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Intense military training for “you have to save soldier Ryan” almost failed the film. Several actors wanted to abandon but Tom Hanks convinced them to stay, thus saving the shooting before he even begins.
The success of you have to save soldier Ryan, one of the most realistic war films ever made, comes to both overwhelming subject, but also to the incredible performance of its actors. And a large part of this immersion is due to a special consultant hired by Steven Spielberg: Dale Dye. Former marine captain and military strategy expert for cinema, Dye was responsible for training Tom Hanks and his shooting companions (all except Matt Damon, for a specific reason to discover below), preparing them to live, to a certain extent obviously, the hell of the soldiers of the Second World War.
In an interview with Yahoo in 2015, Dale dye explained that he had subjected the actors the same training as that to which the called in 1943-1944 were submitted. However, for practical reasons related to filming, all of this had to be done in only three or four days, with non-stop days and nights.
Shock training
Dale dyenicknning the actors “the idiots” (with Tom Hanks As “CON number 1”), imposed a crazy routine. Awakened from 5 am, they were screaming on it, were punished with each false step by pumps or abs, and had to perform intense exercises, such as attack simulations in the countryside. And all in particularly harsh climatic conditions …
“” “He started to rain. They were soaked, frozen, mud to the knees and crawl has become quite painful“Said Dye.
Very quickly, some actors began to rebel. Tom Sizemore, who embodies Sergeant Horvath in the film, complained: “Just because I have to look like a soldier, should I live like a soldier?“, While others, like Vin Diesel, who plays the Caparzo soldier in the film, threatened to leave the shooting. Adam Goldberg, performer of soldier Melish, mentioned a training at the limit of the absurd:”We were forced to play it ‘Method Acting’ whether you like it or not.»
Find out why Matt Damon escaped this infernal training in the post below:
Tom Hanks takes things in hand
Faced with the growing frustration of the casting, Tom Hanks So decided to take matters into their own hands. He called Steven Spielberg To explain the problem to him, and the director gave him carte blanche to manage the crisis as he understood. Hanks then went to his colleagues and, as explained Diesel wine In Empire, the end of this tense situation is not long in coming.
“” “We were all exhausted, all on the start, and this guy [Tom Hanks] Who was a superstar, who did not even have to be there, voted for us to stay. This is how we chose him as captain. He said, ‘The guys, in 20 years, you will look in the retro and thank God for doing it.’ And since that day, we have always been extremely grateful to him to have listened to him.»
A film that will mark the history of cinema
The shooting finally continued, and despite some freedoms taken with history, the realistic dimension of the film struck the spectators, in particular the veterans. So much so that a green number was set up to support those who could be shocked by the particularly intense scenes. When it came out, You have to save soldier Ryan has become a huge success, collecting more than $ 908 million (adjusted for inflation of 2024).
To conclude, Dale dyethe military advisor, was satisfied with this trying experience: “I went back to several [acteurs] Afterwards, who told me that they were happy to have done it, and that it was the right thing to do.»
You have to save soldier Ryan is to be reviewed in VOD.
