For the record, there is nothing inherently wrong with Shakespeare in Love. Its a very entertaining film....but its just not Oscar Worthy, especially in a year that contained a film like Saving Private Ryan.
A soldier will train and train and train, especially medical personnel, to handle the horrors of war. These were hardened soldiers that knew the terrible risk they were taking on. All the training in the world though. When a men is hurt. When they know their life is near its end. They revert to their primal instinct, of seeking protection from a parental figure. Back then 9 times outa 10. When a kid gets hurt playing around, and they cry for help. Who was the one that comes and comforts them. Their mother. So a grown man. Who is hurt, and know their time is ending. Who do they seek safety and comfort from. Their mothers.
I've done it. When my grandma was dying of lung cancer. She asked my mom, my uncle's. They couldn't do it. My grandma, who was like a second mother to me, finally asked me. I was torn, a big part of me didn't want to do it. But she was in agony and she didn't have much time left. So i did it. She was prescribed two different opiates plus xanax. One of the opiates was morphine. I had her take a couple xanax and a painkiller. Then 20 minutes later when she was sleeping. I gave her a high dose of morphine. She died within 7 minutes. That experience changed me a little bit. I had the most realistic dream/nightmare the next day. I still remember the dream vividly and its been almost 16yrs. I was 21yrs old at the time.
Honestly the most soul-crushing death scene ever put to film. Wade didn’t find comfort or peace in death, he died scared, calling for his mother as his friends watched helplessly. No matter how much they cradled and embraced him, in attempt to let him know he wasn’t alone and that he died in the arms of people who cared for him. It still wasn’t enough for him. He didn’t want to die to the very end.
That's how I have always read this scene. The same way as when Ralph Fiennes' character pushes all the morphine capsules towards his nurse in The English Patient.
Yep - retired Army guy here. As soon as Wade said he could use a little more morphine, it meant he knew his wounds were fatal, especially the liver shot. Two syrettes is pushing it even with some time between them, but back-to-back is almost guaranteed fatal against all that blood loss. Wade knew it and wanted it over.
Mellish arguably had the most brutal death of the main characters. Only worse death I can think of is the guy in the opening scene on the beach who had his intestines hanging out.
@@knives5964 I see the opposite. He died surrounded by friends who loved him, who would die for him, physically close by and in their arms. No better way. Not in some cold, sterile, impersonal hospital room with strangers nearby at best - and laws made by lawyers keeping family and friends away.
@@bustedupgrunt1177 Remember that many medical staff died of Covid-19 and were ordered not to tell the public about the horrors of the patients dying gasp. People who were okay 3 days ago, now on a death bed, and politicians making laws that it is a crime to order people to wear a mask or get a vaccine.,in direct contradiction to the CDC and medical briefings and a presidential directive. That plague killed more Americans in one year, than all the wars put together. And the lie was deliberate. :/
My best friend when we were deployed kept apologizing for getting shot. He wouldn't stop. He died in my PSG arms. I had to carry my friends body 3 miles. I'll never forget you Tim. You will always be 22 years old. Sorry everyone. I'm in my feelings tonight.
As a US Navy Hospital FMF Corpsman. Wade's death hit me hard in the theater, and still does to this day. Medics and Corpsmen in WWII were essentially unarmed (a sidearm in a war is a weapon of last resort). Times change .45 gave way to 9mm & M16 then M-4s but their mission remains the same care for the sick and injured. You will never know true heartache until you look a buddy in the eyes when he asks "Am I gonna make it Doc?" And you have to lie.... I am no hero. I did my job. The Hero's to me are my brothers and sisters who heard Medic! Or Corpsman Up! Were scared sh!tless and answered the call anyways. Many giving the ultimate sacrifice to protect their patients. Shielding the wounded from incoming fire with their own bodies
"Maybe at wars we forget that we're human". That's a perfect way to put it. Cause while we sit at home watching war movies and shedding tears for characters like Wade, those in combat barely have time for tears. And seeing someone die becomes so normal you become numb. I think the PTSD that soldiers often get from wars aint only because of the horrors you face. But because... in war, you "forget you are human". You have not much time to progress normal human emotions like sorrow, grief, sadness or fear.
Insane acting. Imagine a dear friend calling for their mother as they take their last breaths in your arms… I know it’s a movie but I know real humans have experience this.
The sad part of this is soldiers died exactly like this during both world wars. There is a superb WW1 documentary called They shall not grow old. In it there is a audio clip from a WW1 British veteran who describes going over the top into no man’s land. He was running from point to point taking cover from enemy fire, he got into a impact crater (caused by artillery) in there he found a young lad. He described how the lad had one leg and one arm blown off, one of his eyes had been blown out it’s socket and was dangling down by his cheek and he was screaming out for his Nan. The veteran went onto say even at a aid station his chances were slim, but out in no man’s land he had no chance of surviving. So he did the kindest thing and shot him in with his rifle. Despite all this people still can’t find two minutes a year to observe silence during remembrance day. These people done more for us than we can ever imagine
When some people say all men are trash they need to see this. It’s men like this that built the world and died for us to be free. God bless all those who fought, lived, died for us to live free
It’s been 80 years. Men like this don’t exist anymore. And their “sacrifice” if that’s what you wanna call it, has been squandered. Because people want to be governed by lessor men who only care about themselves.
Remember the group wanted to avoid that MG nest but Captain Miller insisted that they take it. Also RIP Tom Sizemore. He passed away on the 3rd of March 2023.
@@ryanheilman3807 Definitely, it's why he's so on edge the entire time from the map reading, to assigning the assault teams, to the aftermath of the attack. He's afraid that everyone can see he's at breaking point so he overcompensates and becomes cold and aggressive and an attack against an emplaced MG seems like somewhere he can prove he is still capable.
