Pearl Harbor (film)
Pearl Harbor is an American film directed by Michael Bay from the year 2001 , the time of the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and the US Doolittle Raid in World War II plays. The main characters are Ben Affleck , Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale . With a production budget of US $ 132 million, the joint production by Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films achieved the sixth highest grossing of the films of the year at US $ 449 million.
action
The film story revolves around the two friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, who have known each other since childhood. Her big dream is to become a pilot. At the age of six, she already had her first experience of flying in an agricultural aircraft . Both later join the US Army Air Forces and are under the command of Major James H. Doolittle . Rafe meets the military nurse Evelyn Johnson and a little later the two are a couple. When the situation in the Battle of Britain came to a head, Rafe left Evelyn to assist the Royal Air Force in the fight against the German Air Force.
Soon after, Danny and Evelyn and their units are transferred to the US base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii . Meanwhile, Rafe is shot down in battle and falls into the sea, whereupon he is pronounced dead. Danny brings Evelyn the news of Rafe's death. After a period of sadness and some encouragement from their friends, they fall in love and get together. Shortly before the attack by the Japanese, Rafe surprisingly reappears, who survived the crash with the help of some French fishermen. The two friends conflict when Rafe learns of the intimate relationship between the two. Rafe and Danny start a brawl in a pub, which the other patrons also join. To avoid the military prison, they flee from the advancing military police together in a car and spend the night on the coast.
The following morning they are awakened by the overflying Japanese fighter planes, the fatal attack on Pearl Harbor begins. In the next half hour a devastating blow follows, in the course of which several ships are sunk and thousands of soldiers are killed. Rafe and Danny are the only ones who manage to get one more Curtiss P-40 aircraft into the air from a smaller maintenance airfield near O'ahu and, together with the ground support, shoot down seven Japanese aircraft.
After the attack is over, the two friends take part in the Doolittle Raid , an American air raid on the Japanese capital Tokyo . They are to take off with the ultra-modern B-25 bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet . On the morning of April 18, 1942, the fleet of sixteen B-25s took off. However, since the approaching ships are discovered too early by the Japanese, the planes have to take off earlier and thus cover a longer distance than planned and therefore have hardly any fuel left after the successful bombing of Tokyo. Instead of flying into the interior of China as planned, they have to make an emergency landing just behind the coast and are then surrounded by Japanese stationed there. The surviving pilots manage to distract and kill the Japanese, but Danny is badly wounded by two bullets at close range. Shortly before he dies of the gunshot wounds, he learns that Evelyn is pregnant by him, whereupon Danny asks Rafe to take care of the child.
The surviving pilots return to the United States soon after Danny's death. Rafe now lives with Evelyn on Danny's father's farm and takes care of the son of his deceased friend, who bears his father's name.
Deviations from the historical model
- President Roosevelt also learned of the Japanese attack from a staff member who rushed into his room. He was having lunch with his advisor and friend Harry Hopkins when he got the call from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox .
- The scene in which President Roosevelt with all his strength from his wheelchair to stand up and a dramatic speech will (quote ! Do not tell me it can not be done ; in German: Do not tell me it can not be done! ) is fictitious.
- When the protagonists of the film watch the newsreel in the cinema, pictures of the German advance and the destruction by the Wehrmacht in Europe are to be shown there. The briefly shown excerpt from the newsreel shows a scene from the invasion of the American troops in Cologne in March 1945. The Cologne Cathedral can be seen for a moment .
- In their attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese did not shoot civilians or hospitals, as shown in the film, but rather spared them according to their orders.
- In particular, the ships shown before and during the attack (with the exception of the computer-generated images such as the exploding Arizona ) are almost exclusively modern units of the US Navy. Ships of the Spruance , Knox and Garcia classes as well as a number of modern dock landing ships can be seen .
- The Curtiss P-40 version N, with which Rafe and Danny try to repel the Japanese attack, were only delivered to the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 . In reality, it was version B of the P-40. In the opening scene "Fearful Bunny Game" in January 1941, a HUD system is built into one of the machines that was not yet available in this form.
- The Japanese aircraft carriers have angled decks that were not developed until years after the end of World War II. The bridge superstructures are atypical; they are mirror-inverted photos of older American aircraft carriers of the Forrestal class from the 1950s.
- In the shots, which supposedly show the marching Japanese naval unit, modern American Nimitz-class carriers can be seen , which are also accompanied by American guided missile destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class . The American carrier (Hornet), from which the B-25 group starts the attack on Tokyo in the later film, also has an angled deck incorrectly, and in some of the launch scenes you can see the guides of the steam catapults, which were later installed in aircraft carriers.
