He also hired a number of amateur actors in the form of 15 japanese industrialists to play the roles of the admirals, generals, and diplomats instead of professional actors in an attempt to secure their funding for his future film projects. In another set there were books in a library, and he insisted the the books on the shelves in the scene were from the era that the scene was set in. Production was brought to a halt while the entire set was repainted to Kurosawa's standards. The original director, Akira Kurosawa, for the Japanese half of the film was replaced because he drove the studio nuts with things like demanding such attention to detail that he had the set of the small shinto shrine on the japanese warship repainted because it wasn't the proper shade of white. The Japanese half of the film is both told and acted exceptionally well.
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The movie itself tells the basic facts of the story well, but the American half of the film is rather poorly and stiffly acted in my personal opinion.
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The FSM full score version of "Tora! Tora! Tora!" is terrific. premiere and definitely remember at least one scene that was not in the version I saw on television years later, or on video.Īnybody know how long this film was originally?
There is one question about this film that I have never been able to get an answer to-What was its original running length? The FSM CD references a track called "Imperial Palace" that was only in the Japanese version, so here is at least once difference. Short were quite tragic enough for that purpose. It needed a protagonist, though I'm not sure that either the ill-fated Adm. The problem is, this straightforward approach also robbed the film of anything resembling a point-of-view, which made it rather barren, emotionally, despite its meticulous attention to detail. Hmmm.I wonder how he got the job?) decided to forgo the kind of sappy fictional story tacked onto the sufficiently fascinating real-life events which earned the recent PEARL HARBOR its well-deserved critical drubbing (as did the same approach in 1976's MIDWAY). The strength is that the studio and producer Elmo Williams (a former film editor who was Darryl F. Unfortunately, TORA, TORA, TORA!'s greatest dramatic strength is also its greatest weakness. Actually, to call them "models" doesn't convey the sheer size and detail of those things - they had to average sixty feet long you could have sailed to Hawaii in the belly of one of those things! I was fortunate enough to be able to prowl the 20th Century-Fox backlot in the summer of 1978, where several of the ship models lay - and had lain since 1968) bleaching in the sun. Um, you DO know FSM has produced a CD of the whole score right?ĭec 23, 2001 - 9:42 TORA, TORA! is, of course, a stunningly beautiful film to watch, with the kind of old-fashioned craftsmanship that one doesn't see in movies any more. Is the score available by itself? only had a CD pairing it with PATTON, with just five(!) tracks from TORA! TORA! TORA! I'd love to have a more-complete soundtrack for it. The track while the Japanese fighters are preparing for take-off was particularly thrilling. I also liked Goldsmith's score, what little I heard of it before the attack sequence.
I just caught about an hour of TORA! TORA! TORA! on cable (including the Pearl Harbor attack), and I must say, it looked like a terrific film.
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