Tom Hanks Vietnam War

May 24, 2012 | Author admin

tom hanks vietnam war
Michael Medved article question?

Here’s the question: why does Medved disagree with Tom Hank’s line ” if we can bring private ryan back to his mother, this whole God-awful was will have meant something?” do u agree with medved?

Heres the section from tht article:

Every once in a while we’ll still get a war film of this kind. Saving Private Ryan is an example, I think—even though there is a line in it where the Tom Hanks character says, “If we can bring Private Ryan back to his mother, then this whole god-awful war will have meant something.” Needless to say, WWII would have meant something even if Private Ryan had been lost. Another example is Glory, a great Civil War movie about a famous African-American regiment, made up partly of former slaves, and its doomed but gallant assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. And there was Mel Gibson’s We Were Soldiers, the single finest film ever made about Vietnam. But such traditional war movies are now the rare exception.

I personally think Hanks was referring to the character’s quest to find Private Ryan, and not referring to World War II as a whole. I don’t know if Medved made that mistake, or you made one in your interpretation.

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