[P-Marlowe]

The whole point of the book was Zamperini’s conversion at a Billy Graham crusade and his redemption and the message of hope in Christ.

So what is the point of the movie?

[xzins]

The point was probably to co-opt any other movie that might tell the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The point of the movie is apparently is that in the liberal media agenda always trumps reality. They simply cannot utilize an anti PC theme.

[God luvs America]

that was not the whole point of the book but it was a turning point in his life the book brought out...

[KeyLargo]

“The whole point of the book was Zamperini’s conversion at a Billy Graham crusade and his redemption and the message of hope in Christ.

So what is the point of the movie?”

Basically, the movie was comparable to most of the Hollywood WWII war films made before PC took over, such as ‘Bridge Over the River Kwai’, and others.

I thought that it was very unusual for Hollywood to portray Japanese soldiers as sadistic in today’s PC world.

Angelina Jolie’s ‘Unbroken’ stirs resentment in Japan
Kirk Spitzer, Special for USA TODAY 9:28 p.m. EST December 23, 2014

TOKYO – Nationalists in Japan are denouncing Hollywood filmmaker Angelina Jolie’s new movie about an American airman brutalized in Japanese prison camps during World War II as anti-Japanese propaganda and are calling for a boycott of the film and its star director.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/23/japan-unbroken/20803301/

[HereInTheHeartland]

“The whole point of the book was Zamperini’s conversion at a Billy Graham crusade and his redemption and the message of hope in Christ.

So what is the point of the movie?”

I saw the movie yesterday. Incredible movie. True it didn’t mention the Billy Graham part or much of his life after he got home.
But that’s ok. It wasn’t a documentary; and it did mention his faith more than once; that’s good enough for me.

The good points are; the movie DID get made and has introduced tens of thousands to his story. It DOES mention his faith. And the book is out there and the movie will spur many people to read his book who otherwise wouldn’t have read it.

[HotHunt]

That's not true. I read the book and saw the movie. Both were excellent. The majority of the book was about his surviving the unsurvivable. At the very end of the book, it tells of Louie's transformation at the hands of Billy Graham and God. So it is part of the book but a small part. The point of the book is his rise as a runner, to surviving on raft in the Pacific and the sadistic torture by the Japanese. "Unbroken" is about him enduring and surviving that which most men could not. There is no big story to tell if it was only about him finding the Lord at the end. The meat of the book is the raft experience and the Japanese tortures.

To dismiss the movie because it does no dwell on the Billy Graham aspect of the book is ludicrous. It is a movie, not a 10 hour epic. All movies shortchange the books they are about because you can't put the entire 400 pages of the book into a two hour movie. Jolie wanted to focus on the inhuman experiences Zamperini had to endure and survive as a result of the plane crash and the Japanese POW camps. Saying the movie should have focused on the end of the book when Louie found Christ, is disingenuous, at best.

Maybe you could go see the sequel where they focus on that part of the book.

[duffee]

I don’t believe I’ll see the movie, they left out the the biggest and most important event in his life, I may read the book.

[Tucker39]

So what is the point of the movie?

I just finished the book and was anticipating the movie. But if they’ve broomed Zamperini’s conversion I’ll broom the movie and go see THE SNIPER instead.

And the apparent answer to your question: Million$ for Jolie. What else could it be?

[SkyPilot]

I understand the criticism.

I found this. Hopefully, it answers some of these questions:

Jolie recently spoke about her decision not to delve deeply into Zamperini's Christian faith walk in the film. She explained that it was the war hero himself who requested that the faith theme be "universal" in a bid to appeal to a broad audience. "We made it universal, not specific to one faith, and that was something that was agreed upon with Louie," Jolie said. "He said he wanted the message to reach everyone. He said to make faith and forgiveness universal … he said this is about reaching everyone and this should speak to everyone … If you were looking for symbolism and miracles in the film you will see them."