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Sir Gawain Assignment # 1 Saving Private Ryan in comparison with Sir Gawain And The Green Knight and Beowulf While watching the film Saving Private Ryan, one can agree with me saying that this modern film could have been influenced by both of the poem epics, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight and Beowulf. Although Saving Private Ryan was primary based on the World War II era, I have noticed many parallels with both of the poem epics of the Middle Ages. Some of concepts that I will discuss in this essay would reveal the similarities among the film and the poems. Untested warriors, courage, determination, and friendship, are some of the similarities I would like to discuss first. The young men in the movie are untested warriors, just as the knights in Kings Arthur’s court. Most of them are young, and innocent, who were sent on this mission of war, proving their bravery and strength. They were determined, having no other choice but to fight and take on the hardships and challenges, as did Gawain during his trip towards his challenge with the Green Knight. The similarities are also seen film, beowulf, gawain, soldiers, god, warriors, medieval, strength, modern, enemy, one, mission, both, war, towards, sir, saving, ryan, religion, private, poems, men, ideals, heroism, fight, era, courage, young, world, tested, similarities, similar, knight, green, great