The ratings board doesn't kowtow to anybody, he says. They gave me an unqualified R with no cuts demanded, and I think that was because they saw the film inside the historical context to which it was intended. It wasn't a film that was using violence and gore as titillation. We weren't being gratuitous in our violence and we weren't making up the historical events just for an excuse to display violence. His emotion is understandable.
Soldiers vomit into their helmets.
Blood shoots from arteries. The wounded pile intestines back into their stomach cavities. And that's just the first half-hour. Actually, this is Spielberg's fourth WWII movie, and it comes on the heels of his extraordinary Schindler's List . But Saving Private Ryan isn't just about battlefield slaughter.