The memoir "It's what I Do: A photographer's Life of Love and War", by war photographer, Lynsey Addario is going to be adapted into a movie. According to TIME, the film right now belongs to Warner Bros, with Jennifer Lawrence to play Lynsey Addario and Steven Speilberg to direct the film. In an article by Nolan Feeny, Addario states, "I wanted [to work with] people with integrity like Warner's and Andrew Lazar, people who will honor my vision and honor the passion that I brought to my work and bring that to their work". In other words, Addario asserts when making her memoir into a movie, she wants the people to be passionate just as she was, to have integrity and finally to state the truth with no lies of what really happened in the life she has experienced and has written …show more content…
Many others would believe instead when making this into a film would be better to have the film focused in its entirely on action scenes and less on character development. Action in movies usually makes a film more exciting and entertaining. People, in general, will be expecting action in this film of a war photographer. When then adding action into a film one must see that sometimes people add events that didn't happen in the book. Isaac Guzmán writes in an article from TIME about American Sniper from adapting it from the memoir of one Chris Kyle. He interviews Clint Eastwood in one section, “I guess you could call it a war film, because it's about the war," Eastwood says. "But really it's about relationships and the obstacles people have to overcome when they're involved in the service". Like Addario's memoir, it's about war so the action would play a part ultimately, but what one should focus on is after seeing all that action what is the film trying to convey to the viewers watching this movie, so the action is a necessity for the
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.
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
In Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper," all of these. are brought to an acute reality in a single war-torn city. Strong cerebral convictions and opposing philosophies, due to which people want to destroy the seemingly “wrong” plague this world and are the ones who are the ones who are the main reason for the plight. To aid in his creation of such emotional conflict, turmoil and plight, the author has portrayed the sniper as a very controversial character in the story. This story is oriented around one character in the Civil War which he should not even be in as he is. mentioned to be a “student” in the story.
Despite these minor flaws, the book has many positive aspects to it. Probably most important, the book gives the reader an up close and personal account to the war. Each battle comes alive for the reader as a veteran vividly describes what he experienced. For example Vincent Walsh describes his first encounter with a violent death as follows: “we had occasion to pick up a dead pilot. They fingerprinted him and then he was wrapped in a piece of canvas and he went into a meat box” (Tomedi, 155). Lines such as this, puts a personality behind the speaker and makes it more personal. Also, the stories in the book present the same situations as other oral history novels. A good example of this is when Robert Roy claims “…I could see a line of tanks coming down the road, which we never expected…I could see the rounds explode against the tank, but the tank just kept going” (Tomedi, 10-11).
The story I chose for this analysis is “Why, you reckon?” by Langston Hughes. IN this analysis I will be focusing on how the great depression in Harlem had effect on the story, how racism played a part, and how or if the characters were justifyied in their actions. During this time period the intense racial divide combined with the economic harships that plagued the U.S. during the 1923’s makes for an interesting story that makes you think if the charaters were really justified.
The chapter “Clarify What’s Important to you” introduces several successful leaders and many praiseworthy values to me. Although each leader comes from different environments and possesses different characters, all of them keep their precious values in mind and persist in chasing their ideal lives. Even if each value can be interpreted by different meanings, they all lead encourage individuals to become better.
The mood of the story is dark and weary. In this scene the sky is gloomy and there are Republican and Free Starter soldiers fighting in the Irish Civil war, “The long June twilight faded into the night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through the fleecy clouds.. machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically” (O’Flaherty 1). Although the mood of the story is creepy and dim for the most part, it is silent with the sudden sounds of guns firing. As the story progresses, the sniper’s emotions begin reflecting on his actions. He begins to feel guilt and remorse for killing someone and the mood shifts to tension and violence.
Clint Eastwood in many scenes throughout the movie allowed the viewer to see how different the realities of war and images of war can be.
After reading the story, “What Should You Worry About?”, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, really inspired me to think more about the worries and the non-worries. Specifically, worries about; global warming, animal attacks, hackers, murders, rapist, theft, and “unsolvable problems”. Levitt and Dubner clarify the story from giving good points, Which made me think, should I be worried about dangerous animals, when I go out to remote areas? Shall I be concerned about global warming getting to it’s ultimate points, being a victim of robbery or identity-theft or even being murdered by a friend, is a worry?
American Sniper is about American war hero Chris Kyle. Chris Kyle was born in Texas who grew up in a house where the father had a eat or get eaten mentality. Chris Kyle was a bull rider until he saw bombings on tv happen where he immediately went to sign up for the military. He went through Navy Seal training and eventually became a sniper through training. Kyle fought over in the Iraq War. Before he went on his first tour he met a girl at a bar, and they eventually got married before leaving for his first tour. Between tours they started a family, when Chris was back in between tours he started showing signs of withdrawal from war, for example damaged hearing and grief. While over in Iraq he became such an infamous sniper he had a bounty put on his head. While over there he felt bad that he was missing his family grow up but felt he owed his country. Finally after 4 tours he stayed at home with his family in Texas. He had trouble adjusting back to civilian life, he was on edge and visibly more violent. Eventually Chris got help from a doctor and diverted his depression into helping other veterans adapt back to civilian life. Sadly, one of the veterans he was helping
"When it becomes the fifth-highest-grossing Warner Bros. film off all-time and it is one of 50 films in cinema history to cross that benchmark and we're still going - that tells you everything." Warner Bros' rivals have slammed the war memoir as similar to a Marvel movie, despite debuting in the middle of winter, a time when most moviegoers prefer to stay at home. But Goldstein said that the movie resonated so well with audiences because Kyle is a likable character, and many hail him as a hero. With so many bad things happening in the world right now, people are looking for stories of hope and inspiration.
The 2013 Film American Sniper deals with the experience of postmodern warfare. While at first glance the film glorifies war and American imperialism, this is a surface level interpretation of the film. The film depicts the heroism of battle but does not shy away from the darker aspects of war. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle is portrayed as a brave combatant but does not hesitate to depict the strain put on his family or the hard choices which are part of the nature of warfare. The film is even-handed in its depiction of warfare. The central message of the film is ambivalent about the value of war and has aspects which are both pro and anti-war. Clint Eastwood is correct when he states that film has an antiwar aspect and that it shows just how devastating war is for survivors and their family;
Adventist in the Arts is an essay summarizing the origins of, "The Lesser Light Collective" (TLLC) in a third person perspective of Lee Givhan through the art of rap; a musical genre of poetic lyrics with heavy rhythmic instrumentals with some street vernacular. Started during Lee's high school years, Kovacs details his journey from an upcoming rapper to one of the founders of the organization while being a missionary. She also wrote about Lee's spiritual journey with Jesus throughout the recollection. Kovac has described these events in simple terms with dialogue to support her points, along with business throughout their "rap career". Kovacs has presented that rap can be a form of worship and how she made it feel familiar
The article “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” is written by Mark Edmundson and published by Oxford American on August 22, 2011 in a magazine. The article begins with author praising the new college student for their hard work in getting this far with the support of their relatives and people along the way that helped them. The author then goes on to explain how you have made in the new batch of people, and how you can succeed in this new environment and thrive after it. He next points out about how the America is not in the best condition with drugs, and violence that is going.
At one point or other you’ve probably heard the following “You are given two ears and one mouth for a reason; to listen twice as much as you speaks.” It’s correct, nature has given us two ears but only one tongue, which is a tender hint that we should listen more to what we speak. But how many of us actually listen twice as much as we speak?