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Thread: That opening scene from 'Saving Private Ryan' blows my mind (Srs thread)

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One of the most well filmed movie scenes of all time. Every time you watch it your heart races.

It’s very historically accurate. Not just in terms of the visual and auditory carnage, but also historical fact. A great example is at the end of the d-day scene when the German defenders surrender before they are shot. If you listen closely you can hear them speak another language other than German (I believe it’s Romanian but could be wrong), which is accurate since some of the garrisons on Normandy were actually composed of German conscripts from occupied land and not actual Germans.

It’s those little details that make it so good.
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Originally Posted By A-man⏩
One of the most well filmed movie scenes of all time. Every time you watch it your heart races.

It’s very historically accurate. Not just in terms of the visual and auditory carnage, but also historical fact. A great example is at the end of the d-day scene when the German defenders surrender before they are shot. If you listen closely you can hear them speak another language other than German (I believe it’s Romanian but could be wrong), which is accurate since some of the garrisons on Normandy were actually composed of German conscripts from occupied land and not actual Germans.

It’s those little details that make it so good.
Yeah I believe those guys were saying basically "we aren't even German, please don't kill us!" because they were basically POWs forced to fight for the Nazis
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Originally Posted By AgRyan⏩
Yeah I believe those guys were saying basically "we aren't even German, please don't kill us!" because they were basically POWs forced to fight for the Nazis
Yeah exactly. There’s lots of little details like that that show how much research and work the film makers put in. It really shows.
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Originally Posted By Ken-O⏩
Bunch of american boats full of soldiers approaching a beach full of German machine guns pointing directly at them...how in the hell do you convince thousands of men to literally float towards their death?

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Originally Posted By dontstopbelief⏩
Tbh OP, I think it was likely ignorance, alot of 18-22 year olds, likely didn't understand what they were really facing that day.
This.

The military is not known for honesty or transparency.

You tell people only 10% of you will walk away.. people are out
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Probably the best battle scene ever filmed. Impossible to watch without getting chills

Been reading a lot into WW1 lately, I feel it's quite an unknown war for most compared to WW2. It's astonishingly mind blowing how brutal that war was.

Look up Dan Carlin on youtube "blueprint for armageddon", it's a fantastic podcast which really put's things into perspective
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Low IQ slave **** falling for propaganda while the kings of modern society sit back and make a ****ton of money to brainwash more slaves to die for them to fight another king.

The richest Jews nowadays figured it out and just have no alliance to any country and go where it’s best whether that be Europe or the US or w/e. Nationalism is the dumbest ****
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Originally Posted By dontstopbelief⏩
Tbh OP, I think it was likely ignorance, alot of 18-22 year olds, likely didn't understand what they were really facing that day.
THIS. Believe it or not, alot of the soldiers heading towards Omaha Beach thought it would be alot easier than it was. They thought that the allied naval and aerial bombardment would destroy all of the German positions.
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Originally Posted By iloveus⏩
Back then everyone was for the war. Everyone pitched in. All the men went to war while all the women worked.

The US Government constantly put outpropagandathat the Germans and Japanese were evil that needed to be defeated at all costs.

I'd say they knew what they were doing. They knew what they believed in. They didn't realize what it costed.
You know this was after Pearl Harbor right?
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Originally Posted By thedarrenestes⏩
I may be talking way out my ass so i hesitate to even post this but I seem to recall them thinking that they had a major airborne force drop in the night before to attack from behind the beach and they also heavily shelled the beach with battleships before the landing to try and soften the nests up

The airborne force never made it, I think dropped in a flooded area by mistake?
And the shelling didnt do as much damage as expected

But even if I'm way off, I dont believe they just expected to walk into that kind of chitstorm
The airborne forces DID "make it" in a general sense, in that they accomplished most of what they were supposed to accomplish. However, they were more widely scattered than they wanted to be. Airborne operations were alot trickier during World War Two than they are now.
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Originally Posted By wickedman⏩
We're lucky that our ancestors established the US as the world power and, sadly, the invention of the nuclear warhead. If there was anyone even close to on par with us in terms of technological prowess/resources and nukes didn't exist - we would get crushed very quickly. There are a lot of countries where the citizenry still has that "die for my country" mindset and they would completely destroy the average cuck mentality the current US fosters.
Strongly disagree. I served in combat arms and I was continually impressed at the ability for fresh off the street 19 year old americans to follow orders and act courageous in combat.

