25 years ago, Steven Spielberg rewrote the blockbuster playbook. Again.

Very few filmmakers have changed the game as many times as Steven Spielberg. The Oscar-winning director has been a revolutionary artistic voice since 1975, when he essentially invented the summer blockbuster with "Jaws". Nearly 20 years later, he pulled off a similar feat with "Jurassic Park", which redefined how practical effects, CGI, and animatronics could be used on screen.

For the most part, it seems like Spielberg has left his trailblazing days behind. Twenty-five years ago, however, he rewrote the language of cinema one last time with "Saving Private Ryan". The 1998 drama saw Spielberg return to the landscape of World War II with a very different style and perspective than he’d brought to "Schindler’s List" and the Indiana Jones films. The result was one of the most viscerally intense war movies ever made.

In particular, "Saving Private Ryan"’s unforgettable prologue, which ranks high among the greatest sequences of Spielberg’s career, changed the way military violence is portrayed on screen. It’s just as bone-rattlingly effective today as it was in 1998. FULL STORY from Inverse