Once a gun runner, always a gun runner

Gerard 2022-12-20 17:25:22

The film is based on a true story, so much so that it even sparked a copyright lawsuit with Efraim Diveroli's autobiography "Once a gun runner", one of the protagonists of the film.

It has also been suggested that the film is related to an article by Guy Lawson in Rolling Stone.
Some people say that the film is an arms version of "The Wolf of Wall Street".

Producer Bradley Cooper (Bradley Cooper) in which cameo Henry Girard (Henry Girard) "The Lord of War" (Henry Girard), handsome mess.

Two young people from Miami, David Packouz, a hippie who loves music, and Efraim Diveroli, who began to follow his uncle to sell guns all over the United States at the age of 16. Thrilling, funny, bizarre life experiences.

AEY's name is not an abbreviation of any word. It started with a broken computer and a broken office. The Internet has created opportunities for it, including the opportunity to enter the mainstream arms industry.

And what kind of corruption quagmire of economy and human nature is behind this "human life harvester"?

Avram said in his autobiography: Once a gun runner, always a gun runner. Really, "As soon as you enter the military gate, it is as deep as the sea."

Here are two excerpts from the movie:

"What do you know about war? You're always told that war is for patriotism, for democracy, or against someone who hates our freedom. But do you want to know what war really means? You see this scene What? An Arkansas kid came to the front to defend his country for his patriotism? All I saw was a helmet, gloves, body armor, an M16 assault rifle for $17,500. Yes, it costs to equip an American soldier So much money. With more than two million soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, it costs taxpayers $4.5 billion a year, and a lot of that is just air conditioning. That's what war is really about, war is economy. If Someone tells you that's not the way war is, either he's an idiot or he's involved in it."

"I'm always skipping the big list and going for the little business that the big defense contractors don't want. Everyone's fighting for the same. It’s easy to ignore the crumbs on a loaf of bread, and I’m like a mouse, picking those crumbs. When that loaf is the Pentagon, a crumb is often worth millions.”

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War Dogs quotes

  • David Packouz: [From the beginning of the film, as Miles Teller's character, David Packaouz, narrates over visuals of soldiers in war and as price figures of what a soldier's gear costs are displayed] What do you know about war? They'll tell you it's about patriotism, democracy... or some shit about the other guy hating our freedom. But you wanna know what it's really about? What do you see? A kid from Arkansas doing his patriotic duty to defend his country? I see a helmet, fire-retardant gloves, body armor and an M16. I see $17, 500. That's what it costs to outfit one American soldier. Over two million soldiers fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. It cost the American taxpayer $4.5 billion each year just to pay the air conditioning bills for those wars. And that's what war is really about. War is an economy. Anybody who tells you otherwise is either in on it or stupid.

  • Efraim Diveroli: [while impersonating an army officer to a weapons vendor on the telephone] You keep supplying the guns, we'll keep killing the bad guys. God bless you.