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Richard Speight Jr's speech at the All Heroes Monument in Tonawanda

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Article by Peter Gallivan

BUFFALO, N.Y. — On June 6th, 1944, Warren "Skip" Muck was one of hundreds of American servicemen who dropped into Normandy to force Adolf Hitler's army out of France and beat them back to Germany.

On January 10, 1944, the City of Tonawanda native was killed in a foxhole in Foy, Belgium at the Battle of the Bulge. For decades, his family back here in Western New York had few details about his service and the day he died. That all changed with a simple phone call according to his niece, Becky Krurnowski. Becky says her mother, Skip's sister, got off of a call back in 2001 with more questions than answers. "She said there's an actor trying to get a hold of me, and something with Tom Hanks. They want to make a movie."

As it turned out, the actor was Richard Speight, researching for his upcoming role in "A Band of Brothers." Becky and her sister began a series of emails back and forth with the actor, telling him stories of Skip growing up, such as the time he swam across the Niagara River. Speight then took the stories to the writers and all of the sudden what was a bit began to grow, and Skip Muck became a series regular.

Krurnowski adds that this 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion will have special meaning to her, taking her back to the world premiere of "A Band of Brothers"— one she attended as a guest of the studio, on Omaha Beach, Normandy.

Krurnowski says until Episode 7, they had no idea exactly how Muck had died. It showed him sharing a foxhole with one of his best friends, Alex Penkala, when they took a direct hit from a German canon shell. Becky says her mom found comfort in knowing that Skip was with his men and with his friends when he lost his life.

Lou Michel article from the Buffalo News

Saluting 'unbelievable sacrifices' Monument honors local ties to "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers"

As some area veterans know, the story lines of two epic movies about World War II - "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers" -- center on two local families.

Now the memories of those World War II soldiers will be enshrined along the banks of the Niagara River in the City of Tonawanda.

That's because the four Niland brothers, whose story helped inspire "Saving Private Ryan," and Sgt. Warren H. "Skip" Muck, a central figure in "Band of Brothers," hailed from Tonawanda.

An Amherst couple, Rick and Lisa Lewis, donated $150,000 for the multistone monument to pay special tribute to the Nilands and Muck for their sacrifices.

"There will be one stone for each family, and etched on the stones will be the stories of the Niland brothers and Skip Muck," said Rick Lewis, whose family lived nearly a century in Tonawanda and became prominent when it owned the Talking Phone Book.

In the center of the veterans memorial plaza, which will be dedicated Saturday, will be a 10-foot-tall granite replica of the Washington Monument with a tribute to all other City of Tonawanda veterans from various wars.

"This will be in Niawanda Park directly behind City Hall, and at night it will be prominently illuminated, and I believe it will become a signature landmark for the City of Tonawanda," Lewis said.

The story about the Niland brothers is well known in some veteran circles.

On June 6, 1944, at the start of the Normandy invasion, Michael I. and Augusta Niland received the first of three telegrams that three of their four sons were missing in action. Two other telegrams soon followed, notifying the parents that two more sons were missing.

Their fourth son, Sgt. Frederick W. "Fritz" Niland, an Army paratrooper, was participating in the invasion.

War Department officials wasted no time ordering Fritz Niland out of the combat zone, once his whereabouts were determined. It was that effort that inspired the basic storyline of Steven Spielberg's 1998 movie starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon.

The other Niland brothers were not as fortunate. Tech. Sgt. Robert J. Niland perished on the day of the invasion, and the next day, Lt. Preston T. Niland died. The third missing brother, Tech. Sgt. Edward F. Niland, was shot down over Burma and captured by the Japanese. He survived 11 months as a prisoner of war.

As for Muck, he became famous posthumously, with his story told in the best-selling book, "Band of Brothers," and later in the HBO cable network movie miniseries of the same name.

Muck was a member of Company E, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and one of about a dozen main characters. The story told of how the soldiers, first meeting in paratrooper school, became like a family.

"They banded together because they were up against so many hardships. That's why they called themselves the Band of Brothers. If any got injured, they would go to the hospital, get patched up and want to be back with their guys," said Becky Krurnowski, a 55-year-old niece of Muck.

In her City of Tonawanda home, she has a reminder of her uncle, who was killed Jan. 10, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge.

"A million years ago, my mother gave me the American flag that had covered my uncle's coffin," Krurnowski said. "It's been in my family room for about 20 years now on display."

Adding a sense of irony, Lewis said, is the fact that Skip Muck and Fritz Niland were best friends before going off to war.

"The sacrifices made by the Muck and Niland families in Tonawanda are just unbelievable," said Thomas Beilein, a Niland family cousin and former sheriff of Niagara County who now serves as head of the State Commission on Correction.

"As children, we didn't hear stories about the sacrifices. The family never talked about it. They never held it out there for the world to see. They didn't wear it on their sleeve," said Beilein.

The monument will be officially unveiled at 11 a.m. Saturday with members of the Niland and Muck families present. Surviving members of the Band of Brothers, all around 90 years of age, are scheduled to travel here from different parts of the country to attend.

The actor who played Skip Muck, Richard Speight Jr., will also attend and speak at the dedication.

A military flyover and reception are also planned, and HBO has agreed to provide free showings of Band of Brothers after the ceremony in the nearby Riviera Theatre on Webster Street, North Tonawanda.

Pete Niland, son of the late Edward Niland, also is scheduled to speak at the ceremony.

"I'm going to especially thank Rick and Lisa Lewis, who are sponsoring this, and I'm going to make mention that this is an honor not only to our family but to all the Tonawanda families who sacrificed, and there were a number of them," said Niland.

Lewis said he and his wife have wanted to honor the two families for years and put a spotlight on the City of Tonawanda.

"The area has been very good to my family, and we're anxious to do some things for the community," said Lewis, who organized a special committee a year ago with City of Tonawanda Mayor Ronald Pilozzi and representatives from several veterans groups, including Post 264, American Legion.

Pilozzi, a Vietnam veteran who was awarded a Bronze Star with Valor and a Purple Heart, says he feels a special closeness for the monument.

"One of the reasons I'm so proud of it is I was in the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam," Pilozzi said, explaining that Muck and a Niland family member were in the 101st.

The 101st faced its toughest assignment during the Battle of Bastogne, one of the more famous encounters against the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.

"The 101st Airborne was completely encircled and cut off by the Germans, but they made their stand and held out long enough for Gen. [George S.] Patton to come in and relieve them and basically defeat the Nazis," Pilozzi said of the division's bravery.

