Movie mistakes for the day: Saving Private Ryan

War History Online has an article about the mistakes in Saving Private Ryan:

For a bit of fun our chums over at moviemistakes.com have listed a hundred mistakes from Saving Private Ryan. We think that’s a bit obsessive, so we are only going to share ten of them:

1 When Miller is collecting Upham from the group of translators and map readers, Upham is so confused and clumsy that he knocks everything off the table onto the floor (e.g., typewriter and helmets). Told by Miller to leave everything except his helmet, Upham picks up a German one by mistake. When sent back to the table to get his own, everything has miraculously jumped off the floor back onto the table.
2 In the final battle in the French village, the Americans are attacked by two Tiger tanks, two Panzer tanks, etc. The Americans use a sticky bomb to turn the first Tiger into a roadblock. If you look at the roadwheels of the tank when the troops are attaching the sticky bombs, you can see that one of them has a large chunk of rubber missing. Later on, when Captain Miller is staring down the second Tiger as it crosses the bridge, you can see that it, too, has a large chunk of rubber missing from the same road wheel: same tank.
3 In the opening sequence, Captain Miller is wading through the sea with another man. You can see an odd looking square-shaped object clearly through his wet uniform. It may come as no surprise that, a second later, he is shot dead centre in that pocket. The object was obviously a squib.
4 At the end, when Tom Hanks has just died, there is a distant shot of Ryan standing there in disbelief. By Hanks' left leg is a helmet, upside down. The next shot is from above; the helmet has flipped upright.
5 When Miller first hits the sand at Omaha Beach, a mortar round blows up behind him. He kneels in the sand, his face covered with bloody water. Seconds later a young soldier shouts at him and, suddenly, Miller is chest deep in the water with a clean face. Also, his helmet liner strap changes position across the visor of his helmet.
In the scene when they defend the bridge in Ramelle, there is a soldier who wants to attach a stick-bomb to a German tank. When he walks out to the tank you see that he is wearing a beige uniform. In the next shot you see that the uniform has changed to dark green, and you also see that it is a puppet that explodes.
6 During the beach scene, Miller is kneeling at the rear of a fence talking about the beach being pre-sighted. There is a soldier in front of the fence who gets shot three or four times. If you look the first scene, he gets shot in the upper leg area then, when Miller moves out from behind the obstacle, the bullet wound has magically disappeared.
7 When Miller’s men are about to take the bunker under the radar tower, they are kneeling on the ground behind some bushes discussing their flanking moves and Jackson is about two feet away from Reiben to his left but, when it cuts, Jackson is now behind Reiben.
8 At the beginning of the film, when we see Hanks below the big bunker, and he tells Jackson to get in an impact crater, Jackson kisses his cross with his right hand, but in the following shot, he is suddenly holding his rifle.
9 In the scene where the medic gets shot, watch where Upham brings the bags up to the injured medic. In the next shot there is some fog, which parts to reveal the injured medic. In this shot, watch carefully as the actor rips away the medic’s shirt. If you look near the neck, you can see the fake stomach vest he is wearing for a split second; when the actor realizes he ripped too far up, he quickly covers it back up.
You can see the other 94 mistakes by visiting moviemistakes.com

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