Given that it was such a huge footnote in American history I'm surprised more films, let alone TV shows, have been based on the event, there are plenty of singular stories of survivors that would've made a great film or mini-series on TV.
shareMost viewers are not interested in an ultra dry discussion of Pearl Harbor. They want to see recreations which are very expensive to do plus seldom pass the eye test.
shareMaybe you should check neutral records about how the attack was done and the victims number .. you'll realize that it was not that dramatic , of course it changed the American view regarding the war, but there's no doubt that this movie is a "huge" exaggeration ..
shareDo you mean the attacks were not that dramatic?,an attack on a neutral country that killed about 2500 people,sunk a lot of ships and changed the direction of World war 2 and therefore world history not that dramatic?
I am sure everybody knows that the USA went to war with Japan after the attack,but the Japanese also attacked the British empire in Asia at the same time,and Hitler declared war on the USA which he did not have to do,so this became a real world war.
Are you (blooming april) suggesting somehow that the numbers reported killed were wrong? conspiracy theory sort of thing?
As for how the attack was carried out I refer you to the British Royal Navy attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto,the Japanese navy studied this attack (their navy much admired the Royal Navy) and the Pearl Harbor attack was similar to Taranto.
American was not neutral,
and we had embargoed energy to Japan trying to strangle its economy.
Of course they were going to strike back.
We are experts at making the other side look like real villains.
Which of course the Japanese were, but not so much later than
our genocide of the Native Americans.
All was is something that needs to end. We should know better at
this point.
America really should have remained neutral and continued to supply energy and raw material to Japan’s imperial war machine in China. It would have gone a long way to make up for the treatment of American Indians.
shareI'm assuming that you are joking even though it can be hard to tell on this site at times.
shareYeah, I was being sarcastic. I don’t comprehend the logic of an argument that says America provoked a Japanese war by refusing to supply a Japanese war.
shareAgreed. It is also hard to tell at times who is joking on the other end versus trolling versus believing the nonsense such as it is with brux. I know that brux is a hard lefty with not much in the way of common sense.
shareBrux and I have butted heads a few times. Even when I agree with him on something he still hammers me and I expect something similar when he sees my admittedly sarcastic comment here.
shareI suppose the same could be said about Korea and Vietnam, but Pearl Harbor was a loss and most people aren't interested in hearing about losses. AFAIK there's only a few shows about Bataan and none about Singapore.
shareWhat single battles have there been multiple movies made about them?
shareHow many movies do you want?
Two blockbusters and several docos have been made about Pearl Harbor.
This was a disappointment after the magnificent Tora Tora Tora.
War is Gods way of teaching Americans geography!
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Yes. Tora Tora Tora >>>>>>>>>> PearlHarbor. TTT was not even the first take on the events of Dec 7, 1941. From Here to Eternity was also a film that had some fictionalized story to it in terms of characters that debuted in 1953. Also, I agree that an effort along the lines of a hard documentary would have limited appeal in the theater. Television of the 1960's through 1980's had the events of Dec 7, 1941 as either a primary or secondary story in many shows.
shareYou have to remember that Japan has many close ties to Hollywood. The director of the original Godzilla movie, later formed the Honda automobile company, would never allow any future Godzilla film in America, if Hollywood would make many movies depicting these events nor would we have Japanese cars in America
shareI do not think the many films and shows about Pearl Harbor that do exist now would have lead to fewer Japanese films and cars coming to America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_in_popular_culture
shareHow many do you want? Here is a list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_in_popular_culture
shareRemember Pearl Harbor (1942) A Republic Pictures B-movie, starring Don "Red" Barry, one of the first motion pictures to respond to the events.[3]
Air Force, a 1943 propaganda film depicting the fate of the crew of the Mary-Ann, one of the B-17 Flying Fortress bombers that flew into Hickam Field during the attack.
December 7th: The Movie, directed by John Ford for the U.S. Navy in 1943, is a film that recreates the attacks of the Japanese forces. Footage from this Hollywood recreation has been mistakenly used as "actual attack footage", first by two different documentaries released in 1991 to mark the 50th anniversary of the attack, and again by television network CNN during an entertainment news report in 2001.[4][5]
From Here to Eternity (1953), an adaptation of the James Jones novel set in Hawaii on the eve of the attack.
In Harm's Way (1965), director Otto Preminger's adaptation of the James Bassett novel, which opens on December 6, 1941, in Hawaii, and depicts the attack from the point of view of the men of a ship able to leave the harbor.
Storm Over the Pacific, also known as Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi (Hawaii-Midway Battle of the Sea and Sky: Storm in the Pacific Ocean) and I Bombed Pearl Harbor (1961), produced by the Japanese studio Toho Company and starring Toshiro Mifune, tells the story of Japanese airmen who served in the Pearl Harbor Raid and the Battle of Midway. An edited version dubbed into English as I Bombed Pearl Harbor was given U.S. release in 1961.[3]
The Time Tunnel, TV series; Season 1, Episode 4: "The Day the Sky Fell In" (1966). In the story, Tony attempts to save his father's life, but fails.[6]
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), a Japan-U.S. coproduction about the attack is "meticulous"[7] in its approach to dissecting the situation leading up to the bombing. It depicts the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from both American and Japanese points of view.