Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Samuel L. Jackson: Preston Packard
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Quotes
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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]
Preston Packard : 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? 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, they will take it back. My agency is known as MONARCH. We specialize in the hunting of Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms.
Preston Packard : You knew that thing was out here?
Bill Randa : I'm sorry for your men, Colonel, I truly am. Get us home, with proof - so that we can send the cavalry.
Preston Packard : [Stands, holsters gun, turns, walks away] I am the cavalry.
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[Preston's squad flies through a storm]
Preston Packard : And remember the story of Icarus, whose father gave him wings of wax. Warned him not to fly too close to the sun. But the exhilaration was too great. So he flew higher and higher, until the sun melted his wings, and he fell into the sea. The US Army is not an irresponsible father. So they gave us wings of hot Pennsylvania steel, guaranteed not to melt.
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Preston Packard : Two years in country. Where you been?
Mason Weaver : Embedded with MACV-SOG.
Preston Packard : [chuckles] Ah, you were in the shit. I respect that. But it's people like you lost us support back home.
Mason Weaver : You're not actually gonna blame the people without guns for losing the war, are you?
Preston Packard : Camera's way more dangerous than a gun. And we didn't lose the war; we abandoned it.
Mason Weaver : Right.
[scoffs]
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James Conrad : I'm sorry, Colonel Packard...
[holds up Chapman's dog tags]
James Conrad : Chapman is dead.
Preston Packard : Doesn't change a thing. We're still going to that crash site.
James Conrad : What's at that crash site that you want so badly?
Preston Packard : Weapons! Enough to kill it!
James Conrad : Kong didn't kill Chapman...
Preston Packard : [holding up dog tags] But he DID kill these men! MY men!
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Preston Packard : [last words, to Kong] Die, you motherf...
[Kong crushes him]
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Preston Packard : [upon seeing a leafwing through the scope of a rifle] That's one ugly-ass bird.
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Preston Packard : We're soldiers, we do the dirty work so that families back home don't suffer! They shouldn't even know that a thing like this exists!
Mason Weaver : The world is bigger than this.
Preston Packard : Bitch, please!
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Preston Packard : It's time to show Kong that man is king!
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Preston Packard : We are dealing with a monster from a bygone era.
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Preston Packard : [looks at his war medals] All this, and for what?
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Preston Packard : I know an enemy when I see one.
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Preston Packard : That is one ugly ass bird.
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Preston Packard : Steve, you running with the big dogs or staying on the porch?
Landsat Steve : I don't want to be on the porch.
