Pearl Harbor Movie Details
Pearl Harbor taglines:It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives.
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| IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 out of 90,687 votes |
“Pearl Harbor” 2001 by Michael Bay – Movie Goofs
“Pearl Harbor” Plot Summary
Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.
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“Pearl Harbor” Goofs List
- Factual errors: For reasons of expediency and the practical requirements of storytelling (and, presumably, due to some genuine errors), many of the actions and procedures depicted in the movie do not accurately reflect the actions and procedures followed by American and Japanese service personnel in 1941. Many of the events shown in the movie did not happen, or happened differently on the morning of 7 December 1941. This is not a documentary.
- Continuity: When Rafe accidentally pops the cork into his already damaged nose, he lies down and it bleeds across his cheek. In the overhead shot, the blood is gone.
- Errors in geography: Mountains can be seen in the background at Mitchell Field in Long Island, which is shown as being by the sea. There are no mountains in Long Island and the base is inland.
- Factual errors: “Mitchell” Field, on Long Island, is actually called “Mitchel Field” (with one “L”).
- Continuity: Evelyn gives Rafe a scarf when they say goodbye. It disappears and reappears between shots.
- Continuity: When Evelyn is whispering to Rafe about “the feeling” when she’s giving Rafe his shot, Evelyn goes from talking at his shoulder, to right at his ear between shots
- Anachronisms: A modern barcode can be seen on the back of a whiskey bottle. There’s also a clear shot of a bottle with a built-in plastic translucent pourer under a plastic screw cap.
- Crew or equipment visible: As Dorie Miller sets down the tray of dishes you can see the hand of a crew member holding the remote control for the Steadicam.
- Revealing mistakes: As the Japanese aircraft attack the smaller fields, we see the pilots and the newsreel cameraman running across the airfield. The cameraman and numerous pilots are gunned down by the Zeros twice.
- Anachronisms: Air conditioning units can be seen on top of the White House.
- Anachronisms: Evelyn and her nurse friends are shown wearing bikinis. The bikini didn’t make its first appearance until 1946.
- Crew or equipment visible: As Rafe and Danny sleep off their hangovers in the convertible, the crew is visible in the car’s chrome bumper.
- Anachronisms: The license plate on the car says 1943.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The Japanese are shown flipping a calendar from the 6th to the 7th of December on the morning of the attack. This is done for American audiences who are familiar with the date of the attack being 7 December 1941. Clocks aboard the Japanese ships were kept on Tokyo time, so for them the attack actually took place the morning of 8 December. The Japanese version of the film shows the calendar flipping from the 7th to the 8th.
- Factual errors: At that time, Japanese was written from right to left. All the Japanese characters in the movie are written from left to right, except one phrase, which says, “Empire of Japan banzai”.
- Revealing mistakes: The gas flame used to simulate muzzle flash can be seen in a Japanese AA gun.
- Anachronisms: A sailor betting on Dorie Miller’s boxing match has a $5 bill with the “Hawaii” overprint on it. Although series 1934 and 1934-A notes were printed with the “Hawaii” overprint, these notes were not issued until July 1942, seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Hardly anyone smokes. Although during the 1940s nearly every soldier smoked cigarettes, it was a conscious decision on the part of the film makers not to portray it because of the current feelings about the dangers of smoking.
- Anachronisms: A machine gunner, though not smoking (in accordance with the film’s no smoking policy), has a pack of cigarettes – modern “Marlboro Lights”.
- Revealing mistakes: When Rafe and Evelyn are on the platform by the side of the Queen Mary, the platform is going up, but the ropes are not moving through the pulleys.
- Continuity: As Rafe and Danny talk on the beach, the lighting and the color of the sky changes between shots
- Anachronisms: A modern ‘rocking’ style light switch can be seen in Evelyn’s house.
- Factual errors: The Queen Mary was painted battleship gray in 1939 and remained that way until the end of the war, serving as a troop ship for the Royal Navy.
