Saving Private Ryan | MOVIE REACTION | First Time Watching
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- This is a re-upload from when we first started the channel. I had to re-cut it for copyright reasons but also we received a lot of feedback from people who didn't appreciate the amount of talking during the film so I did my best to re-cut it in a way that flows much better, I took it from over 52 minutes to just about 34 minutes. I hope you all enjoy
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The mortally wounded soldiers calling for their mamas destroy me EVERY TIME 😭😭😭
Can confirm...the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy is an absolutely incredible place to visit. Personally, I bawled my eyes out several times while I was there...and I hope to be able to go back someday to cry some more. 💯
I don't know if I could handle it but I'd definitely love to see it.
@@firstcityviews You won't think you can handle it...but you do it anyway. It is impossible not to he carried along and sustained in your visit by the courage of the men who are laid to rest there...take my word for it.
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic.
2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down.
3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie.
4. There really was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship. That's why all brother soldiers/sailors from one family can't be assigned to the same command.
5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇
6. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder", a movie I'm in briefly.
I love Tom Sizemore! Wish he would have got a big leading role in something, he could have been much bigger than he was. RIP.
Gotta add Band of Brothers to the watch list. It's Legendary.
They mentioned before they have already watched it, but they haven’t seen the pacific
Definitely going to watch the Pacific, we might do a quick recap of band of brothers where we watch and discuss the best scenes from each episode and try to make them 10 to 15 a piece.
Damn, I think this is the first channel to realize that in the final battle, they are fighting an SS unit. Well done!
I always keep an eye out for the SS on the uniform, that way you know they are actually evil and not just run of the mill soldiers.
Spielberg researched small details, for instance, Pvt Jackson's right thumb has a black mark on it. That's actually a bruise that many U. S. riflemen had caused from getting their thumb caught in the loading mechanism from not locking the bolt back properly when loading/reloading the M1 Garand rifle. It was called "Garand thumb".
The Hitler Youth Knife is more literary liberty than fact. That knife is a hiking knife given to members of the Hitler Youth Corps, which was much like the Boy Scouts in training while being indoctrinated with the ideology of National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi). The only other group they were issued to were members of the SA. This knife was never part of a soldier of the Wehrmacht. As for the reaction of Carparzo and Mellish, it is highly unlikely an average G.I. would have known what that knife was and its symbolism. The matter of Mellish crying is also not likely as the Allies didn't find out about the fate of Jews in Europe until the first concentration camp was liberated April 4, 1945. The war in Europe ended May 7, 1945. So, following the real timeline, Mellish dies before the Allies knew anything about concentration and death camps. But, after-all, it is Hollywood.
Saving Private Ryan is not based on the Sullivan brothers. Fritz Niland became the basis for Private Ryan. He was dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day and spent five days in the French countryside, eventually earning a Bronze star in combat for taking a French. Robert Rodat first came up with the plot in 1994 when he saw a monument in a cemetery in Tonawanda, New York. The monument was to the Niland Brothers - 4 young American men who fought in the Second World War. When three of the Nilands were reported killed, the surviving brother - Fritz - was sent home. This inspired Rodat to write his movie. The average age of a U. S. troops armed forces personnel during WW II was 26 years old. Selective Service draft age range was 18 years of age to 45 years. The average age in Vietnam War was 22, not 19 as any think.
There are 26 military cemeteries across Normandy, but the most famous and visited site is the poignant Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. In real life with the Nilands, it actually turned out later that another of the brothers was alive - he’d been held captive in a Burmese POW camp. Attempts to point out the "discrepancies" between the stories of Fritz Niland and James Ryan are often misguided, as Ryan is only based on Niland, and is not meant to be (or claimed to be) a completely accurate representation of him. The differences in the two stories seem to stem in part from the fact that the true story of Sergeant Niland and his brothers is often reported inaccurately. The character of Private James Ryan is a mixture of fact and fiction, with some of the fictional elements coming from the erroneous stories about the Niland brothers.
