![]() ![]() The banality of the plotting here, courtesy of the Braveheart screenwriter, Randall Wallace, is self-evident and noted in nearly every review of Pearl Harbor, which opened, as all Bay films do, to poor notices and robust box office. And so it goes: Rafe and Evelyn raise the boy. ![]() He doesn’t learn until he’s shot by Japanese soldiers, at which time he uses his dying breath to tell Rafe that he will now be the child’s father. Evelyn tells Rafe that she’s pregnant with Danny’s child and intends to stay with Danny, which Rafe accepts. In the days after the attack, Danny and Rafe are assigned to what turns out to be a top-secret, near-suicidal retaliatory mission over Japan. Gives them all something else to think about. Resurfacing mere days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, he learns, after his months-long ordeal in occupied France, that his best friend and the love of his life have turned the page after an (extremely abbreviated) mourning period. They have sex in a parachute hangar.īut wait! Rafe is alive. Danny offers Evelyn a shoulder to cry on. Danny and Evelyn, both now stationed in a sleepy little naval paradise called Pearl Harbor, are devastated by the news. His plane gets shot down in the Atlantic and he is presumed dead. Rafe wants to save that for when he gets back. Unbeknown to either Evelyn or Danny, Rafe has volunteered for the Eagle Squadron, an RAF outfit for Americans to help the British fight the Nazis. They enjoy what Evelyn describes as “the most romantic four weeks and two days of my life”. Rafe and Evelyn fall in love in early 1941, before America has entered the second world war.
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