Describing himself as an amateur historian for the modest working-class City of Tonawanda, Lewis said the memorial will ensure that no one ever forgets the sacrifices and bravery demonstrated by the deceased relatives of the Niland and Muck families.

The City of Tonawanda has a tremendous history of which it can be very, very proud," he said. "I still have family members there and consider myself an amateur historian of the city."

The monument, Lewis explained, is designed with enough open space to add additional stones in the future, should Tonawanda want to honor other veterans.

The monument was chiseled and inscribed by Stone Art Memorial Co. of Lackawanna. The grayish colored granite was quarried in Maine.

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thehustlebeautifultraveler · 2 years

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My US Travel Bucket List

1. New York City, NY

2. San Antonio, TX

3. Niagara Falls, New York

4. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

5. Old Faithful and Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park

6. South Beach, Miami

7. The Narrows, Zion National Park

8. Santa Fe, New Mexico

9. Pacific Coast Highway, California

10. Nashville, TN

11. Boston, Mass

12. Joshua Tree National Park, California

13. Maui, Hawaii

14. Anchorage, AK

15. Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, Colorado

16. Horse Show Bend, AZ

17. Austin, TX

18. Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota

19. Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico

20. Griffith Observatory, California

21. Going-to-the-Sun-Road, Glacier National Park

22. Las Vegas, NV

23. Acadia National Park, Maine

24. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

25. Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, Philadelphia

26. Hot Springs, Arkansas

27. Redwood National and State Parks, California

28. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

29. Taos Pueblo, NM

30. Antelope Canyon, AZ

31. Lake Superior, MN

32. Arches National Park, Utah

33. Kentucky Derby, Louisville KY

34. Maxkinac Island, Lake Huron Michigan

35. Santa Monica, CA

36. NASA Space Center, Houston TX

37. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

38. Fenway Park, Boston MA

39. Alcatraz Island, San Francisco CA

40. Drive the whole Route 66

41. Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles

42. Tour The White House

43. Disneyland

44. Death Valley

45. Elvis Presley’s Home in Memphis

46. Millennium Park, Chicago

47. Big Sur Coast, Carmel to San Francisco

48. Eastern State Penitentiary (Al Capone), Philadelphia

49. Tour Warner Brothers Studio, LA

50. Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge, NYC

51. Catch a Cubs game in Chicago

52. Wine Tasting in Napa Valley, CA

53. Gateway Arch in St. Louis

54. Swim in the Havasu Falls Pools, Arizona

55. Universal Studios, Hollywood

56. Catch a Broadway Show

57. Visit the Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC

58. Maroon Bells, Aspen CO

59. Lake Tahoe, Straddling Nevada and California

60. Climb to the Hollywood Sign

61. Everglades National Park

62. Navy Pier, Chicago

63. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

64. Central Park, New York

65. Martha’s Vineyard, Mass

66. Eat Lobster in Maine

67. Go to Coachella

68. Go to SBSW

69. lollapalooza

70. Experience a real American Ranch

71. Ben & Jerry’s Factory, Vermont

72. Watch A Rodeo in Cody, Wyoming

73. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Ohio

74. The Seven Magic Mountains, Nevada

75. Salem Witch Trials Tour

76. Visit Members Mark in Kentucky

77. Watch Talledega Super Speedway, Alabama

78. Salvation Mountain, Niland, CA

79. Hole N The Rock, Moab Utah

80. Carhenge: Alliance, Nebraska

81. Prada Marfa, Valentine TX

82. Enchanted Highway: North Dakota

83. Dinosaur Kingdom II, Natural Bridge Virginia

84. Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo TX

85. Winchester Mystery House, San Jose California

86. Pineapple Garden Maze: Wahiawa Hawaii

87. Gum Wall, Seattle WA

88. Bubblegum Alley, San Luis Obispo California

89. Flintstones Bedrock City, Coconino County Arizona

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wyn-n-tonic · 3 years

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another thing that pisses me off about Triple Frontier is that.... Benny and Will are brothers. like.... did the writer of this never hear of the goddamn Sole Survivor Policy? hello, Saving Private Ryan is literally about the Niland Brothers who are the reason why ljkasd;fljsd THAT FUCKING POLICY EXISTS. WILLIAM AND BEN SHOULD NOT BE SERVING TOGETHER IN THE SAME ACTIVE DUTY UNIT, LET ALONE GODDAMN DELTA FORCE.

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Joe Toye

A post about Joe Toye, our little violent, tough guy, although it is hard to dig up facts on the guy. But turns out our little tough guy had doubts just like all of us. Toye had a soft side to him. This is heavily detailed and I’m sorry for the long posts but I’m putting a lot of effort into this so I hope you take the time to read. I’ll post a shorter version later

Joseph Toye was born on March 14,1919 in Pennsylvania. Malarkey writes in his memoir that Joe was Irish like himself. Joe was 22 when he enlisted in the military after the bombing at Pearl Harbor.

Joe didn’t get much education, he had completed two years of high school and never finished. His father made him stop to go work in the coal mines at the young age of 15. His lack of education would continue to bother Joe.

Joe was known for his brute strength, and as Malarkey says was the toughest guy in the company. But Malarkey also commented that it seemed like Joe had other problems.

During the 118 mile march, Joe was heard signing an Irish song that he had learned from his parents during their resting time. Malarkey commented later in his memoir that he didn’t know what was worse “that smell, the food, or Joe Toye missing a note on one of his late-night Irish songs.....Let’s just say Joe was a better soldier than a singer.” Joe always seemed to be signing. Even in Bastogne, Joe sang Irish songs or “I’ll Be Seeing You.”

Malarkey and Skip were friends with Joe and spent their last weekend pass in London together. They went to a pub and spend the evening with the Niland brothers talking about training and war.

While in Aldbourne, Malarkey had come back to the barracks to hear someone crying. It was Lowery, a southerner in the same barracks. He was fairly drunk and upset. Malarkey (the sweet soul he is) went to go comfort Lowery, only to have Lowery pull out his jump knife and shoved it towards Malark. It was an inch away from his stomach when Toye appeared out of nowhere. Joe picked up Lowery, spun him, pinned him to the wall, and held onto his throat. “Damn you, Lowery. You ever threaten Malarkey again and I’ll kill you. Got it? I’ll kill you,” Joe had spat out at Lowery.

One night, Joe went to “take a leak” and didn’t come back for a half an hour. The men started to get concerned. Malarkey went to look for him and found him out on a roof of an atrium. The roof was made of glass and chicken wire but held under Joe. The drop was nearly three stories. Malarkey called out to Joe, who froze. Malarkey had no idea what was going on with Joe. Malarkey eventually got Joe back into the building.

