Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

As Dorie turns, she sees the cut on his head, closed only with a band-aid; it's dripping blood down his T-shirt.

DORIE:

'Scuse me, 'Mam. All the ship's doctors is golfing, and I couldn't find nobody to look at this.

EVELYN:

Our doctor's gone too.

DORIE:

Sorry to trouble you.

EVELYN:

Wait, let me look at that... You better come in here.

INT. MILITARY BASE HOSPITAL - DAY Miller is sitting on a stool; Evelyn bathes the wound.

EVELYN:

How'd you get this?

DORIE:

Boxin'.

EVELYN:

Win?

DORIE:

Yes'm.

He says it without pride. She puts down the basin.

EVELYN:

What's your name?

DORIE:

Dorie Miller, 'Mam.

EVELYN:

I'm Evelyn. And I'm just a nurse. But I'm not playing golf, and that cut needs sewing, or else it's gonna make a big lumpy scar. Whatta ya say?

INT. HOSPITAL - PEARL HARBOR - LATER Evelyn clips the ends of her carefully applied stitches; Dorie's eyes are rolled up as if he could watch from inside his skull.

EVELYN:

How often you fight like this?

DORIE:

Every other Sunday. I'm heavyweight champion of the West Virginia.

EVELYN:

What do you get for winning?

DORIE:

Respect.

She hands him a mirror. He studies her work.

DORIE:

No doctor would'a give me that good.

She walks him to the door.

DORIE:

Thank you, 'Mam.

EVELYN:

Tell me something, Dorie. A man as big as you -- and smart too, you knew where to come when your ship couldn't help -- do you still have to fight with your fists to get respect?

DORIE:

I left my Mama and joined the Navy to be a man. They made me a cook -- and not even that, really -- I clean up after the other sailors eat. I shine the officer's shoes. In two years, they've never even let me fire a gun.