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...Other changes were more about cultural sensitivities. In the U.S. version, Alec Baldwin, playing Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle, declares that if he's shot down during a retaliatory air raid on Tokyo, he plans to crash his plane in such a way as to "kill as many of those bastards as possible." In the Japanese subtitles, the line is almost laughably stilted: "I myself would choose a tasty target." In the closing voice-over of the original version, Kate Beckinsale, playing a nurse, says: "Before Doolittle's raid, Americans knew nothing but defeat; after it, nothing but victory." For Japan...
CONVICTED. GEORGE TROFIMOFF, 74, retired Army Reserve colonel and son of Russian emigres; of spying for the U.S.S.R. and Russia; in Tampa, Fla. From 1969 to '94, Trofimoff fed Moscow highly classified documents--including some with detailed U.S. knowledge of Soviet military capabilities--from an Army interrogation center in Nuremberg, Germany. He is facing a possible life sentence...
...Yamamoto, the Japanese commander, rips a page off a calendar to show Dec. 7; in Japan the shot will reveal Dec. 8, which is when the attack occurred Tokyo time. But other changes were made for those reasons of cultural sensitivity. In the U.S. version, Alec Baldwin, playing Lieut. Colonel James Doolittle, declares that if he's shot down during a retaliatory air raid on Tokyo, he plans to crash his plane in such a way as to "kill as many of those bastards as possible." In Japanese subtitles, that line is vague: "I myself would choose a tasty target...
...really not that simple, but personalizing the threat - while it distorts both the nature of the problem and the remedy - is a time-honored tradition. Before Bin Laden, the face of the global terror threat against Americans belonged to the Palestinian radical Abu Nidal. Or was it Colonel Ghaddafi? Ayatolla Khomeini, perhaps? And does anyone even remember the chubby jowls of Carlos the Jackal, whose image drawn from an old passport picture was once the icon of global terror...
...film shows, the U.S. had cracked Japan's codes and was able to decipher secret communiques. But the "bomb plot" message of Sept. 24 was not ignored by top military brass. In fact, Colonel Rufus C. Bratton treated the transcript, which asked for detailed reconnaissance of ships in Pearl Harbor, with great seriousness. For the record, Dan Ackroyd doesn't play Bratton in the movie but a Bratton-like figure named Thurman. This is presumably because, were he playing Bratton, he would never have told his superiors that he felt Pearl was in gravest peril. Bratton did think that...