Malarkey wrote: “...here’s this guy with arms like pistons-toughest guy in the unit, period-and he’s looking like he’s about to cry”. Sure enough, Joe let out everything like he had at the pub a few months before. Joe was fairly subconscious about his lack of proper speaking and writing. “The hell of it is, Malark. I feel like a friggin’ failure.” After Malark gave him an inspiring speech, the boys never spoke of the incident again. The boys remained close friends.

Joe had a bad case of trench foot, at first he refused to go anywhere when approached by Roe. Joe Toye had gotten injured three times already before shrapnel dug into his wrist and forced him out of the line for a while. He kept going even when his arm was torn up after his jump into Normandy. Everyone admired Joe for his strength and his determination. Joe wouldn’t stay down even with his arm in a sling, just a little bit later in the day. Winters spotted him and tried to send him back, Joe refused and Winters simply stepped aside. Toye had even suffered a concussion on D-Day from a grenade but he kept fighting. He was injured 4 times throughout the war.

The day after the shrapnel incident, January 3rd, Joe had his final wound in the war. Easy had just adjusted its lines and had entered the woods when the Germans sent off a artillery strike. Joe had refused to find hiding until he was sure his men were safe and accounted for. He was hit with shrapnel in his bacj and his leg, tearing off his right leg. He called out for help. Guarnere, Toye’s best friend, tore out of his foxhole during a lull to go to his friend’s aid. Malarkey said “there was no stopping Guarnere.” Guarnere was dragging Toye to a foxhole went another round exploded above the pair. Compton reached the pair first and started screaming for a medic. Guarnere’s right leg had been mangled in the attack as well, leaving them both lying helplessly in the snow.

Both men were conscious. Joe simply asked for a smoke and asked Malarkey one question: “what’s a guy gotta do to die, Malark?” No one had an answer for him.

Joe lived to see the end of the war and had his leg amputated to above the knee. He went through multiple surgeries. He was considered one of the best soldiers in Easy Company and had been awarded the Purple Heart 4 times and the Bronze Star twice. He forever respected Guarnere for his sacrifice for him and was discharged in February of 1946. He worked for a steel company for 20 years.He married twice, the first in December of 1945, and raised a family of his own, three sons and a daughter. He never touched a gun after that. Joe died of cancer in 1995. Winters gave a eulogy at his funeral, remaining a forever friend of the man.

#joe toye #band of brothers #hbo war #tough joe toye #Get the guy some brass knuckles #I still think he's secretly a softy #profiles

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Facts about Band Of Brothers from Richard Speight Jr.

•The actors who played the Germans trained somewhere else than the American actors. They didn't know the German's training so when they shot off and someone dropped, it kind of shocked them because it didn't feel fake some times. •They would read scenes in the script to veterans to confirm the events. •Richard said 'the closest I was to the veterans was Don Malarkey, he was a saint of a man' •Muck was said to be from Florida in the script but Don said, 'No that's not right he was from Tonawanda.' Richard went to Tom and corrected it so the scene where Don asks, 'Where you been?' Richard's line was improvised to make sure everyone knew where he was from. •Fritz Niland was swimming in a boat next to Skip Muck in the Niagra Falls to make sure he made it safely. Fritz Niland was the man who 'Saving Private Ryan' was based off of.

#I will update more later!!!#band of brothers #richard speight jr #BoB #don Malarkey #skip muck

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A small sacrifice | The Spokesman-Review

In his acclaimed guide “Band of Brothers,” Stephen Ambrose chronicles the guys of E Company, US 101ST Airborne Division, across France and Germany, following their June 6, 1944, jump into Normandy. By the time “Easy” Co. was pulled out for R&R 23 days later on, it had shed 65 of 139 personnel. On June 15, Sgt. Frederick Niland was purchased dwelling immediately after the War Deptartment learned…

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12 Surprising Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Saving Private Ryan

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Saving Personal Ryan is just not your typical conflict movie. Director Steven Spielberg fills the film with a lot reasonable imagery that a few of America’s most grizzled veterans skilled PTSD after watching the 1998 film. It’s graphic, intense, and it doesn’t give strategy to sentimentality.

So, then, let’s not waste time rattling off Saving Personal Ryan wiki info or primary Saving Personal Ryan trivia. Nobody must go over the almost $500 million the movie grossed worldwide or its 11 Academy Award nominations. As a substitute, discover out about why the remainder of the solid had actual hated towards Matt Damon and the way the movie employed precise amputees as extras. Take a deep dive into some really fascinating details that you could be not have identified in regards to the Academy Award-winning movie.

Spielberg Shot The Movie In Chronological Order As a result of He Needed It To Be A Demoralizing Expertise

By the top of Saving Personal Ryan, the solid seems to be fully bodily and mentally drained, and it’s not simply because they’re actually good actors. Earlier than Ryan, Spielberg hadn’t shot a movie so as since E.T.(1982). He explained that he filmed in that unconventional fashion for E.T. as a result of he needed the kid actors, a lot of whom had by no means appeared in a film earlier than, to grasp precisely the place they had been going within the story.

For Saving Personal Ryan, he determined to as soon as once more movie the film so as. Sadly, he had no thought simply how traumatic it could be for the solid. “I didn’t notice how devastating that was going to be for the entire solid to truly begin off with Omaha Seaside and survive that as a movie crew, after which transfer into the hedgerows, transfer into the following city, as all of us started to get whittled down by the storytelling.”

Tom Sizemore Was Required To Take A Drug Check Each Day

Steven Spielberg wanted Tom Sizemore to play the position of Sergeant Horvath a lot that he granted the actor the half regardless of Sizemore’s well-known meth dependancy. So as to preserve him clear, Sizemore was required to take a drug check each single day. If he ever failed, even when it was on the final day of capturing, the director instructed Sizemore he would take away him from the movie, and reshoot all of his scenes with one other actor.

Sizemore made it by means of the brutal 58 day shoot that was Saving Personal Ryan. Sadly, he has since had an up and down battle with medicine as seen on Celeb Rehab With Dr. Drew.

The Solid Went By way of A Brutal Boot Camp

Spielberg required the precept solid of the movie to take part in a seven-day boot camp in an effort to get a real style for the hardship of army life. Regardless of what you may assume, the actors weren’t given preferential therapy. The boot camp chief, Captain Dale Dye (a military advisor and conflict veteran), pushed the actors to the boundaries of their bodily endurance.

