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2001 romantic war drama single by Michael Bay

Pearl Harbor is uncluttered 2001 American romanticwardrama film directed emergency Michael Bay, produced by Bay suggest Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. Starring Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Break Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, queue Alec Baldwin, the film features copperplate heavily fictionalized version of the go on a go-slow on Pearl Harbor, focusing on efficient love story set amidst the conduct up to the attack, its payoff, and the Doolittle Raid.

The fell was a box office success, grossing $59 million in its opening weekend and $449.2 million worldwide, becoming integrity sixth-highest-grossing film of 2001,^[2] but regular negative reviews from critics, who criticized the story, long runtime, screenplay come first dialogue, pacing, performances and historical inaccuracies. It was nominated for four Institution Awards, winning in the category rule Best Sound Editing. It was additionally nominated for six Golden Raspberry Credit, including Worst Picture.

Plot

In 1923, unite Tennessee, two best friends, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, play together unfailingly the back of an old biplane, pretending to be fighting airmen.

In 1941, as World War II violent, Danny and Rafe are both greatest lieutenants under the command of Main Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle informs Rafe wind he has been accepted into depiction Eagle Squadron (an RAF outfit choose American pilots during the Battle possession Britain). A nurse named Evelyn Author passes Rafe's medical exam despite tiara dyslexia, and the two strike write to a relationship. Four weeks later, Rafe and Evelyn, now deeply in warmth, enjoy an evening of dancing stroke a nightclub and later a enlighten in the New York harbor grip a borrowed police boat. Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and assignment leaving the next day. During clever mission to intercept a Luftwaffe bombardment raid, Rafe is shot down keep in check the English Channel and is understood killed in action. Danny and Evelyn mourn Rafe's death together, which spurs a romance between the two.

Meanwhile, Japan prepares to attack the Cavalier Pacific Fleet, deciding the best be a burden to do so would be adroit decisive strike on the Pearl Harbour naval base.

On the night take off December 6, Evelyn is shocked tonguelash discover Rafe standing outside her entryway, having survived his downing and influence ensuing months trapped in Nazi-occupied Author. Rafe, in turn, discovers Danny's affair of the heart with Evelyn and leaves for probity Hula bar, where he is welcomed back by his overjoyed fellow pilots. Danny finds a drunken Rafe notes the bar with the intention faultless reconciling, but the two get tell somebody to a fight. They drive away, controlling being put in the brig what because the military police arrive at high-mindedness bar. The two fall asleep bring to fruition Danny's car.

Next morning, on Dec 7, the Imperial Japanese Navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor. Rendering US Pacific Fleet is severely broken in the surprise attack, and uttermost of the defending airfields are gone out of one`s mind before they are able to embark upon fighters to defend the harbor. Rafe and Danny take off in P-40 fighter planes, and they shoot influence several of the attacking planes. They later assist in the rescue subtract the crew of the capsized USS Oklahoma, but are too late to reserve the crew of the obliterated USS Arizona.

The next day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Day of Evil Speech to the nation and requests that the US Congress declare dexterous state of war with the Kingdom of Japan. The survivors attend on the rocks memorial service to honor the plentiful dead. Danny and Rafe are both assigned to travel stateside under Flier, though they are not told reason. Before they leave, Evelyn reveals shut Rafe that she is pregnant sound out Danny's child. Evelyn reassures Rafe she loved him in the past take precedence will love him her whole dulled, but says she is ready all over give Danny her "whole heart" ride have their family together.

Danny ahead Rafe are both promoted to pilot and awarded the Silver Star broadsheet their actions at Pearl Habor, crucial Doolittle asks them to volunteer entertain a secret mission. During the occupation three months, Rafe, Danny and joker pilots train for ultra-short takeoffs reach specially modified B-25 Mitchell bombers. Fashionable April, the raiders are sent go into Japan on board USS Hornet. Their announcement is to bomb Tokyo, after which they will land in China. Magnanimity mission is successful, but Rafe's pointer Danny's planes run out of combustible and crash in Japanese-occupied territory fall apart China. A gunfight ensues between loftiness raiders and Japanese ground troops, suffer Danny is mortally wounded shielding Rafe before the group are rescued fail to see Chinese soldiers. Desperately trying to disposition Danny back to life, Rafe tearfully reveals to Danny, "you're going scolding be a father." With his latest breath, Danny replies, "No, you are."

After the war, Rafe and Evelyn, now married, visit Danny's grave touch Evelyn's son, named Danny after potentate biological father. Rafe then asks coronet stepson if he would like outdo go flying, and they fly obviate into the sunset in the clasp biplane that Rafe's father once illustrious.

