The soldier James Ryan
| Movie | |
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| German title | The soldier James Ryan |
| Original title | Saving Private Ryan |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 169 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| script | Robert Rodat |
| production | Steven Spielberg. Ian Bryce . Mark Gordon . Gary Levinsohn |
| music | John Williams |
| camera | Janusz Kamiński |
| cut | Michael Kahn |
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The Saving Private Ryan (original title: Saving Private Ryan ) is a multi-award-winning American war film by the American director Steven Spielberg from 1998. The film opened on October 8, 1998 in German cinemas. Private is the rank of the common soldier, in the US armed forces Pvt for short. The main storyline is based on a true story: Two of the four Niland brothers were killed during the invasion of Normandy and the third, a bomber pilot, was missing (and due to the circumstances also thought to be dead). In order not to have to give her mother a fourth news of her death, the US Army started an evacuation mission to rescue the supposedly only living son Frederic "Fritz" Niland (name in the film: James Francis Ryan). That being said, the details of the plot and the characters in the film are fictitious. The staging of the horror of war is considered to be a style-forming element and has a lasting influence on the cinematic representation of wars.
The soldier James Ryan offers a film version of the landing of the Allies in Normandy on " D-Day ", June 6, 1944. While the landing on all other beaches was well prepared for artillery and air raids and was largely calm, it happened on the Omaha Beach section shown in the film to a disaster for the Allies. In this part of the " Fortress Europe ", which was well secured by the Wehrmacht , the German fortifications and armed forces remained largely unscathed and were able to offer violent counterfire, to which the US infantrymen on the beach were exposed. Numerous landing craft full of soldiers were completely shot down when disembarking or a few seconds afterwards. In addition, the support from the buoyant Sherman DD tanks did not get through to the beach, as ocean currents prevented this.
action
The film begins with the American war veteran James Ryan visiting the military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer with his family and remembering what happened during the Second World War . The further action is presented in the form of a single flashback.
The flashback begins with the invasion of the Allies in Normandy on June 6, 1944 , at the Army Rangers unit of Captain Miller participates. In the carnage on Omaha Beach , Miller manages to lead the majority of his men from the beach to the embankment that offers cover. Once there, Miller has to find out that he is the most senior officer still alive on the beach. He formed the dispersed troops and, under his command, succeeded in eliminating the German defensive positions. After the battle, the camera pans to one of the thousands of fallen soldiers on the beach who has the name "Ryan" on his backpack. This transition leads to the military administration in the USA. There one becomes aware of the fate of the Ryan family when it is discovered that two of the Ryan brothers who served in the US Army died in Normandy . The third brother was previously a week in Guinea in fighting the Japanese like. Of the four brothers, James Francis Ryan is now the last to be alive. Because of this great loss to the family, the General Staff, acting on the direction of General George C. Marshall , decides that James should be brought back home to relieve his mother's suffering.
Captain Miller receives the special order to evacuate Ryan and puts together an eight-man task force to find him. He draws on the best soldiers in his unit: Technical Sergeant Horvath (as his deputy), Private Reiben ( machine gunner ), Private Jackson ( sniper ), Private Caparzo (shooter), Private Mellish (shooter) and 4th Grade Technician Wade ( medic ). Since an interpreter is needed who can communicate with the Germans and the French population, Miller also brings the inexperienced cartographer 5th Grade Technician Upham into the team.
According to Millers, Ryan is one of the paratroopers who landed scattered behind enemy lines in Normandy.
Arrived in a small French town, a resident tries to entrust his child to the soldier Caparzo. Caparzo is shot by a German sniper and remains lying on the street. Since the sniper is just waiting for more soldiers to run into his field of fire to help the injured, nobody can get him out of the danger zone. When the American sniper Private Jackson fatally hits the German through his visor, Caparzo, lying on the ground, is already dead.
When a wall collapsed, Miller's group suddenly found themselves facing some German soldiers in a shed. When both groups call each other to surrender with guns drawn, other American GIs suddenly leave their cover in a house opposite and open fire on the Germans, killing them. The commander of this unit states that there is a soldier named Ryan among them. It quickly becomes clear, however, that this is not the soldier he is looking for, as his brothers are not yet of conscription age.
