At three o'clock in the morning, the beach was very windy and salty, and the sea washed on the beach with a rattling sound.

Wearing a raincoat and a megaphone in his hand, John stepped on the soft grains of sand and organized the crew to make various preparations.

Photographer Emmanuel and his assistant set up the camera.

Barry and the props crew methodically prepare the landing craft and hand out weapons to the actors.

Malaire planting explosives.

Travis Knight explains the precautions when filming a group act.

Eve Hugo making coffee for John.

Everybody is doing their job.

At five o'clock in the morning, when the dark sky brightened and all the preparations were ready, John sat on the beach, looked at the monitor in front of him and shouted to turn it on, and then the first shot of "Saving Private Ryan" appeared on the monitor.

More than a dozen landing craft rushed toward the shore, carrying a group of American soldiers, standing in their boats in full armor, some praying, some frightened, some vomiting.

From time to time, shells fell around the landing craft, and the sea water stirred up by the explosion poured on them, and they knew what was about to come, but no one knew if they would survive this landing battle.......

“cut!”

"This one is over!"

The first shot of "Saving Private Ryan" is very simple, no lines, no close-ups, the first shot John doesn't want to make it too difficult, a good start, and it can motivate the crew.

"Hey, Tom, you're getting a little dark!" John sat behind the monitor and looked at Tom Hanks and smiled, "But it's stronger than before." ”

"If you train for a month, you'll be like me. "Tom Hanks went through a month of devilish training, training with soldiers every day, eating together, sleeping on hardboards together, which was terrible compared to going to a special school.

"Don't complain, after the show, you will have a classic role again. John shrugged.

It's a bit too much to have actors and soldiers train together, but this is the need for filming, for the quality of the film, no one can be an exception, Matt Damon didn't have time, and John didn't even think about taking the exam and replaced him with Xiao Lizi. Without a superstar in the face of quality, John will not compromise with anyone, even if this person is a good soup.

"There will be two close-ups on your side, mainly on the face and hands, so you can prepare in advance. "John called Tom Hanks over not for small talk, but mainly for the next filming.

Then John talked to a few actors who showed their faces, these are professional actors, John only needs to say the effect he wants, and they can achieve it.

After everything was ready, John shouted again to turn on the camera, and the whole venue began to "chaos" again, with gunsmoke billowing and artillery fire, it was not like a set, it was more like a battlefield, and the actors running in front of the camera were more like a group of soldiers.

After a day of shooting, John got five useful shots, which was a good start, and after depositing the negatives in the bank's vault, John returned to the hotel with Eve Hugo.

"Whatever you want to eat, I'm in for a treat today. John picked up the menu and glanced at Eve Hugo.

There are strict rules for the use of everyone in the crew, and the excess part needs to be borne by themselves, except for John, Tom Hanks is the best treatment in the entire crew.

"Thank you, boss!" Eve Hugo picked up the menu and ordered a few of her favorite foods: "A royal cream chicken, a Welsh rabbit, a pudding, a elderflower syrup." ”

"I want a Wellington steak, a red velvet cake, a glass of whiskey. John doesn't drink a lot, but he has to try whisky when he comes to England.

The chef's skills are good, the Wellington steak is authentic, and the Macallan's whisky is good, but John's favourite is the red velvet cake. The silky, delicate and soft taste brings an aesthetic experience to John's palate.

It has to be said that the French are really talented in making food, just as the Germans have a talent for machinery.

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Most of the daily filming is boring and tedious, and from the day "Saving Private Ryan" was launched, the deafening sound of artillery fire on the venue and the pungent smell of gunpowder have not disappeared.

The explosion scenes in "Independence Day" are like children's play compared to them, and the explosion scenes in the whole film are not as good as the opening 22 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan", and many of the war scenes in "Independence Day" are post-production special effects, and "Saving Private Ryan" is followed by a hand-held camera.

Moreover, for this 22-minute landing battle, hundreds of soldiers and actors trained for more than two months, meticulously down to the attack route of each person, the position of each bombing point, the movements of their bodies, and their facial expressions.

Even so, these 22 minutes are the hardest shooting since John became a director, usually he is not in charge of the camera at all, usually Emmanuel and the camera assistant are in charge, but this time he carried the camera for the first time to follow the actors to shoot, sometimes in the sea water half a waist deep, a stand is half a day, the waves washed on the beach is lying on for several hours, some shots must be shot at a 45 ° angle, which is a great test for the waist, after filming, it takes someone to help stand up.

Emmanuel is not much better, John is so miserable, he can only be worse than John, but this should not be the hardest scene he filmed, Xiao Lizi's "Wild Hunter" is his worst time, one uses his life to act, the other uses his life to shoot, in the ice and snow of more than 50 degrees below zero, crawling in the biting river, such an environment is a great test of a person's body and spirit, and people who do not have strong endurance can't hold on at all.

Behind the glamorous there is always a hard to know from outsiders, and while enjoying the applause of flowers, it is necessary to sweat and endure hardships that ordinary people can't bear.

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After more than a month of filming, the classic 22-minute opening of "Saving Private Ryan" is finally over.

When John finished filming the last shot and held a megaphone to announce the end of the landing battle, there was no cheering or applause in the crew, and most of the people fell motionless on the beach after hearing John's words.

After more than a month of high-intensity work, every day is either rain or explosion, either explosion or sediment, everyone has been tense their nerves, and now that the filming is over, after the tense nerves are released all of a sudden, fatigue will follow, and they can no longer hold on.

Subsequently, it was not until John took a megaphone to announce a five-day holiday that the group of "corpses" lying on the beach came back to life with full blood and got up from the sand.

Holidays are a must, high-intensity work without holidays, will only bring potential safety hazards, and delay the progress of shooting, tired people are not efficient and quality, a piece of relaxation is the long-term way.