...Critical Analysis of Sound from Selected Scenes in the Film Pearl Harbor The genre of the film Pearl Harbor is a combination of an action/drama/romance war film and was released in 2001. The film was directed by Michael Bay. Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace produced the movie. The screen play was also written by Randall Wallace. The film was ranked the sixth highest-earning picture of 2001. Pearl Harbor was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2001.Pearl Harbor was nominated best sound editing, best sound mixing, best visual effects, and best original song. Among the four awards Pearl Harbor took home the Academy Award for best sound mixing. The film was also nominated at the Golden Globe Awards for best original song and best original score. The score for Pearl Harbor was composed by Hans Zimmer. It is Hans Zimmer’s original score that will be the basis analysis for non diagetic sound presented in this paper. Both diagetic and non diagetic sound are of importance in this film. (Wikipedia). The film Pearl Harbor takes place in the 1940’s and continues on till then end of World War II. Pearl Harbor tells the story of two best friends Danny and Rafe through out the war and their love life over the course of the war. While in the military Rafe meets a navy nurse named Evelyn while getting his physical examination to receive his pilot wings. Evelyn and Rafe begin dating and eventually fall in love. While they are dating Rafe volunteers to fly and serve with the Royal Air...
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...James Harold Doolittle Edmond Pukaj Spartan College of Aeronautics Abstract James Doolittle was a man with an outstanding resume in the American Air Force and one of Americas most well-known aviation pilots whose contributions in the Second World War was extremely crucial to increasing American morale. Doolittle also played a major role in creating new instrumentations to improve night flying and flying in hazardous weather. Doolittle broke and set many records in the aviation world and made the impossible possible with his extraordinary flying skills. Made himself a role model for upcoming generations of pilots. General James “Jimmy” Harold Doolittle was a very important individual in American aviation history. Many recognize Jimmy Doolittle as the individual responsible for coordinating the planes that took off on the aircraft carrier The Hornet, for the raid on Japan in the Second World War. James Doolittle was placed in charge of defining which plane to use for this mission. He decided on the B-25 plane determining that it had the highest potential to make the short take-off of the Hornet. Doolittle was known as being a daredevil, scholar, pilot and General. Doolittle’s particular expertise and passion was for flying. He is considered to be the American aviation pioneer. Although his flying expertise is what he is most commonly credited for his accomplishments far exceed this criterion (Daso, 2003) James Doolittle was born on December 14, 1896 in Alameda, California...
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...World War II: Pearl Harbor Cynthia Klabbers His 204 Professor Macek June 14, 2010 On Dec. 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a tragic event in American history which led to the US into World War II. I will discuss the events that led up to the attack and the attack itself. I will also discuss the possibility of our government letting this happen. It is hard to accept or to believe, but there are questions that many people ask about this tragedy. How could our government not have known this was to happen? This question has been asked time and again with no definitive answer. I will discuss this further in my paper. I will also discuss the Japanese-American Internment camps that were formed after the attack. The US and Japan were not on the best of terms before the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria and a year later converted it to Manchukuo. “This was a direct threat to the Versailles system and the open door.” (Davidson, et al. 2008, p. 763). The US would refuse to recognize Japan’s takeover of Manchuria. In 1933 Japan withdrew from the League of Nations because of being condemned for their takeover and bombing of Shanghai. “The seeds of war in Asia had been sown.” (Davidson, et al. 2008, p. 763). We also need to remember the embargo America had on Japan on July 24, 1941. “Japan stood ready to conquer the entire Southeast Asian peninsula and the oil-rich Dutch Indies.” (Davidson, et al., 2008, p. 769). This angered the...
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...On December 7, 1941, what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt calls a “a date which will live in infamy”, Japanese forces attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack will end the neutral period for the United States and cause them to officially declare war on Japan. This will mark the beginning of US involvement in World War II. The surprise attack by the Japanese certainly caught the US off guard. The US had had technological equipment to sense that the Japanese were coming, but due to lack in intelligence, the US was unable to pinpoint what the target was for the Japanese. As soon as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they launched torpedoes that hit 4 US battleships. At this point, the US was desperate...
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...went to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, launching a surprise attack. After the attack, President Roosevelt called December 7 a day to remember. President Roosevelt appeared before congress to ask to declare war against Japan. That was the start of changes for the Japanese Americans. Japanese Immigration to the United States Japanese immigrants first came to the United States in the 1880s. Railroads recruited...
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...World War II: The Internment of Japanese Americans Josh White Sothern New Hampshire University WORLD WAR II: THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS The topic of Japanese American Internment during the Second World War is a very important part of American history.It happened during the Second World War when nations were against each other and after the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Japan automatically became an enemy to the United States thus leading to the government of the day led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 to take several measures against Japan and its origins mainly living in the United states. What followed was an executive order by the president to allow forceful removal of Americans of Japanese origin from their homes and incarcerated into camps.The government had feared another attack by the Japanese would be imminent and so they had to come up with some measures to get rid of Japanese spies that were living in the west coast. This led to one of the lowest moments in American history as these camps were an absolute human rights violation to these Japanese Americans. Most of these Japanese Americans who had been taken to these camps were actually legal American citizens thus showing that this move was based on racial stereotypes and propaganda that was being peddled during that time referring to the Japanese as less of human beings. This incarceration seriously affected these Japanese Americans...
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...would lead to “another Pearl Harbor”, certain minority Americans were stripped of their rights. This uncertainty regarding Japanese Americans’ loyalty was amplified after the Niihau incident in which Japanese American Harada on the Hawaiian island of Niihau tried to assist the downed Japanese pilot Nishikaichi who was part of the Pearl Harbor mission. The duo terrorized the island, capturing prisoners of Niihau inhabitants and shooting a native. This event which stemmed from Pearl Harbor contributed greatly to the passing of Executive Order 9066, as according to a January 1942 Navy report, the event indicated a high "likelihood that Japanese residents previously believed loyal to the United States...
