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Selfportrait with some US forces gear.
I took all 3 color variants cause I like them all. Which one is your favorite?
Shot with Canon 7D, Ef 50mm 1.8 and a 550EX Speedlight.
Cooper Kyle (1/6 scale Chris Kyle action figure) is obviously deep in thought as he considers a problem and its solution.
Clint Eastwood is a great movie director. Look at some of his work in film: Bronco Billy, Every Which Way But Loose, Honky Tonk Man and a few other gems. Eastwood, laughs his way to the bank thru the money that his movies take in from an idiotic American public. I have not seen AMERICAN SNIPER, but would rent it for 2 for a dollar night on DVD. LOL
Immortalized in both book and film form, now Chris Kyle is also an action figure.
In my story, he's going to be a CIA operative named Cooper Kyle. And he's one of the newbies.
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Bradley Cooper has earned himself another Oscar nomination for his role as Chris Kyle in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, and since it made some ridiculous and unexpected money at the box office, I'm here with a new. The movie everyone is talking about. Chris Kyle was nothing more than a Texan man who wanted to become a cowboy, but in his thirties he found out that maybe his life needed something different, something where he could express his real talent, something that could help America in its fight against terrorism. So he joined the SEALs in order to become a sniper. After marrying, Kyle and the other members of the team are called for their first tour of Iraq. Kyle's struggle isn't with his missions, but about his relationship with the reality of the war and, once returned at home, how he manages to handle it with his urban life, his wife and kids.
A lot had been said about Chris Kyle, and what he really did once he was home for good, the film is based on his book. I don't know much about him, so I'm gonna keep the reality separate and just analyze the movie. It's fucking good.
Bradley Cooper certainly knocks it out of the park with his performance, he never rings a false note and he is completely engaging. Chris Kyle in the first act of the movie is portrayed and written as nothing but just a guy with some strong values and honor for his country. That incredibly tense scene that makes up most of that first trailer, that's how the movie begins. The film, for at least the first half, bounces back and forth between him overseas and him back in Texas, first meeting his wife, training for the Navy SEALS etc. It's not confusing or disorienting, Eastwood pretty much makes it all work. Sienna Miller, playing Taya Kyle, does a very nice job as well - though she is the typical, "Come home, I miss you, be careful" wife who waits at home for her husband to return safely. She's pregnant, they end up having two kids and she's left alone with them while hubby is away in Iraq. When he does return home after each tour, she does point out to him how this whole thing is slowly squeezing the life and humanity out of him. Which it is. And, the movie makes it impossible for you not to feel for her as he struggles to deal with her husband being away for so long, and not knowing whether or not he'll even make it back. Chris often calls her, while he is on duty, patrolling and riding into combat - which, if this is true, displays a large amount of stupidity on Kyle's part - and when a signal drops, or, gunfire breaks out and Chris takes his attention away from her, you're left having to watch her freak the fuck out, and it is painful to witness. Those scenes in particular really made me dislike this character. Even though they do make a point, several times, of demonstrating just how great of a sniper this dude is and was, some decisions he made during the movie did piss me off.
As I mentioned previously, Chris Kyle's mental/emotional state is absolutely tested more and more as the film goes on. He won't admit it, of course, either because he's just ignorant and doesn't understand he's suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or because he's just trying too hard to be the big manly man who is always totally fine and ready for anything. Probably both. And he just cannot seem to snap out of this war-comatose state he is in when he comes home, granted, it would mess anyone up - although the whole point of the movie kind of falls apart a bit when the film is over. We would think that this was a story about a man struggling with the war inside of himself, what this Iraq war is doing to him and if he is going to be able to make it out of both battlefields alive. But, the last 15 minutes of so of the movie seems to embellish quite a bit. Maybe too much.
It may leave many entertained and moved, which it did mostly for me, it's totally a good film. Definitely Eastwood's best in years.
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Brother of American Sniper Chris Kyle. I got the honor to meet Jeff today and photograph him for an upcoming special.
He’s already on the crest of a wave following his buoyant work in Richard Linklater’s Oscar-favourtite BOYHOOD. Let’s also not forget this year’s superb sci-fi thriller PREDESTINATION (our review). Next we’ll see Academy Award-nominee Ethan Hawke reuniting with...
I was a bit skeptical about reading American Sniper only because it took me forever to really get into Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and it kind of set my expectations for reading books about men telling their stories of war.
American Sniper on the other hand, had me hooked from the first page. From the first paragraph actually. The book had such a good narrative and stuck to being from the point of view of Chris Kyle. It talked about being a SEAL and how things went down but there was also humor, confidence, anger, the book had life. The movie on the other hand, is a different story.
I have said this before and I'll say it again. The book is always better than the movie. Especially with true stories like Unbroken, Lone Survivor and American Sniper. There are so many things that the movie got wrong and so much more that could have been included to make the movie better. But props to the movie for being such a hit.
A welcome change of pace for the underrated actor Bradley Cooper, AMERICAN SNIPER has THE HANGOVER star collaborating with Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood on a biopic of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. The decorated discharged former war veteran served four tours in Iraq, racking up the most co...