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Welcome to ScreenMaureen, I'm watching Saving Private Ryan for the first time! Thank you for spending your time on my channel!
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No, helmets are not bullet proof. They're to help protect your head from shrapnel from armillary and grenades and mortar's. As long as you aren't super close to them when they explode. Sometimes a bullet can hit the helmet at an angle and glance off, but more often than not, it's going to penetrate the helmet.
Civilians and their misconceptions lol
After they were implemented doctors thought that they weren't useful because they were seeing a lot more head injuries. It took them a Little bit of time to figure out that those head injuries would have been mortalities if not for the helmet.
It's often cited as an example of "survivorship bias"
Survivorship bias is a type of sample selection bias that occurs when an individual mistakes a visible successful subgroup as the entire group. In other words, survivorship bias occurs when an individual only considers the surviving observation without considering those data points that didn't “survive” in the event.
Speaking of helmets, notice how every actor who made a cameo had their helmet off to maximize their screen appearance. 😆😅🤣
I mean modern military helmets are bullet proof, but back then they were not.
@@deependz3231 Not the actor who gave the order to go find private ryan to tom hanks. He had his home and on.
Private Jackson was portrayed by Barry Pepper. Canadian-born (and now a naturalized US citizen), Pepper has portrayed Bobby Kennedy, Joseph Galloway, Roger Maris and Dale Earnhardt in his career.
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic.
2. Miller displayed great leadership/management skills by deescalating the Horvath and Risen standoff.
3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie.
4. There was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship.
5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore
6. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder", a movie I'm in briefly.
Reiben, not Risen :p
Truly our greatest generation. This movie was one of the most accurate regarding it's combat scenes that I have seen in my 78 years. My father was serving in the Pacific with the Marine Corps against the Japanese when D-Day took place. He was the reason I joined the Marine Corps right out of high school.
Tom Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71
0331 Machine Gunner (1st. tour)
0369 Infantry Unit Leader (2nd. tour).
oorah sir Is always good to see another marine, SEMPER FI brother.
The old guy in the suit you saw standing in the cemetery at the beginning was a Frenchman who was living in Normandy under occupation during the invasion. He tended the cemetery once it was established the rest of his life (I assume he has passed now).
Great reaction Maureen like always, love this masterpiece. My grandfather serve with Sergeant Frederick Niland in 501 company, Sergeant Frederick Niland was the inspiration for this movie he had 3 brothers that were killed in action. This movie is based on a book. Robert Rodat (screenwriter) was first inspired to craft the narrative upon reading Stephen Ambrose’s nonfiction retrospective D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. Rodat was fascinated by an honorary memorial dedicated to families who had lost multiple sons in the war. Rodat began writing Saving Private Ryan after studying the true story of Sergeant Frederick “Fritz” Niland. Fritz Niland’s brothers Preston and Robert had enlisted for service, and his brother Edward had volunteered. In May 1944, Edward was shot down over Burma and presumed dead. In June, Robert was killed on D-Day and Preston was killed on Omaha Beach. Frederick had gone missing during the Normandy Invasion, and the U.S. Army commissioned him to be rescued and sent home. An army unit under chaplain Fr. Francis Sampson identified Frederick’s location and sent him back to his parents Michael and Augusta Niland. Frederick’s brother Edward was also discovered to be alive and was rescued from a Burmese POW camp and also returned home safely. The rescues were the result of the U.S. War Department’s “sole survivor” policy, which was adopted in 1942 after the four Sullivan brothers who served in the U.S. Navy had all been killed during the sinking of the USS Juneau during the Battle of Guadalcanal. So, while Saving Private Ryan is unquestionably inspired by true events, the film's story of Captain Miller's risky mission to save one man is entirely fictional.
