{"id":7953,"date":"2015-02-03T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2016-01-13T15:57:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:57:56","slug":"robert-mckee-on-american-sniper-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/robert-mckee-on-american-sniper-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert McKee on AMERICAN SNIPER Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>How America Fell In Love With Snipers<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Q:<em>\u00a0&#8220;Where do Americans stand on war films today? Are they finally able to more deeply examine the consequences of the Iraq War?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A: &#8220;<em>There is\u00a0a tremendous curiosity in America to understand this war, what it was like to fight in this war, and what the point of this war was &#8230;\u00a0I think one of the reasons for the success of \u2018American Sniper\u2019 is it does try its best to somehow sort out morality.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Public Radio International&#8217;s <em>The Takeaway<\/em>\u00a0recently asked\u00a0Robert McKee about the reasons for the surprising box office success of\u00a0<a title=\"American Sniper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2179136\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Sniper<\/a>\u00a0(2014), starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood.<\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt <a title=\"PRI - The Takeaway - Robert McKee Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-01-23\/how-americans-fell-love-snipers\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, or listen to the <a title=\"PRI - The Takeaway - Robert McKee Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-01-23\/how-americans-fell-love-snipers\" target=\"_blank\">full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Radio International&#8217;s <em>The Takeaway<\/em>\u00a0recently asked\u00a0Robert McKee about the reasons for the surprising box office success of\u00a0American Sniper\u00a0(2014), starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-reviews","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AmericanSniper.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}