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Hahahaha!
What I wouldn't give to sneak this into the movie
review sections of Time and Newsweek magazines.
I guess we could all print it and tape it outside
theaters currently showing it.
Perhaps with a bold header: DON'T GIVE AWAY THE
SURPRISE ENDING!
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> Tokyo Displays Mixed Feelings at Premiere of 'Pearl
> Harbor' from Disgust to
> Despair
>
> by HUGH HURDMEIGH
>
> TOKYO, June 21 The first screening in Japan of the
> egregious stinker "Pearl
> Harbor," did not quite have the roar of the original
> event, but that was not
> for want of trying.
>
> Once the lights went off in Tokyo Dome, a huge
> stadium with a retractable
> roof, the question was how 30,000 Japanese, who had
> won their tickets in
> video store lotteries (second prize -- *two*
> tickets?), or were specially
> invited (based on ability to endure psychic
> assault?) would react to seeing
> their countrymen portrayed as faceless villains.
>
> From editing to marketing, Buena Vista
> International, the Disney division
> that is distributing the film in Japan, appears to
> have gone to some lengths
> to try to soften the blatant racism, chauvinism, and
> vapidity of the original
> (although BV executives admitted that removing all
> of it would leave only the
> special effects). A soliloquy at the end about
> America's victory was toned
> down here, but any suggestion that the movie be
> altered to include real
> causes of the war, some events that actually
> happened, and three dimensional,
> or even two dimensional, characters were dismissed
> by Disney overseers as a
> violation of corporate ethics.
>
> There was special anxiety over potential trauma to
> American psyches if it
> were ever to leak out that U.S. imperialism was a
> leading contributor to
> Pearl Harbor. American historians say the time is
> not ripe for its public to
> learn that World War II was largely a turf war,
> fought in the Pacific to
> decide if Proctor & Gamble et al had exclusive
> rights to squeeze surplus
> value from Asian masses, or if Mitsubishi et al
> could cut in on the action.
> Nor was it considered judicious to elaborate on the
> embargoes and other acts
> of war committed by the West preceding Pearl Harbor,
> together with
> Rambouillet-style ultimata.
>
> BV executives briefly considered a maverick proposal
> to include footage of
> Secretary of War Henry Stimson's diary entry for
> November 25, 1941, when he
> wrote that the salient issue was "how we should
> maneuver them into the
> position of firing the first shot." Since it would
> involve reading and
> cognitive understanding, it was thought that this
> portion of history would be
> safe from exposure in the U.S.. But the idea was
> rejected because there was
> no obvious link to a Disney product.
>
>
>
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