My favorite scene in Saving Private Ryan. Check out the MythBusters on this - http://www.videosift.com/video/Mythbusters-Through-Snipers-Scope

When Ryan was an old man fretting over his life at the graveyard was the most heartwrenching scene of the film.

For me it was Private Caparzo's plead to his friend while he bleeds to death that moved me most.

Most heartwrenching: the medic dying in the arms of his comrades, trying to instruct them on how to save him, asking for more morphine, screaming for his mom.

Favorite: too many really. This sniper scene, the beach rush, the collapsing wall scene, the final battle. Though something that struck me as particularly serene was the short period before the final battle, them sitting around listening to Édith Piaf..

I always liked Paul Giamatti's scene, where he plays a dutiful older guy shuffling around in the rain and mud with bad ankles.

Loved the movie but I hesitate to upvote anything which really ought to be watched in widescreen surround sound. This movie is basically the greatest surround sound mix ever created, after all. I don't think The Sift is the right place to showcase this type of content.

I see it more as sharing a favorite scene, discussing the movie, etc. I mean fer god's sake, it's a single scene from a long-ass movie playing in a tiny square on your screen; obviously it's not the same thing as watching the movie, or any movie for that fact, on a big screen with full surround sound.

It's video sift, not cinema sift.

A certain collective disagrees with you.

It's interesting to note how the character of the sniper appears to wait until the German is looking directly at him, so that he can attempt this difficult shot. That he'd wait for this moment, despite the fact that such a delay prevents any help (however fruitless) from reaching his squaddie... I wouldn't call it arrogance or cockyness necessarily, judging from his dialogue elsewhere in the film - I get the feeling that he's actually more devoted to 'refining his craft'.

Given his nature (that sort of disconnect with reality), it really fits his mould and I think greatly adds to the depth of this machine-like character.

Personally I believe that he couldn't see the enemy sniper from that distance due to the rain and darkness within the tower, when the enemy sniper scoped him he saw the glint of the scope and fired at that.

Though really the timing is more Spielberg dramatizing the event more then anything else.

I'm all for discussing the films and clips online, I just try not to pay too much attention to the actual flash video clip because it's like looking at a photocopy of a fax of the Mona Lisa.

He shawt him!

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