Congo (1995)
Ernie Hudson: Captain Monroe Kelly
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Quotes
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Monroe : When the moon is like that, every monkey for 200 miles thinks he's Elvis Presley.
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Monroe : I'm your great white hunter for this trip, though I happen to be black.
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Monroe : So why'd you quit the CIA?
Dr. Karen Ross : I never worked for the CIA.
Monroe : Of course you didn't. But if you HAD worked for the CIA, why would you quit?
Dr. Karen Ross : 'Cause they're a loveless bunch of sons of bitches.
Monroe : And you're not?
Dr. Karen Ross : And I'm not.
Monroe : Glad to hear it.
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Monroe : And this is your cover?
Dr. Karen Ross : Yes
Dr. Peter Elliot : I'm nobody's cover. Cover for what?
Monroe : ...find yourself in the middle of something.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Cover for what?
Monroe : I don't know and she won't tell you. But the kind of money her company's throwing around... they don't spend that on any gorilla. Relax. You're in better hands than you *should* be.
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Dr. Karen Ross : Why are they laughing?
Monroe : They asked who was in charge and I said I was.
Dr. Karen Ross : What's so funny about that?
Monroe : I'm black. I should have luggage on my head.
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Monroe : The twentieth century sucks. Maybe the twenty-first will be better.
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Dr. Peter Elliot : You're some kind of criminal, aren't you?
Monroe : Aren't we all?
Dr. Peter Elliot : No. I'm not a criminal, I'm a scientist.
Monroe : Scientist? I run a few guns. You sons of bitches ruin the world.
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Monroe : The ghost tribe has several levels of "dead." Someone's not dead until they're completely "dead."
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Dr. Peter Elliot : [as everyone on the plane prepares to jump] Why are they putting on parachutes?
Dr. Karen Ross : FIGURE IT OUT!
Richard : [Monroe tosses Richard a parachute] OH NO!
Dr. Peter Elliot : [the crew members begin jumping out of the plane. Monroe hands Peter a parachute] This isn't going to work!
Monroe : Oh, yes, it is. I'll take Amy.
Dr. Peter Elliot : She might get hurt. I can't risk it!
Monroe : Do you know how to fly this plane?
Dr. Peter Elliot : No.
Monroe : [nods toward the cockpit, where no one is at the controls] Well, the pilot and co-pilot are already gone, so what are you going to do?
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[last lines]
Monroe : [in hot air balloon] There's a wind.
Dr. Peter Elliot : I hope it blows us some place good.
Dr. Karen Ross : Me too.
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Monroe : That region of the Congo's uninhabited.
Dr. Karen Ross : Well, something inhabits it.
Dr. Peter Elliot : What exactly did you see on that tape?
Dr. Karen Ross : A camp destroyed. People dead. A grey gorilla...
Dr. Peter Elliot : There's no such thing as a grey gorilla.
Dr. Karen Ross : Well, I saw one.
Dr. Peter Elliot : It's hard to believe at this late date...
Monroe : Why are you going in there?
Dr. Karen Ross : Two men are unaccounted for: Geoffrey Weams, and Charles Travis, my fiance... My FORMER fiance.
Monroe : Your former?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Well, we better get to him then.
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Monroe : When these little African countries get into a dispute, they tend to just murder everybody. They live for the opportunity to settle scores... and they have a lot of scores to settle.
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Dr. Peter Elliot : They are gorillas. They're some kind of gorillas.
Monroe : Never saw an animal move like that. They just... well, look. They just kill.
Herkermer Homolka : So that's why Solomon's diamonds were never found. The myth of the killer ape is true!
Dr. Peter Elliot : I can't believe it.
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Dr. Peter Elliot : Here's the story. They domesticated gorillas.
Monroe : You call that domesticated? They're killing a man.
Dr. Peter Elliot : So they taught them to be this way. They bred them to violence. They looked for the trait, and they encouraged it.
Dr. Karen Ross : Guard dogs. And they turned on their masters.
Monroe : What's that smell?
Dr. Peter Elliot : [coming across a pile of bones] These are all the bones of gorillas.
Monroe : You mean these are the...
Dr. Peter Elliot : No, these are the bones of normal gorillas.
[picking a skull up]
Dr. Peter Elliot : This one's skull was crushed.
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Monroe : What the hell?
Herkermer Homolka : It's the mines.
Dr. Peter Elliot : "We are watching you." It's the trainers talking. Teacher is watching you.
Monroe : Dead teachers.
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Dr. Peter Elliot : [coming across a crashed plane] Good Lord.
Monroe : It's that plane we saw burning in the sky.
Herkermer Homolka : Who were they?
Dr. Karen Ross : Travis, my boss, he thought I wasn't gonna make it. He sent another expedition.
Monroe : He tried to push away too far. Looks like a rocket got them. No point going in there.
Dr. Karen Ross : My God, what a waste of life.
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Monroe : Half the people who went in the congo looking for Zinj never made it back and the other half came back with nothing.
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Monroe : This, as they say, is a fork in the road. We could go left or we could go right. If we go the wrong way, we lose two or three days.
Herkermer Homolka : We must follow the gorilla, where she leads.
Monroe : That would be left.
Dr. Karen Ross : My best guess off my last coordinates was this way.
Monroe : That'd be right.
Amy : Amy, Peter, go this way.
