Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

Rafe tries to open his cockpit cover to clear the smoke, but it's jammed; he pulls out his .45 pistol and BLAM! BLAM!

BLAM! He blows out the glass; the smoke clears enough for him to take a breath and try to see. He fights the stick, but the plane won't respond.

The Messerschmidts rake him again, bullets riddling his engine.

SQUAD LEADER:

Get out of there, McCawley! Get out of there!

Rafe's plane descends, ever faster, passing through clouds, then clear air again. The Squad Leader tries to chase and cover him, but Rafe's dropping fast, and still isn't out of the plane as the Germans dive on him again, firing.

Rafe's Spitfire hits the broken fog over the water -- the Squad Leader loses sight of it for a moment -- and then the plane hits, splashing and exploding all at once.

The Squad Leader winces, and ducks into the clouds as he reports on his radio...

SQUAD LEADER:

McCawley down. No 'chute.

EXT. BATTLESHIP WEST VIRGINIA - PEARL HARBOR - DAY The sailors have assembled on deck for the ship's heavyweight championship fight, a contest made more interesting to the sailors because one of the combatants is white and the other is black.

The battle is more toughness than technique. The guys throwing haymakers and shoving each other around the roped area, as their shipmates cheer and make wild bets. The white guy digs a punch deep into the black guy's ribs, and the black guy slams a double left hook into the white guy's belly, making him back up and say --

WHITE BOXER:

You hit hard -- for a cook.

The black guy rushes the white guy, only to catch a right cross that wobbles his knees and makes him stagger, with a fresh cut over his right eye. The white guy now rushes in, and the black guy (his name is DORIE MILLER) throws an upper cut that drops his opponent like a sack of rocks.

The sailors cheer wildly. Dorie steps back, and rubs his glove across his brow. It's really bleeding now.

EXT. MILITARY BASE - DAY Evelyn is returning from church with six of her nurse friends. It's very quiet on a Sunday morning, almost nobody at the base; they walk along the path.

BARBARA:

Let's get into civvies and find a bar.

MARTHA:

Right after church?

BARBARA:

You've gotta sin some, to get forgiveness. Come with us, Evelyn. You need some sin.

EVELYN:

I've got to write some requisitions.

We're undersupplied with morphine.

BETTY:

Morphine? We've been here a month and nobody's had worse than a sunburn.

Evelyn smiles softly and walks toward the base hospital.

BETTY:

I wish she could forget him.

BARBARA:

You don't forget love, Honey. Not ever.

EXT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - DAY Evelyn approaches the hospital and finds the black boxer peering in the window. He's in a T-shirt and navy pants.

EVELYN:

Can I help you, sailor?