Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound in "Saving Private Ryan"

Diegetic sound is sound that is a natural part of the scene or narrative, such as sound effects. Non-diegetic sound is sound that is not a natural part, for example music. In the opening scene from "Saving Private Ryan", on the morning of June 6th 1944, the troops begin the Normandy Invasion, American soldiers prepare to land on Omaha Beach. They struggle against German infantry, machine gun nests, and artillery fire. Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) survives the initial landing and assembles a group of soldiers to penetrate the German defenses, leading to a breakout from the beach. The first diegetic sound is of calm waves against the shore of Omaha, then the sudden contrast when the waves hit the war ships so brutally. The film's main protagonist (Tom Hanks) is one of the men who is sail on one of these venturing ships. When the ship reaches the beach the soldiers are met with enemy gunfire and shells being unload around them. When the door of the ship eventually opens the first front line of troops is obliterated by the Germans bullets. Captain Miller order the men to abandon ship in a desperate act to survive and join the fight. After being submerged underwater Miller staggers to land immediately taking cover from the war. The opening sequence to the film is where the audience see an American flag flying in the wind which then cuts to show an elderly man walking on a path with his family to a cemetery. Where he is looking for a certain headstone of a fallen soldier. During this sequence the first non-diegetic sound of the film is reveal to be "Hymn to the Fallen".