What happened was, when they were blocking the scene, this young kid Diesel, who had all of a short film and a single indie feature under his belt-both written by, directed by, produced by, and starring himself-said to Spielberg, “Hey, Steven, where’s your C camera?” We see Caparzo through a Nazi sniper’s rifle sight.Īnd in several shots, we look down at Caparzo from approximately the level of a second-floor window. Third assistant director Andrew Ward remembers the use of a snorkel system, a periscope-like tube attached to a remote camera that allows for intense, low-angle shots. Dolly shots from the ground looking up at Caparzo’s face, blood and rain splattering the camera. We see the intersection from every angle. In the next three minutes and 16 seconds of film, there are 40 cuts. Hanks’s character, the captain, grabs the girl from Caparzo and gives her back to her family (“We’re here to follow fucking orders!”), and everyone’s shouting, and Caparzo’s pleading that they should try to help the girl when pop! He’s hit, falls forward onto a piano in the street rubble of a war-torn town, then tumbles to the muddy gravel. Spielberg is taking his time, building the tension. It’s a complicated sequence, Caparzo’s death. Spielberg saw it and put the guy in his movie. Diesel? He made a 20-minute short film a couple of years ago, starring himself. Spielberg has assembled a company of new kids for this ensemble-Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, Barry Pepper, Ed Burns, fresh off his breakthrough film, The Brothers McMullen. Someone has brought a few dry towels to cover him between takes, when the rain stops. And right now Vin Diesel is lying on his back in a puddle of mud and fake blood. He used to be Mark Sinclair, but a few years back he renamed himself He’ll win his second for this film, Saving Private Ryan.Ĭaparzo is being played by a young actor, barely 30 years old, named Vinĭiesel. Spielberg has won one Oscar for directing.
Steven Spielberg is directing the death scene of Private Caparzo, a brash soldier with a heart who just tried to save a little French girl whose house had been bombed to ruins. This particular sequence includes one of the few times he’ll ever say fuck on film- fucking, to be precise. Tom Hanks, already the winner of two Oscars at this point in his career, is soaked. The rain machines have been running for nearly two days straight.
Olav Stubberud HATFIELD, NORTH OF LONDON, ENGLAND, 1997.
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