Devotion has been available on Netflix since Friday. The war drama tells the story of Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner, who Korean War fought for the US Navy. True events served as inspiration for the film. We explain the most important backgrounds of the main characters and their deeds.
True Background: What is Devotion About?
The following are spoilers for the full film: Jesse Brown was the first African-American US Navy pilot and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, one of the US military’s highest honors, during the Korean War. He is played by Marvel star Jonathan Majors. The second main character is Tom Hudner (played by Top Gun 2 star Glen Powell), who is in the year 1950 befriended Jesse Brown.
In the neighborhood and also among the other soldiers, the Brown family must endure racist attacks, with Hudner proving to be one of the few allies. In the course of the year, the friends are transferred to France together. Hudner first has to promise Brown’s wife, Daisy (Christina Jackson), that she will take care of her husband. Then it breaks Korean War the end.
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In the film, Brown emerges as a hotshot who disobeys orders and often acts on instinct, allowing for heroic deeds but straining the friends’ relationship. Eventually, Brown dies on an assignment and the devastated Hudner meets the now widowed Daisy. He couldn’t keep his promise.
How close does Devotion stay to its true story?
In fact, the war film should hardly deviate at all from the true events that are happening around the pilot duo. Devotion is based on the book An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice* by Adam Makos and largely adheres to the factual research for it. So Brown actually tormented himself in the mirror with racist insults. Also the appearance of the former Acting superstar Elizabeth Taylorthat Brown and Hudner encounter during their stay in southern France is not fictional. Only details have been changed.
So, broadly speaking, the story of Jesse Brown took place exactly as portrayed in the film. His By the way, human remains could never be found after the crash over the war zone. The film Devotion stimulated efforts to recover the pilot’s body and return it to the United States more than half a century later. Hudner himself unsuccessfully traveled to Korea in 2013 to find his friend’s body.
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Where devotion is meant to deviate from the true story
In fact, Devotion changes a not-so-small detail to give the film a stronger emotional frame. Hudner only met Daisy, his friend’s wife, after returning home at Hudner’s Medal of Honor ceremony. So the promise to take care of Jesse Brown was fictional.
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