Movie Analysis: American Sniper

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In my opinion, the most compelling movie opening is American Sniper, a biographical war movie directed by Clint Eastwood and based on famous United States sniper, Chris Kyle. In the beginning scene of the movie, a U.S. sniper is in position on a roof with his spotter and watching the battlefield through his scope. Meanwhile, ground troops are seen covering ground on foot and in tanks. They quickly break in to an apartment and take it over. On the other side, the sniper calmly notices a woman and her child standing in front of the ground army troops. The sniper radios in that there is a possible threat and he has a clear shot on the targets. A ground troop responds that he has no confirmation on the visual

The main source during the movie is Chris Kyle speaking. Chris Kyle is a U.S. Navy Seal sniper famous for having the most confirmed sniper kills in his country. When verbally communicating in the beginning scenes, his message is that there is a potential threat when a woman hands a child a bomb near the U.S. Army tank. The channel of communication was done through radio, which is army protocol, and showed that the movie was being realistic. The receiver of the message was a U.S. ground soldier who understood from the clear message that his life was in danger. His feedback was that he had no visual confirmation of the threat from his location, so it was the Chris Kyle’s call on what to do next. The environment where the conversation was taking place was a war destroyed street in the Middle East, which was evident rom the hot climate, known presence of the U.S. Army in Iraq from viewers watching the news, and the Arabic Islamic announcements being made in the city during the movie. The conversation was very formal due to army personnel having strict guidelines on how to communicate. An example of this is when Chris Kyle talks on the radio when he witnesses a man on a balcony, “I got a military-aged male, on a cell phone, watching the convoy. Over.” This assisted in making the viewer aware of the serious context. Interference was present during the communication in order to replicate the reality of how a conversation during a war mission would have been. This was done in the movie through sounds of the Islamic announcements, tanks moving, soldiers running, and orders from the