American Sniper, ou la propagande selon Eastwood
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American Sniper, sorti en salles le 18 février 2015, est un biopic de Clint Eastwood (avec Bradley Cooper dans le rôle-titre) sur le soldat américain Chris Kyle, tireur d’élite considéré comme une légende en raison de son efficacité (160 « terroristes » tués) pendant la guerre en Irak. Les films de guerre n’ont jamais été ma tasse […]
U.S. Arabs, Muslims concerned ’American Sniper’ provokes violent threats, hateful language
The film is a box office hit and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.
By Mark Guarino Jan. 26, 2015 | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.638814
REUTERS - An Arab-American civil rights organization has asked “American Sniper” director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film about a Navy marksman.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said in a letter to Eastwood and Cooper that its members had become targets of “violent threats” since early last week, before “American Sniper” went into general release. The letter said Eastwood and Cooper, the film’s producer and star, could bolster the ADC’s message of tolerance.
“It is our opinion that you could play a significant role in assisting us in alleviating the danger we are facing,” said the letter, dated Jan. 21. Reuters was provided a copy on Saturday.
The film is a box office hit and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.
The ADC said it was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and police to assess the threats.
The film tells the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL sniper. His 160 kills in Iraq is considered the highest count in U.S. military history. Some critics have said the film glorifies war and sanitizes Kyle, who called Muslims “savages” in his memoir.
Kyle was killed by a disgruntled U.S. veteran at a Texas gun range in 2013.
ADC President Samer Khalaf said on Saturday that it did not make sense to call for a boycott given the film’s box office success.
“If we boycott it, it will only cause people to want to see it more,” he said.
The Washington-based ADC asked Arabs and Muslims to send them copies of threatening messages they had received. More than 100 have been collected, all from social media.
“Nice to see a movie where the Arabs are portrayed for who they really are - vermin scum intent on destroying us,” said one Twitter post collected by the ADC.
Jack Horner, a spokesman for Warner Bros., the studio releasing the film, said in a statement that the company, a unit of Time Warner Co, “denounces any violent, anti-Muslim rhetoric, including that which has been attributed to viewers” of the film.
He added, “Hate and bigotry have no place in the important dialogue that this picture has generated about the veteran experience.”
Spokesmen for Eastwood and Cooper had no immediate response to requests for comment.
’American Sniper’ Is Dangerous Propaganda That Sanitizes a Mass Killer & Rewrites the Iraq War
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/american-sniper-is-dangerous-propaganda-that-sanitizes-a-mass-killer
While the glorification of American psycho sniper Chris Kyle on the big screen is atrocious, the movie’s rewriting of the US destruction of Iraq and racist portrayal of Arabs is worse and far more...
The real American Sniper was a hate-filled killer. Why are simplistic patriots treating him as a hero?
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/real-american-sniper-hate-filled-killer-why-patriots-calling-hero-chris
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.
People magazine sur Twitter : "More American Sniper backlash
▻https://twitter.com/peoplemag/status/557462597067603968/photo/1
Un homme fier d’avoir tué 255 irakiens finalement victime de sa propre médecine ▻http://www.franceinfo.fr/decryptage/l-histoire-du-jour/l-histoire-du-jour-aod-882145-2013-02-04
Chris Kyle a été tué par un autre soldat américain, un vétéran, comme lui. Apparemment, le meurtrier a été pris d’un coup de folie. Tous les détails sont dans Le Figaro, dans l’article de Maurin Picard, et sur les sites du New York Times et sur celui de CNN. L’information fait la une des médias américains car Chris Kyle était très connu.
Chris Kyle, Navy Seal in Iraq: “American Sniper” Gets Sniped | Global Research
▻http://www.globalresearch.ca/chris-kyle-navy-seal-in-iraq-american-sniper-gets-sniped/5322136
One of the ways in which humans wrestle with the existence of evil is by hoping that the evil doer gets his or her just desserts.
This hope is expressed with expressions such as “what goes around comes around” or “you reap what you sow.”
Despite all of this wishful thinking, it is rare for cosmic justice to be served as completely as it was in the case of the late Chris Kyle. Kyle was a Navy SEAL sniper in Iraq who served five tours of duty and by his own estimate killed 150 people. This week Kyle was himself shot to death and by another veteran no less.
Un personnage de Quentin Tarantino dans la réalité des Etats Unis
Chris Kyle, Author of ‘American Sniper’ Reported Killed in Texas - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/chris-kyle-american-sniper-author-reported-killed.html?_r=0
... two weeks into his time in Iraq, he found himself staring through his scope into the face of an unconventional enemy. A woman with a child standing close by had pulled a grenade from beneath her clothes as several Marines approached. He hesitated, he wrote, then shot.
