What do the surrendering German soldiers say on Omaha Beach before they are shot. The ones he reckons they were saying-look i washed for supper?
tahnks haeaps

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Although it is somewhat difficult to hear them shouting, I believe they are screaming in one of the Slavic languages. I think translated it means like: "don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm Czech"
I could be wrong on this one, but I'm pretty sure they are not talking German. I guess I'm going to have to rent the movie again and check the scene.

yep, I checked it, he is definitely speaking Czech, and he is mentioned at the bottom of the credits under Czech Wehrmacht soldier.

'SPR' was shown on British Channel 5 TV last night.

Say what you will ( and we've said it all before on these Forums ), that first half-hour - even on a TV screen - really is quite something. Obviously, I've never been in close combat, but I really think that Spielberg gets you as close as you'll ever get in a mere movie.

Sadly, it all goes rapidly downhill after that.

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Yep,

every time I want to see what WW2 would have been like I check the SPR first 20 minutes.It´s always as breath taking! Especially it feels rather horrible to see the young lads being butchered when the landing door opens and the MG42 starts to sing....

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I watched it last night —again— after watching "The Thin Red Line" and both films got me thinking...

The harshness of combat has never been portrayed in such excellent and real way on a screen as in "Saving Private Ryan". Mr. Spielberg caught the very esence of combat. It remains absolutely amazing!

"Saving Private Ryan"'s photography and cinematography are supperb because Spielberg chose to make the shots in a war-photographer style —with the camera moving at ground level— and grey coloured. Not to mention the music by John Williams...

But compared to "The Thin Red Line" is quite disgraceful. This film's cinematography is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. If you freeze every second of the film you get an amazingly beautiful photography. The takes are in one word: perfect. The music is also immensely beautiful, it's original and heart-breakening. The action scenes are very, very good too.

What fails in the comparisson is that "SPR" is a Hollywood-like film and "TRL" is not. "SPR" is a war film and "TRL" is not. Spielberg is a wonderful director and knows how to tell a story, but Terrence Mallick is a philosopher, a supperb director and photographer and a true artist.

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I have to say that SPR is one of the finest made war movies and is the beginning of a new form of realization coming that our boys went through in that horrible war. It stans apart from all other war movies and I think it always will.

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My thoughts exactly Onthefield!Your pic is my favorite character."I would'nt venture out there fellas,he's got a tele".

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Well SPRs definitely an improvement on the old sixties tv series Combat.
This starred Vic Morrow and Rick Jason, and concerned a platoon of GIs liberating Europe single-handed-think Objective Burma with scenery.
Anyway, every episode these guys fired half a million rounds off, but the only people who ever got hit were Germans!

Regards,
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I stand corrected!

[ 20. March 2004, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: Herr Kaleun ]

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[ 20. March 2004, 05:37 PM: Message edited by: Greenjacket ]

lol greenjacket i was JUST about to correct him too [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Anyone hear this; ABC[network tv] was supposed to air SPR tonight but cancelled because the FCC said too much curse words before 10:00pm.Or something to that effect. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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Yeah - unbelievable - this country, I tell you - you can't swear on tv b/f ten? Geez - you'd think we live in a country full of prudes ... in the mean time, your kids are playing Grand Theft Auto and watching the OC? The world must think we're morons! [img]smile.gif[/img] Oh yeah, Bush IS still president!

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