Their days had been crammed with push ups, continuously getting screamed at, six mile runs, and scarce meals provides. This left most of the actors vomiting from exhaustion, shivering from the chilly, and on the sting of a psychological breakdown. Dye’s firm Warriors Integrated additionally labored on Platoon, Outbreak, and Forrest Gump, in an effort to take away “the phoniness” from conflict films.

The actors who took half within the boot camp included: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg and Giovanni Ribisi. Ed Burns, who referred to as boot camp the worst experience of his life, described the coaching setting. “We get there, we arrange our tents, and it begins raining and it doesn’t cease raining for seven days. It’s 30 levels at night time and you might be in a soaking moist tent, a soaking moist uniform, with a soaking moist blanket wrapped round you.”

(Nearly) All Of The Actors Voted To Go away Boot Camp

The actors wanted to leave boot camp. They felt that in the event that they continued with the rigorous coaching, they might not be wholesome sufficient for precise filming. They needed to verify into a pleasant resort and perhaps get some room service, as a substitute of struggling within the components, rain-soaked, exhausted, and ravenous. They took a vote, and all of the actors voted to depart boot camp. Nicely, apart from Tom Hanks. As soon as Hanks voted in opposition to leaving, all the opposite actors fell into place.

“I beloved it!” mentioned the two-time Oscar winner. “All of them needed to give up and I mentioned, ‘No’.’ The precise boot camp was very chilly and it was very depressing and it was very humiliating. It was exhausting, we didn’t get a lot sleep. We anxious about getting sick and we anxious about getting damage, however we had been by no means anxious about these being the six most worthwhile days that we might have.”

Vin Diesel instantly gained a ton of respect for Hanks. “We had been all exhausted, all of us needed to depart and right here was this man who was a celebrity, who doesn’t must be right here, voting to remain. That’s after we adopted him as our captain. He mentioned, ‘Guys, 20 years from now, you’ll look again on this and wished to God you had completed it.’ To at the present time, we’re all extraordinarily grateful that we did.”

Additionally, apparently Tom Hanks is more durable than Vin Diesel. So, huh, this loopy world is extra filled with surprise than anybody might have imagined.

The Solid Actually Did Resent Matt Damon

Your complete principal solid had been required to participate in six days of rigorous military coaching. That’s, everybody apart from Matt Damon. Within the movie, the solders resent Damon’s titular character, Personal Ryan, for making them go behind enemy traces to save lots of him. So as to carry that resentment to the massive display screen, Damon was deliberately neglected of coaching (he did later prepare with different paratroopers in his “unit”).

“I wasn’t invited to the boot camp,” Damon explains. “It was an important ploy on Steven’s half as a result of what it did, for the reason that movie is about these eight guys who’re on the lookout for one man, they’re risking their lives for this one man and a resentment breeds amongst them for this one man. The boot camp couldn’t assist however foster a kernel of resentment, as a result of whereas they’re sleeping face down within the rain they had been properly conscious that I used to be at residence in mattress. So, by the point I present up on set and flippantly ask, ‘Hey, guys how was boot camp?’, that resentment is true there. It created that separation.” Actually, it’s form of a shock that they’re not all continuously punching him within the face.

The Authorities Set Up A Toll-Free Holtline For Veterans Who Wanted Help After Watching The Film

Saving Personal Ryan was so graphic and reasonable that the U.S. Division of Veteran Affairs set up a toll-free hotline to help veterans who suffered from PTSD and skilled flashbacks after watching the film. “Counselors at VA medical amenities have been requested to arrange to help veterans who expertise emotional trauma because of the film,” mentioned a spokesman for the VA in Washington, D.C. “VA equally assisted veterans following the film Platoon, which had profound affect on veterans uncovered to fight.” Now that’s fairly hardcore.

Amputees Had been Used As Extras Throughout The Opening Scene

Precise amputees were used as extras throughout the opening scene (you realize, D-Day) to make all of the conflict accidents as gruesomely reasonable as potential. “We had someplace between 20 and 30 amputees and paraplegics who labored with us, creating very reasonable scenes the place we might use results to make it seem like troopers had been dropping limbs. Some may say it was an insensitive strategy, however all of them did it with nice enthusiasm,” mentioned affiliate producer Mark Huffam. No less than the dismembered limbs had been pretend.

The Movie Is Partly Primarily based On A True Story Of 4 Brothers

Robert Rodat’s Academy Award-nominated screenplay is loosely based mostly on the story of the Niland brothers, 4 siblings from Tonawanda, New York. The boys enlisted within the US Military to serve in WWII. Because of the well-known Sullivan case, the place 5 brothers from the identical household had been killed when their US Navy ship sunk in 1942, the military established a brand new rule limiting speedy members of the family from serving collectively.

Three of the brothers had been considered killed in motion (Robert, Preston, and Edward.) So as to save the household the devastation of dropping all 4 sons, Fritz (who the Personal Ryan character is predicated on) was despatched again to America. The Nilands additionally discovered one 12 months later that their son Edward was nonetheless alive in a Burmese POW camp after parachuting from his aircraft. When Edward returned to america, he weighed solely 80 kilos, however he managed to outlive till his demise in 1984 on the age of 72.

Garth Brooks Turned Down The Position Of Personal Jackson

Nation music celebrity Garth Brooks was seeking to break into the films within the 1990s. He met with Frank Darabont, a screenwriter, who was engaged on a rewrite of Saving Personal Ryan. Darabont wrote a component particularly for Brooks into the script, a sniper named Personal Jackson (the position that ultimately went to Barry Pepper.) Brooks turned down the chance as a result of he didn’t assume that anybody would wish to see a conflict film starring Tom Hanks.

Spielberg will need to have actually needed the singer within the film as a result of he requested Brooks if there was one other position within the movie that he needed to play. Brooks instructed the director that he needed to play a “dangerous man.” The one factor is, there will not be actually any villains per se in Saving Personal Ryan, until you rely the summary idea of battle. Brooks finally walked away from the film.

The Omaha Seaside Sequence Was Filmed In Eire

Steven Spielberg and his crew went to unbelievable lengths to make the seashores of Curracloe in Wexford, Eire look almost equivalent to the seashores in Normandy on D-Day. Wexford was selected due to its white sandy seashores, which resembled the Omaha touchdown seashore. A number of native Irish males had been granted roles as extras. So as to add to the realism of the movie, Spielberg used Irish Military Reservists who knew tips on how to act like solders.

