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‘American Sniper’ Screenwriter Jason Hall: Finding Purpose in Tragedy
Jason Hall is having a moment. The country is having a moment.
Although hardly an overnight success story, it's fair to say American Sniper is this talented screenwriter's big break. A break so big he just might win his first Oscar a few days from today. But the celebratory mood is tempered by one inescapable fact: it is constructed from the tragic demise of a man named Chris Kyle. The soldier who not only serves as this contentious movie's protagonist, but was also a man Jason called friend.
In an era when studios shy away from war movies as box office poison, American Sniper is an…
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