A Film Review of Saving Private Ryan

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The Ultimate Sacrifice: Saving Private Ryan Written by: Wyatt Weppler CHA 3UI - 01 2012 Winning 5 Academy Awards, Saving Private Ryan is one of the great American World War II stories of the ultimate sacrifice to find one brother and bring him home. Directed by Steven Spielberg, winner of best director, Saving Private Ryan is the story of how Private James Ryan lost all three of his brothers in a span of a week. The film starts off with an older man walking through an American cemetery in France. The scene then shifts to World War II and the landing on Omaha Beach June 6th, 1944 or D-Day. Captain John Miller is leading Company C, or Charlie Company, of the 2nd Ranger Division onto Dog Green Sector of Omaha beach. Suffering heavy casualties, the Company eventually neutralizes the German defenses and sets up camp. Next, we see the United States Chief of Staff, General George Marshall, where he is informed of the Ryan brothers and how three have them already been lost in the past week. He then sends out orders to find Private James Ryan, which are passed to Capt. Miller who assembles a squad to find him. In this squad are members of his 2nd Rangers, Technical Sargent Horvath, Private Reiben, Private Jackson, Private Mellish, Medic Wade and Private Caparzo, and a clerk, Corporal Upham, who is fluent in German and French. The squad then sets out for Neuville. Upon arrival, a sniper shoots Private Caparzo when he is trying to save a young child. Unable to assist because of the danger, the Rangers watch him die seconds before Private Jackson eliminates the threat. When the rest of the squad reaches the other side, they find a Private James Fredrick Ryan, the wrong man. The team then sets off to find the rally point of Private Ryan’s Paratrooper squad but when they get there they learn that Private Ryan has gone with a small squad to protect a bridge in the town of

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