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Full On Description of PEARL HARBOR trailer!!!
Hey folks, Harry here. Ya know, as you sit down this holiday weekend and you find yourself in a theater watching THE PATRIOT and you see this trailer and you see MICHAEL BAY's name, and that impulse to scream something about him being satan pinches your ass... After you have finished watching THE PATRIOT which is easily the best Revolutionary War film ever made... and you have that weird geek conflict boiling inside of you. Still being pissed about the way you feel about Emmerich and Devlin from ID4 and GODZILLA... and yet you find yourself feeling strange love for THE PATRIOT.... realize that you will most likely be feeling exactly like this again next year when you sit... possibly in that same theater seat watching Michael Bay's PEARL HARBOR.... and then you will remember... I told you so.
Hope you might enjoy this. Everyone get to see it with THE PATRIOT
on Wednesday, but for those who can't wait ...
PEARL HARBOR -- TRAILER 2 FULL DESCRIPTION
(2:12 running time, 2:35 ratio)
Trailer plays over moody (unidentified) source music ---
FADE IN as
THE CAMERA RUSHES PAST
WAVES tinted dark orange and red, breaking over each other
DARK WAVES
as a WHITE "A," "U" and "O"pull back into the following phrase --
SUPER: IT WAS A SUNDAY MORNING...
THE DARK WAVES
again, fading into
A MAN
in his lawn chair, reading the morning papers expansive green backyard and
harbor in b.g.
THE DARK WAVES
again, fading into
TWO LOVERS
frolic under and on the sea's surface, arms wrapped around each other
(this may be the Harnett and Beckinsdale characters, but you can't really
tell)
THE DARK WAVES
again, fading into
THREE LITTLE GIRLS
dressed in angel costumes, run happily past a SANTA statue in extreme
foreground --
THE DARK WAVES
again, fading into
SAILORS
on a battleship deck, morning reverlie, all standing at attention
THE DARK WAVES
again, fading into
A BOY IN A TANKTOP AND HAT
on a baseball field, winds ups and throws his pitch. PAN with his throw to
reveal a pack of Zeros heading in the same directions as the ball, low to
the ground. The boy stares awestruck at the sight, as --
A WOMAN
hanging her laundry on an outside line, ducks as a Zero practically zooms
right above her --
TWO BOYS
look upwards to an unseen sight, as --
A WIDER SHOT OF ABOVE
tracks a large formation of Zeros as they pass by the boys, framed by the
lush mountains in the background.
OVERHEAD ANGLE
of three Zeros rushing over water --
CLOSE UP
of same, only one plane, Japanese insignia clearly visible on the wing
WIDE AERIAL SHOT
of the entire island, surrounded by clouds. CAMERA pulling backwards as
hundreds of (CG) Zeros head towards the island, coasting past the camera --
SOUND RECORDING of Roosevelt's "Today is a day that will live in infamy"
quote plays.
BLACKNESS, then:
A ZERO
dives between a battleship's guns --
A LARGE GREY EXPLOSION
by a red cross van and palm trees --
MEN
in a gun nest, firing at oncoming planes --
A PACK OF ZEROS
diving, as one enters frame extreme foreground --
MEN
on the ground, shooting, yelling --
MORE SHIPS
exploding
MEN ON SHIP DECK
ducking as Zeros fly right by them --
A HUGE EXPLOSION
between two ships --
WIDE AERIAL SHOT
of Zeros passing an exploding ship far below
BEN AFFLECK
on the tarmac with a gun in hand, waving men on in a state of panic --
SUPER: BEN AFFLECK
A CONVERTIBLE
racing in front of 4 diving Zeros
A PRIEST
giving last rites on the deck of a ruined ship, dozens of dead and dying
around him
ANOTHER DIVING ZERO
ghosted over shot of men in the water
CUBA GOODING (from behind)
firing the anti--aircraft gun at the Zeros, huge explosions in the b.g.
