Tom Hanks on filming Saving Private Ryan 🪖

Tom Hanks on filming Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan just turned 25!

[onothankyou]

I happened to watch this movie next to two veterans in the theater. They were bawling at the beach, it was an unforgettable experience.

[shuroom]

I think that this was Hanks' best performance. No gimmicks, accents, make-up, comedy props. Just communicated "the horror" with his eyes.

[JoshaSturg]

One of the greatest films of all time. No doubt.

[ronowens]

It was the most realistic war scene I have ever witnessed. I haven’t been in a battle like that but I know people that have. It’s hell to get them to talk about it and I don’t push it but those soldiers agree with how realistic that footage was.

[DevilDogDen]

My Uncle Vince was a part of the second wave on the actual D Day assault. By that time, the Germans really had the ranges dialed in. He was the only one who made it out alive of the Higgins boat. Two weeks later he got shrapnel in his left leg, and was eventually sent back to the states. I have the helmet that he wore over there. He passed away in 1994 at the age of

[TafTabTah]

I could listen to behind the scenes of Saving Private Ryan for days

[thereseember]

My Uncle stepped on a landmine in Germany (WWII) which blew off his right leg. When he tried to crawl to safety, his left arm hit another landmine that blew off his left arm. He stared at his wedding ring. He realized he’d never play the violin again. His buddies were too afraid to rescue him. German soldiers rescued him in a wheelbarrow. For the rest of his life, he was eternally grateful to them for saving him.

[genevieveard]

I am a Retiree of the US Navy, I'm also a Clinical Mental Health Counselor... one in the reasons why I decided to enter Counseling is my Grandfather. He was the first person I knew with PTSD and I was there when it was triggered and how those few days prior to going to the VA Hospital to address it and afterwards. It started with his retirement, the party was supposed to be in a place called Pearl Harbor, the trigger years later was the premier of the movie 'Tora, Tora, Tora'... and many years after that, I was in the first showing of 'Saving Private Ryan'...and... even with the VA sending out messages of caution, of Veterans Groups volunteering to be at theaters for the inevitable breakdowns... within moments, Veterans started to go thru the same process my Grandfather went thru so many years before.

[christopherjohns]

I read how James Doohan wrote a letter to Steven Spielberg thanking him for keeping the invasion scene realistic. He was injured on Juno beach.

[ace-xm]

I still can’t believe it lost best picture to Shakespeare in Love

[MichelleonSunset]

“I’ll see you on the beach.” I say that always to remind myself that the hard thing I’m about to do isn’t that hard. On the shoulders of giants, people…. Is where we sit.

[jamescopeland]

There is actual film footage of a battle where that really did happen.. a soldier lost his arm and he was standing there looking around, found it picked it up and moved forward….

[damianranger]

I saw this movie the day it premiered. Grown men were crying in the restroom.

[marksstudio]

My father was at Juno Beach with the Canadian forces, and his five brothers Al, Adolph, Fred, Tony and Frank were in either the Canadian Expeditionary or the Canadian Navy. He never saw the movie. After I saw it I could see why. He did see my sons and I playing Medal of Honor on the D-Day map, and he was amazed all that could be played in a game.

[skar]

Worth 3 weeks. Unbelievable seen. One of the best ever in cinema history

[michaelkradenych]

You forever changed the way war is portrayed on u for making it real!

[TimothyMcVeigh]

On the bridge he gave his life, blasting that 45.

[granitesevan]

My brother and I (at 18 and 15 years old) tried the sprint from the shoreline to the scrub on Omaha beach. We were absolutely gasping for air about halfway and we only had shorts on. I'm amazed any of the Yanks made it off there alive

[eroche]

I remember the shoot so well. They filmed it on my childhood holiday beach in Wexford, Ireland, and the Irish Reserve Army played the troop crowds on both sides. Thousand of guys following the broadcast directing of Steven Spielberg. What a summer

[nolanolivier]

I joined the British Army in '98. There were 3 Irish lads in my platoon who were former reservists, and had been extras on the landing scene. I later saw an interview with a senior member of the Irish Army who stated that they essentially valued the opportunity to assist in the production because it allowed them to familiarise some of their personnel with amphibious landings - which I thought was a surprising but interesting perspective.