#Louis Zamperini

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Unbroken beautiful cast (Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney, Miyavi, Domhnall, Finn Wittrock and Jack O’Connell) photographed by Jason Bell for Vanity Fair, 2014

[thepersonalquotes]

One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.

Louis Zamperini

[alligatorpie1945]

Just visited the National WWII museum down in New Orleans earlier this week. And it rekindled my love for history! Anyway, here are some plane doodles during the trip back.

Joe Liebgott from Band of Brothers and Louise Zamperini from Unbroken.

The trip made me also want to revisit my old college thesis film. So who knows, guess I gotta find something to do until TBB season 3.

[thepersonalwords]

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing… forgiveness.

Louis Zamperini

[you1h]

on strength

//Into the Wild, Ásgeir, Unbroken//

[quotelr]

One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.

Louis Zamperini

[guys-in-distress-database]

Entry #475: Unbroken

Media: film (live action)

Character: Louis Zamperini

Type of restraints: tied up

Location: about midway through the film, after Louis refuses to broadcast anti-American propaganda

Trigger warning: GID based on real events and practices

This historical drama is based on real events and actual practices done by the Japanese during WWII, so you have been warned if that is something you do not wish to see. 

The plot of this film revolves around telling the true story of an American airman who was taken prisoner by the Japanese during WWII. After lead character Louis refuses to broadcast anti-American propaganda for his captors, he is taken to the prison yard, tied up on-screen and beaten by his fellow prisoners on orders from their captors. 

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[famousdeaths]

Louis Silvie Zamperini was an American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian Evangelist. He took up running in high school and qualif...

Link: Louis Zamperini

[the-olympics-olympics]

Welcome to the quarterfinals!

25,000 pigeons poop on crowd (Berlin 1936)

Louis Zamperini, 1936 U.S. Olympic Team: "We're all standing on the infield, the grass, all lined up military style. They released 25,000 pigeons, they said. The sky was clouded with pigeons. And the pigeons circled overhead and then they shot a cannon and they scared the poop out of the pigeons. And we had straw hats, flat straw hats. You could hear the pitter patter on our hats."

Runner completes marathon in record time: 54 years later (Stockholm 1912)

The marathon at the Stockholm 1912 Olympics was held during a heat wave. Athletes struggled to finish, and one man, Shizo Kanakuri, did not finish for an extremely long time. About sixteen miles into the race, an exhausted Kanakuri left the course and desperately stumbled into a nearby garden party, where he drank juice for an hour. Embarrassed by his failure, he silently returned to Japan without notifying race officials. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for fifty years. Decades later, Swedish Television invited him to return to finish the race. On March 20, 1967, he finished the marathon. His official time was 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds. He commented, "It was a long trip. Along the way, I got married, had six children and 10 grandchildren."

[thepersonalwords]

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

Louis Zamperini

[mercurygray]

So I hear you liked...1930s Underdog Sports Movies

Or - you just finished reading/watching The Boys In the Boat and wondering if anyone made any movies about any of the other sports figures Daniel Brown name-dropped in his book.

Race - 2016 biopic of Jesse Owens and his road to the 1936 Olympics, starring Stephan James as Owens and Jason Sudekis as his coach.

Unbroken - 2014 biopic of Louis Zamperini, 1936 Olympian who later became a POW after his B-24 bomber went down in the Pacific Theatre. Based on a book by Laura Hillenbrand. Starring Jack O'Connell. Seabiscuit - 2003 movie covering the meteoric career of one of America's most famous racehorses and the jockey who helped him win. Also based on a book by Laura Hillenbrand. Cinderella Man - 2005 biopic of James Braddock, a boxer who became the heavyweight champ in 1935.

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stelllllaaa do ya fw louis zamperini

oh my god

[quotelr]

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing… forgiveness.

Louis Zamperini

[guys-in-distress-database]

What are some of your personal favorite live-action scenes where whumpee’s hands are tied/cuffed/bound behind his back?

I prefer no gag.. I like hearing what they have to say about what’s going on 😏

But I want to know what your favorites are.

I love getting all these asks! Keep ‘em coming! This is so much fun!

My personal favourite live action bound behind scenes… hm…

If we’re excluding gags:

Game of Thrones, season 6 episodes 7 and 8 (Edmure Tully)

Stranger Things, season 3 episode 6 (Steve Harrington)

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Dangerous Waters (Joe Hardy)

The Walking Dead, season 9 episode 12 (Henry)

Titans, season 2 episode 5 (Jason Todd)

Descendants 2 (Prince Ben)

LadyHawke (Phillipe)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Will Turner)

Unbroken (Louis Zamperini)

Venom (Stray Kids)

If we’re including gags:

Breaking Bad, season 5 episode 15 (Jesse Pinkman)

Riverdale, season 3 episode 7 (Archie)

The 100, season 1 episode 12 (Jasper)

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom (Joe Hardy)

The Walking Dead, season 9 episode 15 (Henry + others)

The Green Knight (Gawain)

The Man in the Iron Mask (Louis)

The Ref (Jesse)

[therealslimshakespeare]

My friends son (he’s about 11) recently visited The Warsaw Rising Museum and he made a comment about how all those people pictured there, weeks into the uprising, who were living in basement’s, canals and generally were deprived of running water, hygiene products etc, all looked so put together -they had great pride in their appearance and took great care into maintaining it (women had curled hair, man combed, they clothes were buttoned up, they tried to be as clean as possible). And it made me think about Stalag, which as opposed to concentration camps allowed for its prisoners to keep their clothes and hair. Obviously decorum took a hit and they would walk around less prim and proper than in the actual army, but still. I can see girls trying to save Ida’s hair and make it presentable, take care of their own in whatever way it was possible, trying to keep their clothes clean and put together, chastising guys about beards and disheveled hair. Idk, it’s just such an important part of humanity for me

So many things about this touched me. If you’ve hung around on this blog long enough you know I love Polish history in general and the uprising literally brings to tears to my eyes when I stay there thinking of it for too long. 😭 I’m half jealous of this dear boy, glad he went.

That pride of appearance and what it reflects about the spirit -the dignity- is so crucial and it’s so fascinating to see how highly prized and maintained it was by various groups during harrowing times, as you said.

One of the first stories that made me really think of this differently was the WwII bio on Louis Zamperini in Unbroken where while POWs in Japan -bad as it can get- they did everything to try to maintain dignity, even in appearance. And what that meant to them, it had nothing to do with vanity.

So fascinating and I fully espouse your point that here too in TWC that would 100% be a priority. It’s why I’ve sprinkled little bits about the girls objecting to the filth and -in Maureen’s case at least so far- remedying it by putting in the physical labor. I’ve wanted a stalag grooming party fic for a long time now…maybe I should just write it, it could be so sweet and touching.

I loved this insight. Thanks for popping in! 🌷