Academy Award \u00AE--winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima) returns to the wartime genre with AMERICAN SNIPER, starring Oscar\u00AE nominee Bradley Cooper (American Hustle) as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. But there was much more to this true American hero than his skill with a rifle. U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and, as stories of his courageous exploits spread, he earns the nickname \\\"Legend.\\\" However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, becoming emblematic of the SEAL creed to \\\"leave no man behind.\\\"
Growing up in Texas, Chris Kyle is taught by his father how to shoot a rifle and hunt deer. Years later, Chris has become a ranch hand and rodeo cowboy, and returns home early, to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. After telling her to leave, he is mulling it over with his brother when he sees news coverage of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings and decides to enlist in the Navy. He qualifies for special training and becomes a sniper with the U.S. Navy SEALs.
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Assigned to hunt for the al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Chris interrogates a family whose father offers to lead the SEALs to "The Butcher", al-Zarqawi's second-in-command. The plan goes awry when The Butcher captures the father and his son, killing them while Chris is pinned down by a sniper. This sniper goes by the name Mustafa and is an Olympic Games medalist from Syria. Meanwhile, the insurgents issue a bounty on Chris.
On May 24, 2012, it was announced that Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to the book with Bradley Cooper set to produce and star in the screen adaptation.[9] Cooper had thought of Chris Pratt to play Kyle, but Warner Bros. agreed to buy it only if Cooper would star.[10] In September 2012, David O. Russell said he was interested in directing the film.[11] On February 2, 2013, Chris Kyle was murdered. On May 2, 2013, it was announced that Steven Spielberg would direct.[12] Spielberg had read Kyle's book, though he desired to have a more psychological conflict present in the screenplay so an "enemy sniper" character could serve as the insurgent sharpshooter who was trying to track down and kill Kyle. Spielberg's ideas contributed to the development of a lengthy screenplay approaching 160 pages. Due to Warner Bros.' budget constraints, Spielberg felt he could not bring his vision of the story to the screen.[13] On August 5, 2013, Spielberg dropped out of directing.[14] On August 21, 2013, it was reported that Clint Eastwood would instead direct the film.[15]
On March 14, 2014, Sienna Miller joined the cast.[16] On March 16, 2014, Kyle Gallner was cast,[17] as was Cory Hardrict on March 18, 2014.[18] On March 20, 2014, Navid Negahban, Eric Close, Eric Ladin, Rey Gallegos, and Jake McDorman also joined the cast,[19][20] as did Luke Grimes and Sam Jaeger on March 25, 2014.[21][22] Kevin Lacz, a former Navy SEAL, was also cast and served as a technical advisor.[23] Another former Navy SEAL, Joel Lambert, also joined the film, portraying a Delta sniper.[24] On June 3, Max Charles was added to the cast to portray Kyle's son, Colton Kyle.[25]
The film drew some negative reviews. Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone, wrote that the movie turned the complicated moral questions and mass-bloodshed of the Iraq war into a black and white fairy tale, without presenting the historical context.[103] Alex von Tunzelmann of The Guardian argued that the film presented a simplified black and white portrayal of the Iraq war, and that it features the distortion of facts into unreliable myths based upon previous legends.[104] David Masciotra of Salon criticized the movie's focus on physical rather than moral courage as the ultimate manly virtue.[105] Cavalry scout sniper Garett Reppenhagen stated that he did not view Iraqi civilians as savages, but as part of a friendly culture for which the movie has furthered ignorance, fear, and bigotry.[106] Inkoo Kang of TheWrap gave the film a negative review, saying "Director Clint Eastwood's focus on Kyle is so tight that no other character, including wife Taya (Sienna Miller), comes through as a person, and the scope so narrow that the film engages only superficially with the many moral issues surrounding the Iraq War."[107] Several other articles have also been critical of the movie.[108][109][110][111]
Several major news sources commented on the accuracy of the film and how it differs from Chris Kyle's written accounts. The enemy sniper Mustafa is a major character in the film but receives only a small mention in the memoir; Kyle noted: "I never saw him, but other snipers later killed an Iraqi sniper we think was him."[119][120] According to the memoir, Kyle's 2100-yard shot was taken against an insurgent holding a rocket launcher, not Mustafa.[120][121] Time notes that according to screenwriter Jason Hall, Kyle said of Mustafa: "He shot my friend. I'm not going to put his name in my book."[122] The first combat scene in the film has Kyle killing a boy and mother who try to attack U.S. troops with a grenade; the boy was added for the film.[119][120][122] The film's narrative has Navy SEAL Ryan "Biggles" Job dying from surgical complications from an operation on his face relatively soon after being shot in Iraq, but in reality it was several years later.[120][121] The character "the Butcher" was created for the film,[119][122] although this character may have been based on the real-life Abu Deraa or Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi.[119] The visual blog Information is Beautiful stated that, while taking creative licence into account, the film was 56.9% accurate when compared to real-life events, summarizing: "a lot of the events in the movie did happen, although Kyle's involvement in them was repeatedly exaggerated".[123]
As a sniper I was not usually the victim of a traumatic event, but the perpetrator of violence and death. My actions in combat would have been more acceptable to me if I could cloak myself in the belief that the whole mission was for a greater good. Instead, I watched as the purpose of the mission slowly unraveled.
Wow, this was a tough one. The movie American Sniper has generated significant controversy in the past couple of weeks for its portrayal of U.S. sniper Chris Kyle in his tours during the Iraq war. There were many different topics which came to mind about this particular post, and all of them seemed likely to generate strong feelings by one group of people or another. It seemed for awhile that this topic was just too hot to handle. But then I decided I would try to think through some of the reasons people might be upset with this film. Here are a few reasons why this movie seems to make so many people upset (and so many others hyped up).
I can fully appreciate the main theme behind this movie: that veterans need far more attention and that we need to attempt to understand their struggles (especially the extreme levels of PTSD for current veterans). However at its core, this is not the primary focus of this film. Far more screen time is devoted to Chris hunting down a rival sniper or shooting insurgents than his work with veterans. In all, his work with returning veterans takes up all of about three or four scenes towards the end. Even in places where the film does show the haunting effects of war in a peaceful atmosphere, it doesn't explain them. We see Chris violently subduing a playful dog (he was attacked by a vicious one in an earlier scene), but the psychological reasons for his reaction would have been far better explained through dialogue between him and his fellow veterans. By explaining what he is going through rather than just showing it, people could then understand exactly how PTSD leaves soldiers on edge and sometimes even longing for combat again. Regrettably, we instead see scene after scene of Chris increasing his kill count with only the occasional PTSD episode, thus making his memorial service scenes at the end appear like more of a acknowledgement of the lives he took rather than a celebration of the ones he saved.
In all, it is the decision to show the war through only one person's perspective that is probably the primary reason for this controversy. Like looking through a sniper scope, we get a very detailed, but detached picture of one aspect of this war, but do not see many of the important surrounding details.
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A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of war - of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends. 589ccfa754
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