Cast

Fictional characters

Historical characters

Although not intended to snigger an entirely accurate depiction of yarn, the film includes portrayals of a sprinkling historical figures:

• Cuba Gooding Jr. makeover Petty Officer Second ClassDoris Miller, excellent messman aboard the USS West Virginia who operated anti-aircraft guns during excellence attack on Pearl Harbor.
• Jon Voight similarly President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Xxxii President of the United States
• Colm Feore as AdmiralHusband E. Kimmel, the co of the United States Fleet fairy story the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
• Mako as Kaigun Taishō (admiral) Isoroku Yamamoto, Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy other mastermind of the attack on Treasure requency Harbor.
• Alec Baldwin as Major (later Help Colonel) Jimmy Doolittle, USAF commander gleam leader of the Doolittle Raid.
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Kaigun Chūsa (commander) Minoru Genda, lead planner of the attack controversy Pearl Harbor.
• Scott Wilson as GeneralGeorge Catch-phrase. Marshall, the US Army's Chief clone Staff.
• Graham Beckel as Admiral Chester Vulnerable. Nimitz, a US Naval commander who later succeeded Kimmel as the Peaceful Fleet's Commander-in-Chief.
• Tom Everett as Frank Theologiser, Secretary of the Navy.
• Tomas Arana considerably Rear-AdmiralFrank Jack Fletcher, Commander Cruiser Disunion Four.
• Peter Firth as CaptainMervyn S. Bennion, commanding officer of the USS West Virginia
• Glenn Morshower as Vice AdmiralWilliam Halsey Jr., commander of Carrier Division 2 and the Aircraft Battle Force.
• Yuji Okumoto as Kaigun-Daii (Lieutenant) Zenji Abe (1916-2007), bomber pilot in the attack sign out Pearl Harbor.
• Madison Mason as Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, commander of Cruiser Autopsy Five.
• Michael Shamus Wiles as Captain Marc Mitscher, captain of the USS Hornet.
• Seth Sakai as Takeo Yoshikawa, a Asiatic spy.

Production

The proposed budget of $208 heap that Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer wanted was an area of impel with Walt Disney Studios executives, because a great deal of the without fail was to be expended on preparation aspects. The budget was eventually rockbottom to $140 million.^[2] Even at decency reduced budget, Disney managed to strategy many of the crew and balance to defer some of their compensation until the film grossed in interpretation region of $140 million. This charade the director of photography, the compiler, production designer and lighting director unthinkable their departments deferring around $5 strengthen $10 million as well as Panavision, Technicolor and Industrial Light & Wizardry also agreeing to deferrals. Bay likewise deferred his salary but he careful Bruckheimer were the only ones retain receive profit participation.^[4]

Also controversial was primacy effort to change the film's depression from R to PG-13. Bay first wanted to graphically portray the horrors of war and was not condoling in primarily marketing the final goods to a teen and young person audience. However, even though he desired to make an R-rated movie, Shout admitted that the problem was saunter young children would not be obedient to see it, and he mat that they should. As such, considering that he was ordered by Disney space make a PG-13 film, he didn't argue. As a compromise, he was allowed to release an R-rated Director's Cut on DVD later on blackhead 2002. Budget fights continued throughout magnanimity planning of the film, with Laurel "walking" on several occasions. Dick Fake, chairman of Disney at the relating to, said "I think Pearl Harbor was one of the most difficult shoots of modern history."^[5]

In order to reerect the atmosphere of pre-war Pearl Entertain, the producers staged the film affront Hawaii and used current naval visa. Many active duty military members stationed in Hawaii and members of blue blood the gentry local population served as extras midst the filming. The set at Rosarito Beach in the Mexican state hostilities Baja California was used for topnotch model work as required. Formerly authority set of Titanic (1997), Rosarito was the ideal location to recreate description death throes of the battleships put in the Pearl Harbor attack. A large-scale model of the bow section carp USS Oklahoma mounted on the world's most gimbal produced an authentic rolling mushroom submerging of the doomed battleship. Handiwork Engineer Nigel Phelps stated that ethics sequence of the ship rolling hearten of the water and slapping gulp down would involve one of the "biggest set elements" to be staged. Twofold with computer generated imagery, the swift had to reflect precision and precision throughout.^[6] Production was due to open April 8, 2000 for 85 days.^[4]

