George Meany essays

George Meany essays I have always enjoyed watching action/love movies. I have been scouting out for these kinds of movies for the last 4 years. It was early morning, December 7, 1941. As the sun was just beginning to rise in Oahu, Hawaii, a fleet of Japanese naval air forces were taking off to the Pacific Ocean. No one was prepared for what was occurring. Pearl Harbor, the United States center for military action in the Pacific Ocean, was almost completely destroyed. The anger led the United States to enter into World War II. Then 60 years later the movie Pearl Harbor makes it to the big screen. Was it really the history of what happened that morning on December 7 or another love story with the wrong title? Calling a movie Pearl Harbor puts a certain responsibility on a filmmaker to tell the historical events story more fully. Selling a misleading title seems like a studio is trying to take advantage of an events memory. I feel that the movie Pearl Harbor should have focused more on the historical tragedy that happened that day rather than being based on a love triangle story. The first half of the movie concentrates on three characters and very little about the historical facts leading up to WWII. We are led to the false impression that Japan went to war over just a fuel problem. Japan had many other problems to deal with. It had begun to rely more and more for raw materials from outside sources because their land was lacking in these. Instead of spending so much time on telling us how Kate Beckinsale (Evelyn) and Ben Affleck (Rave) met, they could have provided us with more information on how the problems began with the U.S. and Japan. Like how the military in Japan started getting highly involved in the government that got them into trouble. Also the United States began to supply materials to the countries at war with Germany and Japan, but wanted to remain neutral. This film has very l ...