What a shock: Hollywood pushing back at "The Sniper"

If people going to a Hollywood movie don't understand that, there is no hope for them.

 

I cannot help but keep thinking back to the Rolling Stone article recently, and how people's preconceived views on the bigger picture issue so painted their decision on whether the accuracy of the story mattered or not.

This is very similar. People apt to support our military -- the majority of Americans, I'd say -- don't care that Chris Kyle was a fabuilst. What matters, like Jackie, is what he represents to them.

 

A movie isn't journalism (unless it's a documentary, which this is not). If I had a buck for every true story that had been altered by Hollywood to make a better story or to fit into an agenda or for whatever reason, I might own Hollywood.

 

I understand that. You understand that. I don't think that the newly formed Chris Kyle Fanboi Club on social media and elsewhere right now understands that. To them, that character in that movie is Chris Kyle, and you will not convince them otherwise. Try to. Try to convince Mr. Sunshine on this board of that, in fact.

 

I was answering your question about why the accuracy of this particular story doesn't matter, anymore than the accuracy of Saving Private Ryan or Star Wars matters. The accuracy of the Rolling Stone story mattered.

 

I do think that the accuracy of the Rolling Stone story mattered more, of course, because it representated itself as journalism, and you should go into it expecting that the conventions of journalism be followed.

That said, I still think what I said is true - people come away from both works basing their opinion on whether accuracy matters upon their pre-formed view of the underlying subject.

 

I left wishing that Clint Eastwood had turned Dreams from My Father into a movie.

Apparently that's what it takes to get the media to fact check someone's life.

 

The New Yorker piece ran two years ago.

 

Huh. Well, then I'm at a loss to explain why it took 3-and-a-half years after President Obama was inaugurated for David Maraniss' book to come out and debunk Dreams from My Father.

 

I'm at a loss to explain where all the board hawks were two years ago defending Chris Kyle's honor before Dirty Harry made a movie about him.

 

BREAKING NEWS: Liberal says left-leaning things and Conservative follows by saying right-leaning things. Film at 11.

I love when people act all outraged when they be who they are.

 

I wonder if he would have included the 4000 KIA drone kills