@@Goalie002 No. You don't leave traps that you have discovered and can possibly take out for others to walk into. I had two uncles in the South Pacific ground fighting the Japanese and they would probably smack you in the head for suggesting that. If you leave something, then some other squad has reason to leave something for YOU eventually. War is a "watch the whole of each other's back" affair or you might not succeed. Also, if they bypassed that nest the next squad that comes up behind could get slaughtered. That squad that just got "slaughtered" could very well be the reinforcements the crew that 'avoided" the nest may NEED an hour later.
I love this scene. It's very telling of a person's character, how disconnected they really are from the difficulties faced by frontline leadership - how do you make a moral choice in the face of pure anger and distress? This German soldier becomes everything everyone hates about the war; he's just murdered their friend and comrade - he MUST pay for it. But the Captain wrestles himself for composure, makes a calm, morally correct but ultimately lethal decision to let this now PoW walk away. Almost everyone that watches this scene sees red. It takes a special kind of person to look past that and lead like Cpt Miller.
The spared German is the ONLY human German soldier in the whole movie- he is later depicted as a scumbag shooting Allied forces and is executed by the bumbling incompetent American soldier
I'm very late. But I love my mama. Hearing a man dying and wishing for nothing more for his mom is something that only us who truly love our moms can appreciate. I love my mama and if I was bleeding out I know that that my mama would be the only person in the world I would would want with me as a passed.
My Dad said they did this Korea sometimes. If a guy was so chewed up, Dudes wasn't let him die like that. It was a mercy, and I'd hope my boys would do it for me too
I been through situations like this when I was over in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the battles of Fallujah that was the worst battle I been in. Especially when we were outnumbered and also ambushed. It was very violent and bodies everywhere hanging, heads on stakes of fences even before we entered Fallujah
Dead soldiers lying in the open is a sign as to what would happen again if the squad didn't take that machinegun out. Cpt. Miller would have been derelict in his duties had he decided not to take the nest. It seems many don't understand that issue and blame the loss of Wade on Miller. Wade's death was a cost of the war, not of Miller's decisions.
It’s a complicated decision. But they had orders to find Ryan and could have avoided that position since there was an entire army behind them moving inland.
@@surfingtothestars Good point and I get what you're saying, but the army wasn't necessarily following them through that area - there may have been more small squads patrolling through there that could sustain casualties. I suppose that if Miller were to bypass it, he would have had to radio back to battalion to give them coordinates on that nest. I don't recall them having a radio in their detail. That's all 'movie-jazz' though.
God bless all of the veterans who risked everything and sacrificed so much to protect our countries and preserve the freedoms we enjoy today! God bless all the souls - military and civilian - that we have lost in times of war! God bless America! God bless us all and grant us peace!
Well it won an Oscar in Everyone’s heart. I remember that movie when it first came out and my dad got it on VHS and was 8 going on 9 years old. Man made me cry at this scene. At least everyone knows that it should’ve won an Oscar.
Watching this scene made me recall my late grandfather in his deathbed. My aunt was taking care of him during the final hours of his life. What breaks my heart the most is when she recalled my gramps in his very weakened state he was crying out to our great grand mother. The very last time I saw him was with my dad and uncle speaking to him and telling him that he has nothing to worry about and that we will all be alright and take some rest. I later found out that he passed away while I was at work. 😢
I served in the Army Infantry for ten years and was put out for two brain surgeries when I was in the 101st.Airborne.I watched movies like this all the time and never got emotional but since getting out and watching your reaction videos and seeing your reactions I get emotional.
I’ve watched this film more than any other film and this scene always seems to get me, always shed a tear here. Also, most viewers don’t realiza the brilliant subplots in this film. If you pay close attention to the details in the film, it makes you see this scene in a much more profound way. Wades death is hard for me for so many different reasons. Wade was the epitome of selflessness, from the very beginning you see his heroism. He is in the middle of the battlefield in DDay, trying to save a soldier even shielding him from incoming fire, but even exposing himself and cries in fear. Later Wade is the only other soldier to treat Upham with respect, while others showed disdain towards him. Wade doesn’t carry a firearm as he takes his Hippocratic oath seriously, who want’s to enter a War-zone with no fire arm?? Wade later wants to rush to Caparzos aid even if exposing himself to sniper fire in a frantic effort to save him. Later we see Wade talk about his mother, perhaps he went into the medical field because his mother was a nurse working long hours he showed regret not staying up late just to talk to her. When Caparzo passed, Wade took it upon himself to rewrite Caparzo’s letter addressed to his father so there’s no blood on it. Later we see the letter be passed down to finally the last few survivors, we can speculate that Reiben rewrote the letter and shipped it to Caparzo’s father. Imagine a father receiving his sons last letter after serving bravely. During the fire fight with the Germans, Wade rushes to help regardless of their flag or country and finally Wade rushes the gun nest with no weapon, instead of staying back with Upham. One of the hardest scenes for me to watch, just shows how amazing this film is.
"You don;t see a man breaking like that. Men are not allowed to break like that. It is a strict society rule. "tender emotion. This is a 'weakness' we are forbidden. It interferes with deadly activity." (Bill)
Drives me nuts when civilians are on the side of murdering POWs. Because they have no idea why we don't do that. It isn't merely about being better human beings, it's about ensuring our own troops are treated well when they're captured. If you start executing POWs the enemy is going to do the same thing to the troops they take prisoner. Not to mention, killing POWs is a war crime. I'm not just tossing out that phrase randomly like many people do today: Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention specifically prohibits killing or torturing POWs. And that ban on the killing of POWs was present all the way back in the Hague Convention of 1907. If you murder a POW, you are a war criminal. So, yes, you can scoff at the notion of treating a POW kindly, you can get angry at the thought of not killing a soldier who was captured immediately after that soldier killed one of your compatriots, but it changes nothing: it is required by international law, and if you're a member of the American Armed Forces, it is required by regulations.
