Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

COLONEL:

Too late for apologies, Walker.

DANNY:

I wasn't gonna apologize, Sir. I was just gonna say it was worth it to feel like a real pilot again, even if it was only for five seconds.

The Colonel glares at him and stalks away.

INT. BASE CANTEEN - NIGHT Danny and Evelyn are having coffee at the base canteen.

DANNY:

How's everything?

EVELYN:

We got some soldiers in traction from a jeep accident, but it's quiet. Except for the occasional fighter plane buzzing us.

DANNY:

That might not have been such a good idea. They're making us fly out of a half-paved airfield. The real punishment is that I won't be back to the barracks till it's too late for dinner or coffee.

So I guess it's goodbye for awhile.

EVELYN:

I was just thinking that war is a series of goodbyes. Do you think that's why we're meeting. To help us say goodbye to Rafe?

DANNY:

I swore not to talk about him tonight, but there's all this stuff I think I ought to tell you, that he didn't get a chance to. Rafe was...he was lonely. He had such high expectations of himself that he always felt empty. The week he met you he told me he felt his heart had always lived in winter, and for the first time in his life he has seen the spring.

He's been lost in his own thoughts of Rafe; now he notices the tears welling up in her eyes.

DANNY:

Sorry.

EVELYN:

He told me he didn't want to leave me with regret. Now that's all I have.

DANNY:

Hey, have you seen Pearl Harbor at night?

EVELYN:

Well...sure.

DANNY:

From the air?

EXT. HALEIWA AIR FIELD - NIGHT A P-40 takes off from the remote airfield, lit only by the full moon.

INT. P-40 - NIGHT Evelyn sits on Danny's lap, like Rafe sat in his Daddy's lap years before. Danny flies easily, the cockpit open, his arms slipped under hers.

The sky above them is startlingly clear; a billion stars dancing around a full moon.

EVELYN:

So beautiful!

DANNY:

Hang on.

He spins the plane in an easy half turn, inverting their heads above Pearl Harbor, gorgeous in the moonlight, the battleships aglow, the moon reflected in the peaceful water, embraced by the island of Oahu.

EXT. HALEIWA AIR FIELD - NIGHT The P-40 soars easily in and settles to earth. Danny shuts down the engine. Danny carefully removes the harness around her. She looks overhead. The stars are still bright above them.

EVELYN:

I didn't realize until tonight that I've stopped wanting to live.

She turns in his lap, and looks at him. Their eyes connect.