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I heard that Kevin Cosner played the role of the German sniper in the tower. Is that true? I saw it the other night and it didn’t look like him.
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I don't think that was him other wise we would of heard about it by now.I've got it on DVD and will try to see if it's him.
*I don't think it was him, because if he was in it, the movie would have been boring.
*Trivia....A company that I used to be a partner supplied all the German weapons used in the making of Saving Private Ryan.Marstar.comGabe Martel
*oops fast on the fingers slow in the thinking.marstar.caGabe
*Anyone else think the swearing and other content were a bit too much for prime time TV?
*Are you kidding? At least it came close to giving a more historically accurate feeling. I saw five minutes of the Britney Spears concert last night as my pre-teen daughter watched, with drool coming out of the side of her mouth. Now that was disgusting for prime time TV. No redeaming social value at all.SHG
*Saw the film when it first came out and thought it was intense and accurate.Too much for prime time tv, I don't think so. I would rather watch this film than Rosie O'Donnell anytime.GabeWar isn't meant to be funny and entertaining.
*Gabe -I have no doubts that it was fairly accurate, and I liked the movie. And I feel the same about Rosie. But it wasn't appropriate for everybody, and it dang sure was too much for primetime. No one can watch what their kids watch every second, and I don't want them watching that. (yet)
*Ron,I would not, for a second, say that this movie is appropriate for all viewers. Responsible parents should take an interest in what is appropriate for their children.However, I could see this movie being part of a group discussion with young teenagers about the not so glorious side of war.Back to Rosie. Too many television programs are being used to alter/limit the way people look at things and events around them through the eyes of one mindset. Hollywood should not attempt to control a nation's thinking.People who are shot and killed one week do not come back for an encore or a guest appearance on another show. It is not cool to beat up on others, no matter who they are. Drugs/alcohol does kill. Abuse does rob people of their youth/innocence. Violence is a problem that must be addressed by honest politicians and we must demand honesty from our politicians.Off the soapboxGabe
*Um, you guys watch Rosie? ..... ;-)-- J.S.
*John, What the hell made you think that, partner?Wouldn't watch that two faced gun control advocate if she was on 24/7 on all channels.Gabe
*She's two-faced, Gabe? About what? I haven't watched her in years; I liked her the first year, when she was funnier, I think.
*One example, and maybe the one Gabe is thinking of...The guy who played Magnum P.I. Tom SelleckHe made a statement about gun control that was not in line with what she believes. Both of them had been public in their statements. After that, she asked him to come on her show. He responded by saying that he would come on, only if she did not talk about his public statement, or about gun control. She promised she would not do so. When he arrived, he had a talk with her backstage and reiterated that he did not want to talk about gun control. She again agreed that she would not. And what does she immediately start blasting him on, once he sits down ? Gun control, and his public statement.I have always kinda liked Rosie. But that was two-faced, devious, and flat out wrong.
*Not only that Luka but she preaches gun control for everyone else other than her own body guard.BTW Tom Selleck is one hell of a fly fisherman and puts in the full day at it when he comes up to BC. A friend of mine used to guide him and was impressed by his honesty to the sport.Gabe
*> Responsible parents should take an interest in what is appropriate for their children.I agree, but you can't watch them every second. My kids are old enough that I leave them home for short periods of time if I run to the store or some other errand. When I'm gone what's to keep them from picking up the remote and flipping through the channels? That's the kind of stuff that concerns me.
*Maybe Gabe said she's 2 faced because of her double chin......
*I have a question about that movie. You remember when they captured that German, and several of the guys wanted to shoot him, but Tom Hanks let him go? Was that the same character who killed the G.I. with a bayonet, then shot Tom Hanks, then the interpreter shot him?
*Gabe,I think I would be happy to see a bit more gun controll, But I will agree with you on Rosie's essential dishonesty. Anybody else remember her comercials for Kmart( Who sells guns and ammo)
*Gabe,i remember that she advocate gun control= take our guns away but she file for a concealed weopons permit for her own body guard because of supposed threats. so what she is saying is the because shes the size of 747 and ray charles could hit her with a bb gun at 200 yards , her safety is a exception to her belief. What a crock and people still watch that fat cow. i used to think she was funny and intertaining until she went public with the gun control stuff, now I dont watch her show and if i ever saw her advertise wouldnt buy anything that porker she was hocking.
*Crazy Legs-I don;t know if that German was the one who slowly stabbed the American up in the bell tower (boy that scene made me so angry...guess it's good movie making), but he was the German that Upham (the interpreter) eventually shot.But I don't know if he was the one that shot Capt Miller (Tom Hanks)So basically, I didn't answer your questins, did I??
