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can I tell you something your dad he's a hero that's right he saved my life and he uh he help

me get back to my little girl I wouldn't be here without him they called him the

legend and in Texas he is a hero major hero I had many a seal come up to me and say you

better not F this up did he do it Watson no he did not Richard jeel is an innocent man

he's a hero Richard is not a murderer he saved people's lives there's so many movies made about

Comic Book Heroes and stuff but people who have actually done some Feats that are beneficial to

society that's always nice when you can do it anyone can be a hero you don't need to have

a cape to be a hero go they're everyday people doing extraordinary things [Music]

since the birth of Cinema the movies have excelled at telling Hero Stories but in

Clint Eastwood's Films Heroes are rarely black and white you don't have to worry kid I ain't

going to kill you you're the only friend I got I don't know what a hero is really just a hero

is a person who can get through life and maybe be helpful to society or leave his Mark somewhere you

could ask yourself question do I feel lucky well do you punk nowadays everybody calls everybody a

hero but when I was growing up there was always somebody who did something extraordinary how do

we Inspire ourselves to Greatness where nothing less will do how do we inspire

everyone around us inspirational stories of heroism are Central to Eastwood's body of

work none more so than his portrait of American Sniper Chris Kyle baby Chris baby I can't baby I

can't hear you hello Eastwood's film of his life and tragic death paints a complex portrait of a

warrior both in battle and at home okay Bubba we're going to pick you up we're going to take

you downstairs I think it would be easy to make this like action movie and it's all about the guns

and it's all about the this this was all about the man this is a story about a hero and it's a story

about his journey it's not about them it's about us you have to make it back to us it's not just a

big pro war picture it shows the toll War takes on you we made it a point to constantly remind

ourselves that he's a real human being and we have to stay true to that story that we've gotten to

know under Eastwood's guidance Bradley kooper brought to the screen a Chris Kyle so authentic it

surprised even those who had known Chris well it was so impressive to see how Bradley transformed

and was committed to Chris Kyle you could see his level of commitment every day and I think it was

like it it inspired us he could have made a very good movie without doing all the work he did to be

Chris he has the talent he's very gifted at his craft can't do it man we need you

on OverWatch what if I'm down on the street Mar cast the house is the deadliest job here

you got some sort of Savior complex I just want to get the bad guys but if I can't see

them I can't shoot them like all these guys they know your name they feel Invincible with

you up there they're not they are if they think they are don't you just keep banging on the long

gun we let these dog sniff out zaka people see this movie they get the heart the soul the Char

the real Chris not one-dimensional multifaceted Chris he embraced this role to the point where

he had the mannerisms down so I'd seen Chris shoot enough times to know just the nuances of how he'd

support the gun with his hands how he'd dial it in how he would look with you know intent and calm at

the same time and Bradley nailed it I mean to the point where in the trailer there's a part

where Bradley is looking through the scope and he does a little sniff and sort of readjusts the dip

in his mouth and I noticed it my mom noticed it and I just thought that's cuz we know him so well

but when I talked to a few of Chris's friends they were in awe they said I mean he even has that part

down I'm better when it's breathing the only director that Chris Kyle ever said he wanted

to do this movie was Clint it's like he's the perfect guy for American Sniper I think Chris

wanted Clint Eastwood like he wanted a Ferrari but I don't think he thought there was a pig chance

in hell that he was getting Clint Eastwood the performances in American Sniper are part of an

Eastwood Legacy of telling true stories without embellishment or theatricality Clint is what

I found him to be was very instinctual he really trusts himself and he has this inherent ability to

know where the truth is he brought a gritty to the movie and a sort of sand in your mouth where it

felt authentic and it didn't feel like something that was trying to ring emotion out of you or or

manipulate you in any way he let this thing happen in front of us and is letting the audience choose

if they want to go along with this journey or not from the very first moment I met TAA and the rest

of the family down in Texas on back I had a pretty good idea of how I thought everything should be I

just took advantage of what everybody else knew and put it all in the mix he has the ability at

this point in his career to be so confident that he's willing to step aside and let Chris take over

it wasn't an overly directed film it wasn't an overly scored film and the camera movements are

not anything other than economical and I think it's because he really was aware of well for

this one we're going to focus on him I'm willing to meet my Creator and asked for every shot that I

took the thing that to haunts me or all the guys that I couldn't

save I'm willing and able to be there but I'm not I'm here I quit so you wish you could have saved

more guys yes sir Eastwood never got to meet Chris Kyle who was murdered during development

of the film's screenplay so he and his leading man did the next best thing Bradley and I took

a trip down to Texas and met with TAA met the family and the kids he has two adorable kids

it was just an incredibly intimate experience researching this movie I didn't view them as

Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper coming to my house I viewed them as people that I'm going

to need to work with to really give whatever I can give to contribute to this project I got to

see hundreds of hours of footage of Chris just behaving with his family with his two children

before his children were born when they were were born Bradley played soccer in the backyard with

the kids and laid on the floor playing with the dog and you know Clint refused to put his feet up

on my coffee table until I finally sat down and was like look I'm sitting on the coffee table I

want you to be comfortable please put your feet up it was very informative cuz we got a idea of

the guy without actually seeing him I haven't changed very many things from when Chris was

alive you know his closets the same I can't bring myself to change it yet so they got to see our

life I sat across the dining room table from Wayne Kyle Chris's father with with Debbie his

wife there and gave them our word that we were going to do right by them it's a big

deal to sit across from a guy's father lost his son and say I'm going to do justice to your son

cuz it's really easy for that father to say you don't know who my son is you don't know

what I sacrifice you don't know what this means to me and he'd be absolutely right

Clen Eastwood's respect for the life Chris Kyle LED colored the approach of all his collaborators

as they brought this hero story to the screen everybody from Clint Eastwood to the people that

were doing the props were so heartfelt there's The Stereotype that Hollywood doesn't get it but the

people who worked on this movie they get it Clint and I felt a massive responsibility I mean just

incredible responsibility you know they put their precious son their precious husband their precious

brother's story in our hands and so uh you know it meant a lot to us that we got it right I ended

up just really embracing it as a movie but it surprised me that it was much much more than that

by the time I left it was a piece of Cris and I can't ask for better than that as Clint Eastwood's

films reveal some Heroes come from the unlikeliest of places I do this Olympics gig well maybe

somebody make me a cop again but as the filmmakers discovered the man who saved countless lives at

the Olympic Park bombing was remembered not as the hero but as the villain we got to move there's a

b wherever we went location scouting everybody when you said Richard Jewel they didn't say the

hero they remember him as the bomber and he wasn't the bomber and that's what the

whole story is about and what Clint wants to get across that here's an American hero but

he's still remembered as the bomber it did happen it could happen again it could happen

to anybody I asked Clint the first thing I asked him was why do you want to make

this movie he said he really felt it was an American Tragedy that this man was treated so

badly by the FBI Mr Jewel did you conspire to plant a bomb in Centennial Park [Music]

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no then how did you know to be on the other side of that AT&T tower where you knew you'd

be protected from the blast a bomb went off right where you were stationed chaos erupts Bodies Hit

The Ground cops go flying I was one of them you come out without a goddamn scratch how does that

happen Richard I think it was very important for Clint to reveal that I just wanted the real people

the real victims of it all to get some sort of relief that the truth is put out there I don't

know how to protect you from these people you know you know what you don't have to protect

me I do the protect him I do they knew that Clint would tell the true story what happened

and make Richard the hero that he deserved to be for those closely connected to the the

real life event Eastwood's decision to bring to light the story of an American hero was a

kind of redemption you know I've carried this in my heart all these years and they really

need to know that Clint Eastwood is going to do something about it you ready to start fighting

back yeah

for three young men on vacation in Europe becoming Heroes was the furthest thing from

their minds they were young Americans that you don't expect them in this so-called millennial

generation to really step up and do much but uh these guys did when Spencer Stone Alex

gados and Anthony Saddler stopped a terrorist on a train Bound for Paris they made history

yeah I don't know man you ever just feel like life is just catapulting you towards something like

some greater purpose to tell their true story in the 1517 of Paris Clint Eastwood made some movie

history of his own casting the three Heroes to play themselves how we went after the leads was

the same as any other project that I would done before we auditioned actors I was going through

the regular casting thing of looking through a lot of actors on tape good actors too and they

they would have would have done a good job but every time he saw the real guys he kept saying

they have such great faces they don't make faces like this anymore Clint has been in the

business for 63 years I mean that was one of the things when he made the decision to go with these

non-actors he knew what he was up against still at 87 you know he's out there taking chances I

didn't know whether uh this would work or not but uh I've done a lot of pictures over a lot of years

and I thought I'm willing to try crazy things when he asked us we were kind of taken aback

but if he felt like we could do it he basically just gave us the confidence to do it Eastwood

avoided portraying the men as Larger than Life resulting in a film full of genuine

moments shared by three real life friends at the end of the day we're just regular guys

honestly so there's nothing special about us I mean to be like referred to as Heroes is kind

of a trip because you know I have Heroes and now I've read notes from kids and stuff about

how they did book reports on me and that just is kind of crazy cuz it was only just a few

years ago that I was doing book reports on my heroes the way I look at it is that I had an

opportunity to do something good and I took it and obviously God was watched my back I still

feel like we're just everyday people and everyday people can do great things as long as they do

their part to be honest we're just incredibly grateful that we survived that day [Music]

I'm ready to come home baby

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