Sub by JoeShmoe Improved on sub by: Chathura866
UNBROKEN
A TRUE STORY
We are here.
At 8,000 feet. This is it boys.
- You got it, Zamp. - Roger.
Get this one, drinks are on me.
I ain't going to a bar with you, handsome.
You'd confuse all the broads.
Get your cameras boys, I'm gonna light it up like Christmas.
Pilot to bombardier, your shift.
Bombardier to pilot, roger.
Bombardier to crew, bomb bay doors open.
Bay doors open.
[Anti-aircraft shells exploding near plane]
Ahh, getting flak.
Ahhh!
Home boy!
C'mon.
C'mon, Zamp.
There you are.
Bombs away!
- Bombardier to pilot, your shift. - Roger.
Open.
Here we go.
- [Sounds of bombs hitting target] - Whoo hoo hoo hoo.
Yeah, just like Christmas.
Bomb bay doors are stuck.
Uh oh.
- Zero inbound 10 o'clock, level. - Alright.
Here they come boys, cool them out.
- Gotta get those doors closed Zamp. - Roger.
Get em, get em, get em up.
We gotta get it up.
Get em off, Mitchell.
[Someone cries out in pain]
[??]
He's coming in low.
[??]
Glassman, Glassman!
I know, let me take a look at you.
I know, I know. Just be brave now alright...
You're still good looking. You're still very handsome. You make me sick.
Yeah!
I know.
You got it buddy, you got it. I'm right here. You stay with me Harry...
Alright you think about home, okay.
Oh boy!
Louie?
Lambert.
Here take this, alright. Take this. It's ok, take this.
Pillsbury?
Nice work boys.
- Everything's shot up back there, Phil. - We got no hydraulics but we're still flying.
We got no flaps, Phil. That means we got no brakes.
- How far to base? - What, 5 hours, if we make it that far.
The runway's over 6,000 feet but we're gonna need at least 10 if we got no brakes.
[Preacher] God created 2 great lights.
The greater light, to rule over the day.
And the lesser light, to rule over the night.
Now these things...
light and dark...
day and night are separated from each other.
God created each in its place.
He did not create a battle between them.
He said "I have created both of these things".
You must live through the night.
- Don't bother with it. - [In Italian]
- For God said "The night also is mine". - [Whispers inaudibly]
He sent his son Jesus, not to do battle...
not to wage war upon the sins of man...
but to forgive them. Forgive the sin.
Smile on the sinner.
Accept the darkness...
Live through the night.
Love thine enemy.
[Cop] Zamperini!
[Cop] Hey!
[Wind gust blows]
[Young bullies] Is that garlic I smell? - What are you doing, wop!
Why don't you go back to Italy, you and your greasy wop family.
- Hey, get him up. - Yeah.
Hey hey whoa. Get off me.
Stay down, dumb dago.
Hey get him off me, Jeez.
[Cop yells] Hey!
[Bullies] Go, go, go.
The only reason you're not in reform school is the respect we have for your parents.
Everybody in town wants you put away.
[Cop rings doorbell]
Sorry Louise, he was fighting again.
[Translates into Italian]
And uh, we found this. He painted the bottle. It's liquor.
[Translates into Italian for mother]
[In Italian] Liquor! Why!
[Italian] Why do you do this?
[Italian] I don't know.
[Sound of slapping]
[Father in Italian] How could you do this.
[Slapping again]
[Father in Italian] What are you doing to this family?
[In Italian] They already don't want us here!
[Italian] And now you do this?
[Slapping]
[Italian] You want to go to jail?
[Italian] Why do you keep doing these things?
[Continues in Italian]
[Italian]
[Mother praying in Italian]
[Continues praying in Italian] Please watch over my family.
[Italian] And please watch over my little Louie.
[Continues praying in Italian]
[Muffled voices of women talking on stairs]
[Crowd yelling] C'mon Jimmy, pick it up.
[Crowd continues cheering]
[Guy in stands] Someone down there? Who's down there?!
- This is so dumb. - Since when were you so smart?
