American Sniper Page #4

Synopsis: Join director Clint Eastwood and his creative team, along with Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, as they overcome enormous creative and logistic obstacles to make a film that brings the truth of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's story to the screen.
 
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Year:
2015
30 min
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18 LATER 18

TV plays across Chris’ drunken face. He lays on the sofa,

a beer on his chest. JEFF is sprawled in a chair.

JEFF:

Some people ain’t worth fighting for.

CHRIS:

But she was right...

JEFF:

(closing his eyes)

A job is a job. At least we’re outside.

(03.18.14) 10.

Chris is bleary, lost and drifting to sleep. The imageson the TV don’t immediately register but--

NEWS FOOTAGE of the WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING (1993)

plays on TV. An explosion has demolished the garage.

NEWS ANCHOR (OS)

--group of radical militants called Al-

Qaeda are taking credit for a bombingthat left six dead and hundreds injured-American

flags at half mast. His chest rises and falls--

CHRIS:

Jeff, wake up. Look at this--

The faces of INNOCENT VICTIMS play across the screen.

Chris’ injured hand slowly curls into a fist.

CHRIS:

Look what they did...

19 INT. NAVY RECRUITING OFFICE 19

Posters of destroyers on walls. The NAVY RECRUITER islean and shrewd.

CHRIS:

I saw what they did, on our soil, and--

NAVY RECRUITER:

And you’re from Texas and you’re a

patriot so it pissed you off.

CHRIS:

Yes, sir. But I can’t see myself on a

ship. I’d wanna be in the fight-NAVY

RECRUITER:

You wanna fight? Meet the warrior elite.

He slides him a brochure-- “NAVY SEALS” emerge from the

water, armed and bound for glory.

SEALs?

CHRIS KYLE:

NAVY RECRUITER:

Sea, Air and Land.

CHRIS:

I ain’t much of a swimmer--

(03.18.14) 11.

NAVY RECRUITER:

(taking brochure back)

This isn’t for the faint of heart. Most

men wash-out. They quit-

CHRIS:

(cutting him off)

I’m not most men, sir. I don’t quit.

20 OMITTED 20

21 OMITTED 21

22 EXT. NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE CENTER / “THE GRINDER” - DAY 22

CHRIS and 50 OTHER CANDIDATES lay on their backs doing

flutter-kicks on a patch of blacktop surrounded by beige

buildings. INSTRUCTORS wield hoses.

INSTRUCTOR ROLLE

(sprays Chris in the face)

You a quitter, boy?

CHRIS KYLE:

No, sir!

INSTRUCTOR ROLLE

Bullshit, you are fleet-meat. Don’t turn

away. Look up and take it. You’re old as

f***. Did you join the Navy cause you had

such a good time on Noah’s Arc? How old

are you?

CHRIS:

30, sir.

INSTRUCTOR ROLLE

30! You fart dust and could’ve fathered

half these boys. You think cause you had

a pop-gun back in Texas you’re cut out to

be a SEAL?

CHRIS:

No, sir.

INSTRUCTOR ROLLE

No, you’re not cut out to be one?

Chris is twisted in agony and clearly dislikes the water.

(03.18.14) 12.

INSTRUCTOR ROLLE

What kind of a**hole joins the Navy but

hates the water.

CHRIS:

I love water, hooyah.

INSTRUCTOR ROLLE

My ass you do.

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Jason Hall

Jason Dean Hall (born 1972) is an American screenwriter, film director and former actor. He played the recurring character of Devon MacLeish in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He had a guest starring role on Without a Trace as Jesse in Season Two. Hall attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Hall studied business, English and cinema at the University of Southern California. more…

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