Over 50,000 sold--the only illustrated companion book to the extraodinary film. Includes excerpts from Stephen Ambrose's books, screenplay extracts, and commentary by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Janusz Kaminski and others. 100 illustrations, 130 color plates.
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The photos and snippets of dialog and celebrity quotes in thistie-in book to Steven Spielberg's D-day film
Saving PrivateRyan are a continuation of the movie by other means. (Beforewarned that the book reveals one major plot point concerning MattDamon's Private Ryan character.) If the color pictures look a bitwashed-out compared to, say, Disney's
The Art of Mulan,that's the idea--Spielberg renounced his razzle-dazzle visual magic inorder to convey a brute reality honestly. I didn't want to shootthe picture as a Hollywood gung ho
Rambo kind ofextravaganza, Spielberg says in the book. Janusz[Kaminski, the cinematographer] stripped all the glossy filters andthe filaments from the lenses so they were just like the kind oflenses they actually used in the Second World War. We shot a lot ofthe war sequences with the shutter speed used by those Bell and Howellcameras of the 1940s for making newsreels.... If we've done our jobs,[the audience] will think we were actually on the beach onD-day.
Time magazine opined that the film boastsquite possibly the greatest combat sequence ever made.
The photos in this book give an inkling of that impact, and alsoevince the intense empathy for the GIs that won Spielberg theallegiance of the leading historian Stephen E. Ambrose, whose stunningbook CitizenSoldiers was the director's prime influence. I wanted towrite about the lives of the GIs, Ambrose saidin an .com interview. Books are always written fromthe generals' point of view, but I'm sick of the generals and theirpoint of view. It's more refreshing to be with the guys who did thefighting. After seeing the film or reading this book (or thenovelization SavingPrivate Ryan), you may not feel refreshed, but you will beenlightened. And you will immediately want to read two other sagas ofordinary heroism by Ambrose, D-day and Undaunted Courage,his ode to Meriwether Lewis.
Saving Private Ryan is, in a sense, a companion volume to TimO'Brien's masterpiece Going AfterCacciato, about soldiers hunting down a deserter during theVietnam War. Spielberg's story of GIs risking their lives hunting downan endangered dogface to save his life helps measure what it was thatAmericans lost between World War II and Vietnam. --Tim Appelo
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James' book, an extension of the message of the film, is a valuable artifact of cinematic history. Inspired by those who sacrificed their lives for liberty, the memory of the images is not soon forgotten.--
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| 出版社 | Newmarket Press |
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| 作者 | 史蒂文?斯皮尔伯格 (Steven Spielberg) |
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