- C'mon, faster. - Why, no ones chasing me.
I'm chasing you.
I can't do this Pete. I'm not like you.
I'm nothing. Just let me be nothing.
- What are you talking about? - I can't make the track team.
- I don't even know why you want me to. - Yes you can.
If you can take it, you can make it.
What?!
If you can take it, you can make it.
Alright, you train, you fight, way harder than those other guys...
and you win. You get out from under them.
Or, you keep going the way you're going and you end up a bum in the streets.
You can do this Lou, you just gotta believe you can.
I don't believe.
I do!
C'mon... Andiamo [hurry up].
[Italian]
Bene [good].
[Starting pistol fires]
[Pete shouting encouragement] C'mon, you dumb dago!
[Adult Pete] C'mon Louis.
[Announcer] Boy oh boy can that guy fly.
They're calling him the Torrance Tornado.
This kid Zamperini runs like his feet never touch the ground.
C'mon, c'mon, keep going.
[Cheering in Italian] Bravo, bravo.
Louie, c'mon.
Step on it, c'mon, c'mon.
The Torrance Tornado's smoke the mile in 4 minutes, 21.3 seconds.
Zamperini is now officially the fastest high school runner in American history.
Folks, this kid is on his way to the Olympics.
- Why would I come, you're not gonna win? - I know that.
So I have fun this time, next olympics that's when I run. This is just the tryouts.
- Tokyo? - Tokyo.
- Smart kid. Take care of yourself, alright. - Uh huh.
Have a little fun too, huh.
- Say hi to those pretty German broads for me. - You know it.
Come here.
Thanks, Pete.
For everything.
Go on.
[Pete] Louie.
A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.
Remember that!
- Wheels down. - Alright, here we go.
Still coming in pretty hot. 110!
Almost.
Still too fast. C'mon.
[Sound of wheels hitting runway]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...
[Everyone panting heavily]
Okay.
Flat tire. [All laughing, cheering]
Now you're praying?!
I was busy before.
- My mother does that sometimes. - Yeah, a lot of people do it.
- Say anything back? - Yeah.
What?
He says my bombardier's a dope.
- Really? - Heh, heh, heh.
Alright, buddy.
Now!
[Soldiers] C'mon Louie.
[Pete] C'mon buddy.
Keep pushing.
- [ Pete Inaudible] - Huh, what?
Oh boy.
1:12. Getting close.
Hey I hope you're not that fast in the sack.
Oh boy. [Laughing/panting]
- [Soldier] Wrap it up speedy. - [Louie] Huh?
We got a mission. Not a combat mission. Rescue.
B-24 en-route to Canton never made it so... looks like those boys ditched.
- Lotta ocean. - Yeah and they got us a new crew.
We get a new plane?
[Sound of bomber engines roaring]
This is just like sitting in a living room trying to fly the house.
They've been taking parts off this for other planes. We're lucky it's still got an engine.
Well Lieutenant says it's air worthy.
- Been certified. - By Helen Keller.
Lotta ocean.
- Mitchell. You're up. - Yeah?
So a duck walks into a bar.
Waddles, if you will.
So he walks into the bar, says to the bartender "Can I have a Creme de Menthe".
[Sound of engine failing]
- That's not good. - Alright, number 1 is out.
Other engines are burning more fuel.
Hey uh, hey uh...
I don't know.
Engineer. Can you crawl out the cockpit and service the engine.
- It's out guys. - Radio send to base.
- Alright, which one? - One more to the right.
- Send all we got to the right. - We need more on the right.
[Other engines fail]
Dammit. Left engines are both gone.
- That's everything on the right Phil. - Okay.
- Hey Phil. - Yeah?
- Is this uh... - Prepare to crash.
[??]
??
- Who's on the raft? - Glassman.
- Anyone on the raft? - Yeah, I got it.
Mayday, mayday, this is Green Hornet. We're going down.
Everyone brace. Brace!
[Olympics Announcer] In an outstanding performance, negro American Jesse Owens from Ohio State...
has won 4 gold medals in the 100 meter, the 200 meter...
the long jump and the 400 meter relay.