So why journey all of the as much as Eire to movie, particularly contemplating that different scenes within the film had been really shot in France? Irish writer Annette J. Dunlea, who grew up visiting the white sandy seashores of Curracloe, affords an evidence:

“There have been some considerations that recreating the scenes of their authentic location could be in dangerous style. It’s clear when you’ve visited the world that this isn’t only a place that individuals go to for the anniversary of the landings each June sixth. All year-round veterans, descendants, historians and faculty kids go to the world to mirror and pay tribute to the forces who misplaced their lives there. There’s a perpetual sense of respectful silence in regards to the space, particularly the Omaha space. To interrupt this calm with a full-scale Hollywood-guns-blazing re-enactment would have been akin to breaking the peace that the troopers of D-Day fought for.”

The Movie’s Loss To Shakespeare In Love Is Thought-about One Of The Largest Oscar Snubs Ever

Saving Personal Ryan‘s loss to Shakespeare in Love might be the most important Greatest Image snub of all time. Positive, the movie had already gained 5 Academy Awards that night in 1999, together with Steven Spielberg’s trophy for Greatest Director. On the time, the Greatest Image Oscar announcement solely seemed to be a formality. Issues took a tough left flip, nevertheless, on Oscar night time.

The identify power of Miramax and Harvey Weinstein’s aggressive Oscar marketing campaign that 12 months was sufficient for the low-budget interval drama to beat out the epic conflict movie. A younger, radiant Gwyneth Paltrow nabbing a Greatest Actress Oscar additionally helped Shakespeare in Love‘s trigger.

Tony Invoice, an Oscar-winning producer of The Sting, prompt the Academy voted the identical method a median moviegoer would have: “Ryan is painful to look at. There’s no pleasure. Individuals voted for the enjoyable film.”

Spielberg Developed The Movie Utilizing A Uncommon Approach

When growing the movie for Saving Personal Ryan, Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński opted to use a bleach bypass, additionally referred to as a silver retention course of. Basically, this method skips the bleaching technique of shade movie and retains the silver hue. Silver retention offers the movie a desaturated, washed out look and makes the colour movie virtually seem black and white. The visible fashion provides to the bleakness of the Normandy battle.

A number of different standard movies have used the identical silver retention course of. For instance, director David Fincher and cinematographer Darius Khondji used a bleaching course of in Seven (1995). They needed the colour throughout the crime scene segments to look black and white, in an effort to create a darkish atmospheric movie noir temper. Spielberg additionally went again to silver retention for Minority Report in 2002.

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War movies month 1: Saving Private Ryan

Well, I’m in the middle of my first week of living on my own, in a house that I own. I’m planning on doing some sort of “Adventures in home ownership” blog post this weekend, possibly turning it into a weekly series for at least this month. But for now, it’s time to introduce my first movie theme month. Although I do plan on doing more larger scale blogathons in the future, I want to mix it up…

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How to plan a family D-Day weekend in Normandy

The flags are going up, the mowers are out and the cafe owners are stocking up on beer and cider — as they always do ahead of June 6 every year.

The anniversary of D-Day stirs powerful mixed emotions here in Normandy. It is both a celebration of the liberation of Europe — which began that day — and a commemoration of those who fell here in the pivotal summer of 1944.

This year, though, will be particularly poignant because the 75th anniversary is likely to be the last occasion when the veterans return in significant numbers. And because royalty and world leaders will be joining them, anyone without a ticket will want to stay well clear of the French coast between Cherbourg and Ouistreham during the week of June 3.

The Daily Mail’s Robert Hardman devised a three-day itinerary to see all the main D-Day beaches and memorials

On any other day, this part of the world is not merely worth a visit. It is an enthralling, humbling experience which should be high on anyone’s ‘to do’ list. And you do not have to be a military history buff to enjoy it.

In the run-up to this year’s events, I took my family for a long weekend and the only problem was cramming it all in to a few days.

For the Battle of Normandy was not just about getting ashore. The ‘beaches’ were actually a 50-mile stretch of coast — and the battle itself lasted nearly three months. As a result, there are enough museums, ruins and landmarks to keep you occupied for weeks. I have been back here time and again over the years and there is always something new to see or do. So how best to get the full picture?

With three children aged between seven and 11, I wanted to make sure they all went home with a story to tell and a rough idea of what happened 75 years ago.

We based ourselves in the small city of Bayeux, with its charming streets and half-timbered cafes, and this is how we did it . . .

Day One:

The British-Canadian Sector

Sword Beach, where British troops landed during D-Day operations. The beach is in the town of Ouistreham in Normandy

The Normandy landings were divided into five zones which history has come to know as ‘the beaches’. To the west are the two vast stretches where the Americans landed — codenamed Utah and Omaha.

To the east are the two British ones — Gold and Sword — either side of the Canadian landing zone, codenamed Juno.

Since the Brittany Ferries service from Portsmouth sails in to Ouistreham, on the edge of Sword Beach, you might want to start here.

Start at: Pegasus Bridge

The first piece of France to be liberated from Nazi rule was not a beach at all. It was a crucial metal bridge over the Caen Ship Canal several miles inland from Sword Beach.

Shortly after midnight on June 6, three gliders carrying crack troops from the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry landed in precisely the right spot and captured the bridge intact. It has been known ever since as Pegasus Bridge (after the badge of the airborne forces) and here you will find the Pegasus Memorial. This first-rate museum tells the story of the army of liberators who came by air.

Donations from veterans and their families ensure there is a steady stream of fresh exhibits. An entire glider door had just turned up when we arrived. A new bridge spans the canal so the original — still sporting its battle scars — sits in the museum’s garden, along with a replica glider and a beautifully restored Cromwell tank.

Take a short trip up the road to the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Ranville, where more than 2,000 men lie buried next to a village church that’s still peppered with bullet holes.

Juno Beach Centre

Onwards to Canada’s museum at Juno Beach. On D-Day, no nation advanced further than the gallant Canadians yet their achievements are often overlooked. Not here, though. The full extent of the country’s war effort is captured in a series of well-planned exhibitions, along with a digital tour which kept my lot captivated for an hour and a half.

‘Best museum of them all,’ was the verdict of my eldest. It’s right on the beach, next to a German bunker complex. A good paddling opportunity.

Bringing history to life: Robert and his family enjoyed an educational holiday in Normandy

VC Memorial

Grab some lunch nearby and head for Crépon, passing Ver-sur-Mer where the splendid new Normandy Memorial is taking shape with the help of the generosity of Daily Mail readers.

Five minutes away is the roadside monument telling the heroic tale of Sergeant Major Stan Hollis of the Green Howards, the only man to win the Victoria Cross on D-Day itself.