When I was in Iraq, our Bn commander told us to fight with a happy heart and for the marine next to you. Keep your honor clean. When you seek revenge and enjoy killing, you have become what you swore to fight against. A lot of civilians who’ve never experienced the trauma of war or killing, the most important thing to keep is your humanity. You lose that, it’s a darkness that is very difficult and in some cases impossible to climb out of.
Wade calling to his mom hits close to me. Reminds me when I was younger hoping to see my mother come home safe from work after coming home from school.
This scene was so well acted that a lot of old vets like me cried in the theaters. Sometimes people ask us old guys if it is true that grown men will cry for their mothers... say they want to go home... and ask their friends to kill them. And the answer is... yes.
My father was in the Solomon’s and other islands in the Pacific Theater, he had a buddy who died when the barracks they were erecting were bombed…….he said his buddy was calling for his mom and then all of a sudden pointed over my dads shoulder and said “look Jay, it’s my mom…..she’s here” and then died. When my father delivered his personal effects to the family he found out his friends mother had suffered a massive heart attack about 6 hours before her son was killed……
I can tell you through personal experience that every soldier cries out for their mother in their last few moments of their life. And those soldiers that witness this? This memory will haunt their dreams until the day they die.
The natural order is for mothers to be sacred to their children. It has always been this way, and it will likely never change. Peace and happiness to you, brother.
@@JuandeFucaU I was a navy corpsman for 10 years and did 5 tours every single male soldier that died in combat that died under my care said that and 1 young lady died screaming for her daddy and those things do haunt my dreams. Next time you come on UA-cam show some god damn respect because you could be disrespecting a combat veteran like you are now. Now you grossly incompetent a hole do the world of favor and shut the fuck up and go do something productive like go play in traffic or something.
@@VorchaKali stating that "every soldier cries out for their mother...." is just categorically incorrect and something you couldn't possibly know, no matter how many soldiers you saw die. you couldn't possibly know them all. this is not a matter of respect. you've clearly overreached on your authority to know about "every soldier." I happen to know a soldier who died and did not cry out for their mother, so I know you are full of shit.
It seemed like an acceptance of the final end changed their expression, followed by "mama". Hold their hand, say their name and tell them I'm with you.
In the end, he asked his comrades to overdose him on morphine: "I could use a little more morphine", which reluctantly they give him to ease his pain and inevitable passing.
When Millennials think of your Grandparents, and all the disagreements you had with them, what they believed, how they lived their lives, and especially if they were stoic emotionally with you and would never speak about their past, remember this scene. A hundred haggard horrors such as this waited for many of them every night when they closed their eyes.
Capt Miller was suffering from battle fatigue. Thus the shaking hand. It meant he had been stretched to the limit of human ability in the realm of death and dying soldiers. I remember men like this walking the streets of our town after the war. One was always saying “ damn that war, damn that war” over and over.
This is the core scene of the movie. The whole reason the squad was out there in the first place, MG nest or no, was to spare Ryan's mother from more pain. It comes at the highest cost, as Wade reminds us all with his dying words - his mother suffers so that Ryan's mother can be spared.
People need the message regardless of the vehicle that delivers it. This is a daily occurrence in Bakhmut, Ukraine. Thanks for watching and showing. (U.S. Army - Retired)
These reaction mashups are great. Should do one for, "It's a Wonderful Life." The scene of George's monologue after his dad's death. This would be a great one for 🎄 the hollidays.
My father was there. The Lieutenant to them "we're not taking prisoners". As the germans surrendered they were shot. My dad said that he pointed vhis rifle, but did not pull the trigger.
When you're in war and you've already lost your mom you can accept death easier.... If she's still around you worry about that one person who gave you life as you don't want her to suffer in life, and that you wish you could be there to see that she sees no hardship or worries about anything, because you are there for her
I was in the Marine Corp before and served for 21yrs..feel really bad when got hits when i was in 3rd tours in Iraq..I been shots twice and I feel so scared to death and in pain alots..no joke
Tom Hank's character, Capt. Miller, showed at the battle at the end of the film that he was something of a tactical genius, getting those German tanks into a bottleneck to disable them (with plastic explosives in socks!), covering his flanks with .30 caliber MGs and instituting a fall-back by position to the bridge to blow it up if necessary. However, here, at the radar installation, it's a different story. Ordering an assault, uphill over open ground against an entrenched position occupied by a machine gun was pure folly. If he was going to take the time to try and take it out (against his men's advice) he should have flanked the position and assaulted it from the rear. It really drives the narrative Spielburg was going for in the film: That there is no such thing as a hero warrior. There are normal, honorable people who try and do the right thing (and often succeed) but who also make mistakes that have tragic consequences. edit: I forgot to mention, today is Memorial Day. I try and watch this movie every year on Memorial Day.
He is in the actual reaction, but this is a movie he had seen before. I think it may actually have been their very first reaction. ua-cam.com/video/s8JIK33EZkk/v-deo.html
This movie has an important message. If you show compassion instead of harshness, it will surely fuck you over in the end. It will cost you everything.
As a retired Navy Corpsman, I've been in three wars. Late Vietnam, Gulf War, War on Global War, I've seen a LOT of death. What they did with the Morphine, I've done that. It STILL haunts me. There are THREE things a wounded Marine will call for when hit, God, his mother and Doc. You try to fix them and TRY like hell to keep them alive. I have lost a few, yet my saves outweigh the losses.
These men... boys... died do we could have the lives we do today..... NEVER FORGET THAT...no matter yout religion race color whatever you have the greatest opportunities on earth because of men and boys like this... you don't love them or this country? There's the door. Thank you to all veterans
People dont care when they hear war on tv on some distant place. I want you to remember this happens to someone over there. It is easy to forget or ignore it when you dont see what is actually happening.
Once again, great job! Like in your Green Mile vid I’d recommend including EllaReacts. She’s done this movie and I really think her reaction would ad a lot to this as well as other scenes.