Next up, the 5000 meter with America's record breaking Don Lash leading the American team.
- Along with newcomer, Louis Zamperini. - [Family all cheering excitedly]
[In German]
[Fires starter pistol]
[Announcer] And already 3 sections of runners have formed.
With Americans Don Lash, and the Finns Salminen and Hockert ahead of the pack.
The Finns always the favorite in this long haul event.
In the second group is America's Louis Zamperini.
The Finns Hockert, Lehtinen and Salminen have set the pace...
and they are not letting up.
And Zamperini is fading too, dropping further back.
[In Italian]
And into the 8th lap, it's the Finns still in the lead with Salminen in first place.
Come on Louis.
[Pete's voice echos] C'mon Louis.
And we start the last lap. The Finns seem to be in control.
It doesn't look like Don Lash is gonna bring home the medal for the USA.
[Announcer] There seems to be some movement back in the pack.
Yes that's Zamperini overtaking Norway's Johansen.
He seems to have some gas in reserve. He really is making up some time.
Hockers and Lehtinen will be 1 and 2, but look at that Zamperini.
He's got Don Lash in his sights.
Well the great Don Lash is not gonna be the first American folks...
it's high school kid Zamperini...
pushing past the record breaker, on his heel.
I have not seen that! I have not seen that!
That final lap folks, the record for that was 69.2 seconds.
Zamperini just did it in 56 seconds.
That record's going to hold for a while, let me tell you.
[Crowd cheering]
[Crowd cheering sound turns into sound of plane coming down]
[Screaming, groaning and panting]
[Sound of gun shifting as it lifts from water pressure]
Alright Phil, hop in buddy. Alright.
On three... 2, 3.
Okay.
Here you go.
Glassman didn't make it.
- Cup didn't make it. - Hey, don't think about it man.
- We're gonna die. - No we're not, Mac.
- They don't know where we are. - They'll find us.
They'll never see us.
Tell him to shut up.
- Shut up, Mac. - We're gonna die out here.
C'mon Mac, shut up.
Hey Mac, chocolate.
One square at night, one square in the morning.
Alright.
Mac.
Two or three sips a day, yeah?
That'll make it last.
[Phil] Zamp?
- Zamp. - Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Phil.
I'm glad it's you.
Yeah, I'm glad it's you too.
[Sound of something hitting the boat]
What was that?
[Sound repeats]
[Sound of airplane engine in the distance]
Mac get the flares.
[Both yelling] Hey!
[Fires flare]
Hey!
[Both yelling] Hey!
- Down here. - Hey.
Turn around.
- Son of a bitch. - Turn around.
- What did you do Mac? - Huh?
- [Mac] It doesn't matter. - [Louis] It doesn't matter?! It doesn't matter?
[Louis disgusted] It doesn't matter.
Arghh.
DAY 3
[Mac sobbing]
- [Bird squawking] - [Louis] Jesus.
Grab him Mac, get it.
[All groaning in disgust]
[Phil] I don't think I can do it.
You gotta try.
[All retching]
We had to try.
You know what. Maybe the fish won't be so picky.
- Oh boy. I got one. - Yeah?
Whoo hoo!
Atta boy Phil.
[??]
Come here Mac.
C'mon.
Bon Appetito.
Good?
This is how the Japanese eat fish, raw.
If you ask me, it's not food until you cook it.
A little lemon, a little garlic.
When we get home come round my house. Momma will cook for you.
Remember that story in Life magazine, About Eddie Rickenbacker?
Him and his crew ran out of fuel over the Pacific.
They were adrift in a raft for 24 days.
24 days!
- They made it, right? - Yeah.
Most of them lost their minds.
But they made it.
We ought to keep talking. Keep our minds sharp.
Hey I'll tell you what else you're gonna love. Mama's gnocchi.
- Italians. - [??]
[With Italian accent] Nobody a make gnocci like her.
So light, like clouds.
First, she makes the dough out of very fine flour.
So fine it's like Talcum Powder.
