The wartime days in Iraq of Chris Kyle, who had 160 confirmed kills, is the lens through which director Clint Eastwood chose to tell his latest tale, “American Sniper” (The movie shares the title of the best-selling book that Kyle authored about his career as a marksman in Iraq).
Kyle’s story is set amid the chaos of Iraq’s bloodiest urban battles. Eastwood told NBC’s Nightly News, “I think I’d like people to try to understand Chris Kyle and the mentality of all the people who were around him. I’d like them to feel what it’s like, the nervousness of war, and (have) an appreciation of what they’re doing.”
