Sniper
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this episode of Unclear and President Danger, Jamelle and John discuss “Sniper,” a delightful piece of genre trash that also happens to speak to some of the paranoias and prejudices of the era. To that point, their conversation veers from the anti-Bill Clinton conspiracy theories of the early 1990s to the militia aesthetic that emerged later in the decade.
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| 0:00.0 | He's a shadow. |
| 0:02.0 | He's out there. |
| 0:05.0 | Somewhere. |
| 0:07.0 | Waiting. |
| 0:09.0 | Fighting a war, no army can win. |
| 0:12.0 | But a single bullet... |
| 0:14.0 | Range me. |
| 0:15.0 | Can. |
| 0:17.0 | But this time he set his sights too high, and his only backup is a new recruit. |
| 0:26.5 | Sniper. |
| 0:27.5 | One shot, one kill. |
| 0:29.2 | One kill. |
| 0:33.5 | The second, Welcome to episode 17 of unclear and present danger, a podcast about the political and military thrillers of the 1990s and what they say about the politics of that decade. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm Jamel Bowie. I'm a columnist for the New York Times opinion section. |
| 1:12.4 | My name is John Gans. I write a substack newsletter called Unpopular Front and I'm working on a book |
| 1:17.7 | about U.S. politics in the early 1990s. Today we are talking about the 1993 military thriller |
| 1:24.4 | sniper directed by Luis Losa and starring Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, |
| 1:31.5 | who we saw previously in the Russia House, and Aidan Young. Here is a short plot synopsis. |
| 1:38.5 | A veteran U.S. Marine sniper is partnered with a rookie sniper as a spotter to take out a politician |
| 1:43.9 | and a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama. |
| 1:46.0 | If you'd like to watch sniper before listening to our conversation, you can find it on Tubey or YouTube for free. |
| 1:53.0 | I watched it on YouTube for free, and you can also rent it on iTunes and Amazon. |
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