The she uses lots of eggs, like maybe 12.
[Imitates sound of eggs cracking on bowl]
Then she beats them up man. [Imitates sound of eggs being beaten]
Beats them up.
And then she drizzles them over.
Mmm.
DAY 18
[Phil singing] Lead thou me on...
the night is dark...
and I'm far from home...
lead thou me on...[fades out]
[Louis] Think God made the stars Phil?
[Phil] Yeah, I do.
[ Louis] Do you think there's some kind of a grand plan?
Why do we ??
Why are we here now?
[Phil There's a plan.
You go on living the best you can.
You try to have some fun along the way.
Then one day it's over.
You wake up...
and there's... an angel, sitting at the edge of your bed.
Angel says...
Okay,
You can ask me all those dumb questions now.
I got all the answers.
[Louis] That's what you believe?
[Phil] Yeah, that's what I believe.
[Sound of raging ocean]
[Phil praying] Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
If you get me through this, if you answer my prayers...
I swear I'll dedicate my whole life to you.
I'll do whatever you want.
Please.
[Thundering storm]
[Storm tapers off and it becomes quiet]
[Sound of raindrops hitting raft]
[Turns into a steady rain]
Here we go. Here we go, here we go, here we go.
You got it.
DAY 27
- How is it? - Stinks.
It's the band, not you.
We beat Rickenbacker's record, 4 days ago.
- You keeping count? - Yeah.
[Sound of plane engine approaching]
[Plane engine speeds up as it turns]
God yeah. Oh my God.
Hey!
[Planes machine guns firing]
Get out boys, get out.
[Machine gun firing]
[Sound of plane passing overhead and receding]
- [Louis] Mac? - [Mac] Still here, still here.
[Mac] If the Japs are this bad, we might even win this damn war.
Here.
See that surprise Mac attack?
Went down on that thing like a goddamn dive bomber.
Them damn sharks are scared shit.
- Saved your skinny ass. - Hah.
[Louis] 1937, baseball MVP?
[Phil] Kid from Detroit.
Gehringer.
[Louis] Hey Mac, get in the game.
Mac?
- Mac! - [Mac] Still here.
Still here.
What's for breakfast Zamp?
It’s your call.
Gnocchi...
Gnocchi for breakfast?
Why not.
Am I gonna die?
Maybe, Mac.
Tonight?
Maybe.
I saw...
I think tonight.
So you got your dough, and you roll it out.
Just hold my hand.
[??]
DAY 45
- Zamp? - Huh?
I've got good news...
and bad news.
[Japanese]
Phil?
[Phil] Zamp?
You okay?
[Phil] Land feels funny.
Funny.
Yeah.
[Sound of cell being opened and someone being beaten]
[Someone moaning]
[Someone being beaten]
Stop!
Stop it.
Please stop it.
How many troops are deployed in Hawaii?
Colonel want to know the station of troops in Hawaii.
- I don't know. - [Soldier] Speak up!
I wouldn't know.
I haven't been there in...
[Colonel speaking in Japanese]
This picture, is this him?
[Soldier] Is this you?
You are an Olympic athlete?
[Soldier] You are a famous olympic athlete.
[Colonel] Where's the radar in E-class B-24?
Colonel would like to know the location of radar in E class B54.
We used the old one, B class.
- You bombardier? - Yes.
[Colonel]
What happened to the marines from Makin Island?
How does the Norden bomb sight work?
How you work the Norden bomb sight?
Just twist 2 knobs. What happened to the marines?!
Show, Norden bomb sight.
They were beheaded.
[Louis] I drew a Philco radio, knobs on the side.
[Louis freaking out]
[Soldier] Take off clothes!
Kneel down!
Kneel down?
Kneel down!
[Sound of ships engines]
- This is Tokyo, right? - Must be.
I was supposed to race here for the Olympics.
- Before they got canceled. - No lie?
Could always find a ?? in Tokyo.
Careful what you wish for, fella.
[Soldier yells in Japanese]
Soldier, soldier.
Officer.
Soldier... officer.
