Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

EXT. SKIES OVER PACIFIC - DAY The Second Wave of Japanese planes is in tight formation.

INT. LEAD PLANE OF SECOND WAVE - DAY Lt. Commander SHIMAZAKI, leader of the second attack wave, says calmly into his radio...

SHIMAZAKI:

Second wave, deploy over the military bases. High level bombers to the air stations, dive bombers attack ships in harbor. Fighters strafe and cover.

He leads the second wave in on their attack run... EXT. NAVAL AIR STATION - DAY The navy's planes, bunched up on the naval airfield, are destroyed without ever getting into the air.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY The harbor is already a mass of destruction and panic; screaming everywhere, men trying to fight fires, move the wounded; the second wave of planes hits, and tremendous explosions now rock the secondary ships like the destroyer SHAW, blasting it apart.

But the Japanese pilots are now having trouble with the thick black smoke coming out of the damaged ships, and off the oil fires along the water. One torpedo plane, its pilot flying blind, clips the superstructure of a battleship and spins to a crash.

Still, even IN THE CHAOS ON THE SHIPS, the sailors struggle to survive, inventively. Men trapped on one burning ship use the severed barrel of a five-inch naval gun as a bridge to cross to the less damaged ship anchored beside them.

Others jump into the water and swim through the burning oil, towing buddies too wounded to swim themselves.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY Below decks, sailors have organized a line and are passing ammunition from the ammo lockers, hand to hand up to the guns on deck. Blasts from bombs hit them and ignite the ammo they're holding, setting off a chain reaction of explosions.

On the deck, the sailors are out of ammo. An OFFICER grabs a SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD SAILOR.

OFFICER:

Grab a dinghy and get ammo from the base ammo storeroom.

The young sailor jumps to a dinghy and launches it through the oily waters and thick black smoke.

EXT. PEARL HARBOR - DAY The sailors in the boat get strafed, the rounds cutting between them and blasting their boat in two. They jump into the oily water and swim toward shore.

Other sailors are in the water with them, struggling, swallowing the vile black liquid as they battle to swim.

Errant bombs and shrapnel hit beside them, killing some; other lose strength and slide beneath the surface.

The sailors from the ammo boat make it ashore; it's hot there too, with bullets and bombs all around. One sailor has to stop and puke from the oil; his buddy grabs him and they run for cover; they find it in the dugout of the baseball diamond.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY A MARINE GUNNERY SERGEANT leads men in a race through strafing fire to the bases ammo storeroom.

INT. AMMO STOREROOM - DAY The SUPPLY SERGEANT is at his post.

GUNNERY SERGEANT We need weapons and ammo!

SUPPLY SERGEANT:

You need authorization.

GUNNERY SERGEANT The f*** I do!

He pushes the man out of the way and starts grabbing weapons.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY The gunnery sergeant and his marines run with a water-cooled machine gun, across the open ground, under fire.

BARRACKS:

The Marines set up in the windows of their already-strafed barracks, and start firing there, as the Zeros scream past.

EXT. NAVAL STATION - DAY Trucks are moving dependents -- women and children -- from the dependents' housing area. The Japanese strafe the trucks, dependents diving for cover.