Pearl Harbor (film)
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Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film features a heavily fictionalized version of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941, focusing on a love story set amidst the lead up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid.
Theatrical release poster
A 1940 LaSalle taxi featured in Pearl Harbor
A late-model A6M3 Zero Model 22 in green camouflage used in the film.
Zeros involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor were of the A6M2 Model 21 series, painted in a light-color scheme (IJN gray green). This example depicts a Zero from the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū.
Michael Bay
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Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has produced and directed, which include Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007–present), have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history.
Bay (left) and Jerry Bruckheimer during the filming of 1998's Armageddon
Bay on the set of Transformers, New Mexico, May 2006
Bay filming Transformers: Age of Extinction; actresses Abigail Klein, Melanie Specht and Victoria Summer are walking in a corridor.