Pearl Harbor
The movie opens up with two best friends named Rafe and Danny. They are pretending to fly an airplane. Then they climb into Rafe's fathers plane and accidentally start it. Danny's father then comes to drag him home and beating him for playing with Rafe. Rafe attacks Danny's father calling him a dirty german. Danny's father then says that he fought in WWI and hopes that no one has to see what he saw.
Then they grow up and they are in the United States Army Air Corps. Rafe meets a girl named Evelyn a Navy nurse who passes him for his physical examination. After she passes him Rafe asks if she would like to go on a date that night. The two begin dating and fall in love. However Rafe has volunteered to fight in England. Before he leaves he promises Evelyn that he will return safely.
Danny and Evelyn are transferred to Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, Admiral Yamamoto is planning to attack Pearl Harbor because the US won't give them oil. Rafe is shot down and Evelyn and Danny both think that he is dead. Three months later Evelyn and Danny talk and begin to like eachother. They soon begin their own relationship. One night Rafe unexpectedly returns having survived the crash. Rafe soon realizes that Danny and Evelyn are now together.
The next morning they are attacked by the Japanese are Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack sinks the Arizona battleship. Danny and Rafe succeed and becoming airborne and shoot down Japanese aircrafts. After this Rafe and Danny are both promoted to become captains and are awarded the Silver star. They are also assigned to Doolittle for a dangerous and top secret mission. Before they leave for their secret mission Evelyn meets Rafe and tells him that she is pregnant with Danny's child. However she doesn't want Danny to know so that he can focus on the top secret mission.
Danny, Rafe, and others are flying their planes from the aircraft carriers to bomb Tokyo. Danny and Rafe both succeed with the plan but are captured by the Japanese in China because their bombers ran out of fuel.
Rafe's plane crash lands and just as Rafe is about to be shot Danny knocks the solider over and is instead shot himself. Rafe holds danny in his arms telling him he can't die because he is going to be a father.
The movie ends with a scene from years later with Rafe and Evelyn who are together again and their son Danny back in Tennesse visiting Danny's grave. Rafe then takes his son flying.
I thought the movie was very good. It was really sad but still pretty good. There were lots of parts in this movie that I remembered talking about during class. I would definately reccomend this movie for other people to watch.
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