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...heated romance the perfect device to narrow the distance between a great historical happening and today's essentially antihistorical audience. Two strapping pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), friends since boyhood, fall for a hot nurse (Kate Beckinsale). Ultimate sacrifices ensue. It requires the raid on Tokyo by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle to resolve the romantic conundrum and a lot of audience patience to sit through the dithering...
...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...
...technical sergeant was not being detained. "We have escorted him in for questioning, and if he is indicted, he will be turned over to Okinawa police custody," said Marine Captain Cliff Gilmore, public affairs officer for the U.S. Okinawa military command. "The kind of behavior alleged is entirely unacceptable," Lieut. General Earl Hailston, the Okinawa commander, said in a statement...
...Isoroku 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...
...screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart), they took a cue from the Titanic playbook and composed a central fictional love story. Two strapping pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), friends since boyhood, fall for a hot nurse (Kate Beckinsale). Ultimate sacrifices ensue. Authentic figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy--at least until it gets in the way of the main story...