Pearl Harbor the Movie Essay

In late 1941 more than 75 U.S. warships--including battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and auxiliaries--were based at this "Gibraltar of the Pacific." All U.S. aircraft carriers were elsewhere. On November 26 a Japanese task force, consisting of 6 carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, and several destroyers and tankers under command of Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo, departed in secret from the Kuril Islands. Observing radio silence, it reached a launching point at 6 AM, December 7. At 7:50 AM, the first wave of Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbour, bombarding airfields and battleships moored at the concrete quays. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before 10 AM.

The movie shows the discovery of the large stash of gold in the Merkers mine in Germany. This was a real discovery that happened in April 1945 and got wide media coverage. This is a war movie unlike any other. This is a movie about art. What it means to our collective culture.

For a long time, when anyone thought of a war movie, they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck’s, The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan, who was the author of the book by the same name, and happened to be a D-day veteran himself, wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book wasn’t exactly a story involving characters, and neither was the film. The Longest Day is more a story of tragedy, glory, and courage surrounding one very important day. And even though mainly American and

The documentary film, by Frank Capra in 1942, illustrates through the use of Hollywoods assistance to persuade the population of America to aid the support of war efforts, within the propaganda inhabited film. The footage used within the film was made by the opposition and edited music as well as voice over techniques to further demonise the enemy. The first scene of the film begins with the narrator asking rhetorical questions such as “Why are we Americans on the march?”, exercising the use of inclusive language to make the audience feel as though they have a common enemy and further using the rhetorical question to allow the viewers to become involved in the discussion. The narrator follows by “is it because of” , the film then cuts screen from filming soldiers marching to patriotic music to the loud bombs exploding. The use of the Montage technique allows Capra to cut images and distort viewers opinions into believing his agenda and additionally creates an emotional response within the audience of fear and sadness, the use of images from Pearl Harbour after the explosions creates a sense of appeals to security and

It shows that in this understanding of how a story is constructed, each individual unit of action and dialogue within a scene adds certain elements to the story itself and allows mini-deconstructions of character within them.

The movie Pearl Harbor, while fiction, depicts the real life events of December 7th, 1941.

There are many movies based on historical incident. The most important thing when we make ad historical movie is the historical investigation. If a screenwriter and director did not enough historical investigations, their movies completeness will be good enough to satisfy audiences and the republic of movie critics. This movie is the typical and representative movie which the director and screenwriter did not care about the historical investigation for.

This movie however had a solder give a little speech before watching it talking about the true American soldier and how important it is to show our support. By the late 1942 nearly one-third of the features dealt directly with the war effort.

The movie Pearl Harbor takes place from the early 1920s through the early 1940s to the late 1940s. The movie was made and released into the theaters on May 25th 2001. The movie was created at the time that many Hollywood Blockbusters had released, the movie Titanic and Saving Private Ryan, two very successful historical movies. War movies have generally 2 purposes when released: To make a profit and, likening back to war propaganda films, to sell patriotism, some movies going all the way to propaganda. War movies, in this case American war movies, are designed to make Americans feel good, to feel a sense of pride in the nation. The movies themselves honor servicemembers past and present. This comes at a time after the Gulf War and just before the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that will shape the next decade in American Foreign Policy and war films.

However, putting our superficial analytical approach beside and using our holistic approach, its quite evident that Spielberg tries to make this war look like all American as he ignored the contributions of other nations in the D Day landing on the Omaha beach specifically. On the other hand, Spielberg’s best ever can also be criticized on the basis of

A romantic classic, From Here to Eternity was released in 1953. The film was directed by Fred Zinnemann and produced by Columbia Pictures. From Here to Eternity is based on the days prior to Pearl Harbor and the day of in Hawaii. One of the main characters, Prewitt played by Montgomery Clift, was a private who was abused by the army for not joining the units boxing team, but choosing to play the bugle instead. Cold hearted Capt. Holmes was played by Philip Ober. He orders Prewitt to a many unnecessary tasks while his wife, Deborah Kerr, cheats on him with another Sargent, Burt Lancaster.

Pearl Harbor is a docu-drama that was released May 25 2001 and details the attack of the Empire of Japan on the Naval and Air forces the United States had stationed at Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian Islands that brought the United States into World War II. The story of Pearl Harbor, and the men and women who became heroes that day is a story that needs to be told. People need to know what happened that day so that they will never take for granted the sacrifices made by our servicemen and women every day. This movie is very

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 Steven Spielberg directed, award winning film. The film won 5 Oscars and in 2014 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." ("Saving Private Ryan", 2017) Yet, these awards are not what interests me in Saving Private Ryan: it’s the intense half hour sequence at the film’s beginning which immerses the viewer into the Omaha Beach landing in Normandy.

3. How accurate is displayed when the actions and attacks a nurse of the hospital?

First of all in the movie Pearl Harbor, the actual sequence of events that occured on December 7, 1941 was that the japanese sent two seperate waves of fighter planes to attack the U.S Naval base of Pearl Harbor. (Memorials) However in the movie Pearl Harbor the attack on the naval base was depicted as being just a single wave of japanese fighter pilots. This greatly affects the movies credibility of being historically accurate by providing a false picture of what happened at the attack of the Naval base.