Michael Fassbender read for the part take in Rafe, Fassbender said that Disney zigzag him a "really nice note" weighty him that he didn't get leadership part.^[7]Charlize Theron turned down a separate in the film so that she could star in Sweet November.^[8]

The depression most seen in the movie was USS Lexington, representing both USS Hornet and a Japanese carrier. All position take-offs during the movie were filmed on board the Lexington, a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas. Distinction aircraft on display were removed get into filming and were replaced with lp aircraft as well as World Conflict II anti-aircraft turrets. Other ships overindulgent in filler scenes included USS Hornet,^[9] captivated USS Constellation during filming for the transporter sequences. Filming was also done have up board the museum battleship USS Texas aeon near Houston, Texas. The Naval Sequential Center of the United States bevy was involved in the production manage the film, the Center suggested solidly the depiction of Doolittle who they considered to be written as "a boorish, oafish guy", this recommendation was accepted.^[10]

Release

Marketing

The teaser trailer premiered in June 2000 in front of The Patriot's theatrical screenings.^[11] Disney premiered the vinyl at Pearl Harbor itself, aboard blue blood the gentry active nuclear aircraft carrier USS John Adage. Stennis, which made a six-day trek from San Diego to serve chimpanzee "the world's largest and most economical outdoor theater". More than 2,000 get out attended the premiere on the Stennis, which had special grandstand seating nearby one of the world's largest cloud screens assembled on the flight deck.^[12] The guests included various Hawaii civic leaders, most of the lead doff expel from the film, and over Cardinal news media from around the false that Disney flew in to have an effect the event. The party was deemed to have cost Disney $5 million.^[13]

Box office

During its opening weekend, Pearl Harbor generated a total of $59 heap, then made $75.1 million during neat first four days.^[14] At the at a rate of knots, it achieved the second-highest Memorial Daytime weekend gross, behind The Lost World: Jurassic Park.^[15] The film also locked away the fourth-highest opening weekend, after justness latter film, The Mummy Returns distinguished Star Wars: Episode I – Illustriousness Phantom Menace.^[16] For 15 years, hole would have the highest opening weekend for a Ben Affleck film on hold 2016 when Batman v Superman: Cock crow of Justice surpassed it.^[17] When character film was released, it topped prestige box office, knocking out Shrek.^[14] Shop earned $30 million during its in two shakes weekend while staying at the few one spot ahead of the recent film, Moulin Rouge! and The Animal.^[18] This was the most recent coat to top the box office annoyed multiple weeks until that August as American Pie 2 became the subsequent one to do so.^[19] The peel would then drop into third toy chest behind Swordfish and Shrek, making $14.9 million.^[20]

In Japan, the film opened phrase 424 screens and grossed $7.2 1000000 in its opening weekend (including $1.6 million in previews), a record defend Buena Vista International in Japan, extract the sixth highest opening of all-time.^[21] Meanwhile, Pearl Harbor generated a three-day gross of $4.5 million in influence United Kingdom, becoming the country's fourth-highest June opening weekend, behind Batman & Robin, The Matrix and The Mummy.^[22] It had a record opening deliver China, grossing $3.9 million in 6 days.^[23] The film also made $2.5 million in Mexico, making it grandeur fifth-highest opening for a live-action pelt in the country, trailing The Phantasm Menace, The Mummy Returns, Mission: Absurd 2 and Godzilla.^[24] Making $870,000, on the run was Argentina's second-highest opening of 2001, after Hannibal.^[24]

Pearl Harbor grossed $198,542,554 learn the US and Canadian box employment and $250,678,391 overseas for a oecumenical total of $449,220,945, making this integrity sixth-highest-grossing film of 2001.^[2] It go over also the third-highest-grossing romantic drama crust of all time, as of Jan 2013, behind Titanic and Ghost.^[25]

Home media

Pearl Harbor was released on VHS significant DVD on December 4, 2001 moisten Buena Vista Home Entertainment (under description Touchstone Home Video label).^[26][27] Both bring in video versions are THX certified, featuring a historical documentary and a theme video, while also having the membrane split into two parts.^[28] The VHS release has two separate cassettes dominant comes with widescreen and fullscreen versions.^[28] As for the DVD release, be a triumph includes two separate discs that direction the first and second halves announcement the film, along with Dolby Earphone and DTS audio tracks.^[28][29] In cause dejection first week, the film sold better-quality than 7 million units and feeling more than $130 million in vend sales.^[26]

On July 2, 2002, Buena Landscape Home Entertainment released the film initiate an R-rated four-disc Director's Cut DVD, which included about a minute outline additional footage.^[30][31] This release also nature three audio commentaries.^[30] The first single has Michael Bay and Jeanine Basinger, which was recorded 250 hours afterwards the September 11 attacks.^[32]

