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0:00
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Continuity |
when cpt miller makes it ashore, he is seeking refuge behing a metal tank obstacle called hedgehog. he is on the right side of it. he is deafened by shellshock and looks around slowly...a young fella screaming behind another hedgehog, three men wiped out in a flamethrower-tank explosion...then miller looks to his left and sees a landing craft on fire with guys bailing out of it in flames. notice gis neat unobstructed view. where did the hedgehog go which should have blocked his view to his left altogether? |
lorant |
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0:00
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Continuity |
The German Tiger tank in the movie is actually a Russian T55 not a T34.This type of tank was built in the Sixties and was used by the Iraqi forces in the gulf war.The movie industry commissioned it to be built.It is a good copy but the tracks are too narrow and the Road wheels are not in two intermeshing rows as on a proper Tiger.The front drive wheel is tiny compared to a tigers less than half the proper size.The Turret is too big for the tank body.Also the belly of the tank is too high because the T55 was a much lighter tank than the Tiger. |
atomtaylor |
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0:00
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Continuity |
The scene where the guys are in the landing craft one of the guys has a resin helmet, it has rivits on the side to attach the stap fittings. |
SPR Props |
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0:00
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Continuity |
In the landing craft, Sarge has "Army Assault Gas Mask" written on the bag. In the nex scene it has changed from sraight across to "Army Assault" above "Gas Mask" |
spr props |
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0:00
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Continuity |
when tom hanks is searching the remaining passing paratroops and french refugees, for ryan, coming across the crashed glider, after checking the dog tags scene, if you look closely one of the soldiers walks by twice, hes a young italian guy! |
nigzzy |
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0:02
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Continuity |
When old Private Ryan is walking to see the grave of Captain Miller the man behind him in the blue shirt has a camera around his neck and has his hands in his pocket, then in the next shot he is all of a sudden holding the camera and taking a picture of Ryan as he is walking. |
wallywood |
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0:02
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Continuity |
When the old Ryan is walking along the rows of graves, you see that his jacket is blowing open against his arm. It then cuts to a close-up, and the jacket is flat against his chest. |
wallywood |
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0:04
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Miscellaneous |
The door of the landing craft opens and a soldier is immediately shot in the head. As he goes down his eyes close, open and close again. |
wallywood |
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0:05
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Visual |
Cpt 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 but a second later he is shot dead centre of the pocket. The object was obviously a charge. |
wallywood |
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0:06
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Fact |
Tom Hanks arrives at the beaches. But the strange thing is that the beaches weren't taken until invasion wave 3. There were 3 waves of invasion waves. The first wave were all but slaughtered...few of the men survived. But because there are no dead bodies on the beaches when Tom Hanks and his men arrive we assume he is with the first wave. But Tom Hanks and his invasion wave take the beaches. |
wallywood |
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0:06
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Miscellaneous |
The guy that Tom Hanks is dragging through the water dies. But then you can see him again various times throughout the film, for example when he asks Tom Hanks where the rallying point is. |
wallywood |
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0:07
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Fact |
Anyone who has actually fired a rifle or machine gun will tell you a weapon's recoil is quite powerful. Yet everyone who fires a weapon throughout the film, shows little or no recoil while firing the weapon. Hollywood firearm blanks cannot create the same effect as a real bullet. |
Epsilon |
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0:09
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Visual |
As the soldiers are invading the beach, two unfortunate people are hit by a mortar and go flying into the air. The soldier on the right crawls back onto his feet. Notice the handle of his shovel strapped on his back, it is bent like a banana. Obviously made of rubber to protect the stunt man. |
Epsilon |
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0:10
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Continuity |
When Captain Miller is looking around dazed and the sound has faded out, notice that his chin strap has become loose and barely hanging on the front of his helmet. When the sound fades back in, his chin strap is strapped tightly to the helmet. |
Epsilon |
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0:11
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Continuity |
Captain Miller is talking to another soldier about field operations. During this conversation, a soldier gets hit many times with bullets. One bullet hits his leg exposing blood and flesh through the hole. After Captain Miller throws the typewriter down and continues to sieze the beach, the soldier's leg wound has vanished. |
Epsilon |
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0:12
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Visual |
when captain miller speaks to a soldier from the 101st medical betallion (dday, notice that there is a soldier on the right hand side just sitting there. notice that when he gets shot in the head, his reaction in slow to the shot. realisticly, he would have reacted instantaneously to the shot reaching his head. |
panzerschreck |
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0:17
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Continuity |
The squad is preparing the bangalores to blast open the concrete wall. The soldier on the right side is looking at the bangalores as they are being moved. The very next shot, he is looking towards the bunker as a bullet skims the surface of his helmet. |
Epsilon |
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0:21
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Visual |
In the Omaha Beach fight when the soldiers are ordered to gather more weapons and ammo, there is a massive explosion shortly after - if you look closely you can see the wires used to pull the unfortunate victims into the air. |
wallywood |
