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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action.
Rodat wrote Saving Private Ryan (1998), [3] The Comrades of Summer (1992), Tall Tale (1995), [4] Fly Away Home with Vince McKewin (1996), [5] and The Patriot (2000). [3] He worked on the revision of the script for the 2008 film 10,000 BC [6] and helped with the story of 2013 film Thor: The Dark World. [3]
Saving Private Ryan is a film heavy on sentimentalism and a desire to show how courageous the 'greatest generation' were - it has a tone that goes beyond telling the story of a small group of men. Some recognition of the tremendous sacrifice of Commonwealth troops and others would not have been impossible to put into the film, even if it was no ...
“I went to the premiere of ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ and Jeffrey Katzenberg comes up to me afterward in the lobby and brings his daughters, who then do the dance sequence from ‘Austin Powers ...
The most disturbing thing about The Patriot is not just that German director Roland Emmerich (director of Independence Day) and his screenwriter Robert Rodat (who was criticized for excluding the roles played by British and other Allied troops in the Normandy landings from his script for Saving Private Ryan) depicted British troops as ...
Hollywood tough guy Tom Sizemore, who won acclaim for "Saving Private Ryan" before his career spiraled amid drug abuse and domestic violence allegations, died Friday, his manager said. He was 61.
The actor, famous for his performances in blockbusters like Saving Private Ryan, Heat and Black Hawk Down, died on Friday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 61 years old. Sizemore's rep, Charles ...
In June 2006, Hanks was inducted as an honorary member of the United States Army Rangers Hall of Fame for his accurate portrayal of a captain in the movie Saving Private Ryan; Hanks, who was unable to attend the induction ceremony, was the first actor