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Saving Private Ryan Image Gallery, Wallpapers & Desktop Themes |
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Real amputees were used for the shots of people with limbs missing.
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Captain Miller: Caparzo, get that kid back up there!
Private Caparzo: Captain, the decent thing to do would be take her over to the next town.
Captain Miller: We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow fucking orders!
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Saving Private Ryan Reviews |
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There is an eerie surrealism as we descend from the gloomy skies over Omaha beach. The redundant waves mercilessly beat upon the transport boats carrying the first wave of American soldiers, each silently staring at their inevitable destiny. Some begin to vomit, a combination of seasickness and fear that can only mean one thing, war. The date is June 6, 1944, otherwise known as D-Day, the single most important battle of the last great war. And as the US LCVP boats finally begin to drop their doors to let the soldiers pour out onto the beach, a cold shock comes over you. You are no longer watching a war film. You have been transported onto those boats, and all the horrors of war that you have only read about suddenly become reality. What ensues is the most ferocious and horrific sequences in all of film history. Bullets rip through the air with wanton lust, tearing apart the first three lines of troops attempting to make it to shore. The camera is jolted as if to suggest that there is nothing anyone can do to stop this madness. German 75mm machine cannons relentlessly bombard the shoreline as rounds tear through the backs of helmets and blow off limbs. This is not Hollywood's glamorization of death, this is death in its truest form. Bodies drop by the hundreds, completely limp upon impact from the bullets. Soldiers lie screaming on the sand with only their hands keeping their insides from falling out. Medics begin treating the wounded and before long, become the wounded. The shore is soaked red in blood, yet the Americans continue on. And for nearly half an hour this onslaught carries forth, until finally, the beach is taken.
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