Pearl Harbor (Vintage Edition)
by geKKoWhat is it about? This re-edit of Pearl Harbor simply minimizes all the minor characters and distracting sub-plots. What’s left is the principle storyline of two best friends, the woman they both love, and how their lives are affected by the onset of WWII. With a new runtime of just under 2 hours, the movie feels more focused and poignant.
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(7 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10, rated)
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tagline: It was the end of innocence, and the dawn of a nation’s greatest glory.
Original film name: Pearl Harbor
New film name: Pearl Harbor (Vintage Edition)
Film studio name: Touchstone Pictures
Edit crew name: geKKo
Date original film was released: May 25, 2001
Date edit was released: August 8, 2007
Original runtime: 2h 52m (without credits)
New runtime: 1h 52m
Amount of time Cut/Added: 1 hour
Cuts removed/added/extended :
- – Removed intro with Rafe/Danny as kids.
- – Less scenes with minor characters (pilots, nurses, Pearl mechanics, Pearl Admiral).
- – Shortened Rafe/Evelyn date before he leaves for Europe.
- – Removed Rafe trying to shoot his way out of cockpit. – Less exposition around Japanese planning of attack.
- – Removed Kamikaze letter to family.
- – Removed Petty Officer Doris Miller. Cuba libre!
- – Shortened chase through parachute hanger.
- – Removed Japanese spy tourist sub-plot.
- – Rafe/Danny get to their planes faster. No drive to second airfield. No gunfight against Zeroes.
- – Less hospital/nursing scenes.
- – Removed Rafe/Danny rescuing trapped sailors.
- – Removed mass funeral scene.
- – Removed Evelyn getting access to the command post.
- – Removed Evelyn’s history lesson voiceover at the end.
- – Lots of other minor cuts to improve pacing.
- In total, over 120 cuts!
- + Converted to black and white.
- + Added dust and scratches to simulate old film.
- + Added “Vintage Edition” under the main title, and re-editor credit at the end.
Fanedit details:
Video: 854 x 480, H.264, 1500kbps
Audio: 48kHz, AAC, 128kbps, Stereo
Your intention for this fanedit:
A more focused version of Pearl Harbor with a classic film feel.
Your way to achieve your intention:
Reduce screentime involving minor characters and redundant exposition.
Hardware and software information :
Final Cut Pro 6
Additional Comment:
Keeping in mind that Pearl Harbor is a fictional story based on a true event, I wanted to keep the essence of the main character arcs intact. This re-edit of Pearl Harbor simply minimizes all the minor characters and distracting sub-plots. What’s left is the principle storyline of two best friends, the woman they both love, and how their lives are affected by the onset of WWII. With a new runtime of just under 2 hours, the movie feels more focused and poignant.
Time needed for the edition:
4 days
persons involved:
geKKo
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Review by geKKo — August 16, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
A very well put together edit of pearl harbor.
very well done.
Only part I did not like was that you did not get to see danny coming out of the plane once he had died.
all in all it was a very very good re-edit of the film
good going gekko (please do more of this thing)
Review by wyatt0502 — December 11, 2007 @ 11:05 pm
thanks for your comments. if you liked this, be sure to check out the vintage editions for king kong and cinderella man.
Review by geKKo — August 9, 2009 @ 7:39 pm
Worked really well in black and white. It seems to be another overlooked gem.
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Well done ! I think you really succeed in change this movie in a vintage way. The black & white helps, of course. But the rythm, the depiction of heroism, the romance look like what we found in old Hollywood movies made during the WW2 (30 seconds over Tokyo, for example). Patriotism dimension in the original movie was a demagogy but in your edit it seems more respectable and humble at the hands of History and people who endured this war. I’m very happy the final voiceover is cut. It was a simplistic History lesson, seen in “60 years after” perspective.
I very enjoyed your storytelling. It describes the essential, it is more centralized on the main (fictionnal) characters with some scenes showing historical facts wich give a context. The Japanese attack’s segment is excellent. We perceive horror, american stupefaction without artificial solemnity . You have removed what transformed it in a too much long action-packed sequence.
I always find so bad the Michael Bay’s film. Relatively, you modified this in honest one.
Review by Icarus — December 26, 2009 @ 6:28 pm
A round of applause for geKKo. What a find this “vintage” edit is! “Pearl Harbor” has always been one of those good-story-buried-somewhere-in-there films, and this effort by geKKo finds a way to get to one version of that good flick. There’s only really two ways to save the bloated cartoonish “Pearl Harbor” from it’s excesses. One is the “Strength and Honor” approach — make it a streamlined action-packed comrades-in-arms war-story heavy on caffeine and light on sugar. The other is to dive headfirst into embracing the goofy implausible love-triangle while trimming away a lot of blowing-shit-up for the sake of entertaining our modern adrenaline-junkie culture. Both paths acknowledge that in attempting to be both kinds of story the theatrical release of “Pearl Harbor” was unsatisfying as either. In this case geKKo’s stepping into a time-machine and going full-bore classic Hollywood wartime romance produces a movie that works well in ways I didn’t expect. It’s shameless cornball romanticism may still turn-off a lot of viewers, but without it this telling of the tale has no legs. By recasting the film as vintage B&W the cloying syrup seems far more appropriate for 1940-42, and makes this a wonderful throwback-to-yesteryear romance-flick for a rainy afternoon by a fire. In fact, as has been mentioned elsewhere, the vintage edition of “Pearl Harbor” bears a strong tonal resemblance to “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”, which is a appropriate since that film is one of the defining pieces of overacted romance+heroism melodrama Hollywood produced during WWII. Well done geKKo. I look forward to watching your other B&W vintage fanedits.
Review by sdavmor — April 14, 2010 @ 10:23 pm