[FILM] Saving Private Ryan

Beach landing scenes were so visceral!

“Earn this.” 🪖
— Captain John H. Miller, Saving Private Ryan (1998)

“This Ryan better be worth it,” one of the Miller's man grumbles.

Standing atop the dunes at Normandy ( I've been countless times), it really brings it home to you just what an achievement it was to get anyone off the beaches in the first place.

Of course, most if not all of the allied troops had no idea what really faced them until they were in the thick of it.......what an assault on the senses that must have been, and so immediate too..... no real time to gather your senses, just pure survival instinct.

Steve

I'm transcribing what I read:
"The German "Tiger I" tanks that appear in the film Saving Private Ryan are actually replicas built on the chassis of Soviet T-34 tanks, modified to resemble the Nazi vehicle. Two of these modified T-34s were used for the battle scenes, including the final confrontation on the bridge.
Fake Tiger Is: Due to the lack of real, operational Tiger I tanks (only one exists, at the Bovington Tank Museum in England), the production modified post-war Soviet T-34/85 tanks for the film.
The replicas can be distinguished from the originals by their wheel and track configuration, typical of the T-34.
These vehicles appeared in key scenes such as the Battle of Ramelle at the end of the film.
The use of these replicas was a technical and production decision to recreate the battle realistically without risking or using priceless historical artifacts".

“Every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.”
— Captain John H. Miller, Saving Private Ryan (1998)

“...He’d better go home and cure some disease or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.”
— Captain John H. Miller, Saving Private Ryan (1998)