[Soldier yells attention in Japanese]
Good evening, old prisoners.
Welcome, new men.
This is Omori detention center.
I am Corporal Watanabe.
You are... enemy... of Japan.
You will be treated, accordingly.
Look at me.
Look me in the eye.
Look at me!
Don't look at me.
New prisoners, you are not dismissed.
You will stand quarantined.
We cannot have disease in the barracks.
[Corporal] Attention!
[Sound of nose cracking]
Evening chaps. Tom Miller, your barrack commander.
Get yourselves into a bunk, will you.
You want top?
305.
You'll be next to sleeping beauty.
302.
307, you're in here.
- You are? - Eric Tinker.
Tinker, you're up top.
I see you met the bird.
- Why do you call him the bird? - Because he listens.
And if he heard the names we'd like to call him, he'd kill us.
Apparently he grew up wealthy. Wanted to be an officer. Expected to be too.
- He was denied? - Obviously hasn't gone down too well.
Of course none of this explains his erratic behavior.
- Commander Fitzgerald. - Zamperini sir.
They were looking for answers.
Didn't get any though, did they.
Not one bit.
- You get some shut eye. - Yes sir.
Assembly, turning right.
Dismissed.
Officers, turning left.
Dismissed.
[Counting off exercises]
There's much talent in Omori.
We have an opera singer. Who is the opera singer?
We have a chef, from Sydney Australia.
And, we have an olympic athlete.
Who is the olympic athlete?
Don't get up.
You fail.
You are nothing.
Phil?
?? so we can look at it before the Japs find out.
We got most of the war mapped out.
The US invaded the Marshall Islands.
The allies are gaining ground.
You know, a lotta shit.
For a bunch of guys who don't eat anything, we sure do shit a lot.
Alright.
I think that one's mine.
[Yelling in Japanese]
You like Saipan?
- They're gonna kill him. - They'll shoot you.
I don't give a damn. Let them shoot me.
That's not how we beat em.
We beat them by making it to the end of the war alive.
That's how we do it.
That's our revenge.
If I can take it, I can make it.
Precisely.
My brother Pete used to say... he used to say that I could do anything.
Used to think that I was better than I am.
Who says you're not?
[Sound of flak exploding]
They're definitely closer.
[Sound of heavy footsteps approaching]
Why do you make me hit you?
You are dead.
In America, they say, Zamperini dead.
They tell your family you died in war.
NBC Radio tell America...
famous olympic runner Zamperini is dead.
You want to tell family you're not dead?
These gentlemen, they are from radio Tokyo.
We have program go all over world.
It is named "Postman Call".
Hello mother... your son is calling you.
Mother, I love you.
I'm alive and well.
- I'm only saying my own words. - Of course.
Hello America.
This is The Postman Call. Today the postman calls for Mrs. Louise Zamperini...
of Torrance California.
Louis Zamperini is not missing, and not dead.
as erroneously announced by your government.
He's safe and sound with us.
So please keep listening Mrs. Zamperini and don't mention it.
The pleasure is all ours.
Hello mother and father, sister and friends...
This is your Louis talking.
And the first time in 3 years that you will have heard my voice.
I am uninjured and in good health.
I am now interned in a Tokyo prisoner of war camp...
being treated as well as can be expected under wartime conditions.
I hope Pete is still paying his weekly visits from San Diego.
Dad...
keep my guns in good condition so we can go hunting when I get home.
Shoot good rabbits for mom's gnocchi sauce.
I wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.
Your loving son, Louis.
You were good, very good.
You can speak on radio again.
BROADCAST SCRIPT
- I can't say this. - Why not?
Because it's not true.
Where it says about America, I can't say that.
They said it. American like you.
They live here. Really comfortable.
Good food.
They have lovely food.
You want to go back to camp?
You make broadcast.
You are like me.
We are both strong.
I saw it, in your eyes, the first day.
I thought, this man, will be my friend.
But, enemy, of Japan.
You do not listen.
You do not do what we ask of you.
It is necessary to have respect.
No respect, no order.
This man must be taught respect.
