“It’s not about how many I killed it’s about how many I could’ve saved.” These were the words spoken by Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle a U.S. Navy SEAL and the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. The 2015 action film “American Sniper” tells the story of Kyle’s heroism and willingness to return to battle despite his struggles with PTSD and his failing marriage. “American Sniper” stars Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, Jake McDorman as Ryan “Biggles” Job, and Sienna Miller as Taya Kyle. “American Sniper” was written and produced by Clint Eastwood and released by Paramount Pictures. The story begins with Kyle returning from a rodeo competition and finds his girlfriend cheating on him, and debates with his brother about settling down. His brother discourages this idea as he appreciates the "on the road" lifestyle. While Chris is watching television he watches the attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, and decides to enlist to become a SEAL. …show more content…
Kyle quickly scores several kills and quickly gains a reputation as well as the nickname "The Legend". By providing overwatch Kyle allows marines to safely clear houses, but still notices rising number of casualties. During one mission Kyle was protecting an armored squad of when a mother and her son attempted to throw a Russian explosive towards the Abrams tank. Kyle was forced to kill both the young boy and the mother, which haunted him throughout the rest of his career. Later on Kyle learns the location of of The Butcher who is Zarqawi's closest general. Unfortunately Kyle and his team are ambushed and pinned down by Mustafa, a Syrian sniper there to kill and collect the bounty placed on Kyle's head by enemy insurgents. Shortly after Kyle returns to Taya and their newborn son, but Kyle begins to exhibit strange behavior and the onset of
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Both he and Akimi became a team and now would search the library for a way out together. Many of the contestants were either struggling or wrong about what they were sure about. Kyle and Akimi had found nothing and were going to see if they could find a clue as to where
In “The Sniper” the conflict is man vs man, which means main character is tasked with killing his enemy, but it proves to be quite a challenge. Even though there were many challenges the sniper followed through with his job and persevered even after he was shot in the arm. Wanting to kill his enemy, stay alive, and be one step closer to ending the war was his main goals. Being brave, he took off his hat, placed it on his gun, and raised it above the edge of the roof. Instantly the enemy shot at it and the sniper, pretending to be dead, waited until the enemy got up for him to shoot him. He did some quick thinking and, with determination, handled the conflict quite well.
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American Sniper is the movie that I chose to analyze because it is full of moral and ethical decisions that have to be made. The movie starts off with a boy at school that has to go pull a bully off of his little brother and he ends up beating the bully up so bad that blood is all over his face. The boys name is Chris Kyle. The film then skips forward to when he is in his twenties and is riding a bronco at the rodeo since that is his passion. He then decides to join the Navy and become a SEAL after he feels like his purpose was to serve his country. He gets deployed to Iraq and the mental part is hard on him especially when he has to shoot a women and a kid when he sees them trying to throw a grenade at a group of Marines. He tries to help
Kyle Keeley is a gamer who gets stuck in the library, like everyone else. He is focused on helping everyone else escape, even if some welcome it more than others.
Chris was so dedicated to his Country, GOD, and Family, not always in that order for the last two, that he became known as the LEGEND. His career as a Sniper would lead him to 160 confirmed kills; some say it was more.
Before reading this book I didn 't see or ever think about examples of Kyle in my life, but now after reading it I see Kyle all around. Since we first started reading the book I have heard many sermons that remind me of Kyle. The one that stood out to me the most was a sermon from my pastor at my home church in Austin. My church is expanding and so they are asking members of the congregation to donate more money to a building fund, along with their regular tithes and offerings. During
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful thananything that bleeds. Don 't wait until you break. - Laurell Hamilton" This is oftentimes the sentiment felt by soldiers who have served in active duty and have been witnesses to tragedies that leave them emotionally scarred. The Clint Eastwood directed film, American Sniper is amovie that features the real life tragedy of American soldier, Chris Kyle, who served in theUnited States military as a Navy Seal, which is an elite group (Kenny, 2014 and Treitschke,2015). His story is unique in that he himself suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), but as he worked to recover, he valiantly served again by helping fellow soldiers withPTSD ("Chris Kyle," 2013), and was senselessly gunned
Platoons in Connaught consisted of twenty men; ten snipers and ten spotters. A spotter’s job was to use binoculars and be an extra set of eyes for the sniper. In case the primary sniper was killed, the spotter could take over the position or alert officers of the casualty.
In the crosshairs of, US Navy Seal, Chris Kyle’s scope, sits a woman and a young boy who appear to be attempting to hide something. Seconds pass, and the woman passes the item to the boy, revealing to Kyle and anyone around just what they have, a deadly grenade. After talking to his partner and his general on his radio, he has to make a choice, to kill or not to kill. His partner makes the decision harder by telling him “They’ll fry you if you’re wrong,” regarding if the child in question is actually a threat or simply a misunderstanding. This is the opening scene in the 2015 film, “American Sniper” which is based on the real life events experienced by Chris Kyle in Iraq (Eastwood, 2015).
In the end of the story, it is revealed that the opposing sniper the Republican sniper had killed was his own brother. The violence and animosity of war had caused a young man to dirty his hands with the blood of his own brother. The war with all of it’s valor, had darkened the identity of his brother. No longer was his brother his brother, but something to eliminate.
Novelist and short story writer, Liam O’Flaherty grew up in a village on the western coast of Ireland. He was a good student when he was young, and when he grew older, he enlisted in the British Army. Later, after enlisting in the army, he began to write stories while he was in the war. Many of Liam O’Flaherty’s short stories about war, have become very popular throughout the world. One of his greatest, most popular stories, “The Sniper” has some of O’Flaherty’s experiences of being in the war. The short story, “The Sniper”, was published in the London paper, The New Leader, on January 12, 1923. Liam O’Flaherty was a World War I veteran. He wrote most of his stories while in the war. The stories he wrote, became very popular after the
Kaia screams saying no and if he kills him she will kill herself as well, or that if he doesnt that she will go with them too. She then proceeds to hurt the man and gets answer out of him. The man says that there are about 12 people that are trying to hunt you and that Hetcor T. has sent them out to find
After a fatal accident with an archeologist named June Moore played by Cara Delevingne, a witch who is over 6000 years old named Enchantress has taken over her body making her way into Junes mind and taking control most when June is sleeping. One night while she is asleep, Enchantress takes over her body once again and then proceeds to find her brother who was originally in the same place she was, releasing him from captivity, bringing even more trouble into their already psychotic world. Rick Flagg, who is played by Joel Kinnaman develops a love interest with the archeologist June, and after he finds out about Enchantresses brothers escape, both he and June go to where the brother is to try and use Enchantress to plant a bomb right by him to kill him. As a result, when Enchantress takes over Junes body again, she proceeds to help her brother so he gives her enough power to maintain control over Junes body. This incident then results in the release of the Suicide Squad who is overseen by Amanda Waller, and these people, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, El Diablo, Killer Croc, Katana, and Colonel Rick Flagg must come together to take down this ancient villain dealing with hardships, and tough relationship building along the