Steven Spielberg 's Classic Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 movie directed by Steven Spielberg about World War II Invasion of Normandy. This film, was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won many other awards among the cast, picture, and so forth. Spielberg did a great job on getting a lot of things correct to what happened in real life. Although, the movie isn’t entirely correct with certain scenes and topics.

Private Ryan status of where he is being stationed is unknown, for this mission Captain Miller picks seven men for this formidable mission. Along the way the squadron unfortunately loses two men in a small fight against a group of Germans. Eventually, thought their costly journey they find Private Ryan dug in with his unit and awaiting a German counterattack. Ryan refuses to leaves his comrades and Miller agrees alongside with his remaining squad to fight as well. The Germans overwhelms them with many soldiers and unfortunately Captain Miller and majority of his squad is killed. However, Private Ryan survives and is able to go back home. In the end our beloved Private Ryan is able to return home but we lost great soldiers such as Captain Miller whose grave was seen in the beginning and end of the film, which of course Ryan visited after years of the war. This movie was truly a gift to be able to see what people who dedicate their lives for to help keep us safe have to go through. The visuals and emotional scenes made it even better making this a 5 star film in my opinion. Anyone who truly want to know what a veteran or soldier has to go

Saving Private Ryan is a movie that generates strong responses from most people that see it. While interviewing four individuals and reading three movie reviews, I found that each of my subjects would recommend it, not one of the individuals interviewed felt the violence was senseless, and all of them left the movie with a strong emotional response of some kind. It appears that Saving Private Ryan is the kind of movie to which many can relate.

The film Saving Private Ryan, is about a United States Army Captain (CPT) and his chosen squad that are tasked with locating and recovering Private (PVT) Ryan, after the news of his three brothers’ deaths reaches the Army. The CPT chooses a few specific men to aid him with this mission.

After reviewing the discussion of genre in Chapter 8 of Film: From Watching to Seeing, demonstrate your understanding of one selected genre using a feature-length film.

Saving Private Ryan is a theatrical masterpiece that incorporates many universal themes that almost all people can relate to. The movie follows a squad of U.S. soldiers as they battle through the trenches of World War II. Directed by the great Stephen Spielberg, the movie is claimed by many to be the most accurate presentation of war in any movie to date. The movie includes several themes that helps captivate the audience and truly help people understand just how horrible war is. The idea of losing loved ones frightens even the toughest of us, and being lost in a foreign land scares many others. Both of these themes are thoroughly explored and propelled onto the audience to experience. The extremely accurate depiction of war, the universal themes that everyone can relate to, and the film being a theatrical masterpiece are all reasons why everyone should watch Saving Private Ryan.

With the large variety of interests that flourish within the society, it is no shock that genres exist, especially in film, as the definition of entertainment differs from person to person. A genre is a category of films that are characterised by similarities in the narrative elements and conventions found within the films. Genres are extremely useful to both film producers and audiences as it helps them narrow down the target audience and search for films that are in their range of interests. No one wants to watch a political drama overrun with teenagers or go into a cinema with the intentions of watching a romantic comedy, only to receive blood and gore instead.

Saving Private Ryan gives a harrowing look into the lives and deaths of soldiers in WW2. It shows the comradery of the men who hit the Germans head on in a full-scale invasion of Europe.

Saving Private Ryan has been a huge commercial success since its release in 1998. According to Boxofficemojo.com, Saving Private Ryan’s worldwide gross is $481,840,909 with over half that just from the domestic US market alone. Not only was this film a financial success, it is also critically acclaimed. The film has won 79 awards; five of those are Oscars, and another 62 nominations for just about every category that there is to be nominated for. More recently Saving Private Ryan was awarded a place on the National Film Presentation Board in 2014. (IMDB)

The producers will develop a test and the audience will tell the producers whether it is something they want to see or they are not going to see. This can affect the next text to be produced in an attempt to conform to the audience demands. Looking at the development of different types of genres and the development of films within the same genre, it’s possible to look at similarities and differences and identify changes in society and audience ideologies and tastes.

A haziness exists when classifying the genre of a film, as they are often determined and shaped by the film industry, scholars, advertisement, merchandise, and audience members with various opinions. Genres are classified by examining elements that are repeated in other films of the same genre, including reoccurring themes, plots, characters, and emotional responses. As Professor McHugh explained in lecture, “genre is a process” as it “is always unfolding and changing depending on audiences’ expectations and what directors want to create.” Because of the evolving haziness and subjectivity that accompanies genre classification and the director’s choice to add various elements from differing genres, many movies are considered to be a hybrid of genres: a “combinations of specific and distinct generic components” (Neale, 2003). Amy Heckerling’s 1995 film, Clueless, is primarily a comedy, more specifically it falls under the subgenre of a romantic comedy. However, Clueless also falls under the teenage film category, as the main character and most of the other characters are teenagers navigating teenage problems like first love and rebellion with a coming-of-age ambiance. This modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma follows, Cher, a sixteen-year-old girl with influence and an aptitude for matchmaking in her Beverly Hills high school. The film amusingly explores Cher’s luxurious lifestyle, friendships, and love life through comedy, romance, and teenage tendencies.

Genre theory is used to study films and put them into a classification so that audiences know what type of film it is before they see it. Genres are categories based on the story of the film, sometimes the actors and actresses, or even the directors. All films fall under a genre or sub-genre category. Romantic Comedy is an example of a genre which is light-hearted, humorous story involving people in love, sometimes overlapping with subgenres such as screwball comedy teen comedy, or gross-out comedy. ( Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014, table 4.1). This paper will focus on the romantic comedy genre and movie Rocky. It will take a better look at the specific conventions of this genre and how this movie fits the gangster genre.

The movie, Saving Private Ryan, is a movie that is based around the time of WWII. The movie is about a captain named John Miller taking his men behind enemy lines to find a man named James Ryan. Ryan’s three brothers had been killed in combat already, and in the search for Ryan, this movie shows the many difficulties and struggles that the searching soldiers had to face. Throughout the movie, it displays the different struggles that each man faces and their victory through each obstacle.

Throughout the history of motion pictures, the industry has produced a vast number and variety of films that have differed from genre to genre. Although many of these films have proven memorable for both good and bad reasons, only a few of these films will be remembered for a long period of time as a great movie and one that people suggest to everyone as a “must see film.” The genre examined for this analysis is war films. The films in this category for the most part are centered on real life events that have taken place and these films are used to enlighten the audience. There have been thousands of good war movies that have come out and won many awards but their have only been a few great ones. One such film that is a great war movie is Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson and based on a true story. It is great because it succeeds in portraying a message, telling a story and reaching out and capturing the audience.

Many movies or stories are fit into a specific category. For example, there is comedy,