When he looks down and realizes the damage..😢. Instead of wasting medical supplies.. he asks to be given a lethal dose of morphine. Thats why they all look around puzzled. Such a heartbreaking scene. Why am i even here? I was trying to find Meatcanyon videos. 😂😂
Morphine is withheld on some wounds to prevent death when medical treatment is near but Wade was hit to badly to survive so the Captain authorized it to ease his agony until he died.
While I'm against war crimes, these same soldiers had no problem shooting Germans that were clearly surrendering at Normandy, so I never got the debate over this I would have let the dude go, but would have mangled both his hands in such a way that he could never fire a weapon again
People are so susceptible to let their demons out, but that's just human, this reaction shows that they were willing to kill that person who had surrendered, yet they do not realize that they cannot see their enemy's point of view. In war all men die's, history portrays the winner as the good, but they never portray the reasons or events, because why would anyone portray themselves as an evil, corrupt, controlling being? Because of this you have the very same people ask, why do we go to war? The reason why is that no matter how good the society is, no matter how hard they try to unite the world, the world cannot be fully united. Ideology, religious belief, social norms, rivalry, the privileged, and those who needs the needy, to be human you must be a part of something that defines you, and you need something that goes against you, hence the never-ending cycle. In all intense and purpose, i do not spout nonsense to the country of America, or its patriotic views, however you cannot deny that even the U.S committed to inhumane acts, so did all other country, but people choose to be ignorant, because to be ignorant is to be free from the past or even the truth, the future or the lie. They can't be guilty for it, because that's just what makes the person or their personality, with that being said, at least if someone were to read this, they would realize why the drive for battle exist.
The greatest generation, 100% I cannot believe this film lost to Shakespeare in Love.
seriously. and believe me, i will _never_ do a compilation to Shakespeare in Love.
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@@YoureMrLebowski Respect!
Yep, the Oscar’s showed it’s wokeness that year in plain sight
For the record, there is nothing inherently wrong with Shakespeare in Love. Its a very entertaining film....but its just not Oscar Worthy, especially in a year that contained a film like Saving Private Ryan.
The tragedy of a dying man calling out for his mother is a universal experience. Even the hardest man will be bought to tears by the sight of it.
Really? Wow interesting
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@@ILikeAltRock why didn't you write your edgy "facts" under this commemt?
A soldier will train and train and train, especially medical personnel, to handle the horrors of war. These were hardened soldiers that knew the terrible risk they were taking on. All the training in the world though. When a men is hurt. When they know their life is near its end. They revert to their primal instinct, of seeking protection from a parental figure. Back then 9 times outa 10. When a kid gets hurt playing around, and they cry for help. Who was the one that comes and comforts them. Their mother. So a grown man. Who is hurt, and know their time is ending. Who do they seek safety and comfort from. Their mothers.
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The care and friendship they showed Wade when he asked them to OD him speaks volumes. It takes a special person to be able to do that.
I've done it. When my grandma was dying of lung cancer. She asked my mom, my uncle's. They couldn't do it. My grandma, who was like a second mother to me, finally asked me. I was torn, a big part of me didn't want to do it. But she was in agony and she didn't have much time left. So i did it. She was prescribed two different opiates plus xanax. One of the opiates was morphine. I had her take a couple xanax and a painkiller. Then 20 minutes later when she was sleeping. I gave her a high dose of morphine. She died within 7 minutes. That experience changed me a little bit. I had the most realistic dream/nightmare the next day. I still remember the dream vividly and its been almost 16yrs. I was 21yrs old at the time.
Honestly the most soul-crushing death scene ever put to film. Wade didn’t find comfort or peace in death, he died scared, calling for his mother as his friends watched helplessly. No matter how much they cradled and embraced him, in attempt to let him know he wasn’t alone and that he died in the arms of people who cared for him. It still wasn’t enough for him. He didn’t want to die to the very end.
And Bubba from Forrest gump
Edit: RIP Tom Sizemore
A lot of people misunderstand this scene. He asks them to overdose him on morphine. And they do, at their captain's command.
I’ve seen this film many times and that’s occurred just to me now you’ve said it. I’ll never see the scene the same way
One to see Jesus, two to meet him.
That's how I have always read this scene. The same way as when Ralph Fiennes' character pushes all the morphine capsules towards his nurse in The English Patient.
Yep - retired Army guy here. As soon as Wade said he could use a little more morphine, it meant he knew his wounds were fatal, especially the liver shot. Two syrettes is pushing it even with some time between them, but back-to-back is almost guaranteed fatal against all that blood loss. Wade knew it and wanted it over.
One for pain ... two for peace.
I’ve probably seen this movie 20 times and I still shed a tear during Wade’s death every time
100%
Me as well. I don't think cinema has ever captured a death moment so authentically.
This is the worst feeling you can ever have
Having someone you love dying in your arms
Mellish arguably had the most brutal death of the main characters.
Only worse death I can think of is the guy in the opening scene on the beach who had his intestines hanging out.
wade calling to his mom as he dies always gets me cause of the story he told in the church.
Exactly. Anytime you have a situation like that and then someone is crying for their mother it just rips your heart out
@@Catherine.Dorian.exactly even if you don't know their story, you know in the end they died scared and mentally alone.
@@knives5964 I see the opposite. He died surrounded by friends who loved him, who would die for him, physically close by and in their arms. No better way. Not in some cold, sterile, impersonal hospital room with strangers nearby at best - and laws made by lawyers keeping family and friends away.
