April 6, 1997, Ireland, County Wexford, East Kurakro Village, Balinesk Beach.

Set professionals from Hollywood are guiding local workers to build beach fortifications using props shipped from the United States to prepare for the reconstruction of the shore fortifications built by the Germans on the Omaha Beach in France in 1944.

Not far from the beach, in another camp, the main actors of "Save Private Ryan" are undergoing military training.

Further apart, there is a base for actors who play ordinary soldiers to train.

The conditions in this campground near the beach are much better than there, with at least dry beds and separate tents.

"Hei!QB, what did you say to Shit Dell just now?"

Tom Seitzmore, who plays the Chief of the Sergeant, catches up with Bai Quinn, who just walked out of the instructor's tent, and blocks his way with his chest straight, with fierce eyes and bad face.

Bai Quinn was so helpless that he was tangled by this guy with a meaty face and like a bulldog. He sighed and said, "I'm going to complain about the chef in the camp. The Irish food is too greasy, stewed meat, grilled trousers, big sausages, and the mashed potatoes that are full of gravy and fat..."

Hearing this, Tom Sezmore's saliva flowed down from the corners of his eyes without any composure.

After I quit drugs, in this camp where all men are all men, I rely on these delicacies to provide confidence in survival. Are you actually complaining that it’s too greasy?

It’s simply unforgivable, it’s even more unforgivable than quietly whispering him to hide the cannabis leaves in his pillow!

Tom Seitzmore's role as Chief Secretary also went through some twists and turns. When the contract was signed, someone reported to Spielberg that Tom Seitzmore still had a situation of relying on Lipin.

After testing, it was true. After repeated begging from Tom Seitzmore and his agent, Spielberg reluctantly agreed to continue the show, provided that Tom must quit drugs.

Steven Spielberg also set a bottom line for Tom, requiring him to perform blood tests at the shooting site every day. If one test fails, he will be fired, and the Chief Chief's scene will be reshooted, even when the shooting is approaching the end.

Although Tom Seitzmore had been treated for more than a month and had quit drug addiction, he still hid some marijuana and was about to take a sip when he couldn't help it. That thing would not trigger the blood test of heroin.

But unexpectedly, the military training was extremely intense. The next day, Tom Seitzmore, who looked quite strong, began to need his "little baby" hidden in his pillow to relieve it.

The wet camping conditions, exhausted training, and the annoying instructor Dell Day, who is called Shit, made Tom want to have a bite to make himself forget these troubles.

Then the smell of leaves that floated out of the tent was smelled by the "next door neighbor" Bai Quinn.

When Bai Quinn lifted Tom's tent, the guy was smoking and was as happy as a god.

At that time, Bai Quinn promised Tom Seizemore not to report, but Tom Seizemore was not relieved. During the break today, he saw Bai Quinn walking to the tent of military training instructor Dale Dai, and was very panicked. Before he could run to hide the marijuana, he saw Bai Quinn coming out again, so he had to bite the bullet and block him. But in fact, Tom knew very well that he had no threat to Bai Quinn.

He was a wrestler and once beat three gangsters alone. Although he was a big man of about 1.8 meters, he had long neglected to exercise and could not run five miles of military training. If he really wanted to do it, he would definitely be knocked down after three punches and two kicks.

But the momentum cannot be lost. Tom Seitzmore used his good acting skills to interpret what it means to be honest.

Since it was just about diet, Tom Seitzmore's heart was relieved by most of his hangover, but he still didn't believe in Bai Quinn, so he simply ran to Dell Day to see if he was really exposed. On the other hand, he also told Dell that he must not change the recipe, now Irish food is very good!

Just give some bread butter, he doesn't like to dip bread in soup.

...

The Rescue Ryan Eights will train here for ten days, and the training is the "Warriors Company" of retired Vietnam veteran Dale Day, a company that specializes in providing military training for actors.

Oliver Stone's "Born on July 4" and "Born of the Murderer", and Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible" are both military and weapons training conducted by the Warriors Company.

The last client of "Warriors" was "Sarah gave up participating in "Star Fleet".

