CLINT Eastwood’s latest movie American Sniper may be a hot Oscar contender and a US box office hit but it has divided Hollywood.
The movie stars Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, a real-life soldier who was claimed to be the most lethal sniper in US history. Kyle served four tours in Iraq racking up 160 confirmed kills along the way.
The movie has broken box office records in the US, taking in $US90.2 million ($109.1 million) in its first weekend and setting a record for a January release. It has also garnered six Oscar nominations.
Just saw "American Sniper" Powerful. Another view of "Coming Home." Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood. http://t.co/l94zY5Gh8Q
— Jane Seymour Fonda (@Janefonda) December 21, 2014 But some stars have taken issue with its tone, which they say glorifies war.
Seth Rogen was one of the first to attack the film, tweeting: “American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that’s showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds.”
Rogen’s reference is to a Nazi propaganda film in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds where a German sniper kills Allied soldiers from a clock tower.
American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that's showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 18, 2015 Documentary-maker Michael Moore tweeted that snipers were “cowards” and that invaders were “worse”. Moore, who was famously booed by Oscar attendees in his 2003 acceptance speech for denouncing the Iraq War, later tried to claim he hadn’t been referring to the subject of Eastwood’s film.
Even so, he got an angry response from fans of the film, including actor Rob Lowe and former Republican presidential nominee Newt Gingrich.
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 18, 2015 Cooper, meanwhile, insisted that the movie is not meant to be political but a character study about the plight of soldiers returning from war.
The actor told the Daily Beast: “It’s a discussion about the reality. And the reality is that people are coming home, and we have to take care of them.”
"@THR: Michael Moore Blasts #AmericanSniper Hero: Gunmen Are "Cowards" http://t.co/Bftmv4RF9F http://t.co/GM9oXo26sk" He's kidding, right?
— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) January 19, 2015 Michael Moore should spend a few weeks with ISIS and Boko Haram. Then he might appreciate@AmericanSniper. I am proud of our defenders.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 19, 2015 The defence follows high-profile positive reviews from the likes of Jane Fonda, who called the film “powerful”, and Cooper’s performance “sensational”, and Joe Biden, who was reportedly moved to tears during the final sequence at the Washington, DC, premier.
“It’s intense, man,” the US Vice President said after the screening, adding that veterans deserve our deep respect.
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