... -wrenching story with excellent cinematography. "Saving Private Ryan" is one of the most realistic war movies ever created. The opening scene is Omaha beach, on the Normandy coast of France, on D-Day, June 6,1944. The troops are arriving at the beach in the LCVP boats. The young boys are let out in the ocean (the boats can't go to shore because of the ... it was fake"(SPR). Saving Private Ryan does have some parts that are purely movie. In the opening scene Cpt. Miller and his men secure the beach very quickly. In reality the GI's didn't secure the beach until nightfall (D-day museum). A...

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