Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

DANNY:

She loves you. I know that. And part of what she loves in me is how much of you she sees in me.

Rafe doesn't seem to be listening; but Danny knows he is.

DANNY:

We were both torn up. I started dropping by to see her, because we understood what each other felt. We'd have coffee and try not to talk about you, but we always would.

Rafe stands to face Danny; this is hard for Danny to say.

DANNY:

She said I was so much like you. I said, No, I'm not. I'm like I am because of you, but I'm not you, not as good as you.

Everybody else saw me as a loser with a big chip on his shoulder. But you saw the better part of me, the part of me that could be like you, and changed me.

You made me who I am.

RAFE:

How sweet. Is that when you put the move on her?

Danny slams his fist into Rafe's sick gut. Rafe doubles over again, coughing, nothing left in his belly to come up.

Rafe stand slowly, nodding as if he knows the punch was what he deserved. Danny's about to apologize when once more Rafe knees him in the balls.

Danny folds up, drops to his knees, and starts to retch.

RAFE:

That's better.

Rafe crawls into the back seat of the car and passes out, Danny still collapsed at the side of the road.

EXT. PACIFIC - NIGHT The Japanese task force storms on.

INT. JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS - NIGHT IN THE PREP DECKS, the planes are being armed with bombs and torpedoes.

IN THE PILOTS' QUARTERS, the pilots individually sit before personal shrines, saying private prayers, writing letters.

EXT. JAPANESE CARRIERS - FLIGHT DECKS - NIGHT The planes are brought up on the elevators; deck crewmen start rolling them into position.

EXT. UNDER THE SURFACE OF THE PACIFIC - NIGHT A Japanese submarine with a midget sub attached to its hull runs silently toward Pearl Harbor.

EXT. OCEAN SURFACE - NIGHT The periscope of the submarine breaks the surface.

INT. JAPANESE SUB - NIGHT The sub commander looks through the periscope and sees the lights of Oahu far in the distance.

SUB COMMANDER:

Prepare to launch midget sub.

INT. BUNK AREA OF SUB, BETWEEN TORPEDOES - NIGHT The sailor who will drive the midget sub completes his ceremonial sponge bath, and places a handwritten letter on his personal shrine.

SAILOR'S VOICE (LETTER) My revered father, I go now to fulfill my mission and my destiny.

INT. THE LAUNCH OF THE MIDGET SUB - NIGHT We see the sub surface, and the sailor exit the main hatch of the big sub, then force himself through the tiny hatch of the midget sub.

SAILOR'S VOICE (LETTER) I hope it is a destiny that will bring honor to our family, and if it requires my life I will sacrifice it gladly, if you can think of me and my hope to be a good servant of our nation, and a worthy son. With love and devotion, Kazuyoshi.