Arri-news 2014

Directed by Angelina Jolie and based on Laura Hillenbrand’s book, Unbroken tells the remarkable true story of Louis Zamperini, an American distance runner who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics before enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. When his B-24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, Zamperini survived 47 days adrift on a lifeboat, only to be captured by the Japanese and subjected to brutal mistreatment in prisoner-of-war camps. For cinematographer Roger Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC, who has used ALEXAs on every digital film he has shot, Unbroken provided an opportunity to try out the latest generation of ALEXA XT cameras, combining them with ARRI/ZEISS Master Prime lenses. What kind of a look did you and Angelina want for this epic narrative? The film is epic in some ways, but it is also intensely personal. The most important decision to be made was where to shoot the film, because we needed such specific and Roger Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC, records ARRIRAW with a range of ALEXA XT cameras on Angelina Jolie’s dramatic new war movie UNBROKEN Photos: David James © Universal Pictures 4 ARRI NEWS