Was there anger at the first Pearl Harbor and Titanic movies as there is toward 9/11 movies? If no, why?

Question

Remembering Pearl Harbor was the first Pearl Harbor movie. It came out about six months after the attack. I believe the first Titanic movie came out less than a year after it sank.

Answer 1

Not many people are alive today that were at Pearl Harbor and I believe that the last survivor of the Titanic died recently.

The first movie about the Titanic didn't come out until 1943.

I think the fact that 9/11 was a terrorist attack on our own homeland soil is the reason it is such a touchy subject.

Answer 2

It would be difficult to research what the public reaction was to the first commercial movies about the attack on Pearl Harbor and the loss of the Titanic. However, I can point out some ways those events are different from the destruction of the World Trade Center and reasons why the (non-movie) reaction to them may not have had the same level of controversy.

Unlike the events of 9/11, the sinking of the Titanic, though shocking and widely covered because of the high profiles of those aboard for the first sailing, was not the result of an attack. There was also a long time between the sinking and the first commercial movie. I don't know how the survivors or the families of those who died responded to any of the movies that depicted the tragedy.

Unlike the independent terrorist attack on 9/11, the attack on Pearl Harbor was a definite act of war from a country that was already at war with several other countries. There was a clear, national enemy that the US Congress declared war on the following day, and the vast majority of US citizens saw our response as clearly justified and necessary to protect our shores from an aggressor with known imperial intent, actions and capacities. I suspect the response to the first movies about the tragedy at Pearl Harbor was one of unified sorrow and resolve.

Answer 3

Well, I can't really say if there was much anger after the first Pearl Harbor and Titanic movies. But, I think that 9/11 is still too fresh in people's minds right now for Hollywood to start dealing with it. Like all things, people will begin to accept movies based on 9/11 in time. Now, don't get me wrong: 9/11 was a horrible chapter in our country's history, but I just think people need some more time to deal with those events.

Answer 4

What first Pearl Harbor movie? The first one came out within the last 10 years and the Titanic was a tragic accident. Here is a list of other movies about 12/7/1941 "Secret Agent of Japan," Twentieth Century Fox, 1942

"Little Tokyo, USA," Twentieth Century Fox, 1942

"Across The Pacific," Warner Bros., 1942

"Remember Pearl Harbor," Republic, 1942

"Submarine Raider," Columbia Pictures, 1942

"December 7, 1941," U.S. Navy, 1943

"Air Force," Warner Bros., 1943

"Blood on the Sun," United Artists, 1945

"From Here to Eternity," Columbia Pictures, 1953

"Hell's Half Acre," Republic Pictures, 1954

"The Revolt of Mamie Stover," Twentieth Century Fox, 1956

"Jungle Heat," United Artists, 1957

"I Bombed Pearl Harbor," (Taiheiyo no Arashi) Parade Releasing/Toho Company, 1961

"In Harms Way," Paramount Pictures, 1965

"Admiral Yamamoto," Toho Company, 1968

"TORA! TORA! TORA!," Twentieth Century Fox, 1970

"Midway," Universal Pictures, 1976

"Pearl," ABC, 1978-1979, TV Mini-series

"From Here to Eternity," NBC, 1979, TV Version

"The Final Countdown," United Artists, 1980

"Imperial Navy," Toho Company, 1980

"The Winds of War," ABC, 1983, 18-hour TV Series about WWII

"War and Remembrance," ABC, 1988, Sequel to "The

Answer 5

I don't know maybe because the American people sat there glued to there TVs watching the tragedy AS it happened, I remember watching the second tower get hit AS it happened clear across the world in GERMANY (my husband and I were stationed there when all this happened) so by seeing it happen AS it happened maybe more people were brought into and made it personal to many more people. With Pearl Harbor and Titanic, well Pearl Harbor happened when the rest of the world was at war, the American people knew we'd eventually be dragged into it, it was just a matter of time. And again there weren't news cameras documenting (and airing LIVE) all over every tv set in EVERY home in America as Pearl Harbor happened. Besides war is different than a terorist attack, most of the people who died in Pearl Harbor were military personnel, and no offense most people know that being in the military means putting your life on the line, that doesn't make their lives less valuable by far, but it doesn't make people as shocked when a soldier dies vs thousands of civilians. As far as Titanic, again no live news coverage bringing it home to every person in America, also that was an ACCIDENT, no one MADE Titanic sink, she hit an iceberg, you really can't be mad at the iceberg. Things like ships sinking HAPPENED back then, it wasn't uncommon. But terrorists taking a flight of civilians captive and flying them into a building full of MORE civilians, well that was just evil, there was no reason to it, and everyone knows that was a strike at the American people, not the american military. Plus who knows maybe people WERE mad, they just didn't have the internet to write blogs on how upset they were about it all. I just think those tragedies were different types of tragedies, and ones people were more willing and able to "face" than people are willing to face what happened on 9/11. Thinking about what happened puts fear into people, it was random and unprovoked, what will they do next, and will it affect me??
(please don't think my comments about the american military during Pearl Harbor makes me unpatriotic, or against the military in any way, I am a veteran and my husband is currently serving in Iraq in the US Army)

Answer 6

its as if people are no longer wanting to face the fact that like any other country we are vulnerable.

they were proud of Remembering Pear Harbor and say see what we went through and it made us stronger but now there are people who worry about what everybody thinks and they are scared of being PC about things

this movie is a memorial to the victims and that's how it should be seen as

Answer 7

I'm not mad about the 9/11 movie, but I won't go see it. There are still things that really bother me about 9/11, and I don't want to feel like that again.

Answer 8

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