This time, the company's boss Dell Day personally trained the "star class" led by Tom Hanks, and he will also play a guest role in the movie.

Spielberg, who oversees the set nearby, comes to check the training of the "celebrities" every day, and the "celebrity class"'s daily five-mile cross-country running passes the beach under renovation.

It is said that Spielberg prepared $12 million in funding for this scene alone.

It's enough to make a movie called "The Legend of the Wicked"!

Every time I pass by, Bai Quinn complains in his heart.

He came to the crew of "Save Private Ryan" with a learning attitude. So far, he has only learned two things:

The first is to increase the budget.

The unforgettable effects are burned by US dollars. Spielberg will experiment with the new Dolby sound system in "Save Private Ryan". For this system, millions of dollars of professional radio equipment will be added, and a large amount of money will be invested for post-processing.

The second is the details.

Spielberg's team has dug up the details to the extreme. It can be said that every frame presented to the camera in the future will be planned in advance.

Bai Quinn can't see other places, but the clues can be seen by his own role alone.

When taking a final photo and putting on makeup, the makeup artist made a bruise at the mouth of his right hand.

When asked Spielberg, he found out that in addition to the M1918A2 Browning automatic rifle, his character Richard Leben also has a sub-weapon, the Southern 14 pistol. People with large hands use this gun, and they are often accidentally caught by the rebounding bolt to the tiger's mouth by the bolt.

At the same time, this gun also reveals the hidden identity of the character. He was transferred from the Pacific battlefield to the Norman army. He may have been enlisted in 1943, so his rank has been promoted to the first grade. That Japanese gun may be his trophy in the Pacific battlefield.

Maybe there is a story behind this gun. Although the bullet is difficult to deal with and often hurts his hands, "Richard" still did not give up on it.

In addition to his character Richard Leben, Eight Saving Squad and Ryan, there are hidden character backgrounds.

For example, sniper Jackson was a priest before joining the war.

Merry was a Jewish and from a small businessman family.

Military doctor Wade was not a doctor before joining the war.

Spielberg told everyone that Matt Damon, who plays Ryan, cannot be trained with everyone in military training because of filming "The Rainmaker". But before joining the crew, Bai Quinn accidentally heard Chris say that Matt Damon's scenes in "The Rainmaker" have been filmed.

This means that Spielberg lied to everyone about training, and Matt Damon had already joined the group, but he didn't train with everyone.

Bai Quinn quickly figured out the whole story. Spielberg needed eight people to save the squad and "Ryan" to maintain a sense of alienation and even a little hostile.

Why do we endure hardships and train without you coming?

When performing, these emotions will always be expressed inadvertently.

There are so many of the above, but it is only what Bai Quinn saw during military training. When the crew starts, Bai Quinn will see more!

...

From the first day of training, Dell Day often asked "stars" to team up with each other and required them to call each other by their character names and military ranks.

At first, I formed a temporary team every time, but later it gradually became fixed.

Since verified that Bai Quinn has not made a report, Tom was the first actor in the same group to become friends with Bai Quinn and has also become his regular partner.

Next joining Bai Quinn's team was Jeremy Davis, who played the role of Corporal Urban. Because Bai Quinn helped him carry a backpack during the cross-country run, he felt that he could be taken care of with Bai Quinn.

The final joining is Barry Pepper, who plays the sniper.

He always talks about his guest appearance in James Cameron's big ship with a few lines, and how he was in pain, how reluctant he left his newly married wife and came to shoot a movie.

Others, including Tom Hanks, formed another small team, but since the good-looking man Tom Hanks doesn't care, the leader of this small group is Van Diesel.

Dell Day and Spielberg seemed to be happy with the emergence of such a small group. Later in the training, Dell Day simply linked the results of group confrontation training with the life welfare of "celebrities".

Winners eat more and get more, and they have the right to take a bath first. The losing team can only pick up the rest from behind.

Bai Quinn is the youngest, has the best foundation, has the fastest learning of tactical movements, and is the first in the whole team in physical fitness. What's more important is the US military communication sign language taught by Dell. Bai Quinn learns the fastest and most comprehensively and can give tutors to members of small groups in private, so that small groups always win in competition.

