For this assigned blog I watch the movie Pearl Harbor. This movie starts out with two best friends as children playing in an airplane. Their love of airplanes carried on throughout their childhood into their adult life. When they were older they enlisted in the airforce together.
One of the boys was always more protective over the other, he was a leader and his name was Rafe. The other was always more of a follower, his name was Danny. Rafe fell in love with an army nurse, named Evelyn, before leaving to fight in battles in Germany. He promised to come home to her as soon as he could. The wrote letters back and forth while he was in Germany. One day while he was fighting enemy aircrafts in Germany he was hit and his plane crashed into a cold lake. Before Rafe left to fight in Germany, he told Danny that if something were to happen to him he wanted him to tell Evelyn about his fate. So that's what he did. And after that Evelyn and Danny became very close and started a relationship.
What Evelyn and Danny didn't know was that Rafe survived the crash and was found by a French fishing trip. Rafe came home on December 6th and heard the news about Danny and Evelyn. Rafe was very upset with Danny and they argued all night.
Danny and Rafe
Throught this whole time the Japaneese Empire had been planning an attack on the United States. They decided today, December 7, 1941, would be that day.
That morning everyone awoke to the sound of bombs in the harbor. Everyone had to come together to fight against the Japaneese, but even with all of the fighting they just weren't prepared. Many people died in the harbor that day. Rafe and Danny were brought back together that day up in the sky. They knew they had to put aside their problems and fight to save their country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt decided it was time to fight back. He said, "we're creating refrigerators while our enemies are creating bombs." This is my favorite quote from the movie because it shows the point of realization that we can't just sit back and watch while the world is at war; we have to do something.
The airforce decided they were going to go on a top secret mission to bomb Japan and Rafe and Danny were leading the mission. The successfully bombed Tokyo but were running out of fuel. They had to crash land their planes in an open space on the coast of Japan, but they landed right in the middle of an army of Japaneese men. The fought off the Japaneese men but unfortunately, not everyone made it. Danny was shot and returned home in a casket.
Rafe stepped off the plane into America carrying Danny's casket. He made up with Evelyn, who found out she was pregnant right before Rafe and Danny left on their mission, and they named their child after Danny.
I thought this was a very good movie. I expected it to be boring and full of historical facts. It was full of historical facts, but it wasn't boring at all. I think they did a very good job of portraying the bombing while making a good storyline to go along with it. I really liked the fact that it showed the United States government and the Japaneese Empire before the bombing and after. Overall it was a very good movie and I would definitely watch it again.
Comments
Great summary and I am glad you liked it! It is one of my favorite movies. You have to love the love triangle in this movie!