“Saving Private Ryan” earned Steven Spielberg his second Academy Award for best director, and deservedly so.
It’s one of the greatest war movies of all time.
Even those who weren’t enamored of the overall film back in 1998 had to concede that its depiction of the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy during World War II was an impressive technical feat.Given the visceral impact of that sequence, you might be surprised to learn that Spielberg did not storyboard it or plan out elaborate shot lists for it beforehand. He also won the DGA (Director’s Guild of America) Award for “Saving Private Ryan,” and years later an issue…The post The Impressive Story of How Saving Private Ryan’s D-Day Sequence Was Shot appeared first on /Film.
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