CLOSE UP (front angle)
of same scene, Cuba screaming with rage, shells shooting out of the gun all
around him, --
ZEROS
angling through a smoke plume from a sinking ship
SMOKE
blotting out the sun
TITLE -- ORANGE-GOLD LETTERING over BLACK
FROM JERRY BRUCKHEIMER AND MICHAEL BAY
GLORY SHOT
-- of the thick black smoke, sinking ships barely visible at
the bottom of the frame, smoke blackening out the fading purple sunlight.
Very moody shot.
TITLE CREDIT fades in, image fades out:
PEARL HARBOR
MEMORIAL DAY 2001
Main cast and crew listing. ILM gets main visual effects credit.
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Overall, not the best trailer ever made, but not as stereotypical as I might
have suspected from Bay. Tone felt like the full PRIVATE RYAN
trailer (complete with the same altered shutter speed explosions to slow
down the action). Those who have seen TORA TORA TORA will recognize similar
shots, slightly improved.
Still, it sold the film fairly well. We'll see....
-- THE INSOMINAC
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Jun 27, 2000 1:49:23 AM CDT
Spielberg did this Better and Funnier 21 Years Ago in "1941"
by bari umenema
Which is actually one of the Funniest Movies ever made. As for this version of "From Here to Eternity" with the Really Big Budget, am actually looking forward to seeing it. Hope it turns out just swell. We shall see. Good job Insomniac!
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Jun 27, 2000 1:52:38 AM CDT
PS: Cartuna has apparently been watching those Monty Python's Fl
by bari umenema
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God I hope this isn't as dramatic and dull as THE PATRIOT!
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An endless sequence of Bay's 'trademark' Kodak moments. "Now everybody sit still for three hours while I hit you over the head with my EMOTION hammer!!"
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I recently obtained an exclusive interview with writer, producer and director, Randall Wallace, who discussed working with director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer on Disney's $145 million epic, "Pearl Harbor." Wallace describes the creative process and how he and Bay often disagreed on certain key points during the writing process. Wallace walked away from the project, when Bay proposed to bring in other writers to change dialogue and characters. "We didn't always see eye-to-eye," Wallace says in the interview. "But it's now Michael's call as the director." Wallace also discussed his next project, tentatively titled "The Lost Patrol," that is based on the book, "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young," in which he hopes to tell the first positive story of courage and honor concerning Vietnam.
To see the full interview and an indepth coverage of the film, visit my site at: http://www.cinemenium.com/pearlharbor
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This may be a good movie if Michael Bay doesn't try to steal the emotions from the audience that his films so definitely do not deserve. By the sounds of this trailer though, it seems he's up to his old "Armageddon" tricks. Michael Bay's films, as Roger Ebert said in his review about "Patch Adams"(I know it's not one of Bay's films), "It holds a gun on you with its emotional terrorism." I couldn't have said it better. And doesn't this trailer alone seem historically inaccurate? If I recall weren't most people in church during the Pearl Harbor attack? I don't want to go crazy and say "This will suck balls!!!!" because not everything Bay touches turns to crap( "The Rock" was O.K.), but after "Armageddon" I just don't really trust him anymore(good thing I won my ticket to that piece of crap off of McDonalds fries). Bye.
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You could have described the trailer as poop descending from the heavens for six minutes, when you mentioned my beautiful Ben was in the movie, you had me in the theatre...
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While the last thing I'd consider the new Pearl Harbor movie to be is historically accurate, I do have to be a bit obnoxious here and hope that it's the Insominac's unfamiliarity with WW2 aircraft that lead him to describe ever Japanese aircraft as a Zero, and not the film just using the same model for every aircraft. Yes, it's just me being anal, but imagine someone describing the Gulf War in terms of such as: "We just saw some Falcons take off. Oh and here are some low-flying British Falcon attack craft taking off. And just overhead, some large Falcons on a carpet bombing run." or, more appropriate for those here, a scene by scene of Return of the Jedi and calling every Rebel ship, including the Millenium Falcon an X-Wing. Such inaccuracy in the report is fine...we'll have to see if it's the same way in the trailer...
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YOU WROTE: And doesn't this trailer alone seem historically inaccurate? If I recall weren't most people in church during the Pearl Harbor attack?
