saving private ryan review 24.2

Saving Private Ryan is a war film that was written by Robert Rodat the film follows the Normandy
Landings where a group of U.S soilders have to enter enemy lines to go and get a fellow paratrooper back home as all his brothers had died within the same war. Saving Private ryan is a script that is 127 pages long, roughly 1 pages equals to 1 minute depending how much action is going on. the film itself is about 170 minutes long.

EXT. RAMELLE BRIDGE HEAD - DAY

American tanks and hundreds of fresh troops stream down the
road and over the bridge.

MILLER, RYAN AND REIBEN

Watch.  In a small area, cleared of the debris, the bodies
of Jackson, Upham, Sarge, Forrest and the other paratroopers
are laid out, neatly, respectfully, covered.

Miller and Reiben stay protectively close to Ryan, as if
they don't want to risk him being bumped into or run over by
any of the advancing troops or vehicles.

    MILLER
  Walks to the bodies.  He kneels down
  next to Sarge and looks at him for a
  long moment.  Then, with a steady
  hand, he takes one of Sarge's two
  dog-tags.  Then he does the same to
  Jackson and Upham.

REIBEN AND RYAN watch silently.

    MILLER
  Stands and walks back to Reiben and
  Ryan.  He hands the dog-tags to Ryan
  who grips them tightly and nods in
  thanks.

Miller takes a last look at the bridge and the bodies, then
he shoulders his gear.  Miller Let's move out.

Reiben and Ryan gather up their gear.  They walk with Miller
down the road, away from the bridge.

    CAMERA CRANES UP
  The three dirty, bloodied, tired men
  walk down the road, ignored by the
  fresh troops marching in the opposite
  direction.

    RYAN
  Captain?

    MILLER
  Yes, Private.

    RYAN
  Upham and Jackson, what were they
  like?

    MILLER
  Upham?  Good kid, smart, he was
  writing a book.

    RYAN
  Yeah?

    REIBEN
  Yeah, and he was fast, too, ran the
  220 in twenty-four-five.

    RYAN
  No kidding.

    MILLER
  Jackson was from West Fork, Tennessee,
  he was going to be a preacher, his
  father and uncles have a traveling
  ministry out of the back of a stretch
  Hudson.

    RYAN
  And Sarge?

    MILLER
  Sarge?
   (beat)
  He was the best friend I ever had.
   (smiles)
  Lemme tell you about Sarge...

They walk on, disappearing in the distance among the hundreds
and hundreds of American soldiers who are marching down the
road and over the bridge.

Fade out.

THE END.

Here is the ending scene in the film as you can see this is a lot more detailed to the 

'Friday' script this film had a bigger budget & also a more experienced crew 

i think this is a better script out of two also the way the actors acted out the script just added

that extra effect to the movie as a whole

The script is laid out in a professional way as it has capital letters for each character who is speaking also it has the locations within the right places where they should be this helps with the ideas of locations the script is nicely spaced out also with a line between each action or sentence the way this was written it has alot of directions within the script so that the director has a image of how this would be set out with detailed information

    MILLER
  Walks to the bodies.  He kneels down
  next to Sarge and looks at him for a
  long moment.  Then, with a steady
  hand, he takes one of Sarge's two
  dog-tags.  Then he does the same to
  Jackson and Upham.

REIBEN AND RYAN watch silently.

Here is a piece from the script that shows action with out any dialogue it is explained in detail as you can see this would straight away give you the image the writer is trying to give.




FADE IN:

CREDITS:  White lettering over a back background.  The


THUNDEROUS SOUNDS OF A MASSIVE NAVAL BARRAGE are heard.  The

power is astonishing.  It roars through the body, blows back

the hair and rattles the ears. 

This is the beginning of the script as you can see it is again detailed to make 


you know exactly what is wanted on the opening screen.





The film has been inspired from a true life story when 8 siblings died all in the same war which was the american civil war Robert Rodat the director of the film had done some research and then went on to decided that he was going to use this information and add his own twist to it.