@Gewehr:
yea, i know, but still, tom hanks shoul’ve been able to relize when he was screwing up at the begining, and that he told him that he’d only fired his gun once in basic and had no combat experice, that should’ve been a hint. The main reason why I hate him is cuase he hoged all the ammo at the end when evrey one needed it, also he didn’t help out the guys up the stairs when he was getting stabed to death, he just slowly went up the stairs, checked his weapon ect., and the german just walked off. He also let 4-5 germans go after they had surrendered.
They were looking for an interpreter - did you miss the part where Upham speaks German and French?
He was supposed to be a runner for the ammo, but was shell shocked/scared out of his mind because he wasn’t a soldier.
It wasn’t until the end of the movie, when he realized that sometimes being humane (to a POW) doesn’t mean a thing in war. So his anger got the best of him at the end, overcame his fear, and he made that particular German pay.
If you think about, probably the only reason that German didn’t kill him on the stairs was because Upham helped let him go. But I’ve read that those are two different soldiers…
He should’ve got shot so that way tom hanks might not have died, upom’s the one who convinced him to not kill that prisoner at the mg42 nest.
How would have Upham’s death helped for Capt. Miller to survive? It was a suicide defense, and Capt. Miller’s survival (or anyone else’s) was slim.