Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

The Zeros keep coming and he keeps firing; nothing on earth will knock him from that gun.

INT. NURSES' BARRACKS - DAY Evelyn is up, dressed; her roommates are just stirring.

EXT. NURSES' QUARTERS - OAHU - DAY Evelyn has stepped to the door when she hears a distant rumble and looks across the harbor to see smoke rising, ships taking hits.

EVELYN:

Oh my God... EVERYBODY TO THE HOSPITAL!

As she runs, Japanese planes are coming toward the base.

EXT. THE MESS HALL AT HICKAM FIELD - DAY The men were sitting down to breakfast, but the machine gun bullets tearing up the outer walls have them clogging the doors, and it's so clogged they can't all get out.

A steel bomb crashes through the roof and slams through the room, taking out tables and chairs before bouncing off the wall and coming to a stop.

TWO SOLDIERS, trapped within the mess hall, see it stop without detonating. They are bug-eyed, hearts stopped.

MESS HALL SOLDIER Dud.

The bomb detonated, blowing everything to bloody dust.

INT. HOSPITAL - DAY Evelyn reaches the hospital first and runs to the cabinet, withdrawing supplies.

Barbara and Sandra appear at the far door, both terrified.

EVELYN:

Get everything out! Bandages, sutures -- oh God, the men in traction... Come with me!

She races into the hallway, the other two following.

INT. HOSPITAL - TRACTION WARD - DAY Four men from a jeep accident are lying in traction, their casted limbs roped in the air. Evelyn runs in, grabbing a razor blade from the medical cabinet -- and telling Barbara and Sandra.

EVELYN:

Cut them down, and take cover!! Hurry!

Bombs are falling outside, on the airfield this wing of the hospital faces. Evelyn slices the traction ropes of a man with both legs broken; ignoring his groans, she rolls him out of the bed and covers him with the mattress. The other nurses follow her lead. The bombs are coming toward the hospital ward; Evelyn finishes with the fourth man and covers him and herself with the mattress, just as a bomb craters outside the window.

The nurses and patients look up after the explosions have passed; there's a chunk of smoking shrapnel lying on the springs of the bunk where the last man had been lying.

EXT. HICKAM FIELD - DAY The Japanese low-altitude bombers, with Zero escorts, zoom in over the field, blasting the clusters of American warplanes, whole squadrons taken out with one bomb.

The mechanics and pilots, caught in the open, run from the strafing. The Zeros rake them down with machine gun fire.

It's carnage.

EXT. PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOUSE - DAY Sammy, the amateur photographer, is leaving his house for a morning of working his "Pictures of Paradise" business, when he sees the Japanese formations rumbling toward Pearl. He races back inside.

INT. PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOUSE - DAY He fishes into his drawer for a film camera, and digs out cans of film, struggling to load it as he runs back out.

INT. HICKAM FIELD - BARRACKS - DAY The pilots of Danny's squadron have returned from their night of drinking and brawling and are crashed on their bunks. Red stirs and staggers toward the head; he bumps into the wall, backs up like a wind-up toy and lurches blindly forward again, into -- INT. BARRACKS - THE HEAD - DAY Red sleepwalks to the urinals and unleashes a marathon piss stream, still in his sleep. A rumble penetrates his brain, and his eyes come open a fraction. Through the window slits above the urinals, he can see a cloud of Japanese planes rushing past.

He squeezes his eyes shut, and looks again; the planes start bombing the distant hangers.