Louis Zamperini's story is far more exciting than what is described in the film. Perhaps because of the need for film adaptation, he chose the chapters in his life that most meet the director's needs.
Since it is a biography of a character, what you read is the story, and I will add some information for everyone. How to interpret it is a matter of opinion.
Born in New York in 1917, Zamperini of Italian descent moved his family to Torrance, California. As a boy, Louis was a headache for the whole town. As described in the movie, it was his brother who trained him, and Louis showed an amazing running talent. His 1934 mile time of 4 minutes 21 seconds was not broken until 19 years later, so he went from a super villain to a household name superstar "The Torrance Whirlwind".
In 1936, Zamperini, who was good at sprinting, switched to the Olympic 5000-meter event and participated in the Berlin Olympics. Louie, who has only competed in four races, finished eighth, but ran the best final lap record of 56 seconds, compared with the previous best of 59.1 seconds.
When World War II broke out in 1940, the Tokyo Olympics were cancelled. Louis joined the Army in 1941 as a bombardier in the Army Air Corps. In the same year, Pearl Harbor broke out and the United States entered the war. He became the one-handed pitcher of the Liberator bomber Phillips flew.
1943, the Battle of Nauru Island. It's the air battle at the beginning of the movie, Zamperini and the others bombed the phosphate factory on the island. Their bomber was badly wounded, and upon returning to base, 594 bullet holes were counted.
Louis, who was in a state of rest, carried out a search mission, but unfortunately the plane crashed. Only Louis, Phillips and Mike survived. After that, the drifting at sea was basically the same as the novel. Mike stole all the chocolates; Japanese fighter jets dived and strafed their lifeboats; Mike fought sharks and died; they drifted at sea for 47 days and 2000 nautical miles. In Kwajalein Atoll, he was later transferred to mainland Japan, where he was imprisoned in Omori and Naoetsu concentration camps. In the concentration camp, Louis was tortured by the perversion of "Big Bird". There is a story in the movie that Big Bird ordered the prisoners of war to slap Louis on the face, a total of 220; the difference is that not only Louis was slapped for the fish stealing incident, but there were also other captured officers. In another, Bird ordered Louie to lift a 6-foot beam over his head until the enraged Bird punched him in the stomach and collapsed. Louie, who was suffering from dysentery, lasted 37 minutes.
Until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Louis and other prisoners of war escaped the Japanese massacre and were saved.
After the war, Louis and Cynthia met and fell in love at first sight. It was the power of Cynthia's love that helped Louis, who had "post-war stress syndrome", ask for the trouble of the devil. Later, Louis established a non-profit "Victory Boys Camp" to help form many rebellious boys. Over the past few decades, Louie has traveled the world telling his story and has received numerous awards and accolades, having been selected to serve as the Olympic torchbearer in five different competitions.
In 1952, Louis revisited the Sugamo prison where he was held, and visited the prison guards who had abused him.
Before heading to Japan for the Olympic torch relay in 1998, he wrote a letter to Otori telling him that he had forgiven him as early as 1952 and hoped that he would one day become a Christian.
Bird died in 2003, and Louie died before the film's release in 2014.
With his amazing mental strength and physical quality, Louis Zamperini overcame disasters and torture, which is the power of the conqueror; and the journey of self-salvation and forgiveness that he embarked on after the war is the power of the self-victor!
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