| I think it's a sign of the movie-going public's
stupidity that nearly all those who saw Saving Private Ryan weren't bothered
that the old man character we meet in the beginning was not Tom Hanks.
We see an old man, and the camera moves in on his face, then we see Tom Hanks, and for the next 40 minutes we see the war through Tom Hanks' eyes. Wrongly, we assume that the old man is remembering. From what I know about story-telling, characters can't remember things they never experienced. So the old man can't remember anything that happened on that beach because he wasn't there. So what happened on the beach has nothing to do with the old man. So this is the point, DON'T ZOOM IN ON THE OLD MAN'S FACE THEN CUT TO SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OLD MAN. That's bad story-telling. That's like getting to the end of the
story and saying, "and then the boy became king, wait, did I say 'boy'?
I meant 'evil wizard' because he killed the boy back at the castle.
Yeah, that's right. The boy prince is dead."
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