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0:21
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Fact |
When jackson fires his first shot, hitting the german occupying an mg42, notice that when the german is hit blood comes out of his neck, but the next shot shows the german with his head back and blood spraying from his face. obviously if he were shot in the neck, the bullett would pass through the main artery, hitting the back of the oesaphagus and out if his neck again. the angle at which jackson shoots the german indicates the bullett would not have passed through his face, resulting in blood only being lost through the jugular vein and not the face. |
panzerschreck |
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0:28
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Miscellaneous |
just after the announcement of dog one being sucessfully opened two soldiers are shown to come out of a trench with their arms raised above their head, and two american soldiers proceed towards them yelling 'what i cant undestand you' at them. when the american on the left fires at the german soldier, he is immediatlely hit in the chest but on the next shot it sohws and close up of his face and their appears to be a gunshot wound between his eyes. |
panzerschreck |
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0:30
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Fact |
We're told that Ryan's brothers were members of the 29th before the Sullivan brothers were killed. After that they were split up. It's doubtful that all four would have been assigned to the 29th in the first place, as the 29th was mostly comprised of Virginia National Guard troops as the cadre. |
wallywood |
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0:35
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Continuity |
After the taking of the beaches, and Tom Hanks returns for revised orders, the fleet in the background appears and then disappears. |
wallywood |
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0:35
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Continuity |
If you look closely at the scene in town when the wall collapses and they have the shoot out with the Germans...you know. Cpt. Miller turns around in a hurry and aims his Thompson right? Well in the next moment you see the team doing the same thing. In the background, little behind to his left from Sgt. Horvath you find our good Cpt. Miller again (dont know how he ended up there from the front)raising his Thompson for the second time within a slight moment. |
lorant |
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0:37
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Continuity |
Tom Hanks is collecting Jeremy Davies from the group of translators, he is so confused and clumsy that he knocks everything off the table onto the floor e.g. typewriter & helmets. Told by Miller to leave everything except his helmet, he 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. |
wallywood |
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0:46
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Fact |
The US troops in the movie often call "Thunder" followed by the response from another friendly "Flash" in order to announce their presence. However, the actual order was "Flash" followed by "Thunder". |
lafeeshmeister |
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0:48
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Continuity |
When they go to find Private Ryan there are 8 of them, when they go to a French town and the guy picks up the little girl and he gets killed there are 7. A few scenes later they show all 8 of them marching on to the next town. |
wallywood |
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0:50
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Continuity |
When Tom Hanks meets up with the first Private Ryan, his squad has just passed through a torrential downpour, soaking all of their uniforms. The rain has stopped when he sits to interview the mistaken private Ryan and the ground is still wet, but Hanks's uniform is bone dry. |
wallywood |
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1:05
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Continuity |
Agreat movie mistake here, when you see the private put the sticky charges on the tank you can see that they rehearsed it because the tank has grease marks from previous takes. |
lancer |
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1:11
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Continuity |
When they first enter the field hospital, look at the side of the glider. By the door, there is no dead body. When they come back, there is a body resting against the glider. |
wallywood |
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1:18
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Continuity |
The group of eight has already been reduced by one when the guy gets killed after trying to save the child. But when there is a long shot of the soldiers walking through the field, there are eight figures. |
wallywood |
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1:20
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Fact |
When the team in search of Ryan attacks the German radar station, as they are running we see dead cows strewn about. The hair on the cows is matted and they are dirty, suggesting they have been dead some time. When they are hit with bullets however, they bleed, which would not happen. |
wallywood |
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1:25
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Visual |
When the medic gets shot, watch the shot where Upham brings the bags up to the injured medic. The next shot there is some fog which then reveals the injured medic. In this shot, watch carefully as the cast 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 realises he ripped to far up, he quickly covers it back up. |
wallywood |
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1:27
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Continuity |
Captain Miller's squad is running to take the radio tower and Corporal Upham is hiding behind a dead cow watching everything through a sniper scope. When he first takes it out and looks through it, it is tilted with his right hand in front of the left. Next shot of him, the scope is being held straight up and his left hand in behind the right. |
Epsilon |
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1:28
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Fact |
The American soldiers are throwing frag grenades at the Germans, the German are throwing them back, and huge explosions result. However, U.S. fragmentation grenades hardly produce any visible explosion at all! The deadliness comes from the flying fragments of metal from the grenade body. Gigantic grenade explosions are a pure Hollywood trait. |
Epsilon |
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1:30
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Continuity |
T/4 Medic Wade gets shot several times in the chest and the squad is working hard on him. Blood starts to pour from his mouth. A lower angled shot shows no blood. Then it goes back to the original angle where the blood has reappeared around his mouth. |
Epsilon |
