Kong: Skull Island

Preston Packard: [Walking up to Randa] How you doing? Bill Randa: I'm fine, thank you. Preston Packard: Good. Glad to hear it. I was worried about you. [sits, draws gun, points it at Randa] You are going to tell me everything I don't know, or I'm gonna blow your head off. Bill Randa: Monsters exist. Preston Packard: No shit. Bill Randa: Nobody believed me. Yesterday, I was a crackpot. But today? Preston Packard: So this was never about geology. You dropped those charges to flush something out. Who are you? Bill Randa: You heard of the U.S.S. Lawton? (Packard shakes his head) Neither did the public. Out of a thousand young men on that ship I was the only survivor. They told my family she was sunk in battle but I know what I saw. It had no conscience. No reasoning. Just destroy. I spent the last 30 years trying to prove the truth of what I learned that day. This planet doesn't belong to us. Ancient species owned this Earth long before mankind; and if we keep our heads buried in the sand,

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Earl Cole: You ever heard the story of the mouse, the lion, and the thorn? Glenn Mills: Yeah? Earl Cole: There you go, then. In case we ever see that primate again. Glenn Mills: You do know that story is about a mouse becoming friends with the lion after taking the thorn out of his paw though, right? Earl Cole: No it's not. The mouse kills the lion with the thorn! Glenn Mills: Who told you that, Cole? Earl Cole: My mother. Glenn Mills: [pause] That actually explains a lot.

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Hank Marlow: The way they tell it for thousands of years, the people on this island lived in fear. That's a hell of a long time to be scared. And then, one day, the damnedest thing happened. Some of the things they were afraid of started protecting them against the things that were eating them. But nothing lasts forever, I guess. And this is where they honor the last of their saviors. Yeah. That's Kong. He's king around here. He's God to these people. Kong's a pretty good king. Keeps to himself, mostly. This is his home. We're just guests here. But you don't go into someone's house and start dropping bombs unless you're picking a fight. Mason Weaver: Wasn't Kong the one who killed your friend? Hank Marlow: No. One of them did. [points to a painting of a Skull Crawler] Kong's God on the island, but the devils live below us. James Conrad: And what are they called? Hank Marlow: The Iwis won't speak their name. But I call them Skullcrawlers. James Conrad: Why? Hank Marlow: 'Cause it sounds

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