And congrats for not mistaken some characters. A lot of reactors confuse the guy who was let go, and later shot Capt. Miller and then was shot by Upham, with the soldier who stabbed Mellish. They wore different uniforms: the prisoner who was released and later returned was regular Wehrmacht, and the guy who stabbed Mellish was SS, They chosen two actors for those roles that looked so similar they did that literally to tell the viewers that war is confusing. Steven Spielberg explained this. He most likely didn't kill Upham because he instantly recognized he wasn't a threat. Upham even takes his hands off of his gun and holds them up in surrender to the SS soldier. Not a lot of satisfaction in killing someone who's basically curled up in the fetal position. You should watch the mini series Band Of Brothers, Keep up the amazing work.
Maureen, I am at once so happy and sad that you saw this. It's rough for sure. I saw another reaction of this movie a few weeks back and someone in the comments mentioned he saw this movie with his grandfather, who had been in WW2 and was on THAT beach. The only thing he said to his grandson was "you know the real thing was much worse".
I cannot imagine this. I thank god, that I cannot imagine it.
you are such a gentle soul I love to watch you reacting to movies and commenting, it give me hope for humanity.
Should check out Band of Brothers created by Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg.
i can't imagine the bravery and courage of the Men who fought in WW2, i can't imagine the hardships of the mothers and wives trying to keep things together in their absence.
i hope no generation has to experience warfare on a global scale similar to this again.
FUBAR "F'd Up Beyond All Recognition"
The soldiers walk into overwhelming fire like they did on Normandy goes back to their training. The training they go through is so intense so, when the time comes, their instinct is to go forward and do their jobs. The main reason that Normandy beach was such a bloodbath was that the amphibious tanks sent go hit the beach with the infantry all sank, except one. On On Gold, Sword, Juneau and Utah beaches, the tanks made it ashore and provided critical support to the infantry.
And it wasn't a tank at 13:35. It was a lightly-armored halftrack personnel carrier; that's why there were so many soldiers in it.
You can tell that the old man at the cemetery wasn't Tom Hanks' character right at the beginning: the old man has blue eyes; when we first focus in on Tom Hanks' face in the landing craft, you can see his eyes are green.
This movie is one of the best pieces of cinema. Tom Hanks really nailed this one. And as well as Band of Brothers mini series.
My Grandfather was an Army Ranger on that beach in Normandy. He received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal for helping save others in his Unit. As a family we went to see this in the theatre... (my Grandfather had already passed by the time it was released). We all cried as I do today every time I see it, seeing the horror that my Grandfather must had endured.
8:15, one of my favourite acting performances of all time. Very relatable.
*Brave dies once,cowards dies a thousand times.*
I got very emotional watching this movie with you also
Great reaction ❤
At the end when Ryan's wife comes up behind and reads John Miller's name on the cross, it is obvious she has never heard that name before. The implication is that Ryan never talked about this war experience with his wife. This is the case with many or most returning veterans.
They knew what they were facing. The weather was terrible for weeks leading up to the invasion. They had armored tanks rigged to make it across the channel. Weathermen saw a few hours break and they decided to go on this day. All but 1 or 2 tanks sank in the channel because of the weather. Airborne parachuted in the night before, but, because of the weather they mis dropped 15-20 miles away. Obviously this attack was better planned but weather and other issues caused the plans to fall apart.
I think it was General Eisenhower who said have a plan, and also have a backup plan, because your original plan won’t work. 🤔
2:15 Back then any armor capable of stopping a rifle bullet would have been so heavy it would have been useless. It's only been in recent decades that materials science has come up with armor capable of the feat but when I was in the Marine Corps back in the 2000s, it was ceramic and would only stop a few hits before you had to replace the ballistic plate. If a machinegun stitching you up would absolutely still kill you.
Still, I can't imagine going into combat without armor, it certainly saved my life multiple times.
They tried armor like that in World War 1. It was so heavy that it could only be like two feet tall, and the guy had to lie on his belly behind it and inch forward. It wasn’t much more than a steel plate facing forward, so I guess they mostly got shot from the side eventually.
