Rhino
07-03-2003, 01:14 PM
I thought this was interesting.
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The movie Pearl Harbor does get a few things right. The Japanese did bomb Hawaii on Sunday morning, 7 December 1941. It does depict the aircraft carrier Akagi, the Japanese flagship, with her island on the port side. The film also captures the chaos the Japanese planes created during the first ten minutes of the surprise attack. And Jimmy Doolittle (played by Alec Baldwin) did lead 16 B-25 bombers against the Japanese homeland on 18 April 1942.
Beyond these few truths, however, Pearl Harbor fails to provide even a reasonable facsimile of history. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Director Michael Bay both claimed to have done extensive research into the history of Pearl Harbor and expressed pride at having interviewed many of the survivors. Bay pointed out, however, that the survivors all have their own recollections of what happened on 7 December, and they often differed. Of course, all memories are created equal. But historians have validated some as more accurate representations of history. Given the alternatives of dramatization or reality, the filmmakers too often chose to create a cinematic vision that lacked plausibility or any resemblance to the history of the “date which will live in infamy.”................
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SOURCE (http://www.usni.org/navalhistory/articles01/NHsuid8.html)
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The movie Pearl Harbor does get a few things right. The Japanese did bomb Hawaii on Sunday morning, 7 December 1941. It does depict the aircraft carrier Akagi, the Japanese flagship, with her island on the port side. The film also captures the chaos the Japanese planes created during the first ten minutes of the surprise attack. And Jimmy Doolittle (played by Alec Baldwin) did lead 16 B-25 bombers against the Japanese homeland on 18 April 1942.
Beyond these few truths, however, Pearl Harbor fails to provide even a reasonable facsimile of history. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Director Michael Bay both claimed to have done extensive research into the history of Pearl Harbor and expressed pride at having interviewed many of the survivors. Bay pointed out, however, that the survivors all have their own recollections of what happened on 7 December, and they often differed. Of course, all memories are created equal. But historians have validated some as more accurate representations of history. Given the alternatives of dramatization or reality, the filmmakers too often chose to create a cinematic vision that lacked plausibility or any resemblance to the history of the “date which will live in infamy.”................
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SOURCE (http://www.usni.org/navalhistory/articles01/NHsuid8.html)