RE: [LoGH] Pearl Harbor (off-topic about war movies)
Z107M (lwtom@sdcc17.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 26 May 2001 19:21:02 -0700 (PDT)
> > it... end result? Hollywood made Pearl Harbor to satisfy their need.
> 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.
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.
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.
Z107M
