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Roland Emmerich's World War II-themed film Battle of Midway, which is currently in theaters, tells the story of the history from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway between the United States and Japan.
The comments of netizens on the Douban page, which has a particularly interesting sentence: "I hope it is not as bad as "Pearl Harbor" 18 years ago", pointing out the concerns of movie fans.
This made Piggon feel funny, and it seems that the damage left by Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor" still makes some people's hearts palpitate.
In fact, the Battle of Midway was caused by the attack on Pearl Harbor, and in the trailer of "Decisive Battle for Midway", we also saw the scene showing Pearl Harbor being attacked.
So before watching this new film, you can also use 2001's Pearl Harbor as a prequel to it.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese sent six of their elite aircraft carriers and 441 aircraft to attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and carry out two waves of attacks on the U.S. naval base.
Unprepared, the Japanese bombed for 90 minutes, sinking 4 battleships and 2 destroyers, destroying 188 aircraft, killing about 2,000 American fighters and 400 civilians, and wounding 1,250.
The war eventually prompted 26 countries, including China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain, to issue the "Joint Declaration of the United Nations" in Washington on January 1, 1942, and the United States officially entered the war.
As early as 1970, Fox made a classic film recreating the pearl harbor incident, "Tiger! tiger! tiger! At the end of the 20th century, Disney's Touchstone Company decided to bring this major event to the screen again.
Previously, in 1997, James Cameron's masterpiece Titanic created a box office myth, and in the years since, Hollywood companies have hoped to replicate its success model.
Pearl Harbor was a failed attempt in this environment, and in order to emulate titanic, Randall Wallace wrote the script and forcibly implanted a love story in the real context of the sneak attack on Hawaii.
And not only the love of the male and female protagonists, but also the love triangle of male number one, male number two and heroine, in the 3-hour-long manuscript, this triangle play occupies a huge amount of space.
What's even more comical is that the film director is known for his indiscriminate bombing of Michael Bay, and his storytelling ability is believed that we mainland audiences have already learned it.
The story of the film begins long before pearl harbor, when Leif Macaulay and Danny Walker are good brothers who grew up together, and they have a natural passion for flying, in short, the setting is to fly a plane.
When they grew up, they joined the army together and soon became the elite of the Air Force.
The two met nurse Evelyn Johnson at the same time during a military physical exam, but Leif had a flamboyant personality and soon became Evelyn's boyfriend. Danny is introverted, and although he also has a crush on Evelyn, he is afraid to show his brotherly affection.
In 1940, Germany launched a blitzkrieg, occupying Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium, and then invading France.
The United States refused to enter the war because of a non-aggression pact with Japan, but the government decided to send an elite force to assist European countries in resisting the Nazi offensive.
Leif actively applied to enter the war, and was admitted to the British Flying Eagle Squadron, so he left his brother and girlfriend and flew to France.
Since then, Leif has experienced several major battles and great military achievements, but he was attacked by the German army during a mission, and the aircraft was shot into the sea and his whereabouts are unknown. The army thought he was dead, so they spread the news of his death to their homes.
Leif's good brother Danny and girlfriend Evelyn are naturally heartbroken, and in order to comfort each other, they quickly get involved!
But Leif did not die, but was rescued by a French fishing boat, and soon he returned to Hawaii.
This matter is embarrassing, his good brother and girlfriend are getting along, and after the three people get together, they don't know how to face each other.
Pi Ge wants to write the screenwriter here is also unable to make up, but do not be afraid, let's let the national righteousness to save the scene.
After more than an hour of suffering from a love triangle, we finally welcomed the Japanese plane, and the attack on Pearl Harbor officially appeared.
Michael Bay, who is known worldwide as "Exploding Shell", naturally controls this kind of big scene.
The film also shows the spectacular scene of this big war from many angles, and the previous story has pulled the film level to the bottom, and at least some points can be saved by this big battle.
Many people still remember "Pearl Harbor", and the most impressive thing is still the presentation of these war scenes, which is the top production level in Hollywood.
Soon after the incident, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a declaration, decided to join the war, and in 1942 reached an agreement with 25 countries, led by China, the Soviet Union and Britain, to form the World Anti-Fascist Alliance.
After discussion, the U.S. government decided to sneak into Tokyo, Japan, to save face.
Leif and Danny were selected by Doolittle, a senior military pilot, to participate in the secret program.
On April 2, 1942, Leif, Danny, and the selected pilots rushed to Tokyo aboard the carrier Hornet to carry out the Doolittle airstrike program.
After blowing up Tokyo to the sky, they lost the signal to return home, and there was little gasoline left, so they had to fly to China and land.
However, after the plane was forced to land, the pilots were attacked by the Japanese army, and Danny, as the male number two, could not survive to the end, so he chose to die to save Leif.
Leif returned to Hawaii alone, and he also liked to be a father, and lived happily with Evelyn, who was pregnant with Danny's child, and the ending was quite bloody.
The film was released in the United States on May 25, 2001, and on August 10, it introduced our Chinese mainland and made a small fire, and the length of the film was not 183 minutes, but some bloody scenes were deleted.
The $140 million investment was the highest in the world at the time, but it scored no more than 6.2 on imdb, only 24% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, and a little better on the Spark Index, which was 66%.
The fictional love triangle story forced into the film was the most criticized aspect, and even caused a collective protest from Pearl Harbor World War II veterans that the film did not respect the heroic souls of those who died in Pearl Harbor.
Pigo felt that director Michael Bay's ability to control the rhythm was also a side of the word-of-mouth, and his ability to tell stories has always been very problematic.
The word of mouth of the film also directly affected the box office, earning $199 million in the United States and $449 million in the world, which did not meet expectations, and finally this "3-hour movie-watching disaster" was forced to resign by Disney production chairman Peter Schneider.
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