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How does Steven Spielberg make the opening battle scene to Saving Private Ryan both shocking and realistic?
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How does Steven Spielberg make the opening battle scene to Saving Private Ryan both shocking and realistic? Saving Private Ryan is an epic war film directed by the world-renowned Steven Spielberg. The movie received several awards including five Academy Awards for best cinematography, best director, best effects, best film editing and best sound, it also picked up other prestigious awards. The first twenty-five minutes are a flashback to the storming of Omaha Beach on D-Day. Through his unique uses of proxemics, camera angles, costumes, special effects, editing, sound, colouring, props, events and characters Spielberg has made a shockingly graphic and unflattering war movie. During the visceral first twenty-five minutes Spielberg does his best to de-glamorise and twist our opinions of war, in order to shock us and make the whole experience realistic. When the movie begins we see Private Ryan, years after D-Day, slowly walking through the memorial graveyards,...
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