Two different soldiers/characters.
Guy that Upham kills ("Steamboat Willie")...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815...ttfc_fc_cl_t13
Guy that kills Mellish...
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826147/...tfc_fc_cl_t100
Two different soldiers/characters.
Guy that Upham kills ("Steamboat Willie")...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815...ttfc_fc_cl_t13
Guy that kills Mellish...
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826147/...tfc_fc_cl_t100
Come, mother, come! For terror is thy name, death is in thy breath, and every shaking step destroys a world for e'er. Thou 'time', the all-destroyer! Come, O mother, come!
He could see Upham's cowardice and knew he wasn't a threat. I think that's what finally spurred Upham to shoot Steamboat Willie, although in my eyes it doesn't redeem him...he does it when there's absolutely no risk of peril to himself. In fact, while Upham is hiding and watching Steamboat Willie and the other Germans firing at the Rangers across the bridge, if I remember correctly they show a shot of Steamboat Willie firing his K98 and the camera angle is showing his sights...and I believe Capt. Miller is the target (blurry in the scene). Upham could have acted sooner and possibly saved some of the Rangers, but it would have meant manning up...and he didn't do it.
*Edit: Looked it up...yep, Steamboat Willie is the one that tags Capt. Miller in the chest. The irony is that Capt. Miller is the one that decided to spare Willie's life earlier.
At the 21 second mark in the video...
Last edited by kwb377; 03-04-2021 at 10:24 PM.
Not only is Upham’s decision to smoke check Steamboat Willie cowardly, it was also criminal.......sadly we have many brave men who are rotting in prison from righteous shoots, but the pussies who pull shit like that always seem to skate free based on twisted perverse interpretations of the totality of the circumstances. In this case, it was just a movie depicting a specific event, but it happens in real life all the time.
You can get much more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
"So strong is this propensity of mankind, to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions, and excite their most violent conflicts." - James Madison, Federalist No 10