Miller's squad then moves on through the rural regions of Normandy, where paratroopers were previously dropped. They meet a German machine gun position. After a brief planning, they storm the position and kill all but one of the soldiers. The medic Wade is hit by several bullets and dies under the helpless hands of his comrades, who have no medical knowledge. Out of anger, the rest of the squad want to shoot the resulting soldier . Upham advises that combatants who surrender should be treated as prisoners of war and should not be killed. Captain Miller decides to send the soldier away. He should surrender to the next Allied unit he encounters. The group then questions the entire mission, as two men have already fallen looking for Ryan and you don't even know whether he is still alive. Rubbing in particular is so upset that he is about to desert and Sergeant Horvath threatens to shoot him because of it. Miller can defuse the tense situation and rub remains with the troops.
They find the wanted Ryan when they take cover from a German exploratory troop with an armored personnel carrier, which is suddenly ambushed by Ryan and two other paratroopers. Together they destroy the German half-track vehicle and shoot all the disembarking soldiers in a short firefight.
Ryan and his handful of comrades are weakly armed and have orders to defend a mutually important bridge in the village of Ramelle against an expected advance by the Germans. He therefore refuses to leave his comrades in shock at the news of the death of his brothers. So Miller decides to help defend the bridge with his men and only then to take Ryan home with him.
As the highest-ranking soldiers, Captain Miller and Sergeant Horvath take command and, thanks to their combat experience and a lot of improvisation, they manage to set up an effective defense plan for the bridge: The enemy infantry is to be repulsed with two tactically cleverly placed machine guns and several mobile rifle squads. Self-made sticky bombs and incendiary bottles as well as a bazooka are available for the anti-tank defense. The bridge will be equipped with explosives in order to destroy it if it can no longer be held.
Shortly afterwards, the Germans moved into the city in massive numbers, supported by several battle and armored personnel carriers. The Americans can take advantage of the element of surprise and attack from an ambush, but in the course of the ensuing battle all GIs except Miller, Upham, Reiben and Ryan are killed. Since the bridge can no longer be held, it should be blown up from the safe side. Upham watches as Captain Miller is shot while retreating by the German soldier whom the group had recently let go at the machine-gun position. In the meantime, the former had rejoined a German unit instead of surrendering to the Allies.
When American air support and tank units arrive at the last minute, the remaining Germans withdraw and the bridge can still be held. Upham now confronts the previously spared German soldier and shoots him when he tries to surrender again. Lying dying, Miller challenges James Ryan to make something special of his life and prove he was worth the action.
At the end the film makes a time jump back into the present. Ryan salutes in front of the captain's grave and gets his wife to confirm that he has actually made something special out of his life and that he was a good person. His wife takes a few steps to the family, he remains alone in front of the grave.
History of origin
script
Screenwriter Robert Rodat was reading a lot about D-Day around the time Saving Private Ryan was written and the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy landing. He imagined that it would be very bad to lose a son in such an event, but it would be even worse if several sons lost their lives in the process. The fate of the Niland brothers provided additional inspiration . Within a short time, one of the four brothers was reported missing, and two more died in Normandy. Due to the Sole Survivor Policy , the supposed last living brother was sent home.
Mutual Film Company's producers Mark Gordon and Gary Levinson , whom Rodat presented with the original concept of the story, loved it.
Audition
The preferred candidate for the role of Captain Miller was two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks . In previous years, Hanks had won Gump Academy Awards for his roles in the films Philadelphia and Forrest , and had established himself as an actor of serious roles, especially with the role of the AIDS sufferer Andrew Beckett. What appealed to him most about the book was that the focus was not on tactical maneuvers, but on human experiences.
Tom Sizemore , who previously u. a. starred in Natural Born Killers , was given the role of Sergeant Horvath. The role of James Francis Ryan to be found was given to Matt Damon , who a year earlier had won the screenplay Oscar with Good Will Hunting together with fellow actor Ben Affleck .
Steven Spielberg was scheduled for the director's post . Spielberg had had numerous successes in recent years with films such as Jaws , ET - The Extra-Terrestrial , Jurassic Park and the Indiana Jones series and was awarded the Oscar for Best Director in 1994 for his film Schindler's List . Spielberg, who has an affinity for films set in the 1930s and 1940s, was intrigued by the script: “The job was mostly about saving someone for a good reason. That was what attracted me to the story. "
The role of private Adrian Caparzo was given to Vin Diesel after he wrote Spielberg a three-page letter in which he described his admiration for Spielberg's work, especially Schindler's List. Spielberg had already become aware of him through Diesel's self-made and self-produced short film Multi-Facial , which was shown at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival .
