The "New" Pearl Harbour

Rating: 3/10 (2 June 2013)

The "New" Pearl Harbour of 1st June 2001 is full of war propaganda and has many examples. This might be just typical of a film of this genre and an example like so many others or just relaying the events of the pearl harbor attacks. The release of this movie being about three months before the 9/11 attacks, and the 9/11 attacks being described as the "new pearl harbor", I view this movie as a propaganda machine and for those who watched it at the time being sub-consciously prepared for what was to lie ahead in September 2001 and for the patronization of American civilians.
I will list some of the quotes and other relevant examples, these are my interpretations and although might be just coincidental or the nature of the movie, I think it is food for thought........
The main character is called Rafe McCawley. Rafe could be an anagram for Fear and pronounced backwards sounds like the word fear.
....Evelyn "What is gonna become of us?"
Rafe "The future is not exactly in our hands is it"
Evelyn "No, I guess you are right "
The script here is telling the audience that they are not in control of their own destiny.
....First scene of the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.....
Admiral "War is inevitable. To hide this fact is death. There is only one way, a massive, sudden strike "
Could be referring to 9/11 attacks in a couple of months.
....Yamamoto "A smart enemy hits exactly where you think your safe"
Would the world trade center and Pentagon be a safe place?
....Nurse Evelyn mending petty officer Doris Millera's eye wound from a boxing match .....
Evelyn "What do you get for winning?"
Doris Miller "Respect"
Propaganda...... join the forces and you get respect.
....Yamamoto "The attack training is progressingfor the success of this operation, high-level bombing and torpedo attack training are crucial "
Training had been taking place during the lead up to and on the day of the 9/11 attacks.
....Yamamoto "Set up teams of radio operatives to send out messages the Americans will intercept the clutter will be more confusing that way"
Disinformation and "clutter" is what the Americans have been subjected to for many years, especially with the five years leading up to 9/11.
....Charles Chaplin's film The Great Dictator is showing at the cinema in a scene. During a pre-movie film, this statement was aimed at the viewers "Victory does not come without sacrifice." This is a propaganda movie within a propaganda movie. Victory for who? and could the victims of the 9/11 attacks be the sacrificed?
....Scene at the British intelligence office where there is a big table with mini flags that has numbers on, this being the strategists planning board. The main numbers on the flags are 21, 53 and 36, added together gives 11/9, this being the British way of saying the date. During the same scene an officer states.... "I don't know how just two whole carrier divisions can just disappear". This statement together with the numbers could be pointing to the twin towers "disappearing" on 11/9.
....Lady in red or red herring Evelyn really stands out in her red dress, and could be pointing to the matrix movie two years earlier.
....Japanese soldier (thinking voice, first words heard in English without subtitles of Japanese speaking character) ".I go now to fulfill my mission and destiny, I hope it is a destiny that will bring honor to our family and if it requires my life, I will sacrifice it gladly to be a good servant to our nation"
He uses the word our, and therefore he his not talking just about himself and implies we should all be servants. This is the words of a suicide bomber. Viewers might begin to understand how and why a suicide bomber would kill himself for a cause, thus making it believable when "suicide bombers" attack the world trade center.
....President Franklin D. Roosevelt "I regret to tell you that over three thousand American lives have been lost. No matter how long it may take us to over come this pre-meditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. Because of this unprovoked, dastardly attack by Japan, I ask that the congress declare a state of War."
This reminds me of the rhetoric by Bush and his friends after the 9/11 attacks
....TV footage "Back home millions of American workers band together, bring factory life to avenge pearly harbor"
Propaganda ordinary us civilians need to band together to avenge the 9/11 attack, that you don't know about yet but is just around the corner.
....Danny talking to his colonel pre-counter attack ....
Danny "We might die doing this, we wanna know what it's for?"
Colonel James Doolittle gives him some bullshit reply and then finishes on"we're gonna believe, and we're gonna make America believe to"
This is the whole point of the propaganda is it not?
....James Doolittle "There's nothing stronger than heart of a volunteer"
After 9/11 more recruits for the war machine would be needed.
....Rafe "What would you do colonel?"
James Doolittle "I wasn't built to be a prisonerI would dive my plane smack into the middle of it "
Implying suicide bombers flying planes into targets.
....Radio Tokyo ".Watch out the enemy will get you"
More fear.
....This is just a small sample of examples, there are plenty more.