When the allies landed on Omaha the Nazis were waiting for them. ... In Saving Private Ryan there are more sound effects at the beginning when Tom Hanks has got up onto the beach out of the landing craft and has realised what he has let himself in for everything goes silent and he is looking around to see what is going on when the sound suddenly hits him with all the shelling going on in front of him. ... In Saving Private Ryan there is not much music, all that you can hear is the waves crashing onto the shores of Omaha Beach. ...

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The second scene takes place on Omaha Beach, the battlefield of the tragic D-Day. ... The bloody waves at Omaha, the sudden, messy deaths, the slow, agonizing deaths, and the puking, crying, bleeding, gut spilling, armless, legless, lifeless soldiers are Speilberg's constant reminders of the inescapable tragedies of war. ... When I see that high angle of Omaha Beach littered with bodies; it makes me wonder what it was all for. ...

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The D-Day invasion at "Bloody Omaha" beach forms a prologue to the main story. ... Hand-held cameras help pull us into the horror of the beach invasion--as if we're watching newsreel cameramen as they follow the soldiers. ...

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THE GREATEST GENERATION--TOM BROKAW I. Synopsis A. In depth study of people who lived during WWII B. Explored many aspects of lives 1. Ordinary people 2. Home front 3. Heroes 4. Women in uniform and our 5. Shame 6. Love, marriage, and ...

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By examining two movies, The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Saving Private Ryan (1998), many similarities and differences can be found which can be linked to greater generalizations and concepts. Neglecting all differences in time period, perception, character depth, and special effects, these movies ...

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