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  1. contrast (contrast): Saving Private Ryan → The Longest Day. Ryan was far more intense than the WWII classics, one viewer had been an extra in The Longest Day.
    “But Saving Private Ryan was way more intense than the World War II classics of the past.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:58:34 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Tom Hanks → Saving Private Ryan. Hanks was Forrest Gump and the captain in Ryan.
    “it stars Tom Hanks as a middle-aged army captain, sent to find a young paratrooper behind enemy lines.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:58:39 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Saving Private Ryan → The Thin Red Line. Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others.
    “It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Saving Private Ryan → Apocalypse Now. Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary.
    “By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: Raftery watched it with two D-Day vets who said young people should see it so they never want to go to war.
    “If they see that, one of the vets said, they ain't never gonna want to go to war.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:01:28 · WWII veteran (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if): Saving Private Ryan → Vietnam. Raftery can't imagine a studio greenlighting a Vietnam Saving Private Ryan.
    “I can't imagine a studio exec green lighting of Vietnam version of Saving Private Ryan.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:02:13 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Saving Private Ryan → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood.
    “The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: The D-Day opening is 40 minutes without a breath, and the film doesn't even tell you what it's about yet.
    “We don't even learn what the movie is about.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:11:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. verdict (verdict): Saving Private Ryan → Saving Private Ryan. The film is two films: a landing that changed war movies and a baggy, ending-too-often second half.
    “it ends 3 or 4 times.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:12:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): Saving Private Ryan → Schindler's List. Schindler's List is the other side of the coin and does what Ryan's back half wanted to do: reckon with the other side of the conflict.
    “My number 4 Schindler's list, which is kind of the other side of the coin on Saving Private Ryan.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. verdict (verdict): Saving Private Ryan → Saving Private Ryan. The first 20 minutes are among the best 20 minute stretches ever.
    “I think the 1st 20 minutes of that movie are absolutely one of the best 20 minute stretches ever.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:58:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: Bill saw it in a full theater in Boston; people were shaking when the barrage calmed down, like witnessing a car crash.
    “It was like we had witnessed like a car crash.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:59:29 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  13. career (career resurgence): Harve Presnell → Saving Private Ryan. Fargo revived Presnell's film career and led to his Saving Private Ryan monologue.
    “I think it was a bit of a resurgence for him because then he's in Saving Private Ryan.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 1:00:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (stylistic shift): Saving Private Ryan → Minority Report. Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.
    “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. theme (audience reaction parallel): Saving Private Ryan → Empire of the Sun. Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked.
    “is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: Griffin avoided it his whole life, took six hours to finish for the podcast, loved it, owns it on steelbook, will never rewatch.
    “It took me 6 hours to finish watching it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:19:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  17. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means.
    “Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Saving Private Ryan. They are inverse movies: Ryan follows through for a symbolic victory and micro empathy, Paths of Glory is about covering for the boss.
    “they're kind of inverse movies because saving Private Ryan is like, we need to follow through on this mission.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:23:17 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  19. industry (industry): The Truman Show → Saving Private Ryan. Weir was nominated that year but Spielberg won for Private Ryan.
    “Spielberg won for Private Ryan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:35:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. what-if (what-if): Sylvester Stallone → Saving Private Ryan. Stallone's rewrite aimed for an opening like Saving Private Ryan on the streets of Detroit, which was too expensive.
    “The script he wrote, the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan on the beaches of Normandy was what he was going for.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)