Analysis Of The Film Pearl Harbour

The 2001 film Pearl Harbour has not concentrated on the actual war and the damage it caused to the USA and how it was the biggest disaster Roosevelt had to face after the great depression instead it was a film made for entertainment reasons which did surround itself around the storyline of two actual soldiers with many major and minor inaccuracies. Although the film was not made as a docudrama but rather was used for entertainment purposes only, it did reflect a few minor accuracies of the time period and the war and what its plot line was based around.
The film had many factors which were incorrect such as provided in source 1 (the film) which is a Secondary source because it was made by someone who was not there; therefore it is an unreliable

The pilots communicate with men in a control tower; and, in a later scene, a woman in Hawaii is able to hear, as if over the radio, an entire battle play out, thousands of miles away. Provided in source 2 the historian Bruce Reynolds says, "Planes did not have radios like that. And the control-tower scene is ludicrous. These things are pure Hollywood and have no relation to reality." Similarly in one later scene in the film Roosevelt gets out of his wheelchair and struggles in order to prove that the impossible is possible which most audience members found unusual rather than motivational, all the sources provided above prove that the film Pearl Harbour was made for entertainment purposes rather than depicting and actual war that took place in the USA.
In the 2001 film many major inaccuracies were mentioned in source 4 which shows One of the first plot points in the film is that Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) has

However the film is not content with such straightforward heroism, though, and so Rafe is seen fighting not only at Pearl Harbour but also in the Battle of Britain (as a member of the Eagle Squadron) and in the Doolittle Raid. There are many other ridiculous aspects to this simplistic film. However because the film was made for entertainment purposes and has many major and minor inaccuracies the marketing campaign sparked the public’s interest, and the film earned $135 million at the box office. Source 6 was used to compare the actual docudrama to the film which proved that the film hardly had any connections to the actual attack such as the tension it caused to the government and how many hours it took the president to even make the smallest decisions instead the film portrayed Roosevelt standing up to prove a point. Eventhough the docudrama was not made to be compared to the film; it still showed that the film was not historically