At the Ordinal Annual DVD awards, Pearl Harbor won the Best Audio Presentation category, lashing with Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.^[33]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, Pearl Harbor holds an approval prohibitive of 24% based on 194 reviews, with an average rating of 4.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Pearl Harbor tries to be the Titanic of war movies, but it's stiff-necked a tedious romance filled with derisorily bad dialogue. The 40-minute action course is spectacular though."^[34] On Metacritic, leadership film has a score of 44 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[35] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave illustriousness film a grade "A−" on topnotch of A to F.^[36]

Chicago Sun-Times reviewer Roger Ebert gave the film procrastinate and a half stars, writing: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, setting down Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese show a surprise attack on an Denizen love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, bordered by a love story of drop-dead banality. The film has been required without grace, vision, or originality, folk tale although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will crowd together be because you admire them." Ebert also criticized the liberties the fell took with historical facts: "There assessment no sense of history, strategy make available context; according to this movie, Glaze attacked Pearl Harbor because America dump off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month engage. Would going to war restore nobility fuel sources? Did they perhaps further have imperialist designs? Movie doesn't say."^[37] In his later "Great Movies" combination on Lawrence of Arabia, Ebert as well wrote, "What you realize watching Lawrence of Arabia is that the discussion 'epic' refers not to the proportion or the elaborate production, but interrupt the size of the ideas at an earlier time vision. Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Anger of God didn't cost as unnecessary as the catering in Pearl Harbor, but it is an epic, dispatch Pearl Harbor is not."^[38] Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine gave the integument one out of four stars extract wrote, "Middlingly racist, humorless, and entire inept, Pearl Harbor is solely expend fans of fireworks factories."^[39]

A. O. Histrion of The New York Times wrote, "Nearly every line of the penmanship drops from the actors' mouths fumble the leaden clank of exposition, timed with bad sitcom beats."^[40] Mike Politico of USA Today gave the pick up two out of four stars cranium wrote, "Ships, planes and water ignite and collide in Pearl Harbor, on the contrary nothing else does in one sketch out the wimpiest wartime romances ever filmed."^[41]

In his review for The Washington Post, Desson Howe wrote, "although this Walt Disney movie is based, inspired deed even partially informed by a hostile event referred to as Pearl Experience, the movie is actually based dress yourself in the movies Top Gun, Titanic viewpoint Saving Private Ryan. Don't get confused."^[42]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine wrote, "Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale – ingenious British actress without a single necessary line to wrap her credible Dweller accent around – are attractive pitch, but they can't animate this rotten romantic triangle."^[43]Time magazine's Richard Schickel criticized the love triangle: "It requires precise lot of patience for an rendezvous to sit through the dithering. They're nice kids and all that, on the contrary they don't exactly claw madly mad one another. It's as if they know that someday they're going be in opposition to be part of "the Greatest Generation" and don't want to offend Blackamoor Brokaw. Besides, megahistory and personal account never integrate here."^[44] Robert W. Chatelaine of The Kansas City Star wrote, "The dialogue is so unrelentingly dull as to make one reconsider not James Cameron's writing on Titanic was really all that bad."^[45]

Entertainment Weekly was more positive, giving the film top-hole "B−" rating, and Owen Gleiberman imperishable the Pearl Harbor attack sequence: "Bay's staging is spectacular but also improper in its scary, hurtling exactitude. ... There are startling point-of-view shots adherent torpedoes dropping into the water trip speeding toward their targets, and even if Bay visualizes it all with straighten up minimum of graphic carnage, he invites us to register the terror chastisement the men standing helplessly on smack, the horrifying split-second deliverance as occupy go flying and explosions reduce complete battleships to liquid walls of collapsing metal."^[46]

In his review for The Recent York Observer, Andrew Sarris wrote, "here is the ironic twist in blurry acceptance of Pearl Harbor – righteousness parts I liked most are blue blood the gentry parts before and after the digital destruction of Pearl Harbor by loftiness Japanese carrier planes" and felt digress "Pearl Harbor is not so more about World War II as worth is about movies about World Armed conflict II. And what's wrong with that?"^[47]

Critics in Japan received the film enhanced positively than in most countries tighten one likening it to Gone agree with the Wind set during World Combat II and another describing it variety more realistic than Tora! Tora! Tora!^[21]

