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Did you see the movie, "Unbroken"? Here is an interesting article and video with Louis Zamperini.
Unbroken is ultimately about Zamperini versus Watanabe and how Zamperini was 'unbroken' by Watanabe. The first part of the film shows how Zamperini became the kind of man who could not be broken. It ends with Zamperini coming home victorious as he had been in the Olympics. It is the perfect ending for the film. His discovery of faith years later had nothing to do with him achieving victory. To continue beyond his return home would be artistically wrong. It would ruin the climax and resolution. To say nothing of making the film far too long. Films are not books. You can put a book down and pick it up later. A film is intended to be taken in all at once within the short time it is on the screen. The Christian part got left out? Too bad. It just did not fit well with the thrust of the film.
I thought they did a good job in showing his religious views as much as they could in this movie. This would be a good movie for a sequel showing the rest of this man's life. Maybe they will do that in the future.
No movie made by Hollywood following real life events (or successful novels) remains faithful (pun intended) to the source.
In most cases they cut important parts, while exaggerating others. In many movies new scenes that weren't part of the original are added (frequently with sex scenes that add nothing to the story).
I would go further and ask - please point to a movie that remains true to the origin. From biblical stories, to historical ones like the 300 (Spartans), up to the untouchables (about Eliot Ness) or JFK assassination story.
C'est la vie.
No movie made by Hollywood following real life events (or successful novels) remains faithful (pun intended) to the source.
In most cases they cut important parts, while exaggerating others. In many movies new scenes that weren't part of the original are added (frequently with sex scenes that add nothing to the story).
I would go further and ask - please point to a movie that remains true to the origin. From biblical stories, to historical ones like the 300 (Spartans), up to the untouchables (about Eliot Ness) or JFK assassination story.
C'est la vie.
The closest adherence of movie to novel I can think of is Rosemary's Baby (1968). Characters, events, dialog all straight from the book with hardly any change...except the ending! In the movie Rosemary just sort of submits to the situation at the end. In the book she is the take charge mother, insisting on a different name, more normal clothing etc. I think I would have preferred to see that. Rosemary just giving in like that was IMO too out of character.
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