Watch this clip from the Ken Burns Vietnam doc (on netflix, highly recommend). It's in ALL of us. (Very short vid)

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Originally Posted By climberbrah⏩
Strongly disagree. I served in combat arms and I was continually impressed at the ability for fresh off the street 19 year old americans to follow orders and act courageous in combat.

Watch this clip from the Ken Burns Vietnam doc (on netflix, highly recommend). It's in ALL of us. (Very short vid)

Amen to that. The blood of the WW2 generations still flows today, and no matter how "soyboyish" a modern youngster looks-through him into a combat situation and he can probably equal his great-grandfather in bravery.
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Originally Posted By climberbrah⏩
Strongly disagree. I served in combat arms and I was continually impressed at the ability for fresh off the street 19 year old americans to follow orders and act courageous in combat.

Watch this clip from the Ken Burns Vietnam doc (on netflix, highly recommend). It's in ALL of us. (Very short vid)
Originally Posted By Conspirabrah⏩
Amen to that. The blood of the WW2 generations still flows today, and no matter how "soyboyish" a modern youngster looks-through him into a combat situation and he can probably equal his great-grandfather in bravery.
Strongly disagree. Served in combat, and yes, I've seen nerdy nobodies become guardian angels on the battlefield. It happens. But that's the exception to the norm.

I've seen plenty of real life bravery. None of them were done by soy boys. The soy boys were hiding while the men stepped up and took command, saving lives in the process. The soy boys I served with would abandon their posts as soon as chit hit the fan, maybe man the .50 until it ran out of ammo, but not be brave enough to reload it under fire, they would steal other men's cold weather gear to double up and stay warm on freezing mountainsides.

Then, those same cowards come home, and post for years about how they experienced combat or were heroic in battle.
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Originally Posted By sg1976⏩
My grandfather stormed Omaha beach. Said he was with a guy for 2 months prior. They got in the beach and within 5 minutes the guys head was blown clean off. Said he literally **** his pants. Srs. I still have nazi armbands he kept as souvenirs form the Nazis he killed.
Omaha was one of the bloodiest landings. Did he tell you anything else?
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Originally Posted By AgRyan⏩
Strongly disagree. Served in combat, and yes, I've seen nerdy nobodies become guardian angels on the battlefield. It happens. But that's the exception to the norm.

I've seen plenty of real life bravery. None of them were done by soy boys. The soy boys were hiding while the men stepped up and took command, saving lives in the process. The soy boys I served with would abandon their posts as soon as chit hit the fan, maybe man the .50 until it ran out of ammo, but not be brave enough to reload it under fire, they would steal other men's cold weather gear to double up and stay warm on freezing mountainsides.

Then, those same cowards come home, and post for years about how they experienced combat or were heroic in battle.
you realize the rate of ww2 soldiers not actually firing their weapon was surprisingly high right? with more advanced basic training techniques they managed to get this number down much lower in Vietnam and current war on terror.

There were MANY men in ww2 that were simply too scared to do anything. Purposeful trench foot became a huge issue as soldiers would not change socks/boots on purpose to get trench foot and moved to the rear. It's a myth that ww2 soldiers were somehow more heroic and less soyboyish than modern americans.

The only real concern with the current environment is the number of americans that are too fat to be drafted. That's a real national security issue.
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Definitely one of the GOAT movies. I don't even think any battle scene tops this opening scene to this day and the film was released in 1998....

Originally Posted By AgRyan⏩
My Japanese grandpa got his business taken from his family, lost everything, got put in an internment camp and still joined the American Army to fight for the country he believed in (442nd, one of the most decorated units in American history). Blows my mind. I'm his only grandson that joined the Army, when he died he left me the Katana that has been passed down through our family for legit hundreds of years. Not one of his sons, daughters, brothers, but me. That chit hit me right in the feels.
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bullchit way to die because your generals are retards (or, really, because your politicians are using you as pawns)
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watch this and try not to have feels

d day talk starts around 5min
You guys, I'm seriously
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Originally Posted By jhawk08⏩
No one knows how they'd react in situations like what happened in WW1 and 2. Warfare and Training has changed drastically
Actually, i do, i do know how i would react.