I try to post some basic information on first time reactions to this movie...hope you don't mind if I copy/paste it here.
Saving Private Ryan is incredibly realistic in most every way, with a very few exceptions...such as bullets not being able to kill you more than a few inches underwater, and flamethrowers not really exploding that way in 1944.
The movie is not a true story, and it differs from the actual history of D-Day in many ways...but the basic plot is loosely based on the 4 Niland Brothers, one of whom served with the 101st Airborne Division. However, when 3 Nilands were reported dead, no mission was sent to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured.
There really was a Company C of the 2nd Rangers that landed on Omaha Beach, but they were commanded by Captain Ralph Goranson, and they did not land quite where it was shown in the film. Probably the most important historical thing that Spielberg got wrong is that he had the boats that carried the Rangers to the beach being driven by Americans...they were not. On D-Day, the boats that carried the US Rangers to the beach were driven by UK sailors of the Royal Navy. There are many other things in the film that are not accurate to the real history of D-Day, but that one really fails to honor some of the men that fought and died at Omaha Beach, so it is definitely the one most worth noting.
The Normandy landings were pretty much the first time in modern warfare a direct amphibious assault on a fortified position ever happened. There was a vast amount of preparation and coordination between them, a huge disinformation campaign behind it (the Allies allowed the Germans to capture fake plans that suggested they would attack elsewhere), and a massive combined air, sea, and land assault along with Paratrooper attacks and help from the French Resistance.
America and the Brits bombed the absolute hell out of the area before the landings but despite all the preparations no one was really certain how it was going to play out. Had the German response been quicker or more experienced units placed at the beaches there was a real chance that the landings would have failed. Even as a success, the Allies still suffered 10 thousand casualties in a single day.
I think the 6500 men mostly Canadian who landed Aug 19,1942 in the Dieppe raid might argue that "first" direct amphibious assault. 3367 killed and wounded 1980 captured , 70% attrition. Their regiment of tanks basically couldn't get off the shingle beach. Learned lessons establish air superiority, naval artillery and prepare for amphibious war,.The development of Duplex Drive (DD) 'swimming' Sherman tanks, Crab flail for landmines and ARVE bridging armour. Eisenhower was a fan of the "Funnies" but not Omar Bradley The Commonwealth troops had these on their 3 beaches June 06,1944 and the Americans didn't on their 2.
@@davidclarke6304 Thank you...I was going to say pretty much the same...but one thing, Bradley did like some of the special armored vehicles...there just was not enough time to build more of them and train the crews before the invasion.
I almost didn't click on the video because you look so sweet and this movie is... Something else ❤
Now after this, the next logical reaction is the Band of Brothers series, by the same team that produced Saving Private Ryan. Where Saving Private Ryan is fiction based around real events, Band of Brothers is the (mostly) true story.
If only all people felt or reacted like you there would be allot less violence 😢. Its seems only old men and people not directly in danger who start wars.
"War is old men talking and young men dying." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Depends whose war is being fought, and usually it's not yours, you're just dragged into it.
if u cant get a drink, a good coffee is a close second.
Lol A good coffee? Army ruined this guy's taste for "good" coffee. I'll take coffee dark as my soul no sugar, no cream and lots of it please.
While the Normandy invasion was Chaotic, it was was an Allied Victory. Losing would have looked much worse
dang, just goes to show, the emotion of the reactor really rubs off on people... because I felt this too. Thank you. We all need to earn what they have done for us.
"Well, there isn't any real 'Easy' way to say this, so, uh, so I'll just say it..." You have just enlisted yourself to witness the Band of Brothers series. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg weren't finished with this. I could comment on a thousand things with this film, that everyone else already has, I will just let it speak for itself, absolutely epic, legendary...amazing.
P.S.