*The one they let go was the one who stabbed the guy, me thinks, and that scene's why I won't watch the movie a second time. The desperation in the GI's face--the way he wanted time to stop for just another second so he could think clearly--it creeps me out more than any other scene in any other movie. Usually I watch movies and DW says, "how can so-and-so say that" and I'll say "be/c the script writer made him, duuuuh." But this scene was waaaaay to real for me to put myself through again.
*The German that Hanks let go was the one that shot Hanks.This is the only movie that I've ever gone to see with my Dad. He asked me to go with him. After the movie was over and the theater lights came on, some young'un sitting behind us said something like "Wow that was just like being there..."My Dad turned to him and said "Not even close...If it were 'just like being there,' about a third of the people in this theater would be dead."I thought it a very vivid portrayal of combat. A sign of the intensity of the film was that, while sitting through the movie, I heard virtually no one talking, whispering, giggling, munching popcorn, or slurping soda.I never considered SPR as a movie for kids, a movie for teens, or a movie for adults. It's a movie about combat, and it's a fairly honest portrayal.
*A bit of a tangent...Mercifully, I have no experience with combat, but another film that I suspect gives a reasonably accurate picture of combat is b Enemy At The Gates.As in SPR, the openning sequence is especially disturbing.Rich Beckman
*Thanks Luka and Gabe. Definitely sounds two-faced.
*jimbo.. as some have already said.. yes.. the one that tom hanks did right by joined up with his german buddies and came back and killed all of them..spielberg took the guys steel pot off so you could be sure to identify him.."no good deed goes unpunished"
*Rich,Being very intrigued by the Eastern front myself, I second your recommendation of "Enemy at the Gates"I simply can't imagine what Russia went through. 20 million dead....I know this might create a big stir here, but I believe that Russia, not the US, played the more major role in defeating Hitler.Funny, but during high school history, there was nary a mention of the Russian campaign...
*Gabe, What's going on here? I find myself in agreement with you. Saving Private Ryan is a decent portrial of combat, at least some of the realities of combat. Death arrives in gruesome gore, young men who are frightened use profane language, and if I were king I'd make every politician watch both SPR and the one that was released just before that shows the brutality of war before they make their chest thumping speech... Is it a movie for children to watch? No not young children but sometime before they reach their mid teens they need to see that kind of movie..... they need to understand what they might be asked to do
*Frenchy,Stranger things have happenned.Gabe
*Doug, Cloud, Mike - yeah, I thought so. The first time I saw it I caught that he killed Tom Hanks, but then this time I picked up on the stabbing. Anybody ever read "Billy Budd" by Melville? Similar fatalistic moral."The Thin Red Line" was a pretty good war flick, too.
*Jim, to back up a couple of posts, the German who killed the American GI with the bayonet was not the same one let go by Hanks. They look very similar, and both have their helmets off, but if you look very closely at the uniforms of the two soldiers, the one who killed with the bayonet was Waffen SS. You can see the lightning flashes on his collar. The one let go by Hanks was regular German army.We had a very intense argument at work a few years ago regarding this very subject and one of my colleagues was absolutely adamant that they were two different soldiers. I didn't believe it until we watched the video at work and saw the difference on freeze frame.I lost a few bucks on that bet.
*Paul, get your money back, It's entirely possible that at the reorginization center some officer assigned him to a differant unit before sending him back into combat... The Irony of the situation is too great for a screenwriter to ignore........ IMHO
*Frenchy, you make a good point about the Re-organization center, and if there was more real time elapsed in the movie, it might work, but the battle was raging over one afternoon, and I doubt they had time to issue the soldier with a new uniform.I agree with you that the irony of having the same soldier kill Tom Hanks is too much for a screenwriter to ignore, but it was a different guy who knifed the private with a bayonet. I didn't believe it myself the first time I saw the film, but like I mentioned in my last post, we did a frame by frame comparison of the video, and it's definitely two different soldiers. The bayonet killer is bigger, and his face is different. It's the haircut that fools you.Anyway, if you want another opinion, check out this movie FAQ site: http://www.cinemayhem.com/savingprivateryan/faq/faq.htm
*Not only do I think that SPR was one of the finest movies of all time, I also think that it should be required viewing for all highschool students.... maybe they should also have to write an essay on it.Pete
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I heard that Kevin Cosner played the role of the German sniper in the tower. Is that true? I saw it the other night and it didn't look like him.