HBO’s Band of Brothers owes a clear debt to Stephen Spielberg’s celebrated war movie, Saving Private Ryan. However, beyond subtle allusions to the 1997 Oscar-winner, the show also repeats almost verbatim one of the film’s main mysteries. Such a narrative approach, irrespective of all the other similarities between the projects, creates a fascinating parallel that warrants further analysis.
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