‘American Sniper’ stokes the culture wars – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Everyone involved with this week’s most popular movie claims it has nothing to do with politics. Really, star actor Bradley Cooper stressed again and again in interviews, it doesn’t. Director Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” simply explains the “plight” of the soldier, he told the Daily Beast, providing a “character study.” But this was no ordinary soldier. This was the late Chris Kyle, the much-mythologized “deadliest sniper” in American history. And regardless of what Cooper wants, his movie has become political. Before he was shot to death at a Texas gun range, Kyle, who claimed he killed 150 people while working as a sniper in Iraq, oozed conviction and charisma. He wore big boots. He spoke with a languid Texas drawl. He wrote a best-selling memoir. He made millions. And he stirred controversy just about everywhere he went. The conversation that now shadows the release of “American Sniper,” which collected a record $ 105 million during the holiday weeke
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