#american sniper

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does this make anyone else sick???

American Sniper has made almost quadruple the amount as selma. QUADRUPLE. Everyone loves a good American hero, right? As long as it’s a white guy killing non-white people. Martin Luther King, not important enough. Movie directed by a woman of color, not important enough. 

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This absolutely does not make me sick. Do you know why? Because American Sniper got a wide release and has more than double the production budget than Selma.

Going by Box Office Mojo, American Sniper opened up in 1000 more cinema’s than Selma did, BIG advantage. Remember Selma is pretty much an indie film. So no this doesn’t make me sick. Would I have liked Selma to make more? For sure, but it’s not surprising that it didn’t since American Sniper simply had more money behind the film and marketing and was in more screens. 

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correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Selma also do some *free* showings as well?

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I hate the damn savages. I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.

Chris Kyle, US Navy Seal from Texas who bragged about killing 255 Iraqis in his memoir.

(AKA the “hero” of the movie American Sniper)

#is this real?????

Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated.

-The real American Sniper was a hate-filled killer. Why are simplistic patriots treating him as a hero? The Guardian

What tends to happen when you’re good at your job is that you also come to enjoy it. In Kyle’s book, he admitted, “I love war.” He described killing as “fun.” He noted that “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis,” going on to explain that “I hate the damn savages.” But are the sacrifices of war still sacrifices when you enjoy them? Is heroism still heroism when you’re motivated by hatred?

The moral element of war’s theater—in Kyle’s book, and again as Cooper portrays Kyle in the film—is populated in his mind by good guys and bad guys, by superheroes and villains, by, essentially, cowboys and Indians. (At the Washington, D.C. premiere of the film this week, Bradley Cooper described the film not just as a character study, but also as a classic Western.) Just as foxholes have no atheists, battlefields are not places that tend to afford moral ambiguity. 

-American Sniper Makes a Case Against ‘Support Our Troops’ The Atlantic

“I don’t shoot people with Korans,” Kyle retorted to an Army investigator when he was accused of killing an Iraqi civilian. “I’d like to, but I don’t.”

-Death of an American Sniper, Salon

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Jesus I knew that had to be some FUCK YEH AMURICA PEW PEW drivel when I saw the commercial

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But please keep telling me how great American Sniper is

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Chris Kyle, US Navy Seal from Texas who bragged about killing 255 Iraqis in his memoir.

(AKA the “hero” of the movie American Sniper)

#is this real?????

Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated.

-The real American Sniper was a hate-filled killer. Why are simplistic patriots treating him as a hero? The Guardian

What tends to happen when you’re good at your job is that you also come to enjoy it. In Kyle’s book, he admitted, “I love war.” He described killing as “fun.” He noted that “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis,” going on to explain that “I hate the damn savages.” But are the sacrifices of war still sacrifices when you enjoy them? Is heroism still heroism when you’re motivated by hatred?

The moral element of war’s theater—in Kyle’s book, and again as Cooper portrays Kyle in the film—is populated in his mind by good guys and bad guys, by superheroes and villains, by, essentially, cowboys and Indians. (At the Washington, D.C. premiere of the film this week, Bradley Cooper described the film not just as a character study, but also as a classic Western.) Just as foxholes have no atheists, battlefields are not places that tend to afford moral ambiguity. 

-American Sniper Makes a Case Against ‘Support Our Troops’ The Atlantic

“I don’t shoot people with Korans,” Kyle retorted to an Army investigator when he was accused of killing an Iraqi civilian. “I’d like to, but I don’t.”

-Death of an American Sniper, Salon

(via cundtcake)

Jesus I knew that had to be some FUCK YEH AMURICA PEW PEW drivel when I saw the commercial

(via underhuntressmoon)

But please keep telling me how great American Sniper is

(via gaysquib)

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