Pearl Harbor (2001)Movies

THE DIRECTOR MICHAEL BAY had a dream one night as he considered how to film an epic movie about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In his dream, he followed a bomb, falling from a plane, as it descended ever more rapidly to crash into the deck of a ship. He awakened, gripped with an obsession to realize his vision on film. And in the mammoth new Pearl Harbor, Bay's vision is realized. The bomb falling from a Japanese Zero, which comes about halfway through the movie's three hours, is Pearl Harbor's "money shot." Securing the money shot for a high-budget action film has become a Hollywood obsession ever since the first commercial for Independence Day ran during the Super Bowl in 1996. The commercial featured an alien spacecraft blowing up the White House, and it electrified the moviegoing...