Why The Movie by Michael Bay is Very Popular

Pearl harbor vividly evokes an era of american innocence and the explosive moment that abruptly ended it. America had just worked its way out of the great depression and there was a mood of cautious and innocent optismism, which was somewhat, tethered by war in europe. However on December 7th, 1941 was the day innocence died and began an era of patriotism, which has not yet to be equaled. President Roosevelt stated, “December 7th 1941-a-date that will live in infamy. The movie pearl harbor directed by michael bay and produced by Jerry Bruckhiemer and michael bay accurately depicts the historical facts of World War II as well as the mind set before and after the attack at pearl harbor.

The attack at pearl harbor was a surprise to the people of the united states. There were 119 navy nurses that were stationed at pearl harbor. If the united states ke=new that japan was going to attack at pearl harbor they would have moved all their troops. Japan didn’t like the united states very much because the didn’t have very many natural resources and they depended on the united states. The united states started to cut off exports and imports especially oil. At that time the american stock market had crashed and japan was one of the first nations to get hit by the economic depression. There were many things that made japan attack on the united states at pearl harbor.

The movie pearl harbor was very accurate to the real life event. The movie mostly focused on the hospitals stationed at pearl harbor. There were 2,388 people killed and 2,000 people injured at pearl harbor. With that many people injured everyone started to go to the hospital. Once more and more people wnet to the hospital, the hospital became more and more unsanitary. There were to many injured people that they didn’t have any room for them. They had to find places in the kitchen just to ut the people. There werent enough doctors and nurses to help everyone and they could only take the people who might have a chance to live. The way the movie showed that they needed blood donors by asking rafe and danny to give blood. The hospital was one of the events that made the movie seem accurate to the real life event.

The tests in the movie were very similar to the ones that pilots really have to go through. The ages of 20 through 30 had to have eyesight of atleast 20/40. Rafe I the movie was scared that he wasn’t going to be able to pass the test. If you don’t pass the test than you werent able to fly and that’s one thing that rafe loved to do. The pilot also needed a college education or a high schol diploma. The eagle squadron had to go through many medical exam. The tests were very strict on who they would take or wouldn’t take for the Eagle Squadron.

The wardrobe was accurate compared to the real event at Pearl Harbor. The everyday life clothes that they wore in Hawaii was pretty accurate. They wore Hawaiian shirts but they werent as flowery printed as they are now. All the uniforms were being updated at that time. They wore helmets that were worn in World War 1. Once the US went into World War II than the wardrobe started to change. The wardrobe was a big part of the accuracy of the movie to the real event.

This movie was a big hit because it’s a reflection of the time period that we live in now. In movies today, we look for some action pack movie that keeps the viewer on the edge of there seat. Love stories always entertain people and thos people want to watch more. Pearl Harbor is a big hit movie. It has all those up to date qualities that eveyone is looking for is this day and age.