Pearl Harbor 珍珠港（2001） Movie Script

Doolittle walks away.

RAFE:

Maybe we'll be lucky with the weather.

SMASH TO:

EXT. PACIFIC - A FEROCIOUS STORM - NIGHT The Hornet tosses, bashed by a vicious storm.

INT. CARRIER HORNET - BRIEFING ROOM - DAY The ships is rolling; most of the fliers are green.

Doolittle stands at the podium.

DOOLITTLE:

Since we'll be on our own once we're in the air, I thought I had a good idea letting each crew select it's own target.

He looks at a pile of paper slips in front of him.

DOOLITTLE:

Now we have fifteen requests for the Emperor's Palace...and one for Tokyo baseball stadium.

RED:

I d-don't think Japs ought'a be allowed to p-play baseball.

DOOLITTLE:

I'd like to bomb their Emperor too. But I think that'd just piss 'em off. The idea here, Gentlemen, is not revenge.

We're here to prove to them that they're neither invincible nor superior. So let's try this again. Military targets only.

RED:

Colonel, to f-fight you need strategy.

To have strategy, ya gotta practice. And to practice it, ya gotta play --

DOOLITTLE:

No baseball diamonds, Red.

RED:

Y-Yes Sir.

EXT. PACIFIC - DAY The storm is subsiding, but it's still raining. From the bridge of the Hornet, they spot the ENTERPRISE.

ADMIRAL:

The Enterprise will ride shotgun when we launch the bombers. They wanted our carriers at Pearl, and now we've come to them. If the Japanese get us, they'll be having dinner in San Francisco next month.

EXT. FLIGHT DECK - THE HORNET - DAY The preparations begin. Deck crews move the B-25's to the rear of the flight deck. Fueling teams top off the bomber's gas tanks. Ordnance men hoist four bombs into each aircraft, and the army gunners load ammunition for the machine guns.

Greening checks the planes' mechanical and hydraulic systems.

And once again the pilots are out pacing the deck distance.

It's turned into a game for them, walking off nerves. As Rafe and Danny pass.

RAFE:

It's not getting any longer.

DANNY:

Longer? It's getting shorter.

INT. HORNET - BRIEFING ROOM - DAY Doolittle is laying out the plan for all the pilots.

DOOLITTLE:

We'll take off late this afternoon. I'll hit Tokyo at dusk, and drop incendiary bombs. You'll come after me at night, guided by the fires. Then it's on to China, where you'll arrive at dawn, guided to their airfields by the homing beacons the Chinese are going to switch on for us. That's if everything is perfect -- like every other military mission I've ever been involved with.