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Unbroken Movie Vs Book

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The movie and the book, Unbroken, show differences from what happened in the movie and what really happened in the book. The movie shows scenes that the book doesn’t include, Jolie does this to make the movie more interesting. Zamperini never met the “Bird”, he requested to meet with him but he denied the meeting. When Zamperini was stranded on the raft in the ocean they truly ate shark and fished with the dead bird they killed. In the film, Unbroken, director Angelina Jolie added some events and dialogue to the movie to make it more enjoyable to the audience.
There are some similarities in the book and the movie Unbroken. In the movie and the book, they both show and describe how they were stranded and what they ate. They ate shark and fish while being stranded on the raft in the middle of the ocean, “For food, they eventually managed to catch fish and even sharks” (Frank). When Zamperini met Adolf Hitler, he was forced to shake his hand, “Before the war, at the Berlin Games, Zamperini had been forced to shake Adolf Hitler’s hand and listen to the Nazi ­dictator’s small talk” (Bucktin). Both the movie and the book have good connections to the real story and shows it well. …show more content…

Zamperini started doing sports when he wanted to impress a girl, the movie did not show or introduce this, “Leaves out that also he wanted to impress girls in school. Women, other than Zamperini's mother, play no role in this film's proscribed vision of the world” (D’Addario). When Zamperini went back to Germany to go to the Olympics and run the torch, he asked if the “Bird” wanted to meet but it was denied, “.....``````````He requested to meet with Mutsuhiro Watanabe (aka "The Bird"), but his former tormentor declined the meeting.” (“Unbroken vs. True Story”) There were differences in the movie and the book, the book told the whole story the movie got to the point a lot faster than the

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