@@bustedupgrunt1177 Remember that many medical staff died of Covid-19 and were ordered not to tell the public about the horrors of the patients dying gasp. People who were okay 3 days ago, now on a death bed, and politicians making laws that it is a crime to order people to wear a mask or get a vaccine.,in direct contradiction to the CDC and medical briefings and a presidential directive. That plague killed more Americans in one year, than all the wars put together. And the lie was deliberate. :/
My best friend when we were deployed kept apologizing for getting shot. He wouldn't stop. He died in my PSG arms. I had to carry my friends body 3 miles. I'll never forget you Tim. You will always be 22 years old. Sorry everyone. I'm in my feelings tonight.
As a US Navy Hospital FMF Corpsman. Wade's death hit me hard in the theater, and still does to this day. Medics and Corpsmen in WWII were essentially unarmed (a sidearm in a war is a weapon of last resort). Times change .45 gave way to 9mm & M16 then M-4s but their mission remains the same care for the sick and injured.
You will never know true heartache until you look a buddy in the eyes when he asks "Am I gonna make it Doc?" And you have to lie....
I am no hero. I did my job. The Hero's to me are my brothers and sisters who heard Medic! Or Corpsman Up! Were scared sh!tless and answered the call anyways. Many giving the ultimate sacrifice to protect their patients. Shielding the wounded from incoming fire with their own bodies
That sounds horrible and i'm sad that happens. i would help but im an absolute coward. aint fuckn with that mess.
Can I get a Motrin, doc?
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"Maybe at wars we forget that we're human".
That's a perfect way to put it. Cause while we sit at home watching war movies and shedding tears for characters like Wade, those in combat barely have time for tears. And seeing someone die becomes so normal you become numb.
I think the PTSD that soldiers often get from wars aint only because of the horrors you face.
But because... in war, you "forget you are human". You have not much time to progress normal human emotions like sorrow, grief, sadness or fear.
Insane acting. Imagine a dear friend calling for their mother as they take their last breaths in your arms… I know it’s a movie but I know real humans have experience this.
He was not a doctor, he was a combat medic, vitally more important on the battlefield to his platoon.
And in reality he would have stayed behind, not put in the situation, he's not a soldier, a medic
Beat it nerd.
The sad part of this is soldiers died exactly like this during both world wars.
There is a superb WW1 documentary called They shall not grow old.
In it there is a audio clip from a WW1 British veteran who describes going over the top into no man’s land.
He was running from point to point taking cover from enemy fire, he got into a impact crater (caused by artillery) in there he found a young lad.
He described how the lad had one leg and one arm blown off, one of his eyes had been blown out it’s socket and was dangling down by his cheek and he was screaming out for his Nan.
The veteran went onto say even at a aid station his chances were slim, but out in no man’s land he had no chance of surviving.
So he did the kindest thing and shot him in with his rifle.
Despite all this people still can’t find two minutes a year to observe silence during remembrance day.
These people done more for us than we can ever imagine
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When some people say all men are trash they need to see this. It’s men like this that built the world and died for us to be free. God bless all those who fought, lived, died for us to live free
It’s been 80 years. Men like this don’t exist anymore. And their “sacrifice” if that’s what you wanna call it, has been squandered. Because people want to be governed by lessor men who only care about themselves.
Remember the group wanted to avoid that MG nest but Captain Miller insisted that they take it.
Also RIP Tom Sizemore. He passed away on the 3rd of March 2023.
Lets also remember why he wanted to take it. So another patrol wouldn't get ambushed by it like the patrol before them did.
"Our mission is to win the war."
@@dravenblackthorn4765That was the reason he gave. I always thought he was over-compensating after the squad saw his hand shaking.
@@ryanheilman3807 Definitely, it's why he's so on edge the entire time from the map reading, to assigning the assault teams, to the aftermath of the attack. He's afraid that everyone can see he's at breaking point so he overcompensates and becomes cold and aggressive and an attack against an emplaced MG seems like somewhere he can prove he is still capable.
@@Goalie002 No. You don't leave traps that you have discovered and can possibly take out for others to walk into. I had two uncles in the South Pacific ground fighting the Japanese and they would probably smack you in the head for suggesting that. If you leave something, then some other squad has reason to leave something for YOU eventually. War is a "watch the whole of each other's back" affair or you might not succeed.
Also, if they bypassed that nest the next squad that comes up behind could get slaughtered. That squad that just got "slaughtered" could very well be the reinforcements the crew that 'avoided" the nest may NEED an hour later.
Gio Ribisi, is an artist. It was a masterful piece of acting in the scene.
I really liked him in Sneaky Pete. A good short series.
I was an E-5 medic. 232nd medical battalion. Iraq. It’s no joke folks.
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Thank you for your service. Frl
@@DonB.-Mulefivefive happy veterans day brother
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One of the saddest, most well done death scenes in cinema history. If not THE best.
It when he starts crying saying he wants his mamma always kills me and because he's medic he knows he's going to die.
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I love this scene. It's very telling of a person's character, how disconnected they really are from the difficulties faced by frontline leadership - how do you make a moral choice in the face of pure anger and distress? This German soldier becomes everything everyone hates about the war; he's just murdered their friend and comrade - he MUST pay for it. But the Captain wrestles himself for composure, makes a calm, morally correct but ultimately lethal decision to let this now PoW walk away.
Almost everyone that watches this scene sees red. It takes a special kind of person to look past that and lead like Cpt Miller.
Well said 👍🏻
The spared German is the ONLY human German soldier in the whole movie- he is later depicted as a scumbag shooting Allied forces and is executed by the bumbling incompetent American soldier
@@fizywigTo be fair he didn't have much of a choice. Fleeing the battlefield back then was considered treason and would get you hanged or executed
I'm very late. But I love my mama. Hearing a man dying and wishing for nothing more for his mom is something that only us who truly love our moms can appreciate. I love my mama and if I was bleeding out I know that that my mama would be the only person in the world I would would want with me as a passed.
My Dad said they did this Korea sometimes. If a guy was so chewed up, Dudes wasn't let him die like that. It was a mercy, and I'd hope my boys would do it for me too
It's the worst thing in the world to watch a man die slowly and know there isn't shit you can do to save him. He's dying. And he knows it.