Til Schweiger was initially intended for the role of a German compatriot, but he declined because he basically did not want to play Nazis. Eventually the role was given to Joerg Stadler .
Locations
A location had to be found for the first part of the film, which shows the invasion of the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. The historic beaches of Omaha Beach could not be used because they are historical monuments and have been expanded over the years so that they no longer resemble those of 1944. After the location scouts had searched for weeks in France , England and Ireland , they found what they were looking for in County Wexford, Ireland . A stretch of beach near Ballinesker seemed suitable to them. The person responsible for the production, Tom Sanders, started building German bunkers and filled the beach with Czech hedgehogs .
After the invasion scene was shot in Ireland, the focus of work was shifted to England. A decommissioned British Aerospace facility about 45 minutes north of London acted as the main location for filming. While the buildings were being used as offices and workshops, Tom Sanders and his team built a bombed-out French village on a 1: 1 scale on the nearby meadows.
Filming
Before filming began, the leading actors had to endure ten days of basic military training. The former captain of the US Marines Dale Dye and the employees of his company Warriors Inc. took over the management. Dale Dye trained her in weapon drill , hand-to-hand combat , individual maneuvers and tactics. They also learned the military language and hand signals that were common during World War II . He only ever called them by the last name of their characters to be played in the film. Dye made them eat canned food, shot them with blank cartridges, hit them, and camped them out in the wild to get them used to being a soldier. The actor Edward Burns said in retrospect of this "basic training": "It was the worst experience of my life."
Spielberg initially wanted to hire soldiers from the British Army as extras . His demand for a thousand soldiers, however, seemed excessive to the military. Finally, the Irish military agreed to deploy soldiers as extras. Many of them had experience in the film business, having been used in Mel Gibson's film Braveheart a few years earlier .
Spielberg attached great importance to a realistic representation during the shooting. In order to make the whole thing look more realistic, he did without previously prepared storyboards and preferred to use handheld cameras to create the impression of a documentary film .
Others
- The word Fubar is often used.
- Dialogue: Pvt. Rub: Even if you think the mission's FUBAR, Captain? Capt. Miller: "Especially if you think the mission's FUBAR." Corp. Upham: “What's FUBAR?” (German: Dialog: Pvt. Reiben: “Even if you think the mission is FUBAR, Captain?” Capt. Miller: “Especially if you think the mission is FUBAR”. Corp Upham: “ What is FUBAR? ")
- In 2014 the film was included in the National Film Registry .
synchronization
The German synchronization was at Think Global Media in Berlin , after a dialogue book by Alexander lion and the dialogue director of Frank Schaff .
Reviews
“Steven Spielberg's film paints a merciless picture of the fighting and impresses with its strict refusal to portray war as a place of human probation. Apart from an unnecessarily pathetic framing story, Spielberg used the great skill of all those involved to create a realistic environment that takes on an almost documentary character. The script cannot contribute the intellectual dimension that the film deserves, but the consistent and harrowing reconstruction of the war as a terrible image of collective death gives the film a high humanitarian status. "
“The long opening sequence of the landing of the first American soldiers on the shores of France is one of the most impressive war scenarios in film history. It is not so much the technical brilliance, but the construction of this scene from the perspective of the individual soldiers [...] The pictures, shot mostly with the hand-held camera, give us an approximate picture of the impression the soldiers might have felt: chaos. In these moments [...] there is nothing more than death and for every single Russian roulette in an uncontrollable, apocalyptic extent that cannot be mastered with words. "
“Was it like dying on Omaha Beach? It wasn't like that. [...] But you won't get much closer to the events on 'D-Day' than Spielberg. "
“The film begins and ends with the American flag filling the screen, because what Spielberg shows us is a just, all-American war against evil [...] Allied allies do not appear at all, the enemies, in this case Germans, only as stereotypes Subhumans. [...] At Spielberg, war is a given and the question of what to do is always easy to answer. The job is difficult, but fair, the more heroic and soldier you are, the better you can do it. Fears and sad looks are definitely allowed, as Tom Hanks demonstrates as an over-hero, just not doubt, cowardice, disobedience or even desertion. [...] Landscapes, triumphant long shots of the victorious American fleet, kitsched music to awaken the highest patriotic and moral feelings, all these clumsiness stand in an almost painful contrast to the power and force of the battle scenes [...] amazing [...] that this contrast of many people it is not noticed that they fail to recognize that a cineastically ingenious, but at best politically naive director uses his talents to formulate a thoroughly ideological message. On closer inspection, “Saving Private Ryan” is never an anti-war film. If you feel like going to war, you should simply be morally privileged, then torn off limbs and bulging viscera are okay, those of the enemy anyway. "
