Saving Private Ryan Essay
In the movie Saving Private Ryan, World War Two, is depicted as an extremely tough and brutal environment. In the opening scene of the movie at Omaha Beach, we see hundreds of Americans get brutally slaughtered as they try to make their way up the beach front. As they finally get to the bunker and confront the Germans who are mounting the machine guns, they set them on fire and one American say, “Don’t shoot, let them burn”. So in hearing that and seeing those images, World War Two comes off as an extremely cold blooded war. This war stands alone by itself as it is the first war where people actually rushed in on the opposing force. This war is different from others because it was faster paced, more brutal, and more advanced. All three of these reasons were new and never done before thus making this war different than anyone that had come before it.
In the Revolutionary War, the two opposing forces would literally stand, face each other and shoot, point blank until there were no more soldiers to fight or they had given up. In World War 1 the strategy switched to trench warfare, in which the opposing sides would sit in there holes waiting for the other side to make a move, a reoccurring theme here; slow paced warfare. When World War Two hit and America stormed the beach of Normandy, it was hundreds of men on boats running in two the line of fire. Instead of the usual sitting in a trench waiting for days, or face to face gunfire, the war moved to an extremely fast paced strategical rush to advance and capture as quick as possible.
In Previous Wars before World War Two, the most brutal thing that could happen to you was to get chemically gassed, and they banned that out after World War One. Either Than that the worst that could happen is you could get stabbed blown up, or shot. People did not know how brutal it could get until World War Two.