Comparison Between the Movies Titanic and Pearl Harbor

¶ … movies explore historical world events. The movie Titanic (1997) directed by James Cameron and staring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet explores the sinking of the Luxury liner Titanic. Titanic not only explores this historical event but tells a love story in the process. The love story encompasses the lives of the two characters played by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Kate is the daughter of wealthy parents who is already engaged to marry someone else while Leonardo is a pauper that falls in love with Kate.

There is nothing historical about the love affair between the two, that aspect of the movie is pure entertainment. But the fact that the ship hit an iceberg and was utterly consumed by the sea is indeed a historical fact. The film explores what are believed to be the reasons why the ship hit the iceberg. The movie determines that the men who were supposed to be looking out for the icebergs didn't see it in time to warn the captain.

In the end Leonardo freezes to death and Kate lives. All in all the entire movie Titanic is pretty balanced in its depiction of the sinking of the Titanic while at the same time telling a love story. On the other hand the movie Pearl Harbor fails miserably at attempting to balance a love story with actual historical events. The story is divided into three parts the first part depicts a love triangle between Rafe McCawley Danny Walker and nurse Evelyn Johnson.

The second part of the film is actually a reenactment of the actual attack on Pearl Harbor. The last part of the film depicts the 1942 raid on Tokyo. The first part of the movie that shows the love triangle lacks the intrigue that the love story in Titanic did. It was a typical love triangle that has been seen in films and plays since the beginning of time.

The second part of the movies that shows the events that took place leading up to and during the attack on Pearl Harbor was.