Both the films "Saving Private Ryan"  and "1941"  that we have watched  are about war but have different ways of showing the seriousness of the war. The only difference is that one is a comedy and the other is a dramatic film. The meaning of "Saving Private Ryan" at least what I think it is that its supposed to show how the men in world war sacrificed their lives to protect there country and the brotherhood they developed to try and help one another in the most serious of cases. The meaning of the movie "1941" I think is that fear is a bad thing because fear makes us do some really dumb things sometimes.
     Now I'll talk about the films, like how in "Saving Private Ryan" Capt. John Miller was given the orders to bring a random guy that got to come home back so he could go home.  Through that time of the 8 men walking across the country to finally find Pvt. Ryan. He refuses to go home until reinforcements come and help his comrades finish their assignment which was to protect the bridge. After they developed a plan to protect their assignment Pvt. Ryan was reloading and didn't notice the tiger tank getting ready to shoot so another Pvt. ran out and pulled him behind  a building just before the tank fired and saved him.
   In "1941" There was a boy named Wally who didn't want  to join the military because he thought that they were just a joke. But when he visited his girlfriends house the father was talking to soldiers about putting a gun in his back yard. The soldiers were saying that it is for the dense of the U.S.A. Later on Belushi who was apart of the U.S.A. air force was following a plane he thought was a Japanese plane and started firing on that plane causing it to crash into the tar pits.
     The main reason why I think that "Saving Private Ryan" is a lot more powerful in meaning is that since I'm going to the military after high school it really opened my eyes to what could really happen to me.