Examples Of Foreshadowing In Saving Private Ryan

Through imagery, foreshadow and theme “Saving Private Ryan” is able to portray a story about war while being a literary masterpiece.
“Saving Private Ryan” successfully uses extremely vivid imagery to display how horrible war is. In the opening scene of the movie the US troops are invading the beaches of Normandy in the battle of D-Day which is known as one the most violent battles of WWII. This shocking beginning puts the audience right into the heavy reality of war. There are many images of people being brutally injured or killed and is able to accurately show what WWII and more specifically D-Day was like.
Throughout the movie there are many instances of foreshadowing which enrichs the literary value of the movie. In one example Corporal

Upham says “It’s not to reason why, but to do and die” (Upham). This is foreshadowing to how some of the soldiers later feel about the mission to save Private Ryan which is that the mission is a waste of resources and valuable time.
Director Steven Spielberg is able to effectively use theme to help “Saving Private Ryan” become a better movie. By having the movie set during World War II it is already very obvious that the movie is about war, but the movie is much deeper than the average war movie. The movie is great in the aspect that it follows the story of a group of soldiers and effectively shows what soldiers thought during that time and how mentally tolling war is on someone.
Through all the literary elements in “Saving Private Ryan”, the movie becomes a literary masterpiece.

Saving Private Ryan: Cultural Analysis
“Saving Private Ryan” is set during World War II; however, it still greatly affects our current society through helping people understand how bad war really is.
World War II was almost 75 years ago, but war is war and is always extremely violent. When “Saving Private Ryan” first came out it shocked a lot of people because many regular people have never witnessed the horrors of war before. In one scene Captain Miller says “I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel” (Miller). Which shows how much killing hurts people even though they might try to rationalize it in their mind. Also by showing how the soldiers think and feel about war it helps the audience to be able to understand the toll that war takes on soldiers. Hopefully by seeing the mental struggles of war people are able to understand why some soldiers have problems when they get back to the United

States.
Throughout “Saving Private Ryan” there are scenes of extreme brutality and these help people understand what war is like.

The reason the movie starts out with the soldiers invading Normandy is to show people that war is not a joke and many people die for the United States. In a later scene while the US is fighting in the streets of Germany, Private Jackson yells “Get down Parker”, and a tank then shoots and kills Parker and Jackson (Jackson). This scene and many others show the audience just how fragile life is and how it can be taken away in an instant.
“Saving Private Ryan” is one of the first movies to accurately portray the horrors of war and as a result helps people realize how much the military

sacrifices.

“Saving Private Ryan” Analysis
“Saving Private Ryan” directed by Steven Spielberg is a magnificent work of literature, but its true importance is in the cultural impact it had on American societ. It is the first movie that is about more than just a story of war it is war. The movie is able to successfully help people realize how much of a mental and physical sacrifice the people in our military really make. It also helps people who are against war realize that what the soldiers do is not always their choice and many times they can disagree with their orders. There are not many other movies that have as big of an impact as “Saving Private Ryan” has on the viewer. The cultural impact would not be so strong if not for the great work of literature it is, but the impact in which it had of American society greatly outweighs it literary genius.