Wednesday, October 17, 2007

pearl harbor

The movie pearl harbor is about the attack on pearl harbor, Hawaii, by the Japanese in a pre-emptive strike, on December 7th 1941. the Japanese thought that the US was going to invade them for their oil and rubber so they attacked them first. the movie was made in 2001, and it depicts the lives of 2 soldiers who are best friends and how they split up and are reunited during the war. Randall Wallace didn't really follow the truth in the movie, instead he directed the movie toward the audience and what they would like. there weren't very many war seance. the movie starts off showing you two boys playing in 1923 showing you right from the beginning that this movie is not going to be specifically about the fighting but also about the lives of the characters in the movie. the characters are the bored antsy teenagers that wanted to run off to war. Ben Afflek volunteered for a station in the British air force. the characters seem very stereotyped and the dialogue is not really about the war. the movie has a war in it but its more of a romance torn apart by war and sewn back together very roughly. in "the man i killed' by Tim O'Brien, the death of the enemy wasn't especially victorious in the narrator's mind. he grieved over it and felt guilty, even though it was war. while in pearl harbor when there is finally a fighting scene and they are flying over japan and dropping bombs they feel no grief only triumph over the people who surprise attacked them and killed two thousand people. Davidson and Lytle would not see this movie as authentic because the fights they did have were not similar to the ones in real life.

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