{"id":18075,"date":"2026-03-11T05:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/a-life-unbroken\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:05:00","slug":"a-life-unbroken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/movies-and-tv\/a-life-unbroken\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life &#8216;Unbroken&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Louis Zamperini is either well known or not known at all. If you\u2019ve read Laura Hillenbrand\u2019s beautifully crafted biography of the Olympic athlete and World War II hero, you\u2019ll understand why someone like Angelina Jolie was anxious to get his story on the big screen. If you haven\u2019t read the book, the Jolie-directed film, <em>Unbroken<\/em>, which was released almost two years ago, might have been your first introduction to the man whose life is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best way to describe Louis Zamperini is to say he was a rebel. As a young boy, he got into his fair share of trouble, but his brother Pete pushed him to better himself. If he could run from the law, Pete reckoned, Louis could run on a track, and through hard work and a determination to prove his naysayers wrong, Louis became an Olympic athlete, competing for his home country in the 1936 games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/louie-zamperini-the-power-of-forgiveness\/\">READ MORE: LOUIE ZAMPERINI: THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Louis\u2019s story ended there, it would still be enough to be admired, but it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>In 1943, Louis, who was a bombardier during WWII, was stranded at sea for seven weeks, fighting dehydration, starvation and shark attacks in a tiny raft with two fellow officers who survived when their plane crashed into the Pacific. Two of the officers, Louis and Russell Allen Phillips, were rescued by a Japanese ship and promptly taken to a POW camp where Louis spent the next two years enduring beatings, torture and humiliation at the hands of a man called \u201cThe Bird\u201d \u2013 a commanding officer for the Japanese military famous for his brutality.<\/p>\n<p>Louis\u2019s story is one of self-sacrifice, survival and indomitable will, and it took 57 years for it to finally have its Hollywood moment. Before the film was released, Luke Zamperini and Cynthia Garris, spoke with Guideposts.org about their dad and about the movie they say they\u2019ve been waiting for, well, all their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a superstar like Angelina Jolie spent months vying for the opportunity to helm the movie assured Luke that this was the right time for his father\u2019s story to be told. \u201cI\u2019ve been praying for years that it wouldn\u2019t just be some director that was handed the job from the studio, but it would be a director that had a passion to tell the story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Passion is something everyone involved with the project had ample amounts of. The siblings don\u2019t mind  rattling off stories of Jolie, who spent two hours on the phone with producer Matt Baer at 2 in the morning, sharing her vision for the film, or of star Jack O\u2019Connell &#8212; who was given the heavy task of bringing their father to life onscreen \u2013  and his first meeting with their dad, who warmed to the young Brit from Derby immediately:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very, very sweet meeting and Louis of course took to him right away,\u201d Cynthia said. \u201cJack was so nervous because he was meeting this man and it was being filmed. He brought him a lovely bottle of wine, our dad loved his wine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this day, both Luke and Cynthia refer to O&#8217;Connell as \u201cdad\u201d and joke that he\u2019s now an honorary Zamperini for life, and while O\u2019Connell\u2019s performance in the film is awe-inspiring and award-worthy, watching some of the worst moments of their father\u2019s life play out on screen wasn\u2019t easy for his children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReading about our father being tortured is horrible and heartbreaking, but for us, seeing the actual acts of hitting him in the face with a kendo stick and the beatings and the kickings, it was just very difficult,\u201d Cynthia said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/unbroken-review\/\">READ MORE: &#8216;UNBROKEN&#8217; [REVIEW]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Violence is featured heavily in the film, but so is faith. The story of Louis Zamperini couldn\u2019t be told without faith. After surviving as a POW, Zamperini came home only to battle more demons. Struggling with PTSD, Louis, who\u2019d made a promise while still a prisoner to dedicate his life to God, reverted back to drinking and fighting as a way to deal with the lingering effects of war.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until one night, when the young hero attended a sermon delivered by a man named Billy Graham, that Louis finally found his way:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother was taken to see a young evangelist in Los Angeles called Billy Graham and she became a Christian and came home and convinced my dad to go down and see him speak,\u201d Luke recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter much resistance he finally decided to go. He walked out [on the sermon, but], came back the next night and it got to the point in the sermon where he was going to storm out of the place again and it just suddenly all hit him that he had made all of these promises to God that he would seek to serve Him if He got him home alive. He said \u2018God kept his part of the bargain, I didn\u2019t keep mine. I felt like a heel. So instead of getting up and leaving I went down behind the stage, met with the young man there, got on my knees and prayed and said at that very moment I knew I was done getting drunk, I knew that I was done fighting, and I knew I\u2019d forgiven all of my prison guards,\u2019 including the Bird who he\u2019d had this recurring nightmare of for five years up to this point. So he went home that night and it was the first night that he hadn\u2019t had that nightmare and he never had it again for the rest of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was Louis\u2019s faith that shaped the rest of his extraordinary life.<\/p>\n<p> In 1952, Louis started a camp for young boys hoping to lead them on a straighter path, much like his brother Pete had done for him. He gave motivational speeches at conferences and schools. Luke explains that he can\u2019t go to a church without someone sharing a story of how his dad had once visited and gave a talk that changed their life and Cynthia shares that working with children was her father\u2019s greatest passion. When Hillenbrand\u2019s book came out, the author, who suffers from a severe case of chronic fatigue was unable to tour and promote her story, so Louis, then 94, did it for her, proving that age was just another thing that couldn\u2019t conquer the Southern California native.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, in April of 2014, Louis was stricken with a case of pneumonia. Family, friends and crew from the film were at his bedside while he spent three months in the hospital. It was there that Jolie shared a rough cut of the film, watching in twenty minute increments as Louis saw his story come to life for the very first time. In July, at the age of 97, Louis passed away, surrounded by those who loved him, including Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was absolutely devastated and heartbroken when she found out that Louis wasn\u2019t going to make it,\u201d Cynthia explained. \u201cI don\u2019t know the content of her email to Laura Hillenbrand but part of it was \u2018I can\u2019t lose him now. I just can\u2019t lose him.\u2019 She had just found him and in him she found a father figure, and a great hero and someone that she fell in love with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard for anyone not to fall in love with Louis, his spirit and his heartbreakingly beautiful story of survival and redemption which is why this film is one his children hope will leave a mark on everyone who sees it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope it affects people profoundly,\u201d Cynthia said. \u201cWe hope they\u2019re entertained and they think about it for days afterward because this is our father\u2019s legacy, it\u2019s his life and we want it for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Luke, the end of his father\u2019s incredible story is the thing he\u2019s most proud of. \u201cHe was the most joyful, happy person I\u2019ve ever known and boy did he go out in style. 97 years old, the world beating down his door and arguably the world\u2019s most fabulous woman throwing her arms around his neck and confessing her love to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unbroken<em> is now available on DVD. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Louis Zamperini is either well known or not known at all. 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