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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

USA: We Have Ways - The Real Saving Private Ryan

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It was the war movie that won five Oscars and changed the genre forever, but does the history of 'Saving Private Ryan' hold up?


Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus talk about what Spielberg got right with his Second War epic.


A Goalhanger Films Production

Produced by Joey McCarthy

Exec Producer: Tony Pastor

Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod

Website: wehavewayspod.com

Email: [email protected]



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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:21.4

Acting, acting. Welcome to We Have Ways, USA with me, Almari, James Holland, and John McManus.

0:26.9

And this week we started heading in this direction while we were talking about Guarada Canal,

0:32.2

because we got quite deeply sidetracked to talk about the thin red line, didn't we?

0:37.9

Yeah. And so we've decided that what we're going to do is talk about saving private right.

0:45.1

Come on. Come on, let's just say Halloween candy. We've just got a daybid. I mean, you know we all

0:51.3

wanted to go into it in detail. Here is this, right? I mean, I will say John, this was very much

0:58.8

your idea. I mean, not the way of rejecting. But in any opposition whatsoever. This is very much

1:07.2

your impetus. It sits very prominently in people's sort of, you know, it was a thing that stimulated

1:12.8

an awful lot of people to be interested in the Second World War in the 90s when it came along.

1:18.0

That I find in this country really interesting because after all, all of our old war movies,

1:22.8

like The Greatest Scope, The Battle of Britain, all those films, and we're always on bank

1:26.1

holiday Mondays, on public holidays, on the TV when there's nothing else on, and you'd sit and watch

1:29.6

them again. But saving private right had a sort of different electrifying quality in the 90s.

1:34.8

And yes. I went to see it at the cinema. You know, the weekend it opened in

1:41.4

less the square, like a cinema with a thousand people. And the effect of the start of that film

1:46.4

was absolutely electric. I've never known anything like it in the cinema.

1:50.9

John, I mean, what's your, when did we start with where we all saw it, how we all saw it,

1:56.8

how we came across it, and then talking about the film. Yeah. So John, what was your experience of it

2:01.2

first? Yeah. So you saw for me, it's a really interesting experience and kind of personal

2:06.0

on some levels because the movie comes out July 1998. I had finished up my doctor at just,

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