“President Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke of the 'Great Crusade' against the evil of the world; the fight against the Nazis and Japan is still called 'The Big One' in American usage today or even, reverently: 'The Last Good War'. The director is on the safe side of the righteous when he shows the bravery of the soldiers. He does not have to question the basic requirements for armed conflict, [...] "
“The military state of emergency has taken the place of the personal antagonist. As a result, the cross-border struggle for good / bad and right / wrong [...] hardly has any place here: it is exchanged for the question of meaning or insanity. But in contrast to Fuller's war films [...] Saving Private Ryan shies away from the futility that primarily spoke from the Omaha Beach sequence. "
Awards
- Best camera - Janusz Kaminski
- Best Director - Steven Spielberg
- Best editing - Michael Kahn
- Best note - Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Ronald Judkins
- Best sound effects editing - Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns
and nominated for
- Best make-up - Lois Burwell , Conor O'Sullivan, Daniel C. Striepeke
- Best music - John Williams
- Best Picture - Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn, Producers
- Best Actor - Tom Hanks
- Best Original Screenplay - Robert Rodat
- Best Production Design - Tom Sanders; Set Decoration: Lisa Dean Kavanaugh
and nominated for
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.
TV Shows
Because of the success of Saving Private Ryan , Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced a ten-part miniseries for pay-TV channel HBO called the Band of Brothers , which aired in 2001. This was followed in 2010 by another miniseries about World War II in the Pacific called The Pacific .
Protection of minors
The film is released in Germany from the age of 16, so it may not be broadcast on television until 10 p.m. ProSieben shortened the film by 7 minutes and submitted it in the shortened version to the voluntary self-control television for review on March 21, 2001 so that it could be broadcast from 8 p.m. This approved the abbreviated version, whereupon ProSieben applied for an exemption under Section 3 (7) sentence 1 RStV at the responsible media authority in Berlin-Brandenburg . The broadcaster was then refused to broadcast before 10 p.m., as the media authority Berlin-Brandenburg still saw a risk of impairment for young people under the age of 16 despite the shortened version.
See also
Web links
- Saving Private Ryan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Saving Private Ryan at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Saving Private Ryan at Metacritic (English)
- Saving Private Ryan in the online movie database
- Saving Private Ryan in the German dubbing file
- Encyclopedia of the film (English)
- David Walsh : Film Review
- Comparison of the versions cable 1 from 12 - FSK 16 from Saving Private Ryan at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Production notes on the Saving Private Ryan bonus DVD
- ↑ a b Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan, Making of on the bonus DVD
- ↑ Vin Diesel. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Multi-Facial. Short of the week.
- ↑ Actor Til Schweiger has turned down a role in a Steven Spielberg film
- ^ Filming locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Susan King: 25 titles added to National Film Registry , Los Angeles Times online, December 17, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014
- ↑ a b Saving Private Ryan. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Saving Private Ryan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ulrich Behrens: Saving Private Ryan. Criticism. In: filmering.at. Goldbach Audience, September 30, 2008, archived from the original on March 31, 2011 ; accessed on March 31, 2011 .
- ↑ Andreas Kilb: Death on Omaha Beach. Steven Spielberg defeats World War II in the cinema: “Saving Private Ryan” . In: Die Zeit , No. 33/1998
- ^ Björn Vosgerau: Saving Private Ryan. In: filmzentrale.com. Andreas Thomas, archived from the original on March 31, 2011 ; accessed on March 31, 2011 .
- ↑ Saint Steven's Great Crusade . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1998, pp. 210 ff . ( online ).
- ^ Jan Distelmeyer: Saving Private Ryan. Andreas Thomas. In: filmzentrale.com. Andreas Thomas, archived from the original on March 31, 2011 ; accessed on March 31, 2011 (published in epd film 10/98).
- ↑ fbw-filmbeval.com: Saving Private Ryan
- ↑ Roland Bornemann: The soldier James Ryan and the protection of minors. Comment on VG Berlin, judgment of June 27, 2002 - VG 27 A 398/01. In: Communication & Law. September 2002, pp. 474-477 and pp. 499-504.