What does the director want the audience to feel in the opening 24 min's of saving private ryan?

Question

when the soldiers are being brutaly murdered as they are progressing up the beach towards german defences.(how does the director want the audience to feel?)

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

The thing about all the flag waving at the opening and the carnage on the beach is the contrast between the glorification of war, by those not up to their shins in it, and the reality, for those who are. Spielberg is directing in the knowledge that many other - often romanticised -  films have been made (The Longest Day) and wanted to show the reality.

Answer 3

It shows you that war isn't just about hero's running in and saving everyone there were men who didn't even want to be there nervous scared but willing to die for there country they still give up there lives trying if you have surround sound you get the feeling your there and your a solider showing that not just that company but you would do anything for freedom and peace

Answer 4

What we are experiencing [if such is possible], is being a soldier scrambling ashore on Omaha Beach 6th June 1944 when over 10,000 American GIs died in battle.

The sounds you hear in the Spielberg footage are made by shooting bullets into beef carcases.  

Saving Private Ryan - Omaha Beach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y1YL9C8H...

In a TV series, "The World at War" we were introduced to a former German machine-gunner who was stationed above Omaha Beach as the American GI's came ashore.  He told us of being ordered to fire his machinegun continuously - all day.  He said he does not know how many GIs were shot but many hundreds [thousands] - there were lots of machineguns firing all the time from his sector above the beach.

The USAAF flew an airplane along the shoreline of Omaha Beach on D-Day + 1 and filmed what was below - in all there were counted some 10,000 bodies on the beach and floating in the water.

The number of dead issues at the time was 2,000 - this is way below the real number of dead GIs.

We will remember them.

If you are ever in London - go to the American Chapel at St. Paul's Cathedral where you can see the great book of remembrance which has all the names of the American War Dead of WW2 here in England and Europe.

Remembrance Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKdRwPdj3...

Answer 5

He wanted you to feel as if you were on the beach with the men. He was attempting to put you into the battle with them to help you experience and understand the chaos, fear and randomness of it all.  

Answer 6

He wanted to audience to fully grasp the horror soldiers had to go through.  He wanted it to seem real, as though the viewer is right there.  He wanted the audience to feel the fear, the pain, and the agony.