Unbroken was made into a book in 2010 by Laura Hillenbrand and later adapted into a movie in 2014. It is a story about a young Olympian named Louis “Louie” Zamperini who made it into the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He later gets drafted into the air force and fought in World War II only to get stranded in the ocean and captured by the Japanese. The book and the movie both cover the same main topics and are over the same events, but they aren’t both the same. The book goes into more detail than the movie in many instances; however, sometimes the movie shows a more detailed and powerful scene when compared to the book. The first thing the book does better than the movie, is covering Louis’s childhood. While the movie did a satisfactory job showing …show more content…
Pete could get anyone to listen to him and change people’s minds, even Louis’s. Pete was prevalent throughout the movie, but it didn’t seem like he was the perfect brother who everyone adored like it was stated in the book. “Pete Zamperini was handsome, popular, impeccably groomed, polite to elders and avuncular to juniors, silky smooth with girls, and blessed with such sound judgement that even when he was a child, his parents consulted him on difficult decisions.” (Hillenbrand). In the shadow of Pete, Louis was always the underachiever and never seemed as motivated to do anything good with his life. That was until Louis found his way onto a track in the middle of a race after a few of his classmates decided he was the only one who looked like he could run decently; Louis came in last place and was ashamed. After that, Pete forced Louis to practice running everyday. This event when the classmates pick Louis to run never happens in the movie, instead it is just Pete who persuades Louis to join track and …show more content…
This change occurred when Louis didn’t qualify for the one mile Olympic tryouts, so Pete encouraged him to try and run the 5,000 meter qualifier to see if he could make it. “Pete urged Louie to enter the Compton Open and try his legs at a longer distance. ‘If you stay with Norman Bright,’ he told Louie, ‘you can make the Olympic team.’” This was only described in the book, the movie never shows Louis trying to qualify for the Olympics in both the one mile and the 5,000 meter runs. The movie shows Louis running the mile in high school and the 5,000 meter in the Olympics, but never explains why he changed his
In the book, Unbroken, and the movie has many similarities and differences. There are three evident differences that has been shown between the two. The first variation is the dead bodies the Japanese fighters shot. In the text, it says Louie saw the two dead bodies of Phil and Mac, after the plane attacked them. In the videoclip, it doesn’t show the point of view of Louie seeing them lifeless. Another change is the Japanese mercenary. In the passage it states that Louie saw the mercenary first appear, but then it disappeared. In the motion picture, it starts with the antagonist attacking right away. The last distinction is the actions each character made. In the paragraph, it shows Louie as a strong person, and Louie had to help Mac and Phil
In Unbroken a few things differ from the historical event. For example, in the movie, it says after the war Louis Zamperini went back to see the cruel prison guard that tormented his life. However, what actually happened was he tried to see the prison guard but the guard refused to meet him as you can see from the article Unbroken, history Vs. Hollywood “He requested to meet with Mutsuhiro Watanabe (aka "The Bird"), but his former tormentor declined the meeting”. On top of that in the historical event and the movie when Louis Zamperini comes back from the war he develops PTSD and becomes an alcoholic, then his wife threatened to leave him unless he changes his ways so he became a Christian and it helped his PTSD and alcoholism. But in the movie he comes back from the war and everything is fine. But that's not to say Unbroken is without problems.
I feel that as a reader they could tell me how he felt compared to showing me how he felt. The actor in the movie really showed me how he felt and in the book told me how he felt. The actor in the movie really showed the emotion and determination to get home to his family again,this was shown so well to me I felt like I was in the same situation,all the horrible things that happened to him happened to me.The examples were the reason I felt the book and the movie were different.
