![]() ![]() "It's their movie, it's not mine, I was purely an adviser," says Jack Green, a staff curator for the Naval Historical Center and a retired Air Force captain, who was a technical adviser throughout the production. ![]() But that happened to be a true story."Īs for the rest, though few have actually seen the finished film yet, historians, veterans and Japanese-American groups who have had access to script drafts - and, in some cases, the filmmakers and their shooting locations - are understandably worried about how "Pearl Harbor" depicts their cherished and vital interests. Look, we're not saying that the movie's 100 percent accurate - believe me, it's not. "One gunner on a Japanese plane waved these kids on a ball field away. "That was a true story," Bruckheimer insists. Any big-budget movie about an event as world-changing and emotionally charged as the attack on Pearl Harbor is bound to stir concerns about its historical accuracy, portrayal of real individuals and characterizations of various groups.Īnd since the upcoming "Pearl Harbor" was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer ("Coyote Ugly"), directed by Michael Bay ("Armageddon") and written by Randall Wallace ("Braveheart," which did as much violence to English history as it did to Edward I's army), the pre-release alarms are going off loud and clear.Īnd let's face it: The movie's main poster image of Japanese planes flying over an Oahu field where kids are playing baseball before 8 a.m on a Sunday morning does not inspire confidence in the film's socio-historical accuracy. ![]()
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