Saving Private Ryan. (Critical Essay) Author Corin stone Director/producer: Steven Spielberg. Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski. Writer: Robert Rodat. Editor: Michael Kahn. Music: John Williams. Dreamworks. In September 1998, Steven Spielberg received the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from President Roman Herzog, who expressed Germany's appreciation to the American Jewish director. "Germany thanks you for work that has given us more than you may realize," said Herzog. The …showed first 75 words of 2215 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2215 total…German can thank Spielberg for not showing him as a villain, but rather continuing with a cause begun in Schindler's List to restore dignity and credibility to the Germans as having accepted their destiny and faced battle as worthy foes. Or, knowing how filmmakers tend to deny all interpretations of their films, Spielberg may have indulged the contradictions in his narrative in order to save himself not from the Germans, but, alas!, from the intellectuals.