Jeremy Davies wearing Unidentified watch in Saving Private Ryan
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Jeremy Davies wears an unidentified watch

Spotted as Corporal Upham in Saving Private Ryan, 1998.

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Film
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Actor
Jeremy Davies
Character
Corporal Upham
Watch
Unidentified watch
Status
Unidentified

Corporal Upham is the most hated character in Saving Private Ryan, and Jeremy Davies plays him that way on purpose. Upham is a translator pulled from a desk job to join the squad searching for Private Ryan, and he spends the film visibly terrified — unable to fire his weapon when it matters, paralyzed on a staircase while a fellow soldier is killed in the next room. Spielberg uses him as the audience stand-in, the person who has never seen combat and cannot function when it arrives.

His watch hasn't been identified. A corporal working as a translator in 1944 would likely be wearing standard military-issue, same as the rest of the squad, though Upham's desk background might mean he's wearing something personal rather than Army-supplied. The character's function in the film is to represent inadequacy surrounded by competence, and whatever is on his wrist, it's not doing him any good on that staircase.

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Jeremy Davies wearing Unidentified watch in Saving Private Ryan
Copyright 1998 DreamWorks/Paramount. All rights reserved.

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