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Saving Private Ryan Sniper Parodies are video remixes featuring a clip of the character Private Daniel Jackson (played by Barry Pepper) sniping from a tower in the 1998 American epic war drama film Saving Private Ryan, which are edited to appear as if he were executing people in a variety of humorous contexts.

Origin

On July 24th, 1998, Saving Private Ryan was released, in which the character Private Jackson attempts to hold off Germany's 2nd SS Panzer Division while shooting from a bell tower in the city of Ramelle (shown below). After being discovered by a tank, Jackson is killed by a high-caliber explosive round.

On December 7th, 2010, YouTuber SubSammich uploaded a video edited to with to appear as if Jackson were sniping his fellow United States army soldiers (shown below).

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On June 1st, 2011, YouTuber Sampletext uploaded a parody version of the scene recreated with LEGOs (shown below, left). On December 25th, 2011, YouTuber Jezza Clemdawg posted a remix featuring footage of soccer players falling to the ground edited between clips of Jackson shooting from the bell tower (shown below, right).

On August 14th, 2012, YouTuber pepoop930 posted an edited video titled "Football (Soccer) Sniper," containing additional footage of falling soccer players shot by Jackson (shown below, left). On July 3rd, 2013, YouTuber panzerNEWB uploaded a video in which Private Jackson is shown blowing the tires out of Formula One racing cars (shown below, right).

On October 1st, 2015, YouTuber Joker, uploaded a montage of edited clips in which Private Jackson is shown shooting before various people fall down (shown below, left). On June 6th, 2016, YouTuber VVC uploaded a video in which Private Jackson appears to shoot various people causing them to fall down.

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