Pearl Harbor (2001)
Josh Hartnett: Danny Walker
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Quotes
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Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : I heard what you did.
Rafe : We can explain that, sir.
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Explain what?
Danny : Whatever it is you heard about us, sir.
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : You mean the hoola shirts you were flying in... or the seven planes you shot down.
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Danny : Why the hell is the US Navy practicing this early on a Sunday morning?
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Rafe : J, L, M, K, P, O, E, T, X. Eyes like an eagle, ma'am.
Evelyn : Slow down, flyboy. And instead of the bottom, read the very top. Both eyes.
Rafe : Yeah. C. Sorry, J.
[Clears throat]
Rafe : C, W, uh, Q, uh, Q
Evelyn : [Smiles] Read the bottom line again, please, but read it right to left and every other letter.
Rafe : E, X...
Danny : X, E.
Rafe : X, E. X, E, ma'am. Ma'am, I know how this looks.
Evelyn : I'm sorry, Lieutenant. I really am, but army and navy requires 20/20 vision.
Rafe : Oh, I... It's not a problem with my eyes. I mean, I can see. I mean I can hit a runnin' rabbit with a $3.00 pistol. I got a problem with letters, that's all.
Evelyn : Well, maybe after some schooling, you could come back and take the test again.
Rafe : No, I had schooling. I mean, the teachers just never knew what to make of it, I... It's just letters. I mix 'em up sometimes. That's all. I mean, I just get 'em backword sometimes. Look here. My math and spatial reasoning and my verbal scores are all excellent.
Evelyn : But you barely passed the written exam.
Danny : Yeah, but he did pass it. So it's my turn now?
Evelyn : No, you'll wait your turn.
Danny : Yes, ma'am.
Rafe : Ma'am, I'm never gonna be an English teacher. But I know why I'm here: to be a pilot. And you don't dogfight with manuals. You don't fly with gauges. I mean, it's all about feeling and speed, and lettin' that plane become like a part of your body. And that manual says that a guy who's a slow reader can't be a good pilot. That file says I'm the best pilot in this room. Ma'am, please, don't take my wings.
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Danny : I think World War II just started.
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Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Secretary of the Navy gave me these.
Danny : What are they?
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace.
Rafe : What do you want me to do with them sir?
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : We're gonna wire them to the bombs and give them back.
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Rafe : Alright Danny we gonna show 'em how to fly. We gonna play chicken. You ready?
Danny : This ain't the farm and these ain't no crop dusters, I'm not playin chicken with ya.
Rafe : Ah, come on, now don't be a baby.
Danny : Not doin it Rafe.
Rafe : Well, I'm comin right at ya, you can turn or you can hit me. It's up to you.
Danny : Aah, why you always bustin my ass Rafe?
Danny : [sighs]
Danny : Which way ya goin?
Rafe : Uh, right, no left. Left. I'll go left.
Danny : Okay, we're goin left right?
Rafe : Right, right?
Danny : Right, like we're goin left, or right like we're goin right?
Rafe : Well, now you got me all mixed up, I dunno make up your mind!
Danny : God, Rafe, we're goin right. Righty-Tighty!
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Danny : To Rafe McCawely the best pilot and the best friend I ever knew... Or ever will know. TO RAFE .
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Danny : You know he taught me to fly, I always knew that not matter what kind of trouble I got into, I wouldn't be in it alone, he'd be there with me. Up there he was always pushin me to be better and faster.
Evelyn : He told me you were a great flyer... The same night he told me, he volunteered to go to England.
Danny : He volunteered? He-he told me he'd been assigned. He was always tryin to protect me. But ya know what I look at myself in the mirror in this uniform... and I still don't know who I am, I look like a hero... but I don't feel like it.
[sighs]
Danny : Rafe... he always looked the part didn't he?
Evelyn : He couldn't wait to be one
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Rafe : Dolittle assigned me. He wanted me to get some... some real combat training.
Danny : Well guess what? It isn't training over there, it's war. Where losers die and there aren't any winners, just guys who turn into broken-down wrecks like my father. Now if trouble awaits me, I'm ready. But why go looking for it?