The individual characters were the focus of attention, and they have to go off and fill the mythical requirements of a main character in a Hollywood movie: fall in love, become the hero, save the day. Apart from 2 hours of heartbreak and love triangles, the directors added one whole hour that is totally irrelevant to the attack on Pearl Harbour. The "hero" must go off to Japan, save the day again, get revenge on the Japanese and make the American audience feel that they once again are a world power which can't be stopped. In this sense, the narrative being addressed is the underlying American ideology of the nation's manifest destiny and particularity - in the end, there is an assumption that it has a special role in history, and will always be victorious.
Tora! Tora! Tora! doesn't bother with all the elements of a Hollywood movie, or with the individual acounts of an event. Instead, the movie looks more at the big picture and the higher ranking figures. However, it doesn't simply show them as having a good time, casually squashing people with the might at their control - this movie shows the hard times that opposing Admirals Yamamoto and Kimmel face as they both lead their forces into a world where their own leaders are operating under conflicting schemas. .
The movie shows that Pearl Harbour was completely avoidable by the Americans - intercepts on Japanese radio warned of such attacks but never reached the President's desk. At the same time it was an ultimate failure by the Japanese since they destroyed no carriers and they attacked fifty-five minutes before Americans in Washington received a Japanese declaration of war.
One important point is that both sides faced difficulty in communications between officials and the Admirals out at sea. On the American side, there were constant disruptions in delivery of messages between those in the White House and Admirals in Hawaii. The Generals and Admirals in Hawaii are all angry at the move from San Diego where they were safe to Pearl Harbour where just one sunken ship can block the rest from getting out.
Tora! Tora! Tora!, is essentially two films that slowly intertwine to tell one story of the events that lead to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Both sides, American and Japanese are portrayed. The American forces are lead by Admiral Kimmel and the Japanese by Admiral Yamamoto. The movie shows the ten...
One of the toughest tasks for a director making a historical film is to stay true to the material and be historically accurate. Tora! Tora! Tora! is a classic film recounting the Japanese sneak attack on the United States Navy's Pacific Headquarters in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The...
"Tora! Tora! Tora!"" is a 1970 war film directed by Richard Fleischer that narrates the historic Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie revolves around the decisions made by the key officials in different departments of both Japan and the United States (US) government. It tackles significant eve...
At 7:53 A.M. the first Japanese assault lashed out with fifty-one "val" dive bombers, forty "Kate" bombers, fifty high level bombers, and forty-three "zero" fighters, begins the attack with fight commandeer Misto Fuchida sounding the battle cry: "Tora! Tora! Tora!" ...
The Tragedy Of Pearl Harbor It's very much like Titanic. If you didn't have Leo and Kate and you didn't have their love story, it would just be a sinking ship. Tora Tora Tora attempted to do this. And they did this at that time on a big scale, but it was more like a docudrama. You weren't identifyi...
The United States involvement in World War II was unnecessary and we should have not had to retaliate the way we did with regards to the Pearl Harbor Bombing. The President at the time was Franklin Delanore Roosevelt and there are allegations that he himself may be the reason that we entered the...
In the morning of 7th December in 1941 at approximately 7:45 am, a surprise bombing attack on the United State's Pacific Fleet military base in Hawaii, by the Japanese Navy was conducted. Over 2,500 people were killed and 1,000 had casualties. 18 of America's ships were either destroyed or damaged a...
