This paper looks at how Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" is about the mission to find and
retrieve one man Private
James Ryan and how Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" tells the story of the first Marine invasion of Guadalcanal, the small atoll of the Solomon Islands, on August 7, 1942. The author points out that some of the most remarkable similarities between the two films are the incredible production
teams, excellent cinematography teams and brilliant composers.