Re: [LoGH] Pearl Harbor (off-topic about war movies)
Lee Thompson (thompsonl@logh.net)
Sat, 26 May 2001 22:16:50 -0700
On Sat, 26 May 2001 19:21:02 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
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> > > it... end result? Hollywood made Pearl Harbor to satisfy their need.
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> > Very few people with any concept of history are going to take this movie
> > seriously. Those that do should be blamed on the failure of the American
> > education system, not Hollywood.
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> But Hollywood in itself sort of symbolizes the failure of our American
> education system doesn't it? In most films these days specialists are
> consulted, like paleontology professors from UC Berkeley who actualy got
> asked to review the dinosaur behaviors in Jurassic Park. But more often
> than not, this advice is taken into consideration to a point, but beyond
> that, its very easy to bend thigns here and there. So what happened?
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> The people who wrote the script, the directors, the people who
> participated in this film, etc probably ignored some pretty serious
> historical advice to produce this bit of fiction. Its not a conspiracy,
> but a whole chunk of ppl who disregard history and are very willing to
> circulate a myth to an audience who might not know otherwise, or worse
> yet, will discard what they learned in school for what they see on a
> movie screen. Its not a conspiracy, but even in "innocent" actions there
> can be a whole lot of harm that can't just be ignored.
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> Its frustrating because from what I hear about international opinions of
> the US, I've gradually put together a pretty ugly picture. This movie may
> be seen by others as nothing more than another movie for the
> self-aggrandizement of US as an arrogant super power.
I think everyone needs to just relax; it's just a movie :p
At any rate, America hardly has a monopoly on inaccuracies when producing
'historical' dramas.
Anyway, back to lurking on this subject.
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Lee Thompson
thompsonl@logh.net