- In the film, President Roosevelt says in early 1941 that American industry was delivering armaments to the Soviet Union. However, the lending and leasing law between the USA and Great Britain was not extended until the German Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. So it only came into effect from July / August 1941.
- In the spring of 1941 there were no more daytime attacks by the German Air Force on London, as shown in the film. The Royal Air Force dominated southern England and the Canal in 1941. Such major battles as shown in the film did not take place in early 1941, because the Battle of Britain took place in the late summer of 1940.
synchronization
The German synchronization took place by the Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke . The dialogue book was written by Alexander Löwe and the dialogue was directed by Clemens Frohmann .
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Rafe McCawley | Ben Affleck | Peter Flechtner |
| Danny Walker | Josh Hartnett | Simon hunter |
| Evelyn Johnson | Kate Beckinsale | Marie Bierstedt |
| James Doolittle | Alec Baldwin | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Gooz | Michael Shannon | Michael Iwannek |
| Billy | William Lee Scott | Tobias Müller |
| Red | Ewen Bremner | Oliver Rohrbeck |
| Sandra | Jennifer Garner | Dascha Lehmann |
| Betty | Jaime King | Julia digit |
| Barbara | Catherine waiter | Bianca Krahl |
| Dorie Miller | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Dietmar miracle |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Jon Voight | Joachim Höppner |
| Jesse Thurman | Dan Aykroyd | Thomas Danneberg |
| Danny's father | William Fichtner | Torsten Michaelis |
Reviews
Reviews
Pearl Harbor was received largely negatively by film critics. The Rotten Tomatoes film achieved only 22% on the Tomatometer. In return, the flick received 66% of the audience rating.
The lexicon of international film ruled:
“Intrusive war adventure with unpleasant patriotic and heroic tones, which are not covered by the trick-technically sophisticated battle scenes. As smooth and pleasing as a commercial for the service of the weapon, the image presents itself as a decidedly reactionary coming to terms with the past. "
Rolf Giesen and Ronald M. Hahn summarized it as follows:
"[...] and the camera keeps falling down on Pearl Harbor as if the film were the bomb whose explosion it shows. And what do you call a film in good English that horrifies friends and foe: A bomb , that's right! Dumbfounded for all eternity. "
Awards (selection)
The film won an Oscar for best sound editing in 2002. Most of the nominations, especially the prestigious award ceremonies, related to the technical and musical implementation. In contrast to Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, the film was nominated six times for the Golden Raspberry .
- Award in the category of best sound editing for Christopher Boyes and George Watters II
- Nomination for Best Movie Song (There You'll Be) for Diane Warren
- Nomination for Best Tone for Peter J. Devlin , Kevin O'Connell, and Greg P. Russell
- Nomination for Best Visual Effects for Eric Brevig , John Frazier , Edward Hirsh and Ben Snow
- Nomination for Best Movie Song for Diane Warren
- Nomination in the category Best Film Music for Hans Zimmer
- Nomination in the worst film category,
- Nomination in the worst director category
- Nomination in the worst actor category for Ben Affleck
- Nomination in the worst script category
- Nomination in the worst screen couple category for Ben Affleck with Kate Beckinsale or Josh Hartnett
- Nomination in the worst remake category
Publications and Director's Cut
At the end of 2001 the film was released on DVD and VHS . Pearl Harbor was first broadcast on German television in 2002 on pay TV and in 2004 on free TV. The film has also been distributed on Blu-Ray since 2007 .
In the course of the release on DVD in 2002 Pearl Harbor produced a so-called Director's Cut . The running time of this new cut is one minute longer, the additional shots mostly relate to depictions of violence. The Director's Cut of Pearl Harbor was approved by the FSK for ages 16 and up. It is only available on DVD.
Web links
- Pearl Harbor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pearl Harbor atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Box Office Mojo (Engl.)
- ↑ National Archives: FDR's “Day of Infamy” Speech , accessed July 25, 2019
- ↑ a b Pearl Harbor. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Pearl Harbor In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ^ Rolf Giesen , Ronald M. Hahn : The worst films of all time. Cinema between trash and cult , ISBN 3-89602-514-7
- ↑ IMDB.com - Pearl Harbor - Awards , accessed July 25, 2019
- ↑ OFDB.de Pearl Harbor , accessed on July 25, 2019
- ↑ Comparison of the theatrical version - Director's Cut from Pearl Harbor at Schnittberichte.com , accessed on July 25, 2019