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Unbroken: Movie Analysis

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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

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