You'll get the 'Easy' reference eventually. Currahee ♠
Well, they weren't finished with telling war stories, but BoB wasn't written by them, Stephen Ambrose wrote the book, mistakes and all. But I agree she should watch it. Even with some mistakes, it's the best mini-series of all time imho.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
I saw this movie alone, half hungover, in a practically empty cinema, at a 10a.m showing, on a rainy Sunday morning in 1998. It soon sobered me up. I couldn't leave the cinema until the final credits ended. I was in that much of a mess. I never knew a movie could affect me in that way. It opened my eyes to the greatest generation and what those boys went through.
If you haven't already?
You should watch all three of the following Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg WWII produced series. BAND OF BROTHERS, THE PACIFIC and MASTERS OF THE AIR.
Matt Damon is a terrific actor. If you have not yet done "The Martian", do so. You'll enjoy it. Excellent film- a great mix of real space science and cheeky humor. But, a drama overall. :)
The wildest thing is there were several landing zones along the coast. A Canadian detachment landed a short distance away and basically strolled up with no resistance. Another American landing also was a short distance away and met with just a bit of resistance. These guys here landed in probably the worse location they could have.
Juno Beach was actually the second worst after Omaha Beach...I believe over 900 Canadians were killed on the first day. It was not the nightmare that a lot of Omaha was, but there definitely was significant resistance for the Canadians.
@@iKvetch558 Oh, ok, it has been a while since I read it, got my info wrong it seems.
I recommend watching "Das Boot" next..this here and Das Boot are the 2 greates war movies ever made (in my opinion). And they reflect 2 different sides of the same horrible medallion . That in the end we are all human..and being sent out to do a horrible job for people far far away
A subtle clue that the elderly veteran at the beginning is actually Ryan is that he's wearing an Airborne pin, and the movie quickly establishes that none of the other main characters are Airborne.
2:15 I dont think people realize just how many advancements we've made since then. Idk if it's cause I watched Little House on the Prairie as a kid, or if its becauae my parents are from "the old world" Europe or if it is because my dad was an engineer. But the amount of things we've invented in the last 75-100 outpaces most of history combined.
Hi. Let's watch this one....
3:36 When this movie was shown in theaters, veterans said they could smell the diesel while they were in the theater. Some veterans couldn't make it through this movie.
Nice to see you
The start of the movie is what landing on a defended beach was like- And this was after a massive air raid and a paratrooper drop the night before, followed by a massive naval bombardment the morning of the invasion. The other four invasion beaches were not as well defended, resulting in only a few hundred casualties each, as compared to several thousand at Omaha.
One of the reasons they got chewed up on the beach was the Air Forces were supposed to bomb the shore emplacements. But they mistakenly bombed too far inland so the guys hitting the beach walked into a buzzsaw. However, there were more soldiers than the Germans had bullets and the Germans were too few to hold them off. Still, the ocean ran red with blood. Had Hitler followed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's plan to station the Panzer units forward along the coast, the invasion probably would have still been successful, but they cost would have been much, much higher.
The American Tanks sank before hitting the beach. Therefore no tank supprt. Also, the outgoing shelling from the US ships did not do any damage to the German machine gun bunkers
You should watch “Come and See”, it’s ww2 but based on a true story. This stuff is child’s play compared to what Germany did to the Soviet Union.
Next review, "The Fighting Sullivans" (1944)
There were 30-31 men in a landing craft..
Out of curiosity, where did you get that number from? Both the LCVP and the LCA that were used at Omaha Beach had the capacity to carry up to 36 troops, and the landing plans for Omaha Beach indicate that pretty much every boat was carrying 34 men. I am really interested if you found a source that indicates that fewer men were carried in each LCVP or LCA.
@@iKvetch558 The talk by Dr. Hal Baumgarten at the World War II Museum. He landed with the first wave on Omaha Beach and advised Spielberg on making this movie. His talk is on UA-cam and he knows every detail including names.
