Saving Private Ryan is a film based on World War II, Tom Hanks is the main character and the movie is mainly about walking through occupied France to find a person called Private Ryan. Through the movie you see them risk their lives to find Ryan, who they are sending home because all 3 of his brothers have sadly been killed in action. This cliche happens many times in action movies/war movies, where they are putting their own lives on the line to save one another.

In the first 2 minutes (the scene shown above), we see a war going on between two sides, The Americans and The Germans, This is a cliche in action where there are two sides fighting, expecially in war films such as this. In this opening scene we see blood, blown off limbs and lost companions. This is very common in action films such as this one and this is also a chliche as it is very common in majority of war films.