I suspect. Look at his participation in the political arena since the 1950s. Look at his inexplicable and extremely weird "empty chair" speech at the Republican elections a few years ago, which made many Republicans very uncomfortable. Look again. Wikipedia knows that this old man seems to be left-leaning, but he is actually a centrist. His values can be seen through the tube of the classic car: not blindly obeying, not confused, standing like an old oak tree in the whirlpool, not fighting violence with violence, but calling on me to save the world.
He also filmed a pair of sister films: Letter from Iwo Jima and the banner of his father's generation. He painstakingly and eagerly told two moving stories from the opposing sides. No matter how you say it, these two films are anti-war films.
At that time, the old man was 76 years old. He probably won't make a 180-degree turn in his view of war.
So this old man took American Sniper, and his intention was definitely not to go all out to praise this great, glorious and correct soldier. After looking at imdb, I realized that Bradley Cooper is a big fan of the hero deity. He originally wanted to direct it himself. As for why the director's chair was given to Eastwood, it is probably because of the latter's qualifications. Even Chris Kyle has said that if there is a movie, the director of Eastwood, the old cowboy, should be the most suitable.
It is said that Chris Kyle's comrades threatened the writer, saying that if the script is not well written, they will make the writer die ugly. Of course, the script was pleased on all sides at the end, and everyone was satisfied. The script really adds a lot to Chris Kyle, and it is performed by Bradley Cooper. This giant looks heroic, gentle, calm and low-key, and powerful and decisive. He is simply a pacesetter for alpha men. I personally think that before he went to the battlefield, his newlywed wife said that his heartbeat was at stake. He replied that the scene of worrying about his brother was designed with a very heroic and romantic feeling: when the love soars to the extreme, it will die. The shadow suddenly struck, but the hero was worried about his younger brother. This scene is very similar to the part where the male and female protagonists dance with the Moon River in the film "Born on July 4th."
But Eastwood is not Charlton Heston after all. I have always wanted to analyze the intentions of the director, but this story is designed too classically heroic---especially the "fire at me" part of the final battle. I have been very excited watching the film and I can't calm down. think. After watching it a second time, I felt that the intention of the director was coming: they actually changed a passionate story about Comrade Wei Guangzheng of the Texas Republican Party into a sermon film reflecting on PTSD.
You see, such a perfect warrior who is extremely powerful in heart and body----Compared with his comrades and younger brother, he has never even had any doubts and wavers in the sense of participating in the war. He is still eroded by PTSD. . He didn't realize it at first, but his family was the first to be affected. The many tears of his wife are definitely not a meaningless filler between several tasks. Then he said to the psychiatrist, "I regret not being able to prevent more casualties of his comrades." The doctor said, "There are a lot of casualties in the hospital. Go and see them." The implication may be to suggest that he heal his mental wounds by helping, or even saying, "You can't stop the whole war by your own strength." Casualties of soldiers". Finally, the official stamp, he eventually died of PTSD indirectly. Chris Kyle is still facing the war so hard, let alone anyone whose mentality is not as strong as him?
The camera shows that that day, he still used a pistol to play with the children before leaving home. The close-up shot of the gun was too abrupt and too frightening, I guess Eastwood more or less carried his own private goods inside.
Anyway, I think the whole film is a private property of Old Eastwood.
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