Abstract:Pearl Harbor is a typical movie with a theme of war-and-love, which shows American history and culture. The movie reflects the brutality of war, as well as the beauty of love, in which war comes with death, loss of peace, and pain and heartbreaking; love is accompanied by hope, courage, comfort, salvation, eternity, and duty and responsibility. Also, this movie has its own features different from other American movies or Chinese movies entitled war and love in ways of expression, development and ending of the plot and even images of characters. This thesis develops a detailed explanation of what are along with war and love, focus on the relationship established among war, love and humans through the deep exploration of the love story, the war sequences, the influence of war and the contrast with other movies. This paper can lead movie audiences to have a full comprehension of this kind of movie, achieving some deep inside thoughts and considerations about this movie.

Key words: war; love; movie; Pearl Harbor

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1 Introduction-1

1.1 Background Information of the Study-1

1.2 Significance and Purpose of the Study-1

1.3 Overall Structure of the Study-2

2 Literature Review-2

2.1 Previous Studies on War and Love at Home and Abroad-2

2.2 Previous Studies on War and Love in American Movies-3

3 The Analysis of War and Love in Pearl Harbor-3

3.1 Brief Introduction of the Movie Pearl Harbor-3

3.2 War in Pearl Harbor-4

3.2.1 Death-4

3.2.2 Loss and Waste-5

3.2.3 Pain and Heartbreaking-5

3.2.4 “Victory” and “Glory”-6

3.3 Love in Pearl Harbor-7

3.3.1 Hope and Courage-7

3.3.2 Comfort-8

3.3.3 Duty and Responsibility-8

3.3.4 Eternity-9

3.4 Relationship of War, Love and Human in Pearl Harbor-10

3.5 Significance of War and Love in Pearl Harbor-11

3.5.1 Heroism and Patriotism-11

3.5.2 Romanticism-12

3.5.3 Judgment and Salvation-12

3.6 Attitudes toward War and Love-12

4 Contrast and Comparison with Other Movies-13

4.1 Contrast and Comparison with War and Love in American Movies-13

4.1.1 Contrast and Comparison with Gone with the Wind-13

4.1.2 Contrast and Comparison with Waterloo Bridge-15

4.2 Contrast and Comparison with War and Love in Chinese Movies-16

4.2.1 Contrast and Comparison with Red Sorghum-16

5 Conclusion-17

Bibliography-18

Acknowledgements-19