Saving Private Ryan

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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depict the Omaha beachhead assault of June 6, 1944. Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as Captain John H. Miller and several men as they search for paratrooper Private James Francis Ryan, who is the last surviving brother of three fallen servicemen.

Rodat first came up with the film's story in 1994 when he saw a monument dedicated to four sons of Agnes Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania. The brothers were killed in the American Civil War. Rodat decided to write a similar story set during World War II. The script was submitted to producer Mark Gordon, who then handed it to Hanks. It was finally given to Spielberg, who decided to direct.

Tom Hanks has always been one of my favorite actors. It seems to me that as long as he is involved in a movie, doesn't matter if it is a character of the movie, the producer of the movie, or the director of the movie, it certainly will turn out great. It has always been this way since the role he played - Andrew Beckett - in the film Philadelphia to producer of Band of Brothers.

Is it worth to risk the lives of eight men to save just one? To me, definitely not. But when a man has lost all of his brothers and that he is the only one left in his family, then I believe that it is his duty to go back and take care of his family. Furthermore, when the Army head quarter gave the order to find Ryan and bring him home, it seems to me that it is just a way to appease some of the sorrow that Ryan's family has experienced during the World War II.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan