Saving Private Ryan
About the haircuts...
Look at any WWII books with pictures of German soldiers, like the many Concord books, and you will see how their hair was cut. It was usually cut short, almost shaved, at the SIDES and BACK, while fairly long at the TOP. Not the skinhead style as what appears in the movie.
Check this link, it describes German Army haircuts:
http://members.shaw.ca/deutschesoldaten/customs.htm
Cheers,
Wolfkin
Look at any WWII books with pictures of German soldiers, like the many Concord books, and you will see how their hair was cut. It was usually cut short, almost shaved, at the SIDES and BACK, while fairly long at the TOP. Not the skinhead style as what appears in the movie.
Check this link, it describes German Army haircuts:
http://members.shaw.ca/deutschesoldaten/customs.htm
Cheers,
Wolfkin
Maybe Spielberg liked to let the audience associate Skinheads with soldiers of the German Wehrmacht?Wolfkin wrote:About the haircuts...
Look at any WWII books with pictures of German soldiers, like the many Concord books, and you will see how their hair was cut. It was usually cut short, almost shaved, at the SIDES and BACK, while fairly long at the TOP. Not the skinhead style as what appears in the movie.
Check this link, it describes German Army haircuts:
http://members.shaw.ca/deutschesoldaten/customs.htm
Cheers,
Wolfkin
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In my not so humble opinion, SPR is a very good, but not perfect war movie. I don't think there ever was a perfect war movie. From the BMP's in the background in "Stalingrad", Odd Ball's paint shells in Kelly's Heroes to the haircuts in SPR, historical innaccuracies occur for whatever reason.
SPR is not, and was never intended to be a documentary. Many surviving vets who happened to participate in the great Allied tour of 44-45 are satisfied, and that is good enough for me at least. All of us history nerds can argue amongst ourselves whether Upham's leggings are laced correctly or if the SS were in Normandy at that time or not. To the great majority of movie audiences those details mean very little-like it or not, they are there to be entertained. IMO, SPR did do something very well. It reminded a generation -more interested in McDonald's and Snoop Doggy Dog- what their grandfathers went through, and it reminded them why most of them went to their graves unable to really speak of what they went through.
Dwight
SPR is not, and was never intended to be a documentary. Many surviving vets who happened to participate in the great Allied tour of 44-45 are satisfied, and that is good enough for me at least. All of us history nerds can argue amongst ourselves whether Upham's leggings are laced correctly or if the SS were in Normandy at that time or not. To the great majority of movie audiences those details mean very little-like it or not, they are there to be entertained. IMO, SPR did do something very well. It reminded a generation -more interested in McDonald's and Snoop Doggy Dog- what their grandfathers went through, and it reminded them why most of them went to their graves unable to really speak of what they went through.
Dwight