Jake Rademacher
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Well, this filmmaker was in the war zone, spends a decade working with veterans, helping them walk through the trauma of war and then turn that into post-traumatic growth so they can thrive. And his directions from the studio head, Gary, are, I want to know how they're doing and what they need.
So when I say in the beginning of the film, I want to know how they're doing, how they're really doing, I mean it. And you'll see that in the film. I push them sometimes that moment when we re-examine Gunner. And his first response is not in the film. I asked him about that response where he's in combat. There's bullets going across the lens of my camera.
Then I come upon one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life, which is these wounded Iraqi soldiers that were just patrolling their own country. And now one's got his leg busted up. The other one's got a jaw messed up. And Gunner's on one knee caressing the face of a wounded Iraqi soldier, all right?
And I'm filming it. I see him do this. And I'm in the midst of all this horror. There's this moment of grace on earth. And I ask him about it. And he kind of goes, yeah, the bullets were flying, la, la, la. And I go, Gunner, I was there. And it was grace on earth. And I pushed in my camera to get a closeup. Cause it just, I just, it was the most important thing happening right there.
And he stops and he looks down and he starts to cry and he gets real. And he says, it's because that's your, it's an intimate connection you have with another man and it hurts. He was my soldier.
And that is the reality of the film that I have that, I was there first of all, but I know from doing our seminars that it's okay for me to ask that question and ask them to take a step further into the experience. And it's, he's gonna have to feel it a little bit to heal it. And so he opens up and starts talking about that.
So that's an invitation for anybody that's been in that hard moment of combat to re-examine that and watch somebody else walk through it two months after I was there. David reached out to me and he said, Jake, thank you for coming. It really helped.
And on Friday night, David is going to do a Q and a, and we've invited the second Marine division where he used to be the division gunner to come in and listen to him do a Q and a. So now if you take this all the way through the life cycle in 2005, six, I'm there with him in combat. He was the one who was in the crossfire. He's the reason we went out there now.
he hasn't totally walked through his own trauma we make the film which becomes an opportunity for him to really look at some of these moments he's sort of buried a little bit he heals from that and now he's using the film to model that for other marines and to help them understand hey guys When you're in a war zone, not necessarily the time to talk about your feelings.
However, when you come home, the more you talk about it, the more you make sense of it, the more you open up to your family or friends, the easier it's going to be for you to transition to the next part of your life.
Yeah, it's sort of astounding. We're playing in 138 movie theaters across the country, and 100 of those movie theaters are Regal cinemas.
And John, just to build on what Gary said and answer your question, the reason why the Gary Sneeze Foundation and Gary personally is making sure the vets know about this, the reason why we are offering this incredible, generous gift that they're offering is because, you know, theater was started by warriors coming home and trying to explain to the rest of society what war was like and what coming home from war was like.
And so the Gary Sneese Foundation is trying to give them the gift of being able to go to their local movie theater at a time that's convenient for them and to bring their family and as a community to come together. And we know the film encourages camaraderie and communication. And as you said, this is for the topics we get into. It's a pretty easy film and a pretty good ride.
You might have a little bit of feelings here and there because you're feeling something for these heroes that serve us. And that's a good thing. But overall, it's an incredible insider's look at what it means to serve our country and to come home from that. And I think this gift is incredible because it's encouraging veterans. Go to the movie theater and experience this as a group together.
And so that's the next step. We'll be doing Brothers After War movie and seminars for years to come, but we really want our veterans and our first responders and our service members and their families to go and experience this as a community on opening weekend.
Thank you, John. Thank you, John, so much.
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