Compare & Contrast...

Rating: 10/10 (14 June 2015)

Bradley Cooper has become one the finest actors of this generation...And Clint Eastwood is an amazing director who has truly earned his place among the greatest filmmakers of all time...Both of these men did something with American Sniper that really made me do some serious thinking...
Since this film is based on a true story with a tragic ending...I decided to do a little compare and contrast with another movie based on real life events...
That film is called Foxcatcher, starring Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, and a very creepy Steve Carell who plays Jon Du Pont...
The reason I am comparing the two films is simply because they are both true stories with tragic endings...And the reason I feel this is important to address is because of how those tragic endings were depicted in both films...
Foxcatcher got it all wrong...In fact...I thought climax was way too graphic and disrespectful to the real people who are attached to that film...
American Sniper does it properly...The final scene when Chris Kyle's wife is watching him about to leave with the very man who eventually murders him was handled very well by director Clint Eastwood...The audience doesn't need to see his tragic death...Simply knowing about it is enough...
Filmmakers in general really should be more careful when making a film based on true life events and people...Because it's not just about the events or the person that the story is based on...It's also about all of the lives that were effected by these events and/or people surrounding these kinds of stories...
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper not only created a wonderful film depicting the life of The Legend Chis Kyle...But they also showed a great deal of respect for the many lives that were effected so deeply by him...And That's All There Is To It...