Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

Red pisses along the wall as he races to the barracks, trying to get his pecker back into his drawers. He shouts to the sleeping guys --

RED:

Th-th-th-th-th- He slaps his face with both hands, and stomps his feet...

RED:

Th-th-th-th-Dammit! Th-th-th- He still can't get it out, can't wake them; bursting with frustration, he suddenly blasts out singing --

RED:

(singing) The Jaaaps!! The Jaaaps!!

He's belting it like a baritone in a bizarre opera. His friends stir; what the hell? Red points outside and tries to talk, but now he can't mutter a syllable. The guys hear the explosions, and realize... EXT. HICKAM FIELD - BARRACKS - DAY The pilots stagger out, half drunk, half dressed. Seeing what's happening, they race toward the flight line, where the clustered American planes are blowing up in groups, and the pilots are knocked to the ground.

BILLY:

Goddamn Japs!

Billy jumps to his feet and starts to run toward a cluster of fighters that hasn't gone up yet.

ANTHONY:

Billy!

Anthony tries to grab him and drag him back to earth but he misses; Billy gets a few steps before the fire from a strafing Zero catches up to him; his friends watch in horror as Billy gets shorter as he runs; the Zero's machine gun fire is sawing his legs off from the feet up.

Billy falls, legless but still alive; then a bomb falls almost on top of him, sending body parts over the pilots.

Their innocence, like America's, is gone in that moment.

EXT. ROAD TO MAIN AIRFIELD - DAY Danny and Rafe are in Danny's Buick, hung over and asleep, Danny in front, Rafe in back, and they're a miserable sight -- their shirts ripped, blood dried in a leak trail from one side of Rafe's nose and the corner of Danny's mouth.

The rumble of planes moving overhead makes them stir; the rumble grows huge, as the shadows of a massive formation makes the sunlight flicker. Danny and Rafe squint up, their heads pounding, and realize what they're seeing. Suddenly their headaches are gone, and Danny's gunning the Buick down the road, toward the base.

EXT. AIR BASE - DAY Danny blasts through the main gate; the guards are too busy taking cover and haven't even closed the barrier.

He races to the tarmac, where some of the planes are still undamaged. Rafe is out the door before the car stops rolling, and Danny's right behind him.

They're running toward a cluster of fighters, when it goes up with a bomb blast. Rafe and Danny dive at each other; their first instinct is to cover their best friend with their own bodies.

They look at each other on the ground. They see machine gun bullets thudding into the planes on the flight line, and ripping along the walls of the buildings. It's as if the whole Japanese airforce is attacking this one base, and not leaving a single plane airworthy.

RAFE:

Get me into a plane!

DANNY:

Come on!

Danny sprints; Rafe follows. Danny reaches a phone booth, and digs a dime from his pants.

RAFE:

You're making a phone call?!

Danny dials, as waves of bullets sweep the area, and more planes blow up on the flight line. Rafe thinks he's lost his mind.

DANNY:

(into phone) This is Walker! We're under attack! Get those planes fueled and armed RIGHT NOW!

He runs back toward the car; Rafe, in the nonsense of battle, reaches in to hang up the receiver, before Danny grabs him and leads him on a sprint to the car, as the phone booth shatters behind them from the strafing.

On the way to the car they dive back to the ground to avoid strafing -- and see their friends lying nearby, in shock.