As a soldier myself I tear up every time I watch this... I feel nothing but hopelessness for the generation of today
I been through situations like this when I was over in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the battles of Fallujah that was the worst battle I been in. Especially when we were outnumbered and also ambushed. It was very violent and bodies everywhere hanging, heads on stakes of fences even before we entered Fallujah
Dead soldiers lying in the open is a sign as to what would happen again if the squad didn't take that machinegun out. Cpt. Miller would have been derelict in his duties had he decided not to take the nest.
It seems many don't understand that issue and blame the loss of Wade on Miller. Wade's death was a cost of the war, not of Miller's decisions.
It’s a complicated decision. But they had orders to find Ryan and could have avoided that position since there was an entire army behind them moving inland.
@@surfingtothestars Good point and I get what you're saying, but the army wasn't necessarily following them through that area - there may have been more small squads patrolling through there that could sustain casualties. I suppose that if Miller were to bypass it, he would have had to radio back to battalion to give them coordinates on that nest. I don't recall them having a radio in their detail. That's all 'movie-jazz' though.
It was right to take the nest. It was wrong to send a medic to do it. He should have stayed behind with Opham.
Wade's death is absolutely Miller's fault.
God bless all of the veterans who risked everything and sacrificed so much to protect our countries and preserve the freedoms we enjoy today! God bless all the souls - military and civilian - that we have lost in times of war! God bless America! God bless us all and grant us peace!
Seen this movie so many times, but Wade's death still chokes me up. Especially when he starts calling for his mother.
The second the medic stops telling you how to fix him and says he just wants more opioids. He knows hes dead, he just doesn't want to die in pain
Well it won an Oscar in Everyone’s heart. I remember that movie when it first came out and my dad got it on VHS and was 8 going on 9 years old. Man made me cry at this scene. At least everyone knows that it should’ve won an Oscar.
Watching this scene made me recall my late grandfather in his deathbed. My aunt was taking care of him during the final hours of his life. What breaks my heart the most is when she recalled my gramps in his very weakened state he was crying out to our great grand mother. The very last time I saw him was with my dad and uncle speaking to him and telling him that he has nothing to worry about and that we will all be alright and take some rest. I later found out that he passed away while I was at work. 😢
Saving Privet Ryan is one of my favorite war movies and every time I see it hit me the same way .❤
I served in the Army Infantry for ten years and was put out for two brain surgeries when I was in the 101st.Airborne.I watched movies like this all the time and never got emotional but since getting out and watching your reaction videos and seeing your reactions I get emotional.
I’ve watched this film more than any other film and this scene always seems to get me, always shed a tear here. Also, most viewers don’t realiza the brilliant subplots in this film. If you pay close attention to the details in the film, it makes you see this scene in a much more profound way.
Wades death is hard for me for so many different reasons. Wade was the epitome of selflessness, from the very beginning you see his heroism. He is in the middle of the battlefield in DDay, trying to save a soldier even shielding him from incoming fire, but even exposing himself and cries in fear. Later Wade is the only other soldier to treat Upham with respect, while others showed disdain towards him. Wade doesn’t carry a firearm as he takes his Hippocratic oath seriously, who want’s to enter a War-zone with no fire arm?? Wade later wants to rush to Caparzos aid even if exposing himself to sniper fire in a frantic effort to save him. Later we see Wade talk about his mother, perhaps he went into the medical field because his mother was a nurse working long hours he showed regret not staying up late just to talk to her. When Caparzo passed, Wade took it upon himself to rewrite Caparzo’s letter addressed to his father so there’s no blood on it. Later we see the letter be passed down to finally the last few survivors, we can speculate that Reiben rewrote the letter and shipped it to Caparzo’s father. Imagine a father receiving his sons last letter after serving bravely. During the fire fight with the Germans, Wade rushes to help regardless of their flag or country and finally Wade rushes the gun nest with no weapon, instead of staying back with Upham. One of the hardest scenes for me to watch, just shows how amazing this film is.
Even with such a short clip I had tears.
Easily one of the toughest death scenes I've ever watched in a movie. Every time I'm crying...
"You don;t see a man breaking like that. Men are not allowed to break like that. It is a strict society rule.
"tender emotion. This is a 'weakness' we are forbidden. It interferes with deadly activity." (Bill)
Drives me nuts when civilians are on the side of murdering POWs. Because they have no idea why we don't do that. It isn't merely about being better human beings, it's about ensuring our own troops are treated well when they're captured. If you start executing POWs the enemy is going to do the same thing to the troops they take prisoner.
Not to mention, killing POWs is a war crime. I'm not just tossing out that phrase randomly like many people do today: Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention specifically prohibits killing or torturing POWs. And that ban on the killing of POWs was present all the way back in the Hague Convention of 1907. If you murder a POW, you are a war criminal.
So, yes, you can scoff at the notion of treating a POW kindly, you can get angry at the thought of not killing a soldier who was captured immediately after that soldier killed one of your compatriots, but it changes nothing: it is required by international law, and if you're a member of the American Armed Forces, it is required by regulations.
Do you really think that the Imperial Japanese as well as the Russians and Germans (on the Eastern Front) give a damn about murdering POWs
When I was in Iraq, our Bn commander told us to fight with a happy heart and for the marine next to you. Keep your honor clean. When you seek revenge and enjoy killing, you have become what you swore to fight against. A lot of civilians who’ve never experienced the trauma of war or killing, the most important thing to keep is your humanity. You lose that, it’s a darkness that is very difficult and in some cases impossible to climb out of.
Makes you angry though, we treated POW’s decently and yet Germany and Japan treated our POW’s like 💩 on their shoes!!
My thoughts exactly as the reactors called for revenge and blood lust. Sad indeed and, as stated, a war crime.
The worst Oscar upset in history.
