King Kong (2005)

Colin Hanks: Preston

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Quotes 

• Preston : He was right. There is still some mystery left in this world, and we can all have a piece of it for the price of an admission ticket.

  Jack Driscoll : That's the thing you come to learn about Carl, his undying ability to destroy the things he loves.

• Carl Denham : Fay's a size four.

  Preston : Yes, she is, but she's doing a picture with RKO.

  Carl Denham : Cooper, huh? I might've known.

• [Carl and Preston sit at a table reading notes; they look up as Hayes enters] 

  Hayes : If someone were to tell you this ship was headed for Singapore... what would you say?

  Lumpy the Cook : [enters holding a wooden carving]  I would say they're full of it, Mr. Hayes.

  [shrugs] 

  Lumpy the Cook : Well, we turned southwest last night.

  Carl Denham : [stands up]  Gentlemen, please. We're not looking for trouble.

  Jimmy : No.

  [enters and faces Carl] 

  Jimmy : You're looking for something else.

  Carl Denham : [nods]  Yes, we are. We're going to find Skull Island. Find it, film it, show it to the world. For 25 cents, you get to see the last blank space on the map.

  Lumpy the Cook : I wouldn't be so sure of that.

  Preston : What do you mean?

  Lumpy the Cook : Seven years ago, me and Mr. Hayes were working our passage on a Norwegian bark.

  Hayes : Picked up a castaway. Found him in the water. He'd been drifting for days.

  Lumpy the Cook : His ship had run aground on an island way west of Sumatra. An island hidden in fog. He spoke of a huge wall built so long ago, no one knew who'd made it. A wall a hundred foot high, as strong today as it was ages ago.

  Preston : Why'd they build the wall?

  [Lumpy and Hayes look to each other] 

  Lumpy the Cook : Well, the castaway, he spoke of a creature neither beast nor man, but something monstrous, living behind that wall.

  Carl Denham : [scoffs]  A lion or a tiger. A man-eater. That's how *all* these stories start.

  Preston : What else did he say?

  Lumpy the Cook : Nothing. We found him the next morning, he'd stuck a knife through his heart.

  Carl Denham : [laughing]  Mmm-hmm. Sorry, fellas. You'll have to do better than that.

  [Preston stands up; he and Carl grab their notes] 

  Carl Denham : Monsters belong in B movies.

  Hayes : If you find this place, if you go ashore with your friends and your cameras... you won't come back. Just as long as you understand that.

  [Carl sighs as he and Preston leave] 

• [Carl and Preston are in a taxi] 

  Preston : Red Label, eighty percent proof, to be packed in a crate marked "lemonade."

  Carl Denham : You got it. Tell Maureen she doesn't have six hours to put on her face. If she wants to be in this picture, she's gotta be on that boat.

  Preston : She doesn't wanna *be* in this picture.

  [Carl looks shocked] 

  Preston : Maureen pulled out.

  Carl Denham : She pulled out?

  Preston : *Yesterday*. I told you.

  Carl Denham : You said we were shooting in Singapore, right? That's what you *told* her.

  Preston : Yeah, but we're not shooting in Singapore.

  Carl Denham : God damn it, Preston, all you had to do was look her in the eye and lie. I got to get to a phone, talk to Harlow's people.

  Preston : She's unavailable.

  Carl Denham : Myma Loy? Clara Bow? Mae West?

  Preston : [scoffs]  You'll never get *her* into a size four. You gotta get a girl that'll fit into Maureen's costumes.

  Carl Denham : [sighs, then points at Preston]  Fay's a size four.

  Preston : Yes, she is, but she's doing a picture with RKO.

  Carl Denham : Cooper, huh? I might have known.