Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

The boys are awed. What is this?

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY QUICK INTERCUTS - Between the approach of the Japanese planes, and sleepy Pearl Harbor... -- The planes, in formation, their propellers spinning, their engines throbbing... -- Pearl Harbor, with the ships silent, their engines cold, their anchors steady on the harbor bottom.

-- The Japanese submarines heading in.

-- The American destroyers docking, instead of going out to search for them.

-- Another formation of Japanese bombers climbing high, into attack position.

-- The Japanese torpedo planes dropping down to the level of the ocean, their engines beginning to scream.

-- The American planes bunched on the airfields.

-- ON THE JAPANESE CARRIERS, Yamamoto and his staff huddle tensely, over their battle maps.

ON THE JAPANESE CARRIER DECKS, the second wave of planes is being brought up and loaded with munitions...the Japanese flag snaps tautly in the wind... ON THE GOLD COURSE NEAR PEARL HARBOR, American officers are laughing on the putting green near the club house, where the American flag droops from the flag pole, limply at peace.

-- The Japanese planes roaring down just over the wave tops of Pearl Harbor itself.

-- Children playing in the early morning sun, looking up as they see the planes flash by. The children look -- they've never seen this many, flying this low...but they are not alarmed, only curious.

The images come faster and faster, the collision of Japan's determination and American's innocence... EXT. DECK OF OKLAHOMA - DAY Two sailors are standing on the deck, sharing a smoke, looking out over the quiet harbor. One of them sees the first few planes streaking in.

SAILOR 1 Look at that.

SAILOR 2 It's the Army again, practicing on us.

Something drops from the lead plane and splashes easily into the water; the plane banks away.

SAILOR 2 Practice torpedoes.

A white streak runs through the water at them.

SAILOR 2 Now listen, you'll hear a little thud when it hits the side of the ship.

They watch it rush at them...then, a MASSIVE EXPLOSION! It throws up a fifty foot wall of water, hurling the sailors and everything else on the deck into the sea.

EXT. THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR - DAY -- The first wave of planes drop more torpedoes; they plunge BENEATH THE SURFACE, their wooden fins working perfectly, the torpedoes speeding to their targets... We see their AWESOME BLASTS against the anchored ships as the torpedoes hit home.

-- The Japanese LOW ALTITUDE BOMBERS come in; some drop their bombs directly into the ships; some skip their bombs across the water, the bombs glancing off the surface and then slamming the sides of battleships with tremendous explosions.

-- INSIDE THE SHIPS, sleeping sailors are thrown from their bunks; those already awakened run for their battle stations, and try to make it up to the deck; but there's no escape there, as... -- Zero fighter planes strafe the ships, raking the decks and killing sailors with MACHINE GUN FIRE.

EXT. ON THE AMERICAN SHIPS - DAY Fire and smoke are turning everything into chaos. some sailors rush to man the guns, they find the ammo boxes locked.

Under the bombing and strafing, they find a wrench and start pounding on the lock, trying to break open the ammo box.

Then they break open the lock -- and find the ammo box empty.