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...Early in the afternoon one day in the middle of October 1941, all the pilots were called together. There was a single chalkboard, covered with a white curtain, in the front of the room. An officer removed the curtain to reveal a map of Pearl Harbor. The officer said: "All of you are probably wondering what is going on. For the last four months, we've been doing quite different training. If we don't tell you why, it could affect your fighting spirit. Japan has been negotiating with the U.S. government patiently to maintain our position in East Asia...
...that Pearl Harbor is a wimpy movie. Plenty of things explode, but it's the most serious-minded film of Bruckheimer's career, and it has arrived with not only some of the greatest hype in history but the burden of history as well. Critics will tell you in no uncertain terms that it creaks under this weight. Bruckheimer will tell you he doesn't need their approval. "If I had to go by reviews, I wouldn't be making movies," says the producer, sounding a little grumpy, just hours after the New York Times called Pearl Harbor "defiantly, extravagantly...
...Linda has been known to send scathing notes to journalists who treat him badly. Though he won't admit his age ("In Hollywood, they think you're over the hill at a certain point"), he is said to be 55 and seems to be hearing a certain ticking. With Pearl Harbor, he is fighting for respectability and a grown-up audience. The battle began two years...
...innocence and a lot of brutality at the same time." The concept now seems like a no-brainer; Steven Spielberg (with Saving Private Ryan) and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw (in his Greatest Generation books) have spun America's World War II nostalgia into gold, but market research for Pearl Harbor showed that the desirable high-moviegoing audience of ages 19 to 24 generally had no idea what Pearl Harbor...
...Enter Michael Bay, who had wowed young audiences for Bruckheimer as director of Bad Boys, The Rock and Armageddon. "I felt the time was right for him to make a spectacular movie," says Bruckheimer, who is known for his loyalty. "Michael is his generation's Spielberg or Lucas." (Pearl Harbor's costume designer, Michael Kaplan, is the same guy who cut up sweatshirts for Bruckheimer's 1983 Flashdance.) With screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart), they took a cue from the Titanic playbook and found its heated romance the perfect device to narrow the distance between a great historical happening and today...