Pearl Harbor
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Good Afternoon Mr. Ryan, ladies and gentlemen. I conducted my movie analysis on Pearl Harbor, directed by Michael Bay and produced Jerry Bruckheimer with leading actors starring Ben Affleck, Josh Harnett and Kate Beckinsale.
Let this be said at the outset, Touchstone Pictures' "Pearl Harbor" will not go down in cinematic history as the greatest film ever made. There are points of corny dialogue, as an actual history it is a disaster, and at some of its most crucial moments, the story suddenly goes oddly flat. Yet, in spite of its obvious shortcomings, it works reasonably well as an evocation of how the nation saw itself seeing itself, as well as providing some undeniably spectacular special effects and a love story that is better than the critics have made it out to be.
Pearl Harbor starts out with the love side back dropped against the start of World War II. We are introduced to our two male leads Rafe McCauley and Danny Walker, played by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett respectively, as two young kids growing up together on a farm somewhere.
The story moves forward to 1941 where Rafe and Danny are pilots for the US Army, essentially the predecessors of Maverick and Goose of Top Gun fame. Cue the entrance of the female lead Evelyn Johnson, a Navy nurse, played by Kate Beckinsale...