Saving Private Ryan Page #5

THE TWO GRENADES EXPLODE.

Putt out the two worst machine gun nests.

MILLER:

Crosses the gap. His men follow.

AT THE CREST:

The Americans swarm over the top.

FIRING.

TWO DOZEN GERMANS FIRE BACK as they retreat.

Abandoning the perimeter defense of the bunkers. The Germans

are CUT DOWN.

MILLER motions to WADE, a small, wide-eyed, demolition man

who's struggling under the weight of half-a dozen satchel

charges.

MILLER:

Okay, Wade, your turn.

Wade Captain, I love it when you say that.

Miller, Sarge, Reiben and Jackson cover Wade as he races to

the first of three bunkers. Dodging bullets from inside.

Wade tosses a SATCHEL CHARGE into a gun port. A HUGE, MUFFLED

EXPLOSION, rocks the bunker.

MILLER AND SARGE

Survey the field.

SARGE:

What the hell were you doing? Drawing

fire!

MILLER:

Worked, didn't it?

SARGE:

You tryin' to get yourself killed?

MILLER:

Don't need to, the Krauts go that

covered.

Sarge shakes his head at Miller, then he looks over the cliff

at the scores of men, their shattered, burning bodies covering

the rocks and the beach below. He's clearly affected.

Miller coldly glances at the dead and wounded. Then he moves

on, leading his surviving men toward the two remaining German

bunkers. The SOUNDS OF BIG GUNS and MACHINE GUNS FIRE

surround him. DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. WAR DEPARTMENT BUILDING - DAY

The SOUND OF CLATTERING MACHINE GUN FIRE SEGUES TO that of

CLATTERING TYPEWRITERS. A huge government building stands

in the heart of Washington, D.C.

SUPERIMPOSITION:

WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.

JUNE 8, 1944

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