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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, and different forms of commemorative activities have been held all over the world. China held a grand military parade on September 3 on an unprecedented scale. On this special anniversary, let's look back at the anti-fascist blockbuster "Saving Private Ryan", which swept the world in 1998 and reflected the war and human nature after the Normandy landings in World War II. The film uses realistic methods and realistic war scenes to reflect the cruelty of war and the preciousness of peace. The series of records and "unprecedented" created by the film are not repeated here, and today we will focus on the situation of a group of male actors who starred in the film.
In the cast of "Saving Private Ryan", we see Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Van Diesel, Jeremy Davis, Barry Pepper, Edward Burns, Adam Goldberg and other Hollywood male stars. More than a decade ago, most of them were "unknown people" in show business, and under Spielberg's insight, they had the privilege of participating in this war blockbuster, and became even more popular. In particular, Matt Damon and Van Diesel, who were on the way up when they starred in "Saving Private Ryan", after this "battle", they began to "soar". The male protagonists in the film are now outstanding male god-level actors, familiar to fans around the world.
P.S. Some secrets about Saving Private Ryan:
● The character of Capazzo in the film was written specifically for Van Diesel.
Of all the main casts, only Matt Damon did not participate in military training.
The producers changed the film's location from Britain to Ireland because the British Ministry of Defence refused to provide thousands of soldiers as extras at Spielberg's request.
● The two Tiger tanks that appear in the film were actually converted from Soviet-made T-34 tanks.
● Although Spielberg reduced the color saturation of the film's picture by 60%, when the film was broadcast on tv, many TV stations turned the color saturation to normal, because in the first two days of broadcasting, many viewers complained about the color problems of the image.
● The plot of a sniper shooting a bullet into the scope of an opposing sniper is derived from real events in the Vietnam War.
● A total of 206 people died on the battlefield in the film.
● The two German soldiers killed in the film at the time of surrender speak in Czech: "Please don't kill me, I'm not German, I'm Czech, I haven't killed anyone, I'm Czech!" In fact, these people were actually prisoners of war captured by the Germans in Eastern Europe, and they were forced to join the Germans.
Edward Norton was once invited to play Ryan, but was refused.
● The film was the last film to win the Academy Award for Best Editing, which was edited using a non-digital editing system.
Indian film censors had turned on red lights because the film was too bloody and violent, but Spielberg refused to cut it and decided not to release it in India, and finally India had to compromise.
● In the 2006 List of "100 Most Inspiring Films" by the Motion Picture Association of America, the film ranked 10th.
● The film was the opening film of the 1998 Venice Film Festival.
Tom Hanks stills from Saving Private Ryan
Tom Hanks as Captain Miller
Tom Hanks is the male number one of "Saving Private Ryan", starring Captain Miller, in the film he accepts orders from his superiors to form a squad to save second-class soldier James Ryan, he is the core and leader of the 8-person squad, in his heart of the army, on the surface does not seem to have considered the question of whether this mission is worth it, has been determined to complete the task.
Before starring in "Saving Private Ryan", Tom Hanks was already a two-time Oscar winner and a world-renowned Hollywood power star. Tom Hanks' acting career began with high school theatrical performances, and in 1979, Hanks first played a role in the film Blood Red Splash White Veil, which was released in 1980. Hanks' 1984 performance in The Mermaid made him popular. In 1988, Hanks starred in Flying Into the Future, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1993, he starred in Jonathan. Demi's "Philadelphia Story" won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hanks' 1994 rendition of the film Forrest Gump earned Hanks another Oscar for Best Actor. In 1995, he began dubbing Woody, one of the main characters in the Toy Story series. In 1996, he wrote, directed and acted in the film "Unstoppable Miracle". In 1998, Tom Hanks and Gary Goldsman founded Playtone Productions. In 1999, he starred in the film Saving Private Ryan. In October 2001, Tom Hanks received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 2010, he starred in the TV series "Blood Battle Pacific" premiered at HBO. In 2011, his self-written and self-directed "Larry Crowe" was released. In 2014, he was again nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in Captain Phillips.
Matt Damon stills from "Saving Private Ryan."
Matt Damon (as James Ryan)
James Ryan appears in the film for less than forty minutes. Throughout the film, Ryan is the most ordinary american soldier, who sticks to his post and performs the tasks assigned by his superiors. In the ordinary, it is different from ordinary people, and the loyalty to faith.
Matt Damon was born on October 8, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is an actor, screenwriter and producer. In 1988, he made his first appearance in the film "Modern Cinderella". In 1998, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Actor for the film Mindcatcher, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay together with his friend Ben Affleck. In the same year, he starred in the title role of Private Ryan in "Saving Private Ryan". In 2001, he starred in the first part of the "Luohan" series, "Eleven Luohan". In 2002, the first part of the "Spy Movies" series starring him was released, and the two trilogy series ended in 2007. In 2007, he was selected as "the sexiest man in the world" by People magazine and won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. On July 25, he became the 2,343rd star to remain on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2010, he was nominated for the 82nd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Mandela's biographical film "Things In The Man". On March 27, 2010, he won the 24th American Film Art Awards. In 2015, Matt Damon earned $25 million, ranking 20th on Forbes' List of The Richest Actors in the World.
