The real-life story that inspired Spielberg’s film began more than two years before the rescue depicted in Saving Private Ryan. On the morning of November 13, 1942, Japanese torpedoes sank the American cruiser USS Juneau during the battle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. Onboard were five...
Byline: Chris BrookeIT'S a real-life story of family tragedy that trumps one of the great Hollywood war movies.In Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, a US soldier is brought home from Normandy after losing all three brothers during the Second World War.Now details have emerged of a ...
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Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable war film and, also, a story of courage and sacrifice. It’s my favourite film and my family5(love) watching it, too. The message of the film is simple-we want peace; we don’t want war. ...
And if this person still isn’t convinced that women with muscles can be sexy, then there’s no saving them. They’re a lost cause. They will never see the light. Oh well. Whether or not Tina can convert a heathen into a true believer is beside the point. The real deal is ...
The film relies heavily on the shoulders of Tom Hanks for its emotive power and the all-too-human touchstone we need for films to connect us, and he never fails. His unflinching Captain Miller is perhaps too stoic to be real, but history tells us people got to this point in war, disco...
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Fruitvale Station, a powerful and heart-wrenching thriller based on true events, tells the story of Oscar Grant, played by Michael B. Jordan, a young African American man who was tragically killed by police officers in the early hours of New Year's Day in 2009. Directed by Ryan Coogler,...
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In fact, some MSWs engaged in exaggerated violent talk to circumvent the idea that they were not real men because they were engaged in “women’s work” (p. 430) [82]. In addition, some used their physical dominance to generate income: Blue unequivocally depended on physical dominance to ...