Re: Sniper reloaded ???WTF???
That's because you're not a writer.
Military movie's not different from any other movie. (HURT LOCKER 100% "real?")
A writer does research. talks to people like you, reads all he can, goes to Pendleton and interviews snipers, etc., and then writes what the studio and the director wants to make.
By your rules no one would be able to make a movie about something he didn't experience first hand. I wasn't in Tombstone in 1881 -- Guess I shouldn't have written about that either.
And the script isn't the end of it. When I did SAVING JESSICA LYNCH, we had a DOD adviser -- who was Army -- and he wanted the Marines to act like soldiers, because that is what he knew, and in that case the director deferred to him, changing actual facts for the sake of "military realism" And you KNOW that things get changed on the set, when shooting circumstances prevent things, and weapons are not available in certain countries and Studios request specific stupid things because the "Foreign buyers" want it.
But your characterization of my knowledge of this topic is dead wrong. It's a cheap shot at my expense on a film you haven't seen yet -- no one's seen it yet -- so I'm just curious -- why?
