RE: [LoGH] Pearl Harbor (off-topic about war movies)
Michael Mikulis (mmikulis@hotmail.com)
Mon, 28 May 2001 22:57:01
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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?
>
>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.
>
And remmeber Pearl Harbor will probably end up being shown in classrooms as
historical.
>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.
>
International opinions of the U.S. have been fairly ugly since, . . ., I
think before the American Revolution.
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