re: American Sniper movie discussion thread (No book talk, no political bickering)

Almost started this thread when I opened this shite show of a thread after watching this movie last night. I really enjoyed it. I can't believe I didn't realize that Sienna Miller played his wife until the credits. Her hair threw me off.

I will say that I was bored for a few moments here and there. I have a really hard time staying engaged in movies with tons of action though, so that's probably a personal problem. I did notice the fake baby for sure. The way he held it, the baby would have to be a genetic freak to keep its head up.

I thought it ended really well. I didn't want to have to watch the veteran kill him. And video footage of people lining the streets for our soldiers always gets me.

I'm not super familiar with the story. How accurate is the Mustafa stuff? Did he really have a rival sniper out there?

ETA: Found this...

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Is the enemy sniper Mustafa based on a real person?
Yes, but he holds far less significance in the book, at least in relation to Chris Kyle. In the movie, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) engages in a film-long pursuit of an enemy Syrian sniper named Mustafa (Sammy Sheik), whom the American soldiers refer to as "Kaiser F—in' Söze." In Kyle's autobiography, the enemy Iraqi sniper Mustafa is only mentioned in passing in a single paragraph. He is described as "an Olympics marksman who was using his skills against Americans and Iraqi police and soldiers."


Did Chris really kill the enemy sniper Mustafa?
No. In reality, Chris Kyle never actually encountered the enemy Iraqi sniper Mustafa, who he believes was killed by other U.S. snipers. Chris does make a 2,100-yard shot in the book, but it was to take out a random combatant on a rooftop who was about to fire an RPG at an Army convoy. "It was my longest confirmed kill in Iraq," writes Chris, "even longer than that shot in Fallujah."

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