All other prisoners will teach him this lesson.
Each prisoner will punch this man in his face.
[In Japanese]
Sir...
we cannot do that.
[Louis] Do it!
Do it sir, c'mon.
Just get it over with.
Punch him in the face.
[Mouths c'mon]
Punch him.
- Next. - [Louis] C'mon.
C'mon.
Next!
C'mon, c'mon sir.
C'mon.
- Hit hard! - C'mon, hit me!
Next.
C'mon Tink, hit me good. C'mon.
Next.
C'mon.
Next.
Hit hard!
Next.
Harder.
Next.
Cinderella, Cinderella.
Where is that naughty little man?
There you are you lazy girl. Now how am I supposed to get ready for the ball...
you're sitting there doing nothing.You're about as useful to us...
as our morning dance routines.
Fix my dress so I can catch the eye of the Baron Hillendrand.
You couldn't catch the eye...
[Play continues]
I have good news.
I have ??
That's the good news.
The bad news.
I said goodbye to my friends.
I leave Omori, tomorrow.
[Play continues]
You congratulate me.
And there he goes.
Just like that.
[Making bets] Four kings.
There we go.
[Gambling continues]
[Air raid siren]
Do you have a bucket?
We're helping the Japs now? Might as well let it burn.
Pass it down.
Here.
B-49's boys.
- Won't be long now. - I wouldn't get too excited.
If the allies win...
Japs shoot you.
I overheard that.
We win, we're done.
What are we supposed to be praying for?
Down, get down.
Grab your gear. They're moving us out.
- To where? - I don't know. Some new camp.
Tokyo Ritz. Some place the allies can't find us.
This is Naoetsu prison camp.
I am Sargent Watanabe. Your commanding officer.
You are enemies of Japan.
You will be treated... accordingly.
You will help the Japanese by working in the coal mines.
Anyone who does not work...
Will be executed.
Why don't you look me in the eye?
You boys can sleep here.
You two over there.
This is the end mate. No one knows you're here.
Best you just be resigned to your fate.
Your president, Roosevelt...
is dead.
You alright?
Pick up.
Lift.
Lift it.
Over your head.
If he drops it, shoot him.
- C'mon Louis. - C'mon buddy.
C'mon Louis.
Don't look at me.
Don't... look!
Prisoners of Naoetsu.
The war has come to a point of cessation.
Today, in the spirit of the new future of our great nation...
we invite all prisoners...
to bathe in the Hokura river.
This is it.
I'm dead.
- It's our boys. - They see us.
The war is over!
DROP HERE
Let me look at you. My god, look at you.
[In Italian]
IN 1946 LOUIE ZAMPERINI MET AND MARRIED HIS BELOVED CYNTHIA APPLEWHITE.
THEY HAD A DAUGHTER, CISSY, AND A SON, LUKE.
LT. RUSSEL "PHIL" PHILLIPS SURVIVED THE WAR AND MARRIED HIS SWEETHEART, CECY.
HE AND LOUIE REMAINED FRIENDS LONG AFTER THE WAR
MUTSUHIRO WATANABE, "THE BIRD", REMAINED IN HIDING FOR SEVERAL YEARS
AS A WAR CRIMINAL UNTIL HE WAS GRANTED AMNESTY BY THE U.S. IN ITS EFFORTS
TO RECONCILE WITH JAPAN
AFTER YEARS OF SEVERE POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS, LOUIE MADE GOOD ON HIS PROMISE
TO SERVE GOT, A DECISION HE CREDITED WITH SAVING HIS LIFE.
MOTIVATED BY HIS FAITH, LOUIE CAM TO SEE THAT THE WAY FORWARD WAS NOT REVENGE
BUT FORGIVENESS
HE RETURNED TO JAPAN, WHERE HE FOUND AND MADE PEACE WITH HIS FORMER CAPTORS.
ONLY THE BIRD REFUSED TO MEET HIM.
LOUIE FINALLY REALIZED HIS DREAM, AND RAN AGAIN IN THE OLYMPICS
AT AGE 80
IN JAPAN