MIDWAY (2020) MOVIE NEWS & REVIEW
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midway (2020) movieGenre | Action War
Classification | M
Running time | 138 minutes
Released | 30 January 2020 castEd Skrein ... Dick Best Patrick Wilson ... Edwin Layton Woody Harrelson ... Chester W. Nimitz Luke Evans ... Wade McClusky Mandy Moore ... Ann Best Luke Kleintank ... Clarence Dickinson Dennis Quaid ... William 'Bull' Halsey Aaron Eckhart ... Jimmy Doolittle Keean Johnson ... James Murray Nick Jonas ... Bruno Gaido Etsushi Toyokawa ... Isoroku Yamamoto Tadanobu Asano ... Tamon Yamaguchi directorRoland Emmerich writerWes Tooke ... (written by) cinematographerRobby Baumgartner musicHarald Kloser Thomas Wanker film editorAdam Wolfe box office resultWorldwide $100 million
Australia $? million
North America $? million movie minutiaeThe Japanese admiral Yamamoto expresses his regret over the Pearl Harbor attack, making the famous quote "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve". A similar quote was used by Yamamoto's character in other films about the Pearl Harbor attack, TORA! TORA! TORA! (1970) and PERAL HARBOR (2001) (although the latter omits the second part of the sentence). Despite the persistence of this quote in movie history, it has never been officially attributed to the admiral in real life; no one has heard him explicitly say it, nor has it ever been found within any of his writings. Yamamoto had indeed withdrawn himself in his room after the attack in a depressed state, but it was reportedly because the Japanese Foreign Ministry had failed to declare war on the USA prior to the assault, which made Yamamoto's actions an unprovoked attack rather than a military engagement.
The USS Midway (CV-41), the Midway-class aircraft carrier named in remembrance of the Battle of Midway, was the longest-serving US aircraft carrier of the 20th century (1945-1992). It has been at Navy Pier in San Diego, California, since 2004 as a museum ship. As of 2015, it's the most popular naval warcraft museum in the United States, with over 1 million visitors per year.
The wreckage of the Akagi and the Kaga were found the month before the film's premiere. |
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