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...Zack Groff U.S History 1877- Research Paper Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is arguably the most devastatingly tragic event witnessed on American soil. The Japanese had violated the integrity of life in America, which was not to go unpunished. The “Day of Infamy” as it has been coined, catapulted the nation into a state of shock and retaliation. Many Americans who lived through the tragic event remember the occurrence with great detail and clarity. Considering the bombing at Pearl Harbor happened over 60 years ago, personal accounts and testimonies are quickly diminishing. Revisiting the past is crucial in understanding what freedom is and how hard it was to obtain. Pearl Harbor remains as one of the most definitive points of unity amongst Americans; as told by Mr. Groff, “It changed everything!” The slaying at Pearl Harbor was hardly anticipated to say the least. The United States had been edging toward war with Japan for some time. The U.S was particularly unhappy with Japan’s increasingly irate attitude towards China. The Japanese Government seemed to believe that the only way to solve its economic crisis and geographic problems was to expand into its neighbor’s territory and take over the market. Japan declared war on China in 1937. In the eyes of the American government this weaned unfavorably. American officials responded with a battery of economic sanctions and trade embargoes. Japan reasoned that without access to money and goods, and essential items like oil, Japan...
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...The Attack of Pearl Harbor 1941 was the year that both my grandparents were born, it also the year that a very tragic historical event occurred for the United States of America. The surprising Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor was a major event that took place in American History, what if a couple of details would have taken a different path, the outcome of these attacks may have been different. The date was Sunday, December 7th, 1941, Americans at the United States naval base Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii were startled around 7:48am by the sound of incoming Japanese aircraft. Prior to this in Oahu that morning, two army operators are able to detect the approaching Japanese air attack and contact a junior officer who ignores their reports thinking...
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...Roosevelt knew the attack was coming and, people think that he provoked Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor. Influences (traditional, cultural, historical) historical Listener background knowledge: They didn’t know much about what was happening at that time. See the “Types of Arguments” table on page 412 for more information. Arguments Evidence/Support Possible flaws 1. President Franklin Roosevelt provoked the war with Japan. A. We might have been at peace with the Japanese, but that didn’t stop them from bombing the United States. B. Would we have went to war if the bombing didn’t happen? He...
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... | |Topic: Pearl Harbor | |Standards: | |USII.7 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the major causes and effects of American involvement in World War II by | |a) identifying the causes and events that led to American involvement in the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor; | |b) locating and describing the major events and turning points of the war in Europe and the Pacific; | |c) Describing the impact of the war on the home front. | | | |Objective: Learn more on attack of Pearl Harbor and what it looks like today. | |Materials: ...
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...Pearl Harbor, the awakening of the Sleeping Giant. December 7, 1941 a historic day, “that will live in infamy”, words once busting out from a magnificent and glorious leader, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which soon will start the amazing up roar of The United States of America. Many lives were taken in this sneak attack, when the Japanese air fleet attempted to take out ninety percent of our navel army, thus crippling the United States of America. The assault on Pearl Harbor is one of the most important event in World War II due to the fallen, the error made by the enemy, and the final thing is that the declaration of war United States of America has put on Japan. With these reasons, the attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the most important...
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...Attack on Pearl Harbor Why was the Attack on Pearl Harbor such a big deal back during World War 2? It started as a normal Sunday morning, and nothing seemed out of place. The date was December 7th, 1941 and unfortunately the soldiers at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in Hawaii were clueless about what was heading their way that fateful morning. On the morning of December 7th, 1941 just shortly before 8 a.m. the first wave of over 200 Japanese aircraft fighters fired guns and dropped torpedoes and bombs on Pearl harbor creating what we know as the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack was out of nowhere, and no one expected. The American public was completely shocked and terrified to learn that 2,400 and more American Military Service...
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...On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked the Navy base in Hawaii known as Pearl Harbor. The day after the attack the United States declared war against Japan. This marked the beginning of America in World War II. In modern times this day is simply known as Pearl Harbor Day . The attack on Pearl Harbor was a premeditated act of war. The Japanese had been making peace talks America. These peace talks were a diversion to make America have a false sense of security. The attack was also targeting the coast of America by attacking ships near San Francisco. These were the grounds for America declaring war on Japan and later Japan’s allies Germany and Italy. “A date that will live in infamy…”. A famous quote by Franklin D Roosevelt that was given...
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...Pearl Harbor (2001) | > Final Paper | MDIA 350 | | Matthew C. Johnson | November 24, 2009 | Matthew Johnson Beth Novak Evolution of Multimedia (MDIA 350) 24 November 2009 Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is a docu-drama that was released May 25 2001 and details the attack of the Empire of Japan on the Naval and Air forces the United States had stationed at Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian Islands that brought the United States into World War II. The story of Pearl Harbor, and the men and women who became heroes that day is a story that needs to be told. People need to know what happened that day so that they will never take for granted the sacrifices made by our servicemen and women every day. This movie is very important in the media industry because it showed that there is still a lot that can be done with practical effects instead of relying on the new digital technology to do the work for you, and because this movie is an excellent example of a story-driven visual effects film. This movie would not be possible without the visual effects featured in it, but the film doesn’t rely on those effects to tell the story. Pearl Harbor won the Oscar in 2002 for Best Sound Editing, and was nominated for Best Visual Effects. This nomination is no surprise however, when one looks at the effects company that worked on this film. This film was directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) was the major contributor...
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