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Wednesday, May 23, 2001 extra The Paducah Sun Pearl Harbor' blends military action, romance More important to the filmmakers, however, is how "Pearl Harbor" will be viewed by veterans, especially the increasingly few numbers of attack survivors. "When we were down in Hawaii, there were two guys vets who were protesting that we were raising a Japanese flag on an American ship," Bay said. "I ran into one of platform. During the capsizing sequence, there were 150 men hanging on or falling off the ship. The crew used 700 sticks of dynamite, 2,000 feet of primer cord and 4,000 gallons of gasoline to ignite the six ships in the bombing sequence, which was overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Nonetheless, filming was completed only one day over schedule, in 106 days. This interview was taking place the day after "Gladiator" won its Oscar as Best Picture. That another old-fashioned epic, this one released in spring, could hold the academy's attention for that length of time was a good omen for Bay and Bruckheimer. green-lighted at $110 million but ballooned to $215 million." Considering the return on its investment, no one at Fox or Paramount seems unhappy about the outcome of "Titanic." "Actually," Bay "they didn't want another where everything was out of their control. The animatics we did helped us visualize some of the more difficult scenes like the bomb dropping on the ship and ultimately saved some money.

Our theory was to do fewer big effects shots, but make them bigger." It took eight weeks for Bruckheimer's crews to build the USS Oklahoma, which was constructed on the world's largest gimbal, or movable them in the elevator of our hotel, and said, 'Sir, I understand how you feel, but there are only limited resources available to "There's only one Arizona-class battleship around, and you guys sank all their carriers. Would you rather not have your grandchildren see what you all went He said, 'You're Taco John's 12090 Lone Oak Rd. 534-8733 2956 Jackson St 442-9399 2201 Bridge St 443-67 16 Backwoods B-B-Q 5172 HinfdevOe Rd. 441-7427 BardweU, ICY 628-01 17 Wkfdiffe, KY 335-3355 Skinhead's The Breakfast House of the South Open Mon-Thurs 5am-9pm Fri Sat Open 24 Hours Ext 1 1 2650 John Puryear Dr. 442-6471 Winners Sports Bar Grill Uve Entertainment, Dancing, Food, Pool, Dartsl Check us out for your night Ufe 2069 Irvin Cobb Dr.

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We had the only original flying Zero that's left, and two others that were raised from the Pacific and rebuilt in Russia." Still, liberties were taken: Most of the planes had to be created by Industrial Light Magic. "There were ereen Zeros, but it was a black-and-white war," Bay said. "The Japanese used these light gray planes because they would be more difficult to see in the air. I chose to use more green Zeros because I wanted them to stand out and look more impressive. The ships are identical to the real ones, though." Sticklers for- details alreadv have found discrepancies.

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