“It was my duty to shoot, and I don’t regret it,” he wrote. “My shots saved several Americans, whose lives were clearly worth more than that woman’s twisted soul.”
Over time, his hesitation diminished and he became proficient at his job, credited with more than 150 kills. In his book, he describes shooting a fighter wielding a rocket launcher 2,100 yards away, a very long distance for a sniper and his farthest ever.
Dans son film Inglorious Basterds Quentin Tarantino décrit un jeune soldat assez sympathique qui devient la vedette des médias sous le contrôle de Goebbels. Vu qu’Inglorious Basterds est une sorte de fable sanguinaire marqué par un sarcasme omniprésent, il me semble permis de comparer ce personnage avec le vétéran américain qui vient de se faire tuer par un camarade.
Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), (is) a German sniper whose exploits are to be celebrated in a Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (Nation’s Pride), starring as himself.
▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds
Mr. Kyle’s autobiography was published in January 2012 and became a nonfiction best seller. It turned Mr. Kyle into a celebrity, appearing on talk shows like “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”
The sudden success of the book surprised no one more than Mr. Kyle, the son of a church deacon who was initially rejected by the Navy when he tried to join in the mid-1990s, because of pins in his arm from a rodeo injury. His first book signing drew 1,200 people. About 850,000 print and e-book editions were sold.
In an interview with The New York Times in March, Mr. Kyle — who received two Silver Stars and five Bronze medals for valor — said he had hesitated to write about his experiences. But he was persuaded to move forward after hearing that other books about members of the SEALs were in the works.
“I wanted to tell my story as a SEAL,” he said. “This is about all the hardships that everybody has to go through to get the respect and the honor.”
Allez voir le film de Tarantino, vous y découvrirez une forte ressemblance des attitudes affichés par les protagonistes et une déscription de l’explolitation des héros par la machine de propagande nazie digne des médias du pouvoir actuel.
A lire aussi : ▻http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sniper-chris-kyle-investigation-20130203,0,4541295.story
Son assassin présumé ...
... Routh appeared to be one of the nation’s numerous unemployed veterans, and Kyle was one of the crop of Navy SEALs to leave the anonymity of military service and enter the public sphere.
Tarantino s’intéresse indirectement aux conséquences de la violence, il décrit comment ses protagonistes utilisent des symboles afin de pouvoir vivre avec la violence qu’ils excercent. C’est également décrit dans l’autobiographie du tireur d’élite. D’après les reportages connus à cette heure un soldat risque de « déraper » s’il ne sait pas employer cette méthode - les mots et symboles idéologiques sont nécessaire afin de digérer la contradiction entre sa vie personelle humaine et la tâche inhumaine à accomplir.
His autobiography was unapologetically politically incorrect, reflecting the man: During one visit home between deployments, Kyle got a tattoo of a crusader cross on his arm.
“I wanted everyone to know I was a Christian,” Kyle wrote. “I had it put in in red, for blood. I hated the damn savages I’d been fighting. I always will. They’ve taken so much from me.”
Kyle won adulation and a spotlight and appeared on the NBC reality show “Stars Earn Stripes,” in which “celebrities are challenged to execute complicated missions inspired by real military exercises.”
Le résumé des événement est court : Ce sont toujours le petits gens qui paient avec leur vie pour le profit des grands.
Chris Kyle, le « sniper » le plus meurtrier de l’histoire américaine - M Magazine
►http://www.lemonde.fr/m/article/2012/01/20/chris-kyle-le-sniper-le-plus-meurtrier-de-l-histoire-americaine_1631596_1575
le monde est un endroit bien meilleur sans les sauvages qui prennent des vies américaines
Et en plus, il l’écrit ! Il a maintenant 255 raisons, de tourner la tête chaque fois qu’il entendra un bruit derrière lui car ces 255 raisons devaient avoir des frères, soeurs, pères, mères, fils filles, et ces gens là ont peut-être de la mémoire et l’esprit de vengeance.
Je préfère ma place à la sienne.
#assassin #ordure #fumier #mort_en_sursis
En même temps, pas sûr qu’ils aient les moyens de se payer le voyage aux states pour assouvir leur vengeance... mais bon, ça ferait un bon sujet de film :/
Chris Kyle, le « sniper » le plus meurtrier de l’histoire américaine - M Magazine
►http://www.lemonde.fr/m/article/2012/01/20/chris-kyle-le-sniper-le-plus-meurtrier-de-l-histoire-americaine_1631596_1575
Quatre longs séjours en Irak et... 255 mises à mort. Son seul regret ? Ne pas en avoir tué davantage.
Comme dans tout bon scénario de film d’action, c’est l’amour qui a fait déposer les armes au #sniper. En 2009, pour « sauver son mariage », ce père de deux enfants a pris sa retraite militaire. Il travaille aujourd’hui pour une société de sécurité privée.
#brrr