What techniques have been used to make the opening scenes of Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ emotive and realistic
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What techniques have been used to make the opening scenes of Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan' emotive and realistic? When the film first starts we see an American flag, it is unlike any others from a war film, most war films show the flag to be very glorious, neat, and with bright colours, this flag is different, the colours are de-saturated, it is very faint and worn, it is creased and messy. I think Spielberg has done this to show that his film is unlike most others, it does not show the war being glorious and the soldiers being brave, instead he is going to show the real side of the war, how horrible of a place the war was, and how scared and confused the soldiers were. While the flag is being shown music is being played, it is a brass band playing a military song that is very slow...