The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht. Originally, the SS uniform differed from the Wehrmacht uniform-whereas the regular army wore field grey, the SS wore black, head to toe (although later the SS did adopt field grey and often wore camouflage pattern uniform. American troops were brown and they didn't wear jackboots. The lightning bolt SS insignia can be seen on the right collar lapel of the German as he passes Upham and reaches the bottom of the staircase. During the Battle at Ramelle, Upham became shell shocked and was unable to save a .30 cal team from a German soldier because he was too frozen with fear to do anything about it. He carried all the .30 caliber ammo at the battle of Ramelle, but was unable to do his job because he was always either pinned down or too afraid to move. He signified the loss of innocence in war and thought that soldiers could be civil, but he later succumbed to the evils of war and made up for his cowardice when he shot Steamboat Willie for killing Miller even after the latter had shown Willie mercy earlier.
Not only did Upham represent the loss of innocence of war but he also symbolized the "Every-man". His illusion of neutrality faded when he finally had to pick and side and kill Steamboat Willie, his character revelation being how he finally understood the horrors of war. It became clear that Upham had turned into a hardened and true soldier because of the whole experience. Upham's rank was Tech 5 Corporal (E-5), that meant he was technician in a specialty area. His was maps and translator, he was not a combat infantryman and was never trained for front-line duty. Gunnery Sergent Hartman explained it this way in the movie Full Metal Jacket: "It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill.
"The way the next of kin was notified of their loved one was killed in action during WW II was by Western Union telegram delivered by a bicycle riding messenger. If you were being notified of multiple deaths as was the case in this film, notification was done in-person by a military officer, usually from the same branch of service as the deceased when possible. That's why the mother upon seeing the officer exit the car momentarily froze knowing that meant at least 2 of her boys were either KIA or MIA, as the priest exits the car, she staggers and completely collapsed. Unfortunately, you didn't include that in your video presentation. That is one of the most important scenes in the movie. The mother speaks no lines in the movie, yet her breakdown brought a flood of tears form movie goers in theaters across the nation. Another important scene is it is clear from the few lines Ryan's wife speaks that she has never heard the name of Capt. John Miller, this means John has never spoken to her about what happened that day in Ramelle. What many missed is listening to Ryan speaking at the Miller's grave of how he thought about what those 8 men did for him every day was not guilt, but commitment.
There are units assigned to recover, bury and mark graves. Usually these were temporary battlefield cemeteries. As hostilities moved farther away, a more permanent site would be selected, at the family's request, whenever possible, the remains would be returned to the United States. At the Normandy Cemetery Visitors Center, you'll find the following inscription: IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED … WAS ENOUGH … SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.General Mark W. ClarkChairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969-1984
This movie showed the brutal reality of WWII.
Saving Private Ryan is incredibly realistic in most every way, with a very few exceptions...such as bullets not being able to kill you more than a few inches underwater. One thing to know, pay no mind at all to that man who took off his helmet at 3:06 and then got shot in the head...that next shot would have killed him even if he had kept his helmet on. The helmets of WW2 would almost never stop a bullet, except under very very rare circumstances.
The movie is not a true story, and it differs from the actual history of D-Day in many ways...but the basic plot is loosely based on the 4 Niland Brothers, one of whom served with the 101st Airborne Division. However, when 3 Nilands were reported dead, no mission was sent to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured.
There really was a Company C of the 2nd Rangers that landed on Omaha Beach, but they were commanded by Captain Ralph Goranson, and they did not land quite where it was shown in the film. Probably the most important historical thing that Spielberg got wrong is that he had the boats that carried the Rangers to the beach being driven by Americans...they were not. On D-Day, the boats that carried the US Rangers to the beach were driven by UK sailors of the Royal Navy. There are many other things in the film that are not accurate to the real history of D-Day, but that one really fails to honor some of the men that fought and died at Omaha Beach, so it is definitely the one most worth noting.✌
Thanks so much for that information. Important to set things straight! Huge thanks and respect to ALL WW2 veterans 🤝🏻👏🏻 😔
Me and my dad was same regiment in Airborne unit..my dad invovled in 2nd world war and i was been 4th times tours Afghanistan and Iraq..To all mens and women who served to their country,Thank you for your Service
"Earn this......." spoken to Ryan, but meant for all of us. The Greatest Generation indeed.
Absolutely!
This movie starts and ends in a military cemetery. This particular cemetery (in this movie) is in Normandy, France, on the cliffs near the landing beaches for the D-Day invasion. It contains 9,800+ graves for American soldiers from the invasion beaches and fights for the cliffs. Sadly, there are two more cemeteries there, just as big. In total, approximately 30,000 allied soldiers died that day.