Van Diesel stills from "Saving Private Ryan"
Van Diesel (as Soldier Adrian Capazzo)
He played the role of Soldier Adrian Capazzo in Saving Private Ryan, and Spielberg trusted Diesel so much that he didn't even substitute for the role.
Vin Diesel (born July 18, 1967 in New York) is an American film actor and producer. In 1999, he won an award at the Cannes Film Festival as an actor in the self-made short film, and was appreciated by the great director Steven Spielberg and invited to participate in the war film "Saving Private Ryan". He became a Hollywood star after starring in the Fast and Furious films. In 2005, he starred in the comedy film "God Brave Daddy". In 2009, he starred in "Fast and Furious" was released. In 2011, he starred in "Fast and Furious 5" in the release. In May 2013, Diesel starred in "Fast and Furious 6" was released in the United States, and in 2015, "Fast and Furious 7" achieved an amazing box office worldwide, especially in China, which set a box office record of nearly 2.5 billion yuan. In December 2013, Diesel was confirmed to join guardians of the galaxy as "Tree Spirit Groot". In 2015, Van Diesel earned $47 million, ranking third on Forbes' List of The Richest Actors in the World. Spielberg, who is good at discovering new people, noticed Van Diesel after watching "The Thousand Faced Man" and asked him to play soldier Adrian Capazzo in "Saving Private Ryan". Starring in "Saving Private Ryan" was an important turning point in Van Diesel's acting career. In 2002, he starred in the spy film Extreme Agent, which will begin filming for the third part of the year, with Van Diesel starring.
Stills from Jeremy Davis' Saving Private Ryan
Jeremy Davis as Corporal Urban
Corporal Urbane in the film seems to be a bit of a coward, and he did not give his teammates ammunition in time due to timidity in the final key battle. When his comrades were in danger, they were too scared to help and watched their teammates being stabbed to death. He even let go of the German soldiers who killed Mellie, and the Germans passed him by when they saw his cowardice. Urban had never fired a gun before following the captain into battle, but was just a translator who, like ordinary people, feared war, feared war. At the end of the film, after witnessing the captain being shot by the German soldiers, Urban finally realized that the enemy was the enemy during the war years, the war was cruel and bloody, and there could be no sympathy, and finally he personally shot the German soldier who stabbed Mellie to death.
Born in 1969 to divorced parents, Jeremy Davis lived with his mother. After his mother died of illness in the mid-1970s, he was sent to live with his father and stepmother. Jeremy attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California, where she played small roles in several television series. In 1993 he shot a car commercial that attracted him the attention of many casting directors and production companies in Hollywood, and thus began his film career. In addition to "Saving Private Ryan", he has also participated in "Seeing the Sky Again", "Mandalay", "Hand in Hand", "Dogtown", "Gay Juvenile Murder Incident", "The Pretty Secretary of the Merry Boss", "Flying into Space 2002", "Sex Investigation", "Million Dollar Hotel", "Battlefield Demons" and other film and television dramas.
Stills from Barry Pepper's Saving Private Ryan
Barry Pepper (as Private Daniel Jackson)
In the film he is a sniper (first-class in technology), a Christian, and a man of great personality. He always prayed every time he aimed at the target, which also showed his inner faith, he wanted God to take care of him, and he had his own belief in his heart, and this belief supported him all the way. He always had a great deal of credit in battle, but was eventually killed by assault cannons on top of dilapidated buildings.
In 1993 he first played a role in the Canadian drama Mandison, and then cameoed in other outstanding television series. After entering the film industry, he also played the crew member who stepped forward to lose power in the 1996 version of the movie Titanic, but his film career still did not start. At the time, he was just a hard-working actor, not a star. It wasn't until 1998 that he became popular with the handsome sniper who reverently recited the Bible and kissed the cross before each shooting in Saving Private Ryan. After that, he starred in "Enemy of the Nation" with black film star Will Smith, and co-starred with Tom Hanks in "Green Miracle" and many other successful films. To this day, although Barry Pepper is still not a big name, his silent efforts and thick hair are being recognized and appreciated by more and more good directors.
Tom Setsmoor stills from Saving Private Ryan
Tom Sezemore as Sergeant Mike Hovat
In the film, he is Lieutenant Miller's most loyal subordinate, usually does not speak much, and follows Miller's mission to defend the will of the commander, and even draws a gun to stop soldiers who violate the captain's orders. He was strong, fighting all the way from Africa to Europe, and everywhere he went, he always liked to fill the dirt of the battlefield with small iron boxes. In the final battle, despite his own wounds, he protected his comrades-in-arms Urban and Lieutenant Miller. Faced with several bullets on his body, he simply said lightly: "I was blown by the wind."