Gripping film footage

Another ten minutes down the road and you reach the clifftop cinema above the handsome old spa town of Arromanches-les-Bains. The view is superb. Ditto the 360-degree cinema experience which uses surround sound and news footage from the time to tell the whole story of Normandy in 20 minutes. Its powerful footage had even our seven-year-old glued.

Longues Battery

The gun battery at Longues-sur-Mer. You can climb inside the gun casemates and children will enjoy clambering over the original guns

HELP HONOUR OUR HEROES

There is still no memorial on French soil to the 22,442 British servicemen and women who died in the Battle of Normandy. Now, thanks to the efforts of the surviving veterans and Mail readers, this magnificent monument, above, and memorial park will open above Gold Beach next year. Donations to the Normandy Memorial Trust at 56 Warwick Square, London SW1V 2AJ or normandymemorialtrust.org.

Skirt round Arromanches and head for the gun battery at Longues-sur-Mer, still in remarkably good nick considering that it was bombarded comprehensively by the RAF before it was silenced by the Royal Navy.

You can climb inside the gun casemates and children will enjoy clambering over the original guns. Equally impressive is the forward observation bunker, still perched on the cliff edge. It is the one they used to film the epic Hollywood movie, The Longest Day, and has barely changed since 1944.

Double back to Arromanches for a drink as the sun sets beyond the remains of the Mulberry harbour. This was the mind-boggling artificial port which the Allies towed across the Channel at a sedate 1 mph. These mighty blocks of seaweed-encrusted concrete are now much-loved landmarks. The busy museum on the seafront tells the story.

Day Two

The American Sector

Of the 156,000 troops who landed on D-Day, 73,000 were American, as was the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower. The U.S. forces were allocated the western half of the assault. Their initial aims included the capture of the vital port of Cherbourg.

Start at: St-Mere-Eglise

Like the British airborne forces who arrived to the east in the early hours of D-Day, thousands of Americans dropped in to the west.

Famously, one unit of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division landed in the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise while a house was on fire, illuminating the night sky. Many paratroopers were picked off before touching the ground.

A wounded Private John Steele ended up dangling from the church by his parachute and feigned death until he was lowered down and taken prisoner (though not for long).

His story has entered Normandy folklore and, to this day, a dummy paratrooper still hangs from the church — much to the delight of my children. Across the square, the U.S. Airborne Museum is full of interactive displays and each visitor receives a tablet to follow the action.

Utah Beach

Half an hour’s drive further on, the Utah Beach Museum is an excellent state-of-the-art visitor centre built into the sand on the site of a German bunker.

There is a wide selection of landing craft — including a replica Higgins Boat — and a B-26 Marauder bomber, all telling the story of a beach landing which went more or less according to plan.

The beach of Arromanches where you can also find a 360-degree cinema experience, which uses surround sound and news footage from the time to tell the whole story of Normandy in 20 minutes

It is also the perfect spot for some well-deserved bucket-and-spade activity. It is a short hop to Saint-Come-du-Mont where the D-Day Experience gives visitors a lively simulated ride in an American C47 aircraft as it flies U.S. paratroopers into the unknown.

Omaha Beach

While Utah was a success, the other American landing beach was a killing field. Forever known as ‘Bloody Omaha’, it was where thousands of men lost their lives.

Well-entrenched German positions survived aerial bombing and poured withering fire on the attackers. Today, Omaha Beach is a bracing strip of golden sand, popular with land yachts (sail-powered go-karts).

Above it is the main U.S. Cemetery, a panoramic resting place for nearly 10,000 men (and four women) which will be familiar to viewers of the Steven Spielberg epic Saving Private Ryan. The film was inspired by the story of one U.S. family, the Nilands, who lost two boys in Normandy. There are, in fact, 45 pairs of brothers resting here.

Arrive towards the end of the day and watch the sunset ceremony — known as ‘Taps’ — bring down the two main Stars and Stripes. I counted hundreds of visitors, many of them in tears. A new visitor centre opens this summer.

British cemetery

The beautiful maintained plots in the main British cemetery in Bayeux, pictured, where more than 4,000 Commonwealth soldiers lie

Britain’s fallen heroes are to be found in beautifully maintained plots across the region. Head back to Bayeux and visit the main British cemetery where more than 4,000 Commonwealth (and 466 German) soldiers lie, including a holder of the Victoria Cross, Sidney Bates of the Royal Norfolk Regiment.

Day Three

Bayeux, Caen and Inland

Half an hour away from Bayeux the regional capital, Caen — which was bombed to smithereens in 1944 — has a huge museum telling the story of the war from the French side, a sombre reminder that there were even more civilian than military losses here.

German last stand

The battle for the beaches was relatively quick. Most of the fighting was inland, among pretty medieval hedgerows known as ‘bocage’. Small memorials pepper the landscape. Head an hour south of Caen to the bloodiest battlefield of all. At the end of the Normandy campaign, tens of thousands of German troops were squeezed in to a narrow strip of countryside known as the Falaise Pocket. Up to 10,000 were killed here.

The Memorial Montormel museum, run by a charismatic English-speaking curator, is the perfect spot to take in the magnitude of what happened in the now-peaceful valley below. Much is made of the role of horses in the German war machine. Their fate is not so easily explained to young pony-lovers.

My three children learned a lot and played a lot. But I made the mistake of buying them each a replica ‘cricket’, the metallic clicker used by airborne troops to identify friendly forces at night. They have not stopped clicking the blasted things ever since.

TRAVEL FACTS

Robert Hardman and his family travelled overnight from Portsmouth to Caen/Ouistreham by cruise-ferry in an en-suite cabin. Fares from £85 one way for a car, plus two passengers, brittany-ferries.co.uk. The Hotel Luxembourg in Bayeux has family rooms from £137 (hotel-luxembourg-bayeux.com) For more information on commemorating D-Day 75, visit normandydday75.com

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Skip Muck Fun Facts Part 1

Yes, he did swim across the Niagra River on a bet.

He had an older brother and a little sister.

His dad left to peruse a Jazz music career.

He knew Fritz Niland from their hometown of Tonawanda. Fritz and his brothers are the guys Saving Private Ryan was loosely based off of. Fritz was the Private Ryan.

He was on the football team. He was considered to be fairly popular and laidback.

He was known for his sense of humor.

He gave Malarkey $60 for gambling (all his money). Malarkey payed him back $560.

He never walked. He skipped.