In America, we just had Memorial Day for our soldiers that didn't make it back home......NEVER forget what they did for us. Remember their, "So costly a sacrifice laid upon the altar of freedom."
I have a respect like nothing else for the soldiers that fought and still fight for us, God bless every one of them.
Some shooters call the thing done by the sniper adjusting for windage, which corrects the bullet trajectory.
Thanks, even though I'm from Alaska I'm pretty pathetic when it comes to gun knowledge.
"I wish I knew more about guns to know what he was doing there" -- he's adjusting the "zero" of the scope, which means he's adjusting how the absolute center of your view through the scope translates to where the bullet actually lands. Since the bullet drops over distance and is also affected by wind, "aiming" with your scope actually needs to be adjusted based on distance.
thanks!
un-fun fact: the military advisor for the movie, Dale Dye, put microphones in pieces of animal meat and shot them to accurately produce the sound of bullets hitting flesh 🙃
I've heard they went to great lengths record all new sound FX for this movie. The audio school I went to said it was before digital audio was big so it was all done on a bunch of reel to reel tape machines and they had to wire several huge recording consoles together to handle all the tracks.
@@firstcityviews another un-fun fact is that the two soldiers that were killed by the Americans at the start of the movie were czech conscripts forced to fight for the nazis 🙃
The American Sniper adjusting the scope was most likely adjusting the range to "center" his shot for the appropriate distance
These channels tend to block scenes of gore. This is history. It needs showing. This is why we are all here now.
Too much gore gets your video demonized, which also makes it so no one sees your video. If you have a problem with it, complain to RUclips, not the reactors.
the guy that let him go on the stairs is the guy he let go in the field
It's not, I made a short about how people get them confused, totally different guy, they do look similar though
Thanks, i didnt notice the difference@@firstcityviews
@@kempcjc51 The guy who was let go was in the Wehrmacht (the army of Nazi Germany), the German who killed Mellish was in the Waffen SS (a para-military organization).
Jackson (the sniper) didn't "murder" someone after he quoted scripture, he was doing his duty as a soldier in a completely justified war.
I was just using colorful language to make my point have more impact, sorry if you're offended.
@@firstcityviews Hey, I appreciate it. Thanks for clarifying.
@@alanberg5575 I'm a big fan of the channel Red Letter Media and Mike constantly describes any type of kill as a murder just because it sounds funny so I'm basically ripping him off LOL.
Not according to Jesus.
He didn't kill him because he saved his life earlier when the others wanted to kill him
That's not the same soldier, I made a whole video on how everyone gets those guys confused.
ruclips.net/video/2DnOK4ny2j4/видео.html
The German who was set free was a soldier of the Wehrmacht (regular army), the soldier who killed Mellish was a member of the Waffen SS. They are wearing different uniforms and the SS thunderbolts are clearly visible on the German who kills Mellish when he gets to the bottom of the stairs and looks around before going out into the open.
The spot you said you wish you knew more about guns so you'd know what he was doing, That is a sniper rifle he was adjusting the scope for distance and drop to get the German sniper.
Was he adjusting the zoom or is it something else?
@@firstcityviews He was adjusting for range, which makes the bullet drop, so he was raising the scope a little bit. He also adjusted for the windage by moving the sight a little bit left or right.
Can you please do we were soilders next and act of valor abother time
We've seen We were soldiers but it's been YEARS, never seen Act of Valor, will definitely look into it!
@@firstcityviews act of valor should be done not much ppl react to it fun fact active duty seals were the leads
Gentle reminder, this is a fictional movie about fictional people doing fictional things. Gi joe didn't wipe out a platoon of ss tigers with his dirty socks.
No way! I thought this was made by a time traveling documentary filmmaker!!!
@@firstcityviews nope, made by lazy hollywood types with zero respect for allied.forces.
I like your Reaction Video very much!
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Thank you so much! We appreciate you!
@@firstcityviews You're welcome!😊
Funny connection to band of brothers but the real story that SPR is loosely based off is of sgt.James Niland who was a member of the 501st of the 101st who was friends with muck and malarkey
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niland_brothers
I knew about Niland but I didn't know he was buddies with Muck and Malarkey! That's amazing!
@@firstcityviews small world right? And the fact his story ends alittle happier with his older brother being alive