>>>>>Dude, I doubted that PH will be a documentary. It's been Hollywood-ized for entertainment purposes. I doubted the normal movie goer will sit down for 2.5 hours and and watch a documentary. BTW, were you around PH when the attack took place? I doubted that anyone knows where every single person was at every single moment. When the World Trade center was bombed, did you know for a fact that I was not in church? I'm going to this movie to be entertained and amaze. I think it will be worth my $8. -
Do we even need to warrant this film attention and speculation on its development? Its not like their will be any thing new happening, its not like we don
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... It's a huge Bruckheimer summer flick for Pete's sake! That doesn't make it bad necessarily, just don't expect historical accuracy. Check out that Randall Wallace interview mentioned in an earlier post - They talk about how Bay & Bruckheimer wanted contemporary dialogue, more swearing, and amping up of various superficial rah-rah elements. Yeah, sure sounds like they wanted to respect the memory of Pearl Harbor to me! Also, in the interview, was Wallace alluding to some incident where Bay tried to take credit for writing the screenplay?!
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Logic, you obviously have absolutely no taste for good action movies. Bad Boys ant The Rock both kicked serious ass, and while Armaggedon wasn't that great, it was still a good flick. Bruckheimer is a damn good producer. Remember Top Gun and Crimson Tide? Bay's at the top of his form as an action director. Or are you the type who likes movies like Gone in 60 Seconds (you know which version I'm talking about) and and Battlefield: Earth?
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Ben Affleck is a movie star of this calibre, that his is the only name listed on the trailer? Wow . . . I never would have thought . . . Either way, Michael Bay is an MTV shooter who hasn't filmed an honest non-hokey moment in his life. I liked THE ROCK, but everything he does is loud and exploitative. He will never make an important film. This is going to be the TOWERING INFERNO of 2001 and Bay is the Irwin Allen of our generation.
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Jun 27, 2000 10:26:33 AM CDT
In light of U-571 the brits are making a film called Pearl Harbo
by drzarkov
It will star Ewan McGreggor and Hugh Grant as two Brits station at Pearl harbour. Roger Moore plays a British ambassador who is at the white house at the time of the attack. Ewan & Hugh marshal the forces and save lots of lives. Roger in the mean time on hearing of the attack tells the Prez "Today is a day that will live in infamy". Of course with it being british all the expolsions and nice effects will happen OFF screen. To tell the truth if Micheal Bay's film has a plot I will be hooked.
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That's pretty much it, folks. They show the money shot in the trailer, so who cares now? I don't want to see Harnett and whatz-er-name frolicking, or any of that slo-mo Americana crap. "You'll say 'I told you so'". Yeah, right.
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...but I happen to like the guy, and I'm totally pumped for this film. I think this is going to be the film that shuts up the naysayers who constantly proclaim him to be a hack. ARMAGEDDON isn't perfect, but it was a damn fun ride when I saw it on the big screen. The attack on Pearl Harbor, like D-Day, must be dealt with sensitively and accurately. I don't think Bruckheimer and Bay will approach it any less. McFly<--
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Sure, the Rock and Bad Boys weren't HORRIBLE, but they're not what I would call good films, that's for sure. They were passable, and not because of the plot -- it's always the actors that carry his films. Armageddon was manipulative emotionally (as others have mentioned) and had horrible use of editing and special effects, and Gone in 60 Seconds...well, where to begin? Thank God Delroy Lindo and Robert Duvall were there to add a little bit of class. The thing that makes me annoyed more than anything is that all of these films have POTENTIAL TO BE REALLY GOOD. That's the real kicker for me. The guy is just a lazy hack. Bruckheimer is the new Roger Corman.
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Great interview. Beautiful website. It sounds like Wallace at least tried to remain faithful to the emotions of the event, even if it's not entirely historically accurate. Like Roger Ebert said, if you're complaining that New York doesn't look like New York, then shut up and go visit it. You're watching a movie.
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I don't know where I read this (couch AICN cough) but I heard there was no CG in this film. I probably read wrong though. For those that read somewhat the same thing I did, were the filmmakers just referring to the actual bombing of the ships not being CG, or the whole movie?
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My family served in WW2 and my mothers Uncles were there at Pearl, two were in the cafeteria and one was out walking around the dock so no they weren't all in Church. From their stories people were everywhere.
