According to Spielberg, "Vietnam pushed people from his generation to tell the truth about war without …show more content…
With the 50th anniversary of D-Day just around the corner, Robert Rodat began writing the screenplay for Saving Private Ryan. Along with Rodat, Spielberg was reflecting upon the past century, acknowledging World War II as the most significant event of the last 100 years. As the year 2000 approached, there was no better time for audiences to reflect and ask themselves "Did I earn this?" as the older Private Ryan does at the end of the film. Presented with realistic and brutal carnage, conveyed through sympathetic and recognizable characters, the film reminds modern audiences that war is something to be avoided. Saving Private Ryan stands as perhaps one of the last great World War II films that actual World War II veterans will get to see, relieving their own memories of war. Saving Private Ryan is nostalgic and memorializes what is recognized in our nation as the last great generation that willing fought and died with pride for our