Saving Private Ryan Upham: Gif Best

Do you have a favorite Upham moment that didn’t make the list? The "soup can opening" scene or the "poetry recitation" are honorable mentions. Let us know in the comments—just don’t freeze on the stairs about it.

Upham freezes on a staircase, paralyzed by fear and shock, while his comrade Stanley Mellish is killed by a German soldier in the room above. Audience Surrogate: saving private ryan upham gif best

Upham is the film’s “intellect.” Earlier, he lectured Captain Miller on the Geneva Convention, arguing that prisoners deserve rights. He believed that understanding war was superior to fighting it. The GIF is the refutation of that belief. Do you have a favorite Upham moment that

Upham smoking with shaking hands after the battle. Used to represent exhaustion or "seeing too much." paralyzed by fear and shock