I hope the film does it justice, I really do and if you want to get it right, the carriers were out on typicle maneuvers, and one was sunk right after pearl by the same Japanese fleet. Did Rose know about the attack, who knows but to put out that blatant comment is very disrespectful to the people who were there.
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Bay-O! Baaaay-O!
Bay has come and me wanna go home!
Bay- is messing is messing with history oh no!
Bay has come and me wanna go home.
Shoot all night on a drink of rum!
(Bay has come and me wanna go home!)
Make explosion 'til the morning come!
(Bay has come and me wanna go home!)
Come Mr. editor, chop up all de sequence
(Bay has come and me wanna go home)
Come Mr. editor chop up all de sequence
Show 6 second, 7 second, 8 second CUT
(Bay has come and me wanna go home)
Show 6 second, 7 second, 8 second CUT
Bay has come, and me wanna GOOOOOOOOO home!!!!!
Everybody sing!
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Jun 27, 2000 2:37:50 PM CDT
"What part of NO don't you understand, Mr Logic?" (tm) THIS CLIC
by ol' painless
OK, pal
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His supreme effort has created the perfect Michael Bay theme song.
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it is NOT a slow shutter that achieved that effect in Saving Private Ryan where the action seems very jagged. Too get that effect you use a 45 degree shutter. Class dismissed.
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Spelling is important!
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...you took the hateful venom I reserve for Bay the hack and turned it into a beautiful artistic effort. Someone give this guy a recording contract.
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Wow!
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First it was Ben, now its Josh. I loved Ben ever since he was an asshole on Dazed and Confused. I loved him in Chasing Amy, loved him in Good Will Hunting. Then...then he was in the worst ARMAGEDDON!!! That was the worst shit ever and totlly turned him into a Hollywood actor. Josh, I loved since the Faculty, which is pretty hollywood but he wasn't famous or anything. Then I loved him in Virgin Suicides. he was amazing and now...now this. This is bullshit.Michael Bay is not a director. It's so cliche. I gets me so mad. Ben and Josh are good actors who could totally be doing better things. Id rather have ben doing 1000s of dogmas then keep doing this action shit.
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i had an uncle who was at Pearl Harbor on that day. The only thing he said of the event was "all we could do was stack the bodies."
I am one of the persons who who like his films to be generally historically accurate. Too often, people come away with wrong ideas of what happened ina a war, and what happened historically. Birth of a Nation may have been an acedemy award winner, with lots of ground breaking directing tequniqes, but its treatment of blacks and the history was atrocious.
Mike Lukash -
Thank you for your reply. Once again, you are right: my post comment and the Mr Cranky
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tested a print of the patriot for quality (review: OK movie, good action sequences.. but the ending was just SILLY. i mean, COME ON. patriotism doesn't have to be brainless and condescending.) and managed to catch this snippet of PEARL HARBOR. oh. WOW. these are some of the most beautiful shots captured on celluloid. yes... they are very bruckheimer-ish and you can definitely tell that they are special effects shots, but they contain such subtle beauty and majesty. i was absolutely breathless. if this is any indication of the rest of this movie, it will be brilliant. go watch the patriot, if only for the teaser trailer of PEARL HARBOR.
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a few things about the trailer... it's kind of a simplistic look at it. if you're injecting "armageddon" and "the rock"-like images into your imagined view of this, you're WAY off. nothing's completely exaggerated the way you'd expect. the shot of the boys playing baseball and looking up at the japanese planes is incredible. there are about a hundred of them, flying slowly and in very tight groups of three or four. very, very low to the ground. the boys could probably have thrown a ball or a bat at one of the planes and hit one. almost makes you think the enemy pilots flew close to the baseball field just to watch the boys play. i don't know. i'm a major movie buff and i've seen loads of trailers in my time (OMG... there was also a trailer for a real stinker starring robert de niro and ben stiller), and i know not to let hype get to me. but damn, this was good.
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All of the Japanese Zero's looked pretty damn cool, although I do agree that if anyone on this planet other than Kevin Costner could fuck up this film, it's gonna be Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. By the way, if anyone cares, the music in the trailer is from "The Thin Red Line."
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