Bai Quinn said that the US military's battlefield sign language is much simpler than the off-court code the coach gave to the quarterback in football games.

After ten days of training, the two small teams not only became more united, but even formed competition and barriers between each other.

It would have been weird if it weren't for intentional purposes, but Bai Quinn couldn't think of the reason for doing so.

...

After the military training ended, the landing battle of "Omaha Beach" started immediately.

This scene was shot entirely using a handheld camera. Spielberg also specially asked the prop group to design a vibration motor installed on the camera, and the control system on the vibration motor and the detonation system at the explosion point were remotely connected.

Once the prop group detonates a certain explosion point, three cameras: those who follow Tom Hanks, those who are fixed behind the German machine gun tower, and those who take panoramic views will also cause vibrations, as if they were shocked by the explosion.

During the filming, at most 1,000 extras were used at the same time, most of whom were members of the Irish Army Reserve.

Among these extras, 20 to 30 are amputees, accompanied by prosthetics, to play soldiers whose limbs were blown off.

Later in the shooting of the beach landing scene, Spielberg's British Ministry of Defense was rejected at first. Because of the excessive public pressure, hundreds of soldiers had to be sent to participate in the shooting.

As we all know, Spielberg's film was filmed on World War II, and it was the Normandy landing that the British have always been proud of. This was the beginning of the British's transition from defense to offense. However, the Ministry of Defense actually refused Spielberg's request to shoot a landing scene in the UK for some minor reasons and asked the crew to go to Ireland.

The news was first exposed by the tabloids, and then after being criticized by major newspapers, the Ministry of National Defense finally provided support.

The backstage of the tabloid seemed to be Viacom Group, which was Paramount’s parent company. Paramount invested in “Save Private Ryan”…

The increase in personnel has accelerated the shooting progress a lot, and some scenes can also be completed in one go, taking a big vision, greatly speeding up Spielberg's shooting progress.

Finally, after 18 consecutive days of shooting, Spielberg announced that the scene of the beach landing battle was completed.

Afterwards, the crew will go to Hatfield Airport outside London to shoot the subsequent scenes.

After hearing the notice of the end of the shooting, Bai Quinn jumped up and cheered first, and finally could say goodbye to her wet clothes and wet tents. When she arrived in London, she could stay in a hotel and take a bath every day without having to soak in the sea water anymore.

...

Hatfield Airport is an old airport that has long been stopped, but the military facilities at that time are still there and have become a shooting venue often used by many crews of World War II or war themes in Britain and the United States.

Hatfield Airport not only has a large aircraft hangar, but also can be used as a studio to build scenes, but also has more than 1,000 acres of open space and woods, which can be used to shoot outdoors and forests. Spielberg even built a dilapidated French town called Karentan on the open space.

It is the place where the war occurred in the latter half of the film. The eight-man team and the airborne company where Ryan is located will block the German troops several times that of their own.

The German army had several tanks and even two Tiger tanks, but the US army lacked weapons, with only two machine guns and one mortar still broken.

The set work started half a year ago, which is why Spielberg's new film had long been heard but had not started filming.

As soon as he arrived at Hatfield Airport, Bai Quinn went to "Calentan Town" to see how the real big productions are striving for excellence on the set.

Most of the houses in the town are made of brick and stone. Although most of the houses are empty, they are much more realistic than the background boards made of wooden boards. No matter how picky the audience is, they will not find much difference between this place and a real town.

The camera position and track were also arranged in advance. Some walls and ground had small holes dug in advance, so fireworks were installed during shooting to simulate explosions in actual combat.

This shows that the photography team invited by Spielberg is extremely professional. When the director is not on the scene, they plan the camera position of each shot and the effect pictures in advance based on the script segmentation and renderings, and wait for Spielberg to check it out.

Bai Quinn felt that Spielberg probably would have difficulty finding out how many omissions were, and it is likely that the shooting was taken from a pre-planned angle.

So he secretly wrote down the name of the person in charge of the photography team in his "little notebook" he stole: Kaminsky.
Chapter completed!