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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 8, 2005 21:13:17 GMT
I watched SAVING PRIVATE RYAN on DVD again last night and there is one scene in the film I find in a way unnerving and something I have a feeling could be incororated into Speilbergs WOTW film - see what you guys think.
When the guys are in the ruined town ready to blow the bridge and waiting for the German troops and tanks we get to see the US troops talking as a old 75rpm is playing in the background. Suddenly its starts as a murmour but we get to hear the metallic crunching, creaking and tones of a distant German tank as it slowly makes its way towards the out skirts of the town. This sound effect lasts for a good couple of minutes, and being honest I find VERY atmospheric and haunting to listen too - you know trouble is coming, you can hear it but you cant see it.
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Post by RustiSwordz on Feb 8, 2005 21:17:07 GMT
i agree,
over the hill you see dim green flashes, and an unerving shrieking, and a distant thump rattle thump of odd sounding machines... earth movers? helocopters?
then slowly they appear, a tentacle here peeking over the hill a leg there in between the trees... then suddenly
they are already here!
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 8, 2005 21:18:57 GMT
The only real disturbing scene - for me - is when this soldier gets a knive shoved up his chest during that hand-to-hand combat with the German soldier. I still have troubles watching that scene...
-Gnorn
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Post by jo73 on Feb 8, 2005 21:19:47 GMT
Yes! Yes! Yes! I know EXACTLY what you mean....
As much as I'm looking forward to seeing a fighting machine in full action, it's moment's like that that really send a shiver up your spine...fear of the unknown and all that, what you can't see is worse than what you can, as your imagination runs riot.
Like the 'shuddering glass of water' in Jurassic Park too, it builds the tension...
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 8, 2005 21:20:18 GMT
Dim Green - he's the Chinese fella who owns the take-a-way by me. Whats he doing in the WOTW film? ;D
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 8, 2005 21:21:15 GMT
The only real disturbing scene - for me - is when this soldier gets a knive shoved up his chest during that hand-to-hand combat with the German soldier. I still have troubles watching that scene... -Gnorn I know what you mean. When the German soilder is saying 'shhhhhhhhhhhhhh' as he does it - chilling |
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Post by jo73 on Feb 8, 2005 21:22:47 GMT
I know what you mean. When the German soilder is saying 'shhhhhhhhhhhhhh' as he does it - chilling And yet there are still people that say Spielberg can only do 'fluffy family movies'.... I agree, by the way...very chilling... |
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 8, 2005 21:25:48 GMT
And yet there are still people that say Spielberg can only do 'fluffy family movies'.... I agree, by the way...very chilling... Yeah, allthough SPR is patriotic, it also is very dark. If Spielberg goes this way with WOTW, then allright! Show us how grueling(sp) war is. -Gnorn |
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Feb 8, 2005 21:26:23 GMT
And yet there are still people that say Spielberg can only do 'fluffy family movies'.... I agree, by the way...very chilling... Beleive me, when the WOTW film hits the screens and we see a huge Fighting Machine blasting homes and lives out of exsistance, the hood of the machine lowers itself to ground level as Tom Cruise stands there panting after running from it. The hood flip forwards and this stomach churning creature slithers out ozzing slime and someone in the cinama audience will point at the Martian and say 'awwwwwwwwww, bless its little cotton socks' |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Feb 8, 2005 21:31:51 GMT
Spielberg is one of the few directors that can do action, family, horror and monster movies and above all else combine the lot together!
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Post by jo73 on Feb 8, 2005 22:37:02 GMT
Beleive me, when the WOTW film hits the screens and we see a huge Fighting Machine blasting homes and lives out of exsistance, the hood of the machine lowers itself to ground level as Tom Cruise stands there panting after running from it. The hood flip forwards and this stomach churning creature slithers out ozzing slime and someone in the cinama audience will point at the Martian and say 'awwwwwwwwww, bless its little cotton socks' Is that a cotton sock on each tentacle? I'm betting they wear white socks...and start fights outside chinese take aways when the pub shuts.... |
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Post by jo73 on Feb 8, 2005 22:38:22 GMT
Spielberg is one of the few directors that can do action, family, horror and monster movies and above all else combine the lot together! Absolutely in agreement with you! And tension...he's the tension master! The more I read / see about WOTW, the more excited I'm getting.... |
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Post by Necronmaniac on Feb 9, 2005 2:15:03 GMT
One of the ways i thought this technique might be used in this film is if there is a section that parodies the part in the book where the soldiers surround the common upon which the cylinder rests (after the first showing of the heat ray). Imagine a cordon of soldiers surrounding the area and cutting off all access to the cylinder, the camera pans its way among the men who are simply going about their business when a slight breeze builds up, faintly at first you can hear a slight mechanical hum, so faint that it is almost mistaken for the breeze, slowly it gets louder and deep thuds become integrated with it, everything gets louder as the soldiers hurry and strain their eyes in the direction of the sound to see what it is, then "quickly, one after the other, four of the fighting machines appeared" ;D
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Post by the Donal on Feb 9, 2005 19:44:53 GMT
It is certainly a powerful technique- like in Jurassic Park where you hear the footsteps of the T-Rex before you see it.
Unlike really bad movies where sound is the last consideration- you know- you don't hear the helicopter/horde of angry whatevers coming over the hill until they actually appear on screen. Aah- the eighties and TV!
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Post by I own a cylinder on Feb 9, 2005 23:34:02 GMT
Thats y old Stevo is one good director
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Post by Baron of SG-12 on Feb 10, 2005 6:00:30 GMT
Nothing like a tank to but the fear of god in you. I was lucky to be near a real, running Tiger I, disturbing to think that these thing where hard to kill.
Baron
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Post by RustiSwordz on Feb 10, 2005 6:51:05 GMT
Nothing like a tank to but the fear of god in you. I was lucky to be near a real, running Tiger I, disturbing to think that these thing where hard to kill. Baron My father fought at the battle of Anzio in WW2. try facing 20 of the bast*rds with mechanized infantry. My Dad did, his whole platoon was wiped out with only 5 or so survivors... |
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