"Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor." Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 05 Mar.2014. (Michael Bay interview)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ngbeyond/movie/
This interview with the director Michael Bay gives some insights into his thought process while directing the movie and deciding what was important, for him, to include and what was not. He explains how he wanted to include the main events of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, but his main focus was to create characters that the audience could connect with and help tell their story. Bay also discusses how he researched the actual event previous to making the movie, "The Pentagon gave us some of the top naval historians and Army Air Corps historians. And they wanted us to keep everything as accurate as possible. But they knew it was also a movie." He also brings up the very important part that historians don't know everything that survivors know, "What you find in the historians is that everyone’s an expert on Pearl Harbor. But then again, no one’s an expert on Pearl Harbor, because there were so many logs that weren’t really kept back then." "For example, a historian will say, 'That didn’t happen,' whereas a survivor, tears in his eyes, said, 'It did happen.'"
I think this article will be key to writing Inquiry 2 because it is the opposing view of all the critics, the director himself. He explains his thought processes and even explains how he researched and educated himself not only about the historical events, but the personal account of men and women that lived through it. This will make for a much more well-rounded paper.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ngbeyond/movie/
This interview with the director Michael Bay gives some insights into his thought process while directing the movie and deciding what was important, for him, to include and what was not. He explains how he wanted to include the main events of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, but his main focus was to create characters that the audience could connect with and help tell their story. Bay also discusses how he researched the actual event previous to making the movie, "The Pentagon gave us some of the top naval historians and Army Air Corps historians. And they wanted us to keep everything as accurate as possible. But they knew it was also a movie." He also brings up the very important part that historians don't know everything that survivors know, "What you find in the historians is that everyone’s an expert on Pearl Harbor. But then again, no one’s an expert on Pearl Harbor, because there were so many logs that weren’t really kept back then." "For example, a historian will say, 'That didn’t happen,' whereas a survivor, tears in his eyes, said, 'It did happen.'"
I think this article will be key to writing Inquiry 2 because it is the opposing view of all the critics, the director himself. He explains his thought processes and even explains how he researched and educated himself not only about the historical events, but the personal account of men and women that lived through it. This will make for a much more well-rounded paper.