of war-weariness, resignation, and a devotion to duty. The teacher-turned-killer, who has lost 94 men in assorted battles from Africa to France, survives the madness by recalling special memories of his wife pruning ro bushes, while worrying that she will not recognize the husband who returns to her, becau, "With every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel."
The supporting cast is uniformly excellent. Edward Burns' Reiben us cynicism and sarcasm to hide his uncertainty about the validity of his latest mission. Like the others in the group, he isn't sure whether saving one man's life is worth risking eight others. Burns, the actor/director who entered the public's awareness after making The Brothers McMullen, turns in a fine performance. Jeremy Davies (Spanking the Monkey) makes Upham a believable figure who horror at the sudden onslaught of trauma and violence is something almost everyone in the audience will relate to. Matt Damon, who exploded into the spotlight with The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting按摩睾丸, is solid in a role that calls for the character to be as much a symbol as an individual. Finally, perhaps the best condary performance is given by Tom Sizemore (The Relic), who portrayal of Miller's faithful friend and rgeant is vivid and engaging.
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