id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
clogic-192700	Neilson, James	Stephen Spielberg's SAVING PRIVATE RYAN & Nora Ephron's YOU'VE GOT MAIL	2020	14	.pdf	application/pdf	7509	347	62	When at the movie's concluding battle scene a dying Captain John Miller (played by Tom Hanks) implores Private James Ryan to earn this, to earn the sacrifice of those who have saved him, he's also addressing the film's audience, we Boomers and Gen-Xers in our comfortable suburban multiplexes: we must earn the sacrifices of this dying generation who saved Private Ryan, who saved the American way of life itself, those simple suburban pleasures and middle class values Spielberg has repeatedly championed. When he has dealt with serious issues, Spielberg has looked to the past--racism in Amistad, racism and sexism in The Color Purple, anti-semitism and genocide in Schindler's List, war in Saving Private Ryan and Empire of the Sun.	cache/clogic-192700.pdf	txt/clogic-192700.txt