(Here’s some feels)

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The Sixth Week of Easter

What's ahead in the Bible readings for May 3 to 9 The Sixth Week of Easter

I see two themes this week, which in some ways are opposites but ultimately are not. First, we read from Isaiah on Friday that God now declares new things. Two of the new things were the falling of the Holy Spirit on the Gentiles (our Acts reading on Sunday), and the radical idea that to be great, you must be a servant, as Jesus tells us in the Saturday reading. The opposite thing is not new, but very old: the idea that we must love each other in order to love God. This is surely the message of our Sunday Gospel reading from John. The abbreviated Shema prayer that stays in my mind is this:

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might, and your neighbor as yourself.

The actual Shema prayer is longer, and does not include the last phrase. Here is a link to it: The Shema Prayer. It includes Deuteronomy 11:13-21. On Tuesday we read the first seventeen verses of Deuteronomy 11, and on Wednesday we read the rest. This old thing, loving God, is made new when we realize that God is present in all our sisters and brothers, and so if we do not love them, we cannot love God.

As I was thinking about an image from this newsletter, I was drawn to the idea of salvation. Jesus came for our salvation, and our salvation is that we love one another. That led me in turn to the image of Salvation Mountain, with its simple message, God is Love. Salvation Mountain's web site is here. If you like folk art you will find it fascinating.

Thursday to Sunday Psalm 98 Make a joyful noise to the Judge of the earth.

Thursday: Preparation for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Isaiah 49:5-6 The Servant to be a light to the nations. Acts 10:1-34 Peter has a vision about clean and unclean food. Cornelius has a vision telling him to spend for Peter, which he does.

Friday: Preparation for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Isaiah 43:5-9 The Lord has called you and declared new things. Acts 10:34-43 Peter tells the Good News to Cornelius and his family and friends.

Saturday: Preparation for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Deuteronomy 32:44-47 Take to heart God's commandments. Mark 10:42-45 Whoever wishes to become great must become a servant. Jesus came to serve and to give his life.

The Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 10:44-48 The Holy Spirit falls on the Gentiles. 1 John 5:1-6 The love of God is this: that we obey God's commandments. John 15:9-17 This is my commandment: that you should love one another as I have loved you.

Monday to Wednesday Psalm 93 The majesty of God's reign.

Monday: Reflection on the Sixth Sunday of Easter Deuteronomy 7:1-11 God keeps covenant with all who love him and keep his commandments. 1 Timothy 6:11-12 Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

Tuesday: Reflection on the Sixth Sunday of Easter Deuteronomy 11:1-17 If you love and serve the Lord, the land will be watered. If not, you will perish off the land. 1 Timothy 6:13-16 Keep the commandment until Christ comes.

Wednesday: Reflection on the Sixth Sunday of Easter Deuteronomy 11:18-21 Keep these words in your heart and soul, bind them on your hand and fix them on your forehead. Mark 16:19-20 Jesus is taken up into heaven.

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Saving Private Ryan is not your typical war film. Director Steven Spielberg fills the movie with so much realistic imagery that some of America’s most grizzled veterans experienced PTSD after watching the 1998 movie. It’s graphic, intense, and it doesn’t give way to sentimentality.

So, then, let’s not waste time rattling off Saving Private Ryan wiki information or basic Saving Private Ryan trivia. No one needs to go over the nearly $500 million the film grossed worldwide or its 11 Academy Award nominations. Instead, find out about why the rest of the cast had real hated toward Matt Damon and how the film employed actual amputees as extras. Take a deep dive into some truly interesting facts that you may not have known about the Academy Award-winning film.

Spielberg Shot The Film In Chronological Order Because He Wanted It To Be A Demoralizing Experience

By the end of Saving Private Ryan, the cast looks completely physically and mentally drained, and it’s not just because they’re really good actors. Before Ryan, Spielberg hadn’t shot a film in order since E.T.(1982). He explained that he filmed in that unconventional style for E.T. because he wanted the child actors, many of whom had never appeared in a movie before, to understand exactly where they were going in the story.

For Saving Private Ryan, he decided to once again film the movie in order. Unfortunately, he had no idea just how traumatic it would be for the cast. “I didn’t realize how devastating that was going to be for the whole cast to actually start off with Omaha Beach and survive that as a film team, and then move into the hedgerows, move into the next town, as we all began to get whittled down by the storytelling.”

Tom Sizemore Was Required To Take A Drug Test Every Day

Steven Spielberg wanted Tom Sizemore to play the role of Sergeant Horvath so much that he granted the actor the part despite Sizemore’s well-known meth addiction. In order to keep him clean, Sizemore was required to take a drug test every single day. If he ever failed, even if it was on the very last day of shooting, the director told Sizemore he would remove him from the film, and reshoot all of his scenes with another actor.

Sizemore made it through the brutal 58 day shoot that was Saving Private Ryan. Unfortunately, he has since had an up and down battle with drugs as seen on Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew.

The Cast Went Through A Brutal Boot Camp

Spielberg required the principle cast of the film to participate in a seven-day boot camp in order to get a true taste for the hardship of military life. Despite what you might think, the actors were not given preferential treatment. The boot camp leader, Captain Dale Dye (an army advisor and war veteran), pushed the actors to the limits of their physical endurance.

Their days were filled with push ups, constantly getting screamed at, six mile runs, and scarce food supplies. This left many of the actors vomiting from exhaustion, shivering from the cold, and on the edge of a mental breakdown. Dye’s company Warriors Incorporated also worked on Platoon, Outbreak, and Forrest Gump, in an effort to remove “the phoniness” from war movies.

The actors who took part in the boot camp included: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg and Giovanni Ribisi. Ed Burns, who called boot camp the worst experience of his life, described the training environment. “We get there, we set up our tents, and it starts raining and it doesn’t stop raining for seven days. It is 30 degrees at night and you are in a soaking wet tent, a soaking wet uniform, with a soaking wet blanket wrapped around you.”

(Almost) All Of The Actors Voted To Leave Boot Camp

The actors wanted to leave boot camp. They felt that if they continued with the rigorous training, they would not be healthy enough for actual filming. They wanted to check into a nice hotel and maybe get some room service, instead of suffering in the elements, rain-soaked, exhausted, and starving. They took a vote, and all the actors voted to leave boot camp. Well, except for Tom Hanks. Once Hanks voted against leaving, all the other actors fell into place.

“I loved it!” said the two-time Oscar winner. “They all wanted to quit and I said, ‘No’.’ The actual boot camp was very cold and it was very miserable and it was very humiliating. It was exhausting, we didn’t get much sleep. We worried about getting sick and we worried about getting hurt, but we were never worried about those being the six most worthwhile days that we could have.”