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You do good work. Keep it up. 👍
Do you think you'll branch out into horror?
Shields? A shield strong enough and big enough to protect against machine gun fire would be far too heavy to carry into battle. The opening combat scene in this movie actually took 6 hours rather than the 30 minutes depicted. Pretty much 100% of the first assault wave troops onto Omaha beach were wiped out.
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Even today, there is no body armor sufficiently light for constant combat that would withstand fire from a military rifle. Modern armor requires steel-ceramic plates for that. Law enforcement armor compromises by using a small ceramic plate in a pocket over the heart, but armor that would actually protect against powerful long guns would be too heavy and too hot to wear. As police, I had light armor that was supposed to protect against all but the more powerful handguns. I also had tactical armor, but without the ceramic plate, it was only supposed to protect against more powerful handguns and was not expected to do anything about rifles. We confirmed by testing, and tactical rifle fire passed easily through it. VietNam era military armor was intended for fragmentation protection and some pistol fire, essentially flak jackets. Modern U.S. military body armor has four ceramic plates, front back and sides, but it weighs 30 pounds fully equipped. And it would have been quickly discarded by troops in WWII who had to march and operate in the field for weeks or months. And of course, none of it protects head, arms or legs. My tactical armor was not nearly so heavy, and it was a killer in Texas heat. Even the steel WWII helmets were, as represented in the film, not an effective barrier for rifle fire.
Allied command pretty well knew this would be bad. No mater what, it's the nature or beach invasions, and they had experience in North Africa and Italy where the tactical situation was in some ways worse, the German's holding very high positions above the beach. The beach depicted in the film was one of the worst, because cloud cover prevented effective bombing to soften up defenses. At the other beaches, aerial photos show the areas behind the beach to be little more than wall to wall bomb craters. But you can't stop an invasion. And it certainly wasn't hopeless. Troops attack in waves. The first wave obviously takes a beating, but they did make it to across the beach to overcome the defenses. And the heavy machine gun fire could not be continuous. Well-trained troops know that the machine gunners have to stop to change their overheated barrels, creating a window of opportunity. Miller's people talk about that when they attack the radar station.
But the first wave was relatively small, allowing Germans to concentrate their fire. Navel bombardment was poorly executed. Men were so heavily laden that most had to walk to the dunes. They were too heavy to run. The second wave was much larger, frustrating German gunners who were by that time under intense pressure. The Irish beach used in the film is a close approximation to Omaha Beach.
Unknown to Lincoln (or his aide who probably actually wrote the response), the Bixby letter about her sons was a fraud. Mrs. Bixby was likely a Confederate sympathizer who lied about most of her sons' deaths to try claim financial compensation.
Snipers don't specifically try to kill. The German sniper's intention was to wound and then wait for others to show themselves. A dead GI was useless. I wounded GI was a lure for others. And a wounded man tied up multiple troops to care for him. A dead GI required no help.
@ScreenMaureen I appreciate it if you can watch anything else involving Edward Burns
My top 3 suggestions:
CONFIDENCE
SHE'S THE ONE
SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK
FUBAR=F'D UP BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION
Is this a re-upload because I thought you reacted to this in the past? (I may be mistaken but)
Yes. Just added an intro/outro. Did this for the last three uploads. Since we improved in editing over the year my husband wanted the videos back up to finish up at 30 videos!
@@ScreenMaureen Your husband did a great job with the editing! I love this channel. Cheers from Sweden ❤
Shields: there was nothing they could bring with them that would have protected them. If you bring something REALLY heavy that can stop a machine gun bullet then you have to carry it everywhere and knowing you can't move too fast they will have an easier time with mortar and artillery that no shield will stop.
The barricades on the beach are called tank traps, built by the Germans to stop Allied tanks from making it up the beaches too easily.
The Americans had machineguns and rifles but the Germans shooting at them were shooting from pillboxes or other fortified places that weren't available on the beaches. Safer to advance.
