RE: Private Ryan, The Thin Line and back to Ignatius J. Reilly

Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:43:52 -0800 (PST) 

As commercial and mainstream Speilberg is, I do
believe him and his generation of filmmakers deserve a
lot of credit for changing the way films are made. As
this new generation of indie film makers come in, they
will most likely continue to revolutionize film
making, but as they grow old and complacent, another
generation will come to take their place. Also, yes
the first opening scene of saving private ryan was a
great scene, but I disagree that it's the best(maybe
the best in terms of recreation of battle) scene in
the film. I loved the scene where tom hanks, sizemore,
chaplin, and ribisi are talking at night and hanks
goes on about how every person that dies lets 10 or a
100 people live on and then ribisi talks about how he
used to pretend like he was asleep when his mom would
come check in on him at nights. to me, that was one of
the best scenes. just my two cents. I think what's
great about filmmakers like speilberg and lucas isn't
so much that they are these deep thinkers, but they
try to tap into the younger generations. They try to
give them hope and inspiration before they grow too
old and too cold for it(maybe I've become a little
like that). But I think with saving private ryan, the
color purple, and schindler's list, speilberg is
trying to say he can do more than just spin fairy
tales.

--- "Sean Draine (Exchange)"
<seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> The Laughing Man:
> > Saving Private Ryan was a typical Spielberg-movie,
> and the best thing with
> 
> > it was that you could leave 10 minutes into it,
> after the first and only 
> > really good scene (it was absolutely fantastic,
> got to admit that), and
> get 
> > a new shot at another film; at least according to
> the Sony theater policy.
> 
> By typical Spielberg, I guess you mean
> straight-forward, 'un-ironic'
> narrative, and, yes, this movie was typical in that
> sense. But it was a
> great movie. The opening scene was indeed
> incredible. The scene that haunted
> me, however, was the death by Hitler Jugend knife.
> There were many other
> scenes that stuck with me for weeks. If you left
> after 10 minutes, you
> shouldn't have.
> 
> -Sean
> 

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