The moment i start seeing my comrades next to me taking bullets to the head, or a dude with a machinegun reloading his **** that is pointed at me, im running in the opposite direction. No way in hell im going to listen to some pawn grey haired cuck telling me to just take the bullet to the head "like a man".

Brb im so heroic, so brave, brb nothingness, only darkness now. No thanks Jeff.


It would be different if a country was trying to invade my own, and being all evil and **** raping women killing young men etc, then of course on that scenario you gotta protect your loved ones, you gotta protect your land, however there is no way im going to sprint towards a hundred rifles while i have in the back of my mind "the fuk am i here for im just making some jew bitch rich?"


Still dont get how the US got so many dudes to just die like that especially in WWI and II. Were they super religious or something? Believed there was something else once they died from blood loss after they lose their two legs from a landmine explosion?
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Originally Posted By climberbrah⏩
you realize the rate of ww2 soldiers not actually firing their weapon was surprisingly high right? with more advanced basic training techniques they managed to get this number down much lower in Vietnam and current war on terror.

There were MANY men in ww2 that were simply too scared to do anything. Purposeful trench foot became a huge issue as soldiers would not change socks/boots on purpose to get trench foot and moved to the rear. It's a myth that ww2 soldiers were somehow more heroic and less soyboyish than modern americans.

The only real concern with the current environment is the number of americans that are too fat to be drafted. That's a real national security issue.
Okay dude.

You realize the research done by S.L.A. Marshall (which you're citing, whether you realize it or not) was crazy inaccurate right? Variables in statistics is why the number got reported down in Vietnam and the Middle East. This is normally due to the credited "Ivans" in the cold war, but realistically, it's a reporting bias by basing the numbers off total POG troops who didn't even see combat.

Purposely trench foot is nothing old, new, or anything. As someone who has researched World War II combat vs modern Middle Eastern combat as part of a masters program, and as someone who has spoken directly to multiple people involved in WW2 as well as directly experienced combat in the Middle East, you are an idiot.

I welcome any research our scholarly sources suggesting otherwise.
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haven't seen this movie in a long time!
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Originally Posted By dontstopbelief⏩
I think it was likely ignorance, alot of 18-22 year olds, likely didn't understand what they were really facing that day.
Originally Posted By Conspirabrah⏩
THIS. Believe it or not, alot of the soldiers heading towards Omaha Beach thought it would be alot easier than it was. They thought that the allied naval and aerial bombardment would destroy all of the German positions.
these..
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Is there any way to find out more about relatives who served? Both my gramps served, but one refused to talk about it ever. I don't even know what unit he was in, only that he was in Patton's army.
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Originally Posted By AgRyan⏩
Okay dude.

You realize the research done by S.L.A. Marshall (which you're citing, whether you realize it or not) was crazy inaccurate right? Variables in statistics is why the number got reported down in Vietnam and the Middle East. This is normally due to the credited "Ivans" in the cold war, but realistically, it's a reporting bias by basing the numbers off total POG troops who didn't even see combat.

Purposely trench foot is nothing old, new, or anything. As someone who has researched World War II combat vs modern Middle Eastern combat as part of a masters program, and as someone who has spoken directly to multiple people involved in WW2 as well as directly experienced combat in the Middle East, you are an idiot.

I welcome any research our scholarly sources suggesting otherwise.
I also experienced combat in the middle east and have spoken to ww2 vets. I'd like to see your EVIDENCE that current soldiers are more soyboy cuck like than ww2 generation.
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Normandy beach rush is crazy but even more crazy is how the russians treated their own soldiers. Stalin put out a command "no retreat" or something like that.

Brb you had to storm the nazis with almost zero equipment, if you were lucky you got a rifle with a couple of bullets. If you dared to take one step back, you'd get shot by your own people...
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Originally Posted By climberbrah⏩
I also experienced combat in the middle east and have spoken to ww2 vets. I'd like to see your EVIDENCE that current soldiers are more soyboy cuck like than ww2 generation.
Look up SLA Marshall's research. I'm not doing your lazy research for you.
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Originally Posted By ****inator⏩
Normandy beach rush is crazy but even more crazy is how the russians treated their own soldiers. Stalin put out a command "no retreat" or something like that.

Brb you had to storm the nazis with almost zero equipment, if you were lucky you got a rifle with a couple of bullets. If you dared to take one step back, you'd get shot by your own people...
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