Pearl Harbor - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[frances]

Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Jon Voight, and Michael Shannon all stand the same height, 6'3".

[jim]

There is a persistent urban myth that a shot of Bruce Willis in full Die Hard (1988) gear was composited into the triage scene. The likeness is certainly very striking, but it is not Willis, it's a young extra.

[wesley]

In Pearl Harbor, Ben Affleck's Rafe McCauley is an ace pilot. In reality, Ben is afraid of flying, just like his on-screen persona A. J. Frost from Armageddon, also directed by Michael Bay.

[miriam]

Alec Baldwin previously played Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990), a role that was passed down to Ben Affleck in The Sum of All Fears (2002).

[ethel]

To simulate the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsizing, the crew constructed the world's largest-ever gimbal. It took special effects supervisor John Frazier four months to design, and four more months for he and production designer Nigel Phelps to build. It was made of pure steel and weighed 700,000 pounds. It could rise 25 degrees into the air, and do a 180 degree barrel turn. In the film, as the Oklahoma rolls over, the back 450 feet is CGI, but the front portion is the real gimbal, with over 150 real stuntmen on it.