"I called for my mother, but she never came, though it wasn't my fault and I wasn't to blame"
When Wade saying "Mama" it kills my heart and choked up
You cannot execute a captured enemy soldier for him simply doing his duty.
It is both frustrating and understandable.
Also, the Geneva convention is against the execution of prisoners
I'd say trying to guard a POW when you're behind enemy lines endangers your men and that's your #1 priority
@@donaldshotts4429 that's what makes it such a difficult decision.
I agree with Donald. I think its an invalid rule of war unless you can neutralize the threat posed by the surrendering soldier in some practical way.
@@periechontology It is easy to say as long as you are not the one who got captured
Wade calling to his mom hits close to me. Reminds me when I was younger hoping to see my mother come home safe from work after coming home from school.
Just a great mix, again and again.
This scene was so well acted that a lot of old vets like me cried in the theaters.
Sometimes people ask us old guys if it is true that grown men will cry for their mothers... say they want to go home... and ask their friends to kill them.
And the answer is... yes.
My father was in the Solomon’s and other islands in the Pacific Theater, he had a buddy who died when the barracks they were erecting were bombed…….he said his buddy was calling for his mom and then all of a sudden pointed over my dads shoulder and said “look Jay, it’s my mom…..she’s here” and then died. When my father delivered his personal effects to the family he found out his friends mother had suffered a massive heart attack about 6 hours before her son was killed……
I can't watch even this small clip without crying. The whole movie is just a giant tear.
I can tell you through personal experience that every soldier cries out for their mother in their last few moments of their life.
And those soldiers that witness this? This memory will haunt their dreams until the day they die.
The natural order is for mothers to be sacred to their children. It has always been this way, and it will likely never change. Peace and happiness to you, brother.
"every soldier"? that's a really stupid comment.
@@JuandeFucaU I was a navy corpsman for 10 years and did 5 tours every single male soldier that died in combat that died under my care said that and 1 young lady died screaming for her daddy and those things do haunt my dreams. Next time you come on UA-cam show some god damn respect because you could be disrespecting a combat veteran like you are now. Now you grossly incompetent a hole do the world of favor and shut the fuck up and go do something productive like go play in traffic or something.
@@VorchaKali stating that "every soldier cries out for their mother...."
is just categorically incorrect and something you couldn't possibly know, no matter how many soldiers you saw die. you couldn't possibly know them all.
this is not a matter of respect. you've clearly overreached on your authority to know about "every soldier."
I happen to know a soldier who died and did not cry out for their mother, so I know you are full of shit.
It seemed like an acceptance of the final end changed their expression, followed by "mama". Hold their hand, say their name and tell them I'm with you.
In the end, he asked his comrades to overdose him on morphine: "I could use a little more morphine", which reluctantly they give him to ease his pain and inevitable passing.
Each soldier carried a letter to their parents incase they didn’t make it. That the letter that was taken from him.
no actually thats the letter caparzo wrote and then Wade rewrote it since it was soaked in blood
One of the Best Ever Military movies about WW2 everrrrrr
In my opinion one of the hardest deaths to watch that have ever been put to film. It’s just insane what this generation of men went through.
This scene and the one with the knife fight were the hardest scenes to watch for me.
"Maybe sometimes in war, you forget that you're humain"...
Once you experience war... you'll never be the same again... never.
What got me is that word.
" I Wana go home, Mama mama mom
Imagine being there. A bunch of 20 something’s expected to make the most extreme moral decisions. It’s wild.
At least the morphine made him numb.
I Saw this movie when i was 16 or so, i had like 0.1% of such a reaction. But i remember being shocked by the knife scene in the movie.
When Millennials think of your Grandparents, and all the disagreements you had with them, what they believed, how they lived their lives, and especially if they were stoic emotionally with you and would never speak about their past, remember this scene.
A hundred haggard horrors such as this waited for many of them every night when they closed their eyes.
Capt Miller was suffering from battle fatigue. Thus the shaking hand. It meant he had been stretched to the limit of human ability in the realm of death and dying soldiers. I remember men like this walking the streets of our town after the war. One was always saying “ damn that war, damn that war” over and over.
So many people react to war like this and yet humanity wont stop having them paradoxical
'There was never a good war, nor a bad peace.' (Benjamin Franklin)
This is the core scene of the movie.
The whole reason the squad was out there in the first place, MG nest or no, was to spare Ryan's mother from more pain.
It comes at the highest cost, as Wade reminds us all with his dying words - his mother suffers so that Ryan's mother can be spared.
I love people’s reaction to this movie cuz it’s so great
The shit that men go through.
That’s war. Disgusting and cruel. These men are heroes.
People need the message regardless of the vehicle that delivers it. This is a daily occurrence in Bakhmut, Ukraine. Thanks for watching and showing. (U.S. Army - Retired)
These reaction mashups are great. Should do one for, "It's a Wonderful Life." The scene of George's monologue after his dad's death. This would be a great one for 🎄 the hollidays.
You cannot execute an unarmed POW. In the realm of men at war, doing inhumane things to each other that is where to draw the line.
Men doing inhumane things to each other IS THE DEFINITIONN OF 'WAR'!!
My father was there. The Lieutenant to them "we're not taking prisoners". As the germans surrendered they were shot. My dad said that he pointed vhis rifle, but did not pull the trigger.
@@redcaddiedaddie Ok go to the Hague then and be tried for war crimes, your choice.
Tell that to those who fought on the Pacific theater and the Eastern Front before saying that
Hero's all we'd piss ourselves faced with that
They fucking loved that guy and then watched him die and cry for his mother. Just sad.
Before their mothers, before God, they call for me.
I will come for you...
The Medic's Creed
People often talk about how intense the the first 20 minutes of this film is. But once you make it through that- it really goes to work on you.
