Band of Brothers Rewatch, Extras: Ron Livingston's Video Diaries

[marymary]

“My name’s Ron Livingston. I’m playing a man named Lewis Nixon. He was the intelligence officer for Easy Company in the second world war. 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. And I shot a video diary. Here it is

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[tomfoolery815]

Dale Dye is something else, huh? Listen to that speech. Maybe he wrote it and memorized it, but I think he’s the kind of person who really can speak extemporaneously like that, and have it come out beautiful.
I think so, too. I get the feeling he's done it before. :-)

That it’s not just playing; this is a chance to honor the real veterans by making BoB as authentic as possible.
You can see that, at that moment, he's all about inspiring the actors, making them feel like they're ready to represent the real-life heroes. Because he senses that it's important to them to make it authentic. It's a great speech.

Appropriately salty for a man-to-men speech, too, like the kind delivered in locker rooms before big games.

(I think adding the strings was a bit heavy-handed, though; filmmakers seem to want to add music in situations that would be better without it. No one needs stirring music to be told that's a special, dramatic moment.)

He calls Dick Winters on the phone and has trouble with his speakerphone. All nervous and cute
I really liked that he hung up the phone, then just stared it for a few seconds. As if the phone embodied Winters. Like Charlie, having just heard that Mrs. Landingham was dead.