- Continuity: As Danny and Rafe try to take off from the airfield, three enemy aircraft are closing in on them, guns blazing. In the first shot, the aircraft are D3A1 “Val” dive-bombers (distinguished by their fixed landing gear in bulky fairings); in the next shot, however, the aircraft are replaced by A6M2-21 “Zero” fighters, with retractable landing gear.
- Revealing mistakes: When the suspected “dud” bomb bounces across the tarmac into the oil drums, you can clearly see a webbing safety strap attached to the tip of the prop bomb as it crashes into the oil drums.
- Anachronisms: When Evelyn first enters Pearl Harbor, there is a tall building that clearly says, “Est. 1953″.
- Anachronisms: In the first view of Pearl Harbor, just before the nurses are shown in the small transport boat the Arizona Memorial is visible in the background.
- Errors in geography: Throughout the attack scene, the placement of the battleships in Battleship Row changes. When the Oklahoma is shown capsizing, in some scenes she is correctly moored next to the Maryland, in other scenes she is next to the destroyed Arizona. In some parts the capsized ship is even surrounded by some sort of fog with no ships around her. When Admiral Kimmel is on the small boat touring the harbor after the attack, the Oklahoma is next to the Arizona and other battleships that seem to have been placed in a random clutter next to each other, instead of the line that they were in that morning. Even in the scene showing Pearl Harbor at an aerial view right before the attack, the Geography of Ford Island and the placement of the battleships is wrong. Battleship Row isn’t even visible.
- Crew or equipment visible: During the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the people are jumping off the ships, a crew member can be seen (dressed as a sailor) holding a camera (covered in green plastic) floating next to him in the water.
- Continuity: When Danny and Evelyn leave the Black Cat diner, Evelyn doesn’t leave her handkerchief on the table. After she has walked out the door, Danny picks up the handkerchief, which was not there a second ago.
- Continuity: When Miller shoots down the Zero, the ammunition canisters for the anti-aircraft gun he is firing are open and closed in different shots, and sometimes missing altogether.
- Anachronisms: A Japanese officer is shown examining Reconnaissance photos mounted on black illustration board. The Name “Oxford” is clearly visible, as is the modern “Recycling” symbol, indicating that is at least partly made from recycled materials.
- Crew or equipment visible: The camera pans across a window, showing Evelyn seated inside and eventually stops at a reflection of Rafe. A red indicator light from the camera is clearly reflected and moves across the first pane during the shot.
- Continuity: When the pilots return home after bombing Japan, we see a back view of Doolittle’s wife with a purse in her left hand. As she walks forward to welcome her husband home, the camera reverses angle and we see a front view of her. But now, the purse had switched sides and appears in her right hand instead.
- Continuity: When Rafe and Danny give blood after the attack, the needle is in Danny’s left arm and Rafe’s right arm. The bandages on their arms after giving blood during the salvage scene are on the other arms.
- Anachronisms: The early boyhood scenes are dated 1923, but the father is a crop duster, an occupation that did not exist until after WWII. In addition, the Stearman biplane used in the opening scenes wasn’t produced until 1934. It was a pilot trainer for the military, and was released to the public after WWII as surplus.
- Continuity: When Rafe’s squadron is scrambled (in the sequence before he gets shot down) he gets on to the wing of a Spitfire with the markings RF-T. For the rest of the sequence he is in a Spitfire with the markings RF-M (apart from one fleeting shot where the last letter is R).
- Factual errors: A newsreel refers to the bombing of “downtown London”. While there is in fact a “central” London, this area has never been referred to as “downtown”.
- Anachronisms: The Japanese zero aircraft depicted in the film are green, even though the ones used in the real attack in 1941 were painted grey. The Japanese Navy didn’t paint their zeroes green until 1943.
- Revealing mistakes: The car the heroes drive to the airfield in is strafed by a zero. The large-caliber armor-pie
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