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Bruckheimer admits that he went into the movie with little knowledge of Pearl Harbor. "I never took history after high school," he says. And he had no personal tie to the war. His father, a first-generation German immigrant, did not fight in WW II. Instead, Bruckheimer's dad scraped by selling clothes in a fancy Detroit men's store while his son imagined life beyond his meager surroundings. "I could stretch out my arms in my bedroom and touch both walls," recalls Bruckheimer. He escaped to the movies as often as he could and dreamed of making films like...
...thought of directing himself. But there's one thing about Bruckheimer that won't change. "My biggest thrill is when I sit in a theater and watch people laugh and cry and cheer," he says. "You start with a little idea and make it happen and watch it explode." Pearl Harbor may be loud enough to drown out the critics...
...ball-game scene represents one of many accurate anecdotes in Pearl Harbor. Some come from histories, others from the nearly 100 interviews the filmmakers conducted with survivors. But while Pearl Harbor gets a lot of things right, it gets others wrong, and finally doesn't paint a clear picture of the attack or the political events leading to it. "Overdone overkill," says Raymond Emory, who was a seaman on the Honolulu and is now, at 80, a historian for the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. "No nurses got killed. No torpedo planes late in the attack. Too many small explosions...
...three Japanese) that have significantly dealt with the attack. Only one, 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora!, sought to be painstakingly faithful to the facts--no love story add-on--and for this it paid dearly, and is remembered as one of the great big-budget turkeys of all time. Pearl Harbor, banking on a different fate, is Hollywood, not history, at heart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is good to set the record straight on a few things before they become part of the accepted story...
...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...