Upham was a dastardly coward whose "epiphany" is shooting a surrendering soldier in cold blood. While it is true that the German soldier he shot had grisly driven his bayonet slowly into the heart of one of his comrades in one of the movie's most "difficult" scenes, that same soldier ...
so he just hid and cried. It finally led to the death of his teammates. Upham never fought in a war before. He was a coward figure that the audience would despise. When the squad wanted to kill the one who killed wade, Upham opposed because of the violation of international law ...
Saving Private Ryanis a war film, and has many typical features of the genre. There is a brilliant and cool captain Miller who love and protect his soldiers, and there are the grunts who are coward, such as Upham, this is his first time to take part in a real combat. When his comra...