Vin Diesel immediately gained a ton of respect for Hanks. “We were all exhausted, we all wanted to leave and here was this guy who was a superstar, who doesn’t have to be here, voting to stay. That’s when we adopted him as our captain. He said, ‘Guys, 20 years from now, you’ll look back on this and wished to God you had finished it.’ To this day, we are all extremely grateful that we did.”

Also, apparently Tom Hanks is tougher than Vin Diesel. So, huh, this crazy world is more full of wonder than anyone could have imagined.

The Cast Really Did Resent Matt Damon

The entire principal cast were required to take part in six days of rigorous army training. That is, everyone except for Matt Damon. In the film, the solders resent Damon’s titular character, Private Ryan, for making them go behind enemy lines to save him. In order to bring that resentment to the big screen, Damon was intentionally left out of training (he did later train with other paratroopers in his “unit”).

“I wasn’t invited to the boot camp,” Damon explains. “It was a great ploy on Steven’s part because what it did, since the film is about these eight guys who are looking for one guy, they are risking their lives for this one guy and a resentment breeds among them for this one guy. The boot camp couldn’t help but foster a kernel of resentment, because while they are sleeping face down in the rain they were well aware that I was at home in bed. So, by the time I show up on set and flippantly ask, ‘Hey, guys how was boot camp?’, that resentment is right there. It created that separation.” Honestly, it’s kind of a shock that they’re not all constantly punching him in the face.

The Government Set Up A Toll-Free Holtline For Veterans Who Needed Assistance After Watching The Movie

Saving Private Ryan was so graphic and realistic that the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs set up a toll-free hotline to assist veterans who suffered from PTSD and experienced flashbacks after watching the movie. “Counselors at VA medical facilities have been asked to prepare to assist veterans who experience emotional trauma as a result of the movie,” said a spokesman for the VA in Washington, D.C. “VA similarly assisted veterans following the movie Platoon, which had profound impact on veterans exposed to combat.” Now that’s pretty hardcore.

Amputees Were Used As Extras During The Opening Scene

Actual amputees were used as extras during the opening scene (you know, D-Day) to make all the war injuries as gruesomely realistic as possible. “We had somewhere between 20 and 30 amputees and paraplegics who worked with us, creating very realistic scenes where we could use effects to make it look like soldiers were losing limbs. Some might say it was an insensitive approach, but they all did it with great enthusiasm,” said associate producer Mark Huffam. At least the dismembered limbs were fake.

The Film Is Partly Based On A True Story Of Four Brothers

Robert Rodat’s Academy Award-nominated screenplay is loosely based on the story of the Niland brothers, four siblings from Tonawanda, New York. The men enlisted in the US Army to serve in WWII. Due to the famous Sullivan case, where five brothers from the same family were killed when their US Navy ship sunk in 1942, the army established a new rule restricting immediate family members from serving together.

Three of the brothers were thought to be killed in action (Robert, Preston, and Edward.) In order to save the family the devastation of losing all four sons, Fritz (who the Private Ryan character is based on) was sent back to America. The Nilands also found out one year later that their son Edward was still alive in a Burmese POW camp after parachuting from his plane. When Edward returned to the United States, he weighed only 80 pounds, but he managed to survive until his death in 1984 at the age of 72.

Garth Brooks Turned Down The Role Of Private Jackson

Country music superstar Garth Brooks was looking to break into the movies in the 1990s. He met with Frank Darabont, a screenwriter, who was working on a rewrite of Saving Private Ryan. Darabont wrote a part specifically for Brooks into the script, a sniper named Private Jackson (the role that eventually went to Barry Pepper.) Brooks turned down the opportunity because he didn’t think that anyone would want to see a war movie starring Tom Hanks.

Spielberg must have really wanted the singer in the movie because he asked Brooks if there was another role in the film that he wanted to play. Brooks told the director that he wanted to play a “bad guy.” The only thing is, there are not really any villains per se in Saving Private Ryan, unless you count the abstract concept of conflict. Brooks ultimately walked away from the movie.

The Omaha Beach Sequence Was Filmed In Ireland

Steven Spielberg and his crew went to incredible lengths to make the beaches of Curracloe in Wexford, Ireland look nearly identical to the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Wexford was selected because of its white sandy beaches, which resembled the Omaha landing beach. Several local Irish men were granted roles as extras. In order to add to the realism of the film, Spielberg used Irish Army Reservists who knew how to act like solders.

So why travel all the up to Ireland to film, especially considering that other scenes in the movie were actually shot in France? Irish author Annette J. Dunlea, who grew up visiting the white sandy beaches of Curracloe, offers an explanation:

“There were some concerns that recreating the scenes in their original location might be in bad taste. It is clear once you’ve visited the area that this isn’t just a place that people visit for the anniversary of the landings every June 6th. All year-round veterans, descendants, historians and school children visit the area to reflect and pay tribute to the forces who lost their lives there. There is a perpetual sense of respectful silence about the area, especially the Omaha area. To break this calm with a full-scale Hollywood-guns-blazing re-enactment would have been akin to breaking the peace that the soldiers of D-Day fought for.”

The Film’s Loss To Shakespeare In Love Is Considered One Of The Biggest Oscar Snubs Ever

Saving Private Ryan‘s loss to Shakespeare in Love is probably the biggest Best Picture snub of all time. Sure, the film had already won five Academy Awards that evening in 1999, including Steven Spielberg’s trophy for Best Director. At the time, the Best Picture Oscar announcement only appeared to be a formality. Things took a hard left turn, however, on Oscar night.

The name strength of Miramax and Harvey Weinstein’s aggressive Oscar campaign that year was enough for the low-budget period drama to beat out the epic war film. A young, radiant Gwyneth Paltrow nabbing a Best Actress Oscar also helped Shakespeare in Love‘s cause.

Tony Bill, an Oscar-winning producer of The Sting, suggested the Academy voted the same way an average moviegoer would have: “Ryan is painful to watch. There’s no joy. People voted for the fun movie.”

Spielberg Developed The Film Using A Rare Technique

When developing the film for Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński opted to use a bleach bypass, also called a silver retention process. Essentially, this technique skips the bleaching process of color film and retains the silver hue. Silver retention gives the film a desaturated, washed out look and makes the color film almost appear black and white. The visual style adds to the bleakness of the Normandy battle.

Several other popular films have used the same silver retention process. For example, director David Fincher and cinematographer Darius Khondji used a bleaching process in Seven (1995). They wanted the color during the crime scene segments to appear black and white, in order to create a dark atmospheric film noir mood. Spielberg also went back to silver retention for Minority Report in 2002.

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