Hands down one of the greatest films to ever be made. Hands down. Tom Hanks and Matt Damon at their finest.
giving him the morphine was the most humane thing to do literally putting him to sleep it was either that or bleeding to death
😢he has his army brothers with him. Unfortunately,this is reality.
When you're in war and you've already lost your mom you can accept death easier.... If she's still around you worry about that one person who gave you life as you don't want her to suffer in life, and that you wish you could be there to see that she sees no hardship or worries about anything, because you are there for her
With the loss of blood and drugs it is feasible that he was just acting on instinctual behavior.
Im deeply sad that I was born 1 year after this movies release and I didn't get the opportunity to see this tragic masterpiece in theaters
It was a weird drive home after watching this movie in theatre at 15, I hadn't ever seen such graphic realistic depictions of war before this.
Doctor Wade die scene always hit me with 😭😭.
Wade was their best coolest brother
I was in the Marine Corp before and served for 21yrs..feel really bad when got hits when i was in 3rd tours in Iraq..I been shots twice and I feel so scared to death and in pain alots..no joke
Only one guy you never want to see hit is Doc.
Tom Hank's character, Capt. Miller, showed at the battle at the end of the film that he was something of a tactical genius, getting those German tanks into a bottleneck to disable them (with plastic explosives in socks!), covering his flanks with .30 caliber MGs and instituting a fall-back by position to the bridge to blow it up if necessary.
However, here, at the radar installation, it's a different story. Ordering an assault, uphill over open ground against an entrenched position occupied by a machine gun was pure folly. If he was going to take the time to try and take it out (against his men's advice) he should have flanked the position and assaulted it from the rear.
It really drives the narrative Spielburg was going for in the film: That there is no such thing as a hero warrior. There are normal, honorable people who try and do the right thing (and often succeed) but who also make mistakes that have tragic consequences.
edit: I forgot to mention, today is Memorial Day. I try and watch this movie every year on Memorial Day.
Simone hardly said anything, but her face was so expressive.
I can't believe there are people that haven't seen this film.
I had never seen a Cinebinge reaction with Simone but without George.
He is in the actual reaction, but this is a movie he had seen before. I think it may actually have been their very first reaction. ua-cam.com/video/s8JIK33EZkk/v-deo.html
@@YoureMrLebowski oh okay that makes sense.
@@kenlangston3451 it does make me wonder what a reaction video with only Simone or George would look like.
@@YoureMrLebowski it would look weird. You can't have one without the other
Number one battle field injurys is blood lost then shook😢
This movie has an important message. If you show compassion instead of harshness, it will surely fuck you over in the end. It will cost you everything.
Damn, dude. Watch out you don't cut yourself with all that edge.
@@rkstevenson5448 lol 😂
In war, you can't be human unfortunately.
As a retired Navy Corpsman, I've been in three wars. Late Vietnam, Gulf War, War on Global War, I've seen a LOT of death. What they did with the Morphine, I've done that. It STILL haunts me.
There are THREE things a wounded Marine will call for when hit, God, his mother and Doc. You try to fix them and TRY like hell to keep them alive. I have lost a few, yet my saves outweigh the losses.
These men... boys... died do we could have the lives we do today..... NEVER FORGET THAT...no matter yout religion race color whatever you have the greatest opportunities on earth because of men and boys like this... you don't love them or this country? There's the door. Thank you to all veterans
Im a big ol tough guy, but only two movie scenes have ever brought tears to my eyes ,this one and when bubba died on that riverbank in nam
He don't say nothing for the army Brothers, but stay in fire line atracting bullets, for to save your friends! Really good medic!
Not a doctor, he was a medic. There's a difference between going 8 years of med school,
People dont care when they hear war on tv on some distant place. I want you to remember this happens to someone over there. It is easy to forget or ignore it when you dont see what is actually happening.
Please do band of brothers episode 10, last scene 😊
Do the scene where they liberate the concentration camps
@@sekirei19 yeah
Back then a liver shot was death. Nowadays , if they can get them within 30 minutes to a hospital, they can save him, but not back then.
Once again, great job! Like in your Green Mile vid I’d recommend including EllaReacts. She’s done this movie and I really think her reaction would ad a lot to this as well as other scenes.
i agree, Ella is great.
When he looks down and realizes the damage..😢. Instead of wasting medical supplies.. he asks to be given a lethal dose of morphine. Thats why they all look around puzzled. Such a heartbreaking scene. Why am i even here? I was trying to find Meatcanyon videos. 😂😂
Morphine is withheld on some wounds to prevent death when medical treatment is near but Wade was hit to badly to survive so the Captain authorized it to ease his agony until he died.
While I'm against war crimes, these same soldiers had no problem shooting Germans that were clearly surrendering at Normandy, so I never got the debate over this
I would have let the dude go, but would have mangled both his hands in such a way that he could never fire a weapon again
Bastard
People are so susceptible to let their demons out, but that's just human, this reaction shows that they were willing to kill that person who had surrendered, yet they do not realize that they cannot see their enemy's point of view. In war all men die's, history portrays the winner as the good, but they never portray the reasons or events, because why would anyone portray themselves as an evil, corrupt, controlling being? Because of this you have the very same people ask, why do we go to war? The reason why is that no matter how good the society is, no matter how hard they try to unite the world, the world cannot be fully united. Ideology, religious belief, social norms, rivalry, the privileged, and those who needs the needy, to be human you must be a part of something that defines you, and you need something that goes against you, hence the never-ending cycle.
In all intense and purpose, i do not spout nonsense to the country of America, or its patriotic views, however you cannot deny that even the U.S committed to inhumane acts, so did all other country, but people choose to be ignorant, because to be ignorant is to be free from the past or even the truth, the future or the lie. They can't be guilty for it, because that's just what makes the person or their personality, with that being said, at least if someone were to read this, they would realize why the drive for battle exist.
Wade saying I wanna go home I wanna go home that’s sad