Pearl Harbor

The movie of my choice is Pearl Harbor written by Randall Wallace. The movie is set during the time in which the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The movie in general is about a love story that is set during a war that complicates everything. To be more specific the movie is about a pilot who falls in love with a nurse. The Pilot volunteer's to go fight in Britain, and his best friend and the love of his life are transferred to Pearl Harbor. While in Britain the Pilot "dies". The nurse finds out and is extremely depressed but shortly after hooks up with his best friend. I can go more into detail but as you can see the movie has nothing to do with the actual bombing in Pearl Harbor. In stating that I believe that Davidson and Lytle would call the film a myth. I believe this to be true because the director choose a certain event like Pearl Harbor just to be the setting of his love story. Davidson and Lytle prove my point when they say, "Hollywood, an industry that markets the fantasies and fears of popular culture, inescapably finds itself in the myth business, creating stories, themes, and character types that embody the cultural ideals of its audiences and give expression to their deepest feelings ( Davidson and Lytle 405). The film give very little information on the actual events that took place on the horrible day. The movie could have given more information on the historical event that actually took place for it to have been considered some what authentic.