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1:30
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Continuity |
When the GIs are walking in the feilds their bayonet handles are facing twords the back, but in the scenes where there is fighting or rain the handles are facing forwards. The ones facing forwards are stunt Bayonets molded as one piece, I know this because I have one. |
SPR Props |
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1:38
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Fact |
The Tiger tanks portrayed in the movie are actually Soviet T-34s. You could tell by looking at their wheels. Real Tigers had interleaved wheels. |
wallywood |
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1:47
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Visual |
during the battle of ramelle, when their objective is to blow the bridge, notice when the first para goes to place a sticky bomb on the tank, then on the next shot it shows him standing there holding it, and just before he blows himself up, the para's body appears all flimsy and weak, just like a dummy would look like |
panzerschreck |
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1:53
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Miscellaneous |
When the American soldiers are in the village listening to music, look at the stone pillars either side of the doorway, the bullet patterns are all the same on each stone block. No doubt the same mould was used in production. |
wallywood |
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1:55
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Visual |
While the Americans listen to a French record, a large pile of rubble can be seen in the background. The camera then cuts to a face shot of one of the soldiers, which gives a closer view of the rubble; and just above his shoulder can be seen a black shiny plastic rubbish bin lid from the props department. |
wallywood |
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1:59
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Plot |
During Ryan's story about his brothers, he finishes by saying that was the last time they were all together, and his oldest brother went off to basic training the next day. However, when his mother is notified of her sons' deaths, there is a picture on the desk of the four brothers together in uniform. |
wallywood |
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2:04
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Fact |
During the battle of ramelle private ryan and capt miller were using mortar rounds as makeshift grenades. After removing the fuse arming wire they hit the mortar round hard on the mortar baseplate (activating the fuse.)Then thrown at the advancing germans. capt miller and ryan had 100% success with exploding the mortar round but in reality the mortar rounds would have needed impact on their igniter heads to explode properly and you'd think that 2 soldiers desparetly trying to defend themselves wouldn't have been accurate enough to penetrate the ignition heads everytime. |
panzerschreck |
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2:08
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Visual |
As the two American soldiers slap their grease coated "sticky bombs" on the passing German Tiger tank, you can clearly see two identically shaped grease stains on the first two wheels. |
wallywood |
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2:10
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Miscellaneous |
Just after the paratroopers get shot into bits on top of the tank, the Germans overrun the position and the good guys are falling back rapidly. Two paratroopers are agonizing on the ground as Germans run past them. One of them stops to shot the poor para point blank through the back. Notice how it happens. The German point the gun about two feet off his target yet the bullet blows right through the center of the paratrooper. Same happens when Miller and Ryan are throwing the mortar rounds around notice how Ryan is throwing one at the panzershreck crew running by. He clearly throws it in front of him as far as he can yet the grenade blows up conveniently to the right of him way off course just to put the panzershreck crew out of business. |
lorant |
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2:10
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Fact |
When Parker and Jackson are in the bell tower; Parker say's he is out of 30 cailber ammo. In the next instant Parker is shown with a full chain of ammo. |
RobKru |
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2:18
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Visual |
The soldiers are running away from the German advancement. A German soldier runs up with a rocket launcher and kneels down to fire it. Next shot, the explosion throws an airborne soldier through a window. If you look carefully at the ground where he is thrown, you can see the hydraulic launcher that is used to hurl him into the air and through the window. |
Epsilon |
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2:21
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Continuity |
Corporal Upham runs to take cover behind a building's pillar and watches as a squad of German soldiers approach him. The camera moves to a close-up of him. The chains of 30 caliber ammunition hanging around his neck are in much disorder. One bullet even falls out. The following interior scene with Upham, the ammunition is in perfect order around his neck and the missing bullet is back in the chain. |
Epsilon |
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2:22
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Visual |
Private Mellish is inside the building with the giant hole in the wall. Directly after his friend gets shot in the neck, a German soldier reaches around the doorway and fires his submachine gun randomly into the room. Mellish then fires into the wall striking hitting the soldier. However, notice that the bullet hole is actually higher than the German soldier's head when he falls. The second bullet hole would have been directly on his head. So, one can assume that the actor moved too early. |
Epsilon |
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2:25
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Fact |
as the Germans invade in the last scene.Capt ...... is help off of the bridge and sat down next to Sgt ....... above his head is a Cheiftain Tank Track link. Cheiftain wasn't around until late 60's early 70's |
nobbyhall |
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2:29
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Visual |
In the original standard screen recording where Sgt. Horvath is running across the bridge with his bazooka, a camera moving on a dolly and the operator are clearly in view at the bottom of the screen! However, in the theatrical and dvd widescreen versions of the film, it was cropped out. Look out for it on broadcast television! |
Epsilon |
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2:45
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Fact |
When the track on the tiger tank is blown off in saving Private Ryan, did you notice the coat hangar holding the links together. As the track breaks, you see the wire go by. |
simon wilkinson |