“American Sniper” Was An Awesome Movie, But This Fake Baby Prop Almost Ruined It
I recently saw “American Sniper” for the first time. I love war movies and I love Clint Eastwood, so the chances of me liking the movie ranged somewhere between 99 and 100 percent.
I watched it the same way all normal college kids see movies. I went to some sketchy Chinese website, closed out of the MacKeeper popup, cleared my cookies, and hit play.
For the most part, I found the movie to be a stunningly brilliant character study on the deadliest sniper in U.S. history. Some scenes are emotionally stirring, like when a veteran approaches Chris Kyle (played by Bradley Cooper) at a car service station and continuously thanks Kyle for saving his life. Kyle reacts as awkwardly as I do when old neighbors talk to me about college at the neighborhood Christmas party.
And yet, of all the mind-blowing war scenes in “American Sniper,” the one I couldn’t get out of my head as the credits rolled was this one:
Look how fake that damn baby is. Eastwood had a $60 million budget for this film and he apparently thought the best course of action was to run to the local Los Angeles Toys “R” Us and pick up a plastic baby doll.
Watch as its motionless, artificial body get coddled by Cooper. Its arms can’t move. That looks like the deadest of all dead babies. Cooper tries to conceal the awkwardness of fathering a stiff children’s toy by squeezing it as close to his chest as he can before leaning over to set it down so nobody will see the lifeless doll corpse collapse into the crib. It doesn’t work. We know it’s a doll.
Sixty million dollars should get you one regular human child. Babies don’t have any lines, so by union rules that I assume exist and am not making up, you probably wouldn’t even have to pay them as much.
Suspension of disbelief is ruined here and you remember that the guy holding the baby is the same dude who let a naked Asian man out of his trunk in “The Hangover.” This important and slightly grim scene is forever hilarious because of that prop doll.
I still recommend seeing the movie. Just go to the bathroom during this scene..
Image via YouTube
I was pretty apathetic towards you until this. I saw the film last night. Never heard a theater that quiet when a movie ended. Deafening silence. You sat through that whole movie and THIS is what you took away. I know this phrase is overused here, but honestly, step back, and literally fuck your own face.
11 years ago at 5:50 pmMan, I’m convinced shit stains like you wake up everyday just to go and find something to bitch about. Do us all a solid and play in traffic you little disrespectful prick.
11 years ago at 6:28 pmDorno I’m sorry the children in the movie didn’t meet your standards
11 years ago at 7:11 pmI was high as shit when I saw this movie so I didn’t even know. Thanks for ruining it.
11 years ago at 9:15 pmThe only discrepancy between the book and movie that really deserves mentioning is the fact that Chris Kyle didn’t kill Mustafa the Olympic sniper. Half of the movie revolved around Chris pursuing him and he ended up being killed by a completely different platoon and even then they weren’t 100% sure it was him. I suppose Hollywood just needed an antagonist that could survive more than one fight scene though.
11 years ago at 9:37 pmWho the fuck cares if he pirated the fucking movie? Quit you’re bitching. Oh he voted for Obama? Wow crazy, so did over half the fucking nation. He has a good point, the baby prop was very fake, but still credits the movie with being an absolutely amazing work of film.
11 years ago at 9:41 pmFucking stop crying about how he pirated a goddamn movie, I’m sure you have all downloaded music or movies you shits
The funds go to the family you disgraceful fuck. Yeah I’ve pirated movies, but something of this caliber where it’s a true story and part of the profits go to his wife and kids. I can set aside 12 fucking dollars to go see it and support him and his family.
11 years ago at 11:17 pmI’m starting to think TFM posts shit like this to piss us off.
11 years ago at 9:56 pmI know, I fucking submitted a column about the lawsuit Jesse Ventura filed against Chris Kyle. I spent a decent amount of time trying to tell the story of the lawsuit. I’m butthurt that they published this piece of shit and not my article. And yeah I realize I might take some laps for this and I’m whining. I don’t care I want that story to be out there and this is the closest thing I have to submitting news type shit for mass amounts of people to read.
11 years ago at 11:13 pmYou sound like a liberal pointing out such a minor detail from a great movie and making a big deal out of it
11 years ago at 10:01 pmHow the fuck did the people that work around you read this and think it is TFM worthy. I am at loss of words…. This is disappointing.
11 years ago at 11:20 pmSo much butthurt in these comments. Did any of you even read the article, or did you just assume that this article goes against the whole ‘MURICA circle jerk so you just lost your shit?
11 years ago at 12:05 amGet out of here with your unamerican circle jerk
11 years ago at 8:20 am