Sniper: Snipers often try to wound men, forcing other men to run out of cover to try to help the wounded man out.
Its been mentioned already, but you should watch the Band of Brothers series
Omaha Beach was almost a failure. The planes were supposed to drop bombs on the beach before hand and unlike the bombardment at Utah Omaha they dropped too far inland and the navy ships weren’t hitting their targets neither. The tanks all sank but 2. It was a last minute success where they got within minutes of pulling from anyone else landing at Omaha and calling it a failure.
Clearly he never spoke about capt miller before then
As did many WWII vets. My father in law was a battlefield medic in the Pacific and witnessed unbelievable horrors but never spoke a word of it until 2 weeks before his death. He earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart at Saipan for crawling man to man providing medical care throughout the battle, although he, himself, had been shot through one of his legs. They were the greatest generation.
@@Aodhanlurcherthey were, thank you for your story that’s amazing it reminds me of the story of Desmond Doss. My great grandfather was a radioman apart of the canadian/british forces and sadly he passed 11 years ago when he was 86 and i was 8. Unfortunately i never really got to know him or learn anything about his experience, i only met him maybe a few times one of which was on his deathbed. It’s scary knowing there are many people even in my generation(gen z) who are completely uneducated on the war and i’m afraid all of these stories and meaningful lessons will be lost and eventually repeated.
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For the soldiers and thousands of terrified and seasick men, most of them all new to combat, are thrown into the face of withering German fire. The landing on Omaha Beach was not about saving Pvt. Ryan. It was about saving yourself. This movie's opening is about as graphic as any war footage I've ever seen. the fierce dread and energy is on par with Oliver Stone's "Platoon," and in it's scope surpasses it. Because in the bloody early stages the landing forces and the enemy never meet eye to eye, but are simply faceless masses of men who have been ordered to shoot at one another until one side is destroyed. The landing was a chaos of noise, mud, vomit, blood, and death. The landing sequence is necessary to establish the distance between those who give the order that Pvt. Ryan be saved, and those who are ordered to do the saving. For Capt. Miller and his men, the landing at Omaha has been a crucible of fire. Upham the translator, has never fired a riffle in anger and is terrified almost to the point of incontinence. I suspect many viewers will identify with Upham. The war was fought by many civilians just like him, whos lives had not prepared them for the reality of battle. The film says things about war that are as complex and difficult as any person could possibly express, and does it with broad, strong images, with violence, with profanity, with action, with camaraderie. the movie is doubly effective because Steven Spielberg communicates his ideas in feelings, not words.
The casting of the movie is strong, but for me the key performance in the movie is by Jeremy Davies as the frightened interpreter. He is our entry into the reality because he sees it clearly as a vast system designed to humiliate and destroy him. And so it is. Eventually he arrives at his own turning point and his action writes the closing words of Spielberg's unspoken philosophical argument. I've always found this movie to be a powerful experience. I'm sure a lot of people will weep during it. Spielberg knows how to make the audiences weep better than any director since Charlie Chaplin in "City Lights." But weeping is an incomplete response, letting the audience off the hook. This movie embodies ideas. After the experience begins to fade, the implications remain and grow. Be safe Maureen. 🪖
Might be the shortest reaction for a 3 hour top 5 movie of all time
Things I learned about this movie:
-Bullets don't go that far in water.
-The beach machine guns fire way too fast. It would melt the barrels.
-Those whole lose arms/legs are actual amputees.
-The 2 surrendering Germans were actually conscripted Czechs.
And I saw it in theaters when I was 10.
The German machine guns on the beach were MG42s. They had a rate of fire of 1200 rounds per minute, far faster than their allied counterparts. They also had quick-change barrels for easy swapping once the barrel heated up.
not sure where you got your gun facts from aside from bullets in water and the czechs
You shouldn't be watching movies like these, you're not built for it. Just my observation
She can do what she wants