Jim "Jamie" Graham
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The film tells the story of Jamie "Jim" Graham ( Christian Bale ), a young boy who goes from living with his wealthy British family in Shanghai to becoming a prisoner of war in an internment camp operated by the Japanese during World War II .
Dec 25, 1987 · Empire of the Sun: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
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Life on Earth is not so enjoyable for the boy, whose name is Jim, and who is played by Christian Bale with a kind of grim poetry that suggests a young Tom Courtenay. There are no free passes for kids in the prison camp, and Jim soon finds a protector of sorts in Basie, an American prisoner played by John Malkovich with a laconic cynicism.
Empire of the Sun (1987), scripted by Tom Stoppard, was a carefully detailed re-creation of the World War II prison-camp milieu of J.G. Ballard’s autobiographical novel of the same name. But where The Color Purple was able to convey emotional truth, Empire of the Sun …. Read More.
Jamie Graham (Christian Bale), a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor...
Dec 14, 2021 · The movie’s success hinges on the performance of Christian Bale, whom Spielberg chose to play Jamie after auditioning 4,000 child actors.
