Spielberg and Hanks, however, hope the most enduring legacy of 'Saving Private Ryan' is its tough-minded but earnest celebration of the men who gave their lives defending their country and their brothers in arms. THE RELEASE IN 1998 OF Saving Private Ryan by Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. That to me was very much what it should feel like for Jaime, watching men die left and right around him,' Shakman told The Times, referring to another 'Thrones' character, Jaime Lannister. Saving Private Ryan and Postwar Memory in America.
'I looked at 'Saving Private Ryan,' the opening battle on the beach, where the sound drops out and Tom Hanks is watching men being burned alive and shot to death. Matt Shakman, a television director who helmed the penultimate 'Game of Thrones' episode, in which Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) torches King's Landing with dragon fire, recently told The New York Times that he consulted Spielberg's violent opus ahead of production. Rubin pointed to parts of more recent cultural works that he believes are clearly indebted to Spielberg, from the psychological anguish of Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper' and the disorienting intimacy of Christopher Nolan's 'Dunkirk' to hit video games like 'Call of Duty.' There’s no better on-screen example of how to do that than this scene from Steven Spielberg’s 1998 World War II drama Saving Private Ryan: The moment comes early on in the film.