The movie is very different than the book, parts are left out, scenes are changed, and the theme is changed completely, yet the story line stays the same. All of the changes affects the
There are few differences between the book and the movie, but when comparing them closely, one can find differences in quotes, the introduction of
Louie is one of those people to never give up. He was treated horribly, but still kept going and was almost beat and starved to death. “Louie decided to divvy up breakfast. He reached in the raft pocket. The chocolate was gone. He looked at Mac. Mac looked back at him with wide, guilty eyes.” For Louie to stay with the crowd, it was very tough for him, but he made it through. In his races, he just barely made it,
Unbroken, a movie about Louis “Louie” Zamperini was released on December 25, 2014. As a kid growing up Louis always found his self in troubles way, but then he started running to keep out trouble. Later on in his career he qualified for the 1936 Olympics team. After World War II Louie signed up to join the military. When he was at war his plane crashed into the Pacific, and he was captured by the Japanese navy and survived 47 days in a raft. Louis “Louie” Zamperini (hero in the movie), Russell Phillips (pilot), and Mutsuhiro ”The Bird” Watanabe. Unbroken is an action packed movie.
Unbroken, a movie that was released on December 25, 2014. It was directed by Angelina Jolie and casted by Jack O’Connell who plays Young Louis. A few of the other cast members are Garrett Hedlund (John Fitzgerald), and Domhnall Gleeson (Phill). This movie was based on a young man who stayed in trouble’s way. His older brother made him start running, and he qualified for the 1936 Olympics team. While at war his plane crashed and he was captured by the Japanese Navy. He and other soldiers survived 47 days in a raft.
Unbroken is an outstanding and well executed film based on mostly true events. Actor and now director Angelina Jolie has delivered a masterpiece of a film and certainly hasn’t disappointed, pulling in 163.4 Million dollars. All of the scenes and flashbacks fit perfectly into place, making it almost impossible to lose focus. The pinnacle of the film is the commendable acting from jack O’Connell, as well as the other actors. The setting and costumes portrayed in the film were excellent and relevant to the situation and time period, it almost like they filmed in that era. However, the films accuracy and adaptation to the original context is adequate; adding in aspects that make no reasonable
In the biographical movie, Unbroken premiered in 2014, Louie Zamperini, a renowned Olympian enlists in the U.S. Air Corps during World War II. This movie is based off the personal account
Michel Gondry’s 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, deals with themes of memory, identity and love. The film focuses on a lonely man named Joel Barish and his progressively dysfunctional relationship with Clementine Kruczynski. As their relationship deteriorates, they both decide individually to get the memories of each other erased from their minds at Lacuna Inc. Throughout the film, Joel demonstrates to the viewer, that although he is thoroughly unhappy, he begins to regret his agreement to the procedure and desperately tries to cling onto the happiest moments of his life. The scene directly before the sequence I have chosen is a memory of the first and only time that Joel was so happy he could “die right now”; lying on the
Unbroken, a movie directed by Angelina Jolie shows the life of Louie Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell) an American immigrant, former olympian and survivor of two Japanese prisoner of war (P.O.W.) camps. The movie is based off of a true story and starts with a young Zamperini, where to get him out of trouble is encouraged to start running by his older brother. He goes on to become the fastest high school runner in U.S. history. This is where viewers get their first taste of inspiration when we see Zamperini go from a young delinquent with a drinking problem to a world class runner. He continues to improve eventually qualifying for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Zamperini then becomes a bombardier fighting in the pacific. Unbroken flashes between a battle over a Japanese island and his earlier days described above. While this is very dramatic and a great way to open the movie this
A World War 2 story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. The film strives to motivate and experience the audience of the olympic champion Louis Zamperini during his torture in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp. Unbroken is beautifully crafted even it its brutality.
Motion picture films are evolving at a very fast rate in todays world, it is one of the biggest industries in the world and it is growing bigger and bigger every year. There are countless hit movies that are known around the world. This includes a very well know film Lone Survivor it is among some of the best and most well-known movies in history, partially because it is based on a true event that took place and the event that did take places made history and today’s world. With great actors and an outstanding directing team this film has created talk for years to come. The film itself is unique in the way that is isn’t just some made up story that they came up with, all the events that happen in the film are spot on with what happen in the real-world events.