Tom Sezemore was born on November 29, 1961 in Detroit, Michigan. After graduating from university, he chose acting as his lifelong career. In 1989, he entered the film industry with stallone's "Black Hell Disaster Star", has been playing a supporting role in the film for more than ten years, and is known for playing the role of a villain fanatic, the star road is getting smoother, and has played an important role in many box office blockbusters such as "Fire Line", "Red Planet", "Pearl Harbor", "Black Hawk Project" and so on, becoming the hottest supporting actor in Hollywood today. Married actress Mayif Quinland in September 1996 and divorced in November 1999.
Stills from Edward Burns' Saving Private Ryan
Edward Burns (as Private Richard Lebbin)
In the film, he was ready to quit the mission, but he was a soldier who persisted to survive to the end, he was very confused and dissatisfied with participating in this mission from the beginning, but as a soldier, he could only obey, and in the final battle, he fought side by side with his comrades and successfully guarded the bridge.
Edward Burns was born on January 28, 1968, in Woodside, Queens, New York, to an Irish Catholic immigrant family, the second of three children. His father was a police officer and a fairly active NYPD spokesman; her mother worked for the FAA, specifically at JFK. Burns and his sister and brother grew up on Long Island. After attending the Chamined Catholic Secondary School for a while, he transferred to a public secondary school. After graduating from high school, he went to the State University of New York for further studies, and later to Oneonta College in New York, majoring in English literature. In his junior year, he transferred to Hunter College in Manhattan to study filmmaking and began to write the first short films. After graduating from college, he began independently producing the comedy film The McMalen Brothers. At first, filming began at his parents' home on Long Island, including Burns himself and his then-girlfriend Maxine Bahns, all of whom were unknown members of the film industry. It is a film that reflects the life of a Catholic family in Ireland, and after 8 months of shooting, it cost a total of about $30,000 to complete. After being rejected by a series of film distributors, The McMullen Brothers finally stood out at the 1995 Sandance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Award, becoming one of the most successful independent producer films of the year. Burns later sold the film to 20th Century Fox's Searchlight Film Company. Just when Burns's acting career was booming, his emotional world suffered a cold winter. Although he and Maxine Barnes have been in a relationship for 8 years and the two have been engaged, the love between them ultimately failed. At this time, he unexpectedly got the opportunity to star in "Saving Private Ryan" and embarked on the road of acting from then on, which was out of control.
Stills from Giovanni Rebisi's Saving Private Ryan
Giovanni Rebisi (as Doctor Owen Wade)
In the film, he is a field doctor, both a warrior and a doctor. Empathetic, kind and generous person, extremely caring for friends. Suturing patients in extremely poor medical conditions, trying to save their lives, and being passionate about their profession. His attitude toward life was different from that of the rest of Miller's group.
Giovanni Rebisi (born December 17, 1974 in Los Angeles) is an American actor. He has only been able to play supporting roles in big-budget films, starting with Tom Hanks' Unstoppable Miracle in 1996, his portrayal of the sympathetic medic Wade in 1998's Saving Private Ryan, and his starring role in Boiling Water Room with Van Diesel, another supporting role in the film, in 2000. In addition, in 2000, he filmed 60 Seconds of Speed with Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie, and twice played with Kate Blanchett in Horror Eye and 2002's Heaven. In 2004, Sophia Coppola's Lost in Tokyo, he played the newlywed photographer who snubbed the heroine, and other recent major productions including "Cold Mountain", "Phoenix Robbery", "Tomorrowland" and "Perfect Stranger" have not received ideal responses, but Rebisi's performance is still evocative. In 2007 he also starred in leonardo DiCaprio's independent film The Garden of Eden, directed by actor Kevin Connolly. In 2009, Parker Selfridge, who played an important role in "Avatar", was also a technical engineer and an indispensable person in the Earth Mining Force, he was not good-looking, but full of cunning, and the supporting roles he played were very distinctive, more exciting than the protagonist.
Adam Goldberg stills from "Saving Private Ryan"
Adam Goldberg (as Private Stanley Meli)
In the film, he as a Jew resents German fascists. At the side of the German captive party, he held his identification badge and flaunted that he was Jewish, showing a pride, a provocation, but in fact also a pathetic, that he had done so only to gain a kind of relief for himself, that the dead Jews could not be resurrected, and that his wounds would forever be imprinted in his heart.
Adam Goldberg was born on October 25, 1970 in California. Adam seems to have been born with a talent for acting. He began performing in front of his parents at the age of six, and at the age of fourteen he had already appeared in some local performances. In 1993, Adam starred in "Young and Crazy" is one of the few truly moving works in youth films, and it is also his famous work. He later participated in Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", playing a role that was deeply impressive, and also played Russell Crowe's graduate school classmate in "A Beautiful Mind". The versatile Adam also has excellent directing talent, and "Whiskey and Milk" is a film noir he directed and starred in. In 2003, he directed his second film, My Job with You, starring Jason Lee and Kristin Naressie, among others. Adam was also an avid jazz fan who enjoyed playing guitar.