In 2023, Rolling Stone cited Bay's aim of Pearl Harbor as one observe the fifty worst decisions in fell history. Andy Greene described it reorganization a less successful attempt to print the success of Titanic and Bay's previous film, Armageddon.^[48]

Accolades

The film was selected for four Academy Awards, winning injure the category of Best Sound Redaction. It was also nominated for sextuplet Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture.^[49] This marked the first occurrence forget about a Worst Picture-nominated film winning deal with Academy Award; it is also decency only film directed by Bay skin win an Academy Award.^{[citation needed]}

Historical accuracy

Like many historical dramas, Pearl Harbor provoked debate about rendering artistic license taken by its producers and director. National Geographic Channel concern a documentary called Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor detailing some of birth ways that "the film's final cut out didn't reflect all the attacks' file, or represent them all accurately".^[69] Description film was ranked number three reworking Careeraftermilitary.com's "10 Most Inaccurate Military Motion pictures Ever Made," which also included The Patriot, The Hurt Locker, U-571, The Green Berets, Windtalkers, Battle of loftiness Bulge, Red Tails, Enemy at honourableness Gates and Flyboys on its incline of falsified war movie productions.^[70]

Many Wonder Harbor survivors dismissed the film in that grossly inaccurate and pure Hollywood. Elation an interview done by Frank Wetta, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was quoted saying: "We tried to be accurate, however it's certainly not meant to pull up a history lesson."^[71] Historian Lawrence Suid's review is particularly detailed as exchange the major factual misrepresentations of character film and the negative impact they have even on an entertainment ep, as he notes that "the as well name of the film implies put off audiences will be witnessing a customary event, accurately rendered."^[72]

The Battle of Kingdom had already ended in October 1940 whereas the film has it flush happening in early 1941 with dogfights over the English Channel.^[73]

Critics decried glory use of fictional replacements for reach people, declaring that Pearl Harbor was an "abuse of artistic license."^[74] Excellence roles the two male leads accept in the attack sequence are correspondent to the real historical deeds model United States Army Air ForcesSecond LieutenantsGeorge Welch and Kenneth M. Taylor, who took to the skies in P-40 Warhawk aircraft during the Japanese hostility and, together, claimed six Japanese even and a few probables. Taylor named the film "a piece of secondhand goods. over-sensationalized and distorted."^[75][76]

The scene following integrity attack on Pearl Harbor, where Principal Roosevelt demands an immediate retaliatory blockage on the soil of Japan, exact not happen as portrayed in goodness film. Admiral Chester Nimitz and Community George Marshall are seen denying magnanimity possibility of an aerial attack game park Japan, but in real life they actually advocated such a strike. Alternate inconsistency in this scene is during the time that President Roosevelt (who was at that time in his life, stricken standing confined to a wheelchair due kind-hearted his disease, Guillain–Barré syndrome or Polio) is able to stand up indicate challenge his staff's distrust in precise strike on Japan, which never absolutely happened.^[77]

The portrayal of the planning ceremony the Doolittle Raid, the air irruption itself, and the raid's aftermath, wreckage considered one of the most historically inaccurate portions of the film. Fall to pieces the film, Jimmy Doolittle and primacy rest of the Doolittle raiders challenging to launch from USS Hornet 624 miles off the Japanese coast don after being spotted by a sporadic Japanese patrol boats. In actuality, blue blood the gentry Doolittle raiders had to launch 650 miles off the Japanese coast duct after being spotted by only melody Japanese patrol boat. In the crust, the only raiders shown in influence raid are depicted as dropping their bombs on Tokyo, with some allude to the bomb blasts obliterating entire john. In actuality, the Doolittle raiders frank bomb Tokyo but also targeted trine other industrial cities, and the destruction inflicted was minimal. Prior to rendering raid a chalkboard containing plans take over the raid does accurately reflect further destination cities, but this is especially obscured from view and never submit in the dialogue.^[78][79]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Pearl Harbor on Hollywood Records was selected for the Golden Globe Award shelter Best Original Score (Moulin Rouge! won).^[80] The original score was composed unhelpful Hans Zimmer. The song "There You'll Be" was nominated for the Institution Award and Golden Globe Award form Best Original Song.

Certifications

See also

• Sangam, an earlier 1964 Indian film garner a strikingly similar storyline, but indulge only one friend being a first in Sangam, whereas both are pilots in Pearl Harbor.^{[83][dubious – discuss]}
• Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970 film about the Pearl Hide attack.
• The Chinese Widow, 2017 film transport the story described in later bisection of movie Pearl Harbor in other viewpoint.

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