Dr. Karen Ross : Well... I don't have her passion. I'll follow the gorilla.
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Monroe : [encountering a wild silverback gorilla] Don't move.
Dr. Peter Elliot : I know.
Monroe : If you run...
Dr. Peter Elliot : He'll chase me. I know. I've read the books.
[he remains frozen as it moves closer, averting his eyes back and forth; after a tense moment, it leaves]
Monroe : [coming out of his hiding spot] You did good.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Where'd you go?
Monroe : I ran away. Sorry.
Dr. Peter Elliot : He looked right into my eyes.
Richard : [taking a picture] It's a silverback.
Dr. Peter Elliot : I never thought you could just be walking along... and see them.
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Dr. Karen Ross : So, what is this Zinj, Mr. Homolka?
Herkermer Homolka : I don't know what you're talking about.
Monroe : It's always been believed that King Solomon had a diamond mine in the Congo in a city called Zinj.
Dr. Karen Ross : Diamonds?
Herkermer Homolka : I suppose there is no point in playing stupid. We shall arrive there together, we shall all be rich.
Monroe : That's fine with me, except there is no Zinj.
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Monroe : [seeing Amy with a troop of wild gorillas] Well, look at that.
Dr. Karen Ross : Is that Amy with the...
Dr. Peter Elliot : The silverback. So she's... I see. I see. She's home.
[as the nearby volcano continues to erupt, the gorillas leave when they aren't looking]
Dr. Peter Elliot : Will she be all right?
Monroe : They know what to do. It's us I'm worried about.
Dr. Karen Ross : We've gotta go. Come on.
Dr. Peter Elliot : [following them away] Bye, Amy.
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Herkermer Homolka : [coming across a temple-like structure] First they found the diamonds, Solomon's men, a diamond mine of incredible bounty, then they built the city around the mine... so that it should be protected. The savagery of the guards was legend. They instantly fell upon any thief, any transgressor... and the diamonds flowed to the kingdom of Solomon.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Well, what happened? Why did the city die?
Herkermer Homolka : I don't know.
Monroe : Maybe the mines ran dry.
Herkermer Homolka : No! No! The diamonds are here.
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Dr. Karen Ross : They're gone.
Monroe : Couple of hours 'til first light, then we're out of here.
Herkermer Homolka : And those hieroglyphics we saw inscribed everywhere... I have translated them.
Dr. Peter Elliot : What do they say?
Herkermer Homolka : "We are... watching you."
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Dr. Peter Elliot : Somebody help me!
Monroe : What is it?
Dr. Peter Elliot : There's something on my... it's like a creature or a growth or something on my...
[opening his boxers]
Dr. Peter Elliot : Look.
Monroe : [peeking] Oh, that's a leech.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Well, take it off.
Monroe : I'm not going to take it off. It's your leech. You take it off.
Dr. Karen Ross : Need some help?
Dr. Peter Elliot : No.
Monroe : [offering his cigarillo] Here. Burn it off with this.
Dr. Peter Elliot : [groaning] Ohh...
Dr. Karen Ross : Mmm...
Dr. Peter Elliot : This is disgusting.
[sarcastically as she and the others snicker]
Dr. Peter Elliot : Thank you for your compassion.
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Monroe : [Amy protects Peter from a group of killer gorillas] Maternal instinct. Long may she reign.
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Monroe : We've lost two porters.
Dr. Karen Ross : Where'd they go?
Monroe : Ran away.
Richard : And they didn't invite me?
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Monroe : Don't go in there! I'll check it out.
Dr. Karen Ross : Give me a gun and a flashlight!
Monroe : Well, don't be so John Wayne. You could get killed. Now that I've said that, I'm not going in there alone, either.
Herkermer Homolka : I must go.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Let's all take a look.
Richard : Uh, I-I think I'll just stay out here with Amy.
Monroe : Not alone, you won't.
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Herkermer Homolka : I knew it was true. The City of Zinj. The diamonds...
[blowing dirt off of one and kissing it]
Herkermer Homolka : Every word of it was absolutely true!
Dr. Peter Elliot : I'd leave those alone.
Dr. Karen Ross : Any other way out of here?
Monroe : Not that I've noticed.
Herkermer Homolka : Help me. Fill up everything. Come on!
[collecting as many diamonds as he can carry]
Herkermer Homolka : You've got to get me out of here.
Monroe : Take a number.
Herkermer Homolka : But we're gonna be rich!
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Dr. Karen Ross : We're getting out of here.
Monroe : We are? What about them.
Dr. Karen Ross : Put 'em on the endangered species list.
[firing her company's laser gun at the gorillas]
Dr. Karen Ross : Come on! Monroe! Let's go! Move!
Monroe : What the hell is that?
Dr. Karen Ross : The latest thing in communication.
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Herkermer Homolka : [discussing the legend of King Solomon's mines] We have a trumping card that they did not have.
Monroe : We do?
Herkermer Homolka : We do. That gorilla knows where it is.
Dr. Karen Ross : What?
Monroe : The gorilla?
Herkermer Homolka : As a young man, I found a book in Soviet Georgia. It contained a detailed drawing of the city of Zinj. The drawing contained a peculiar decoration; an open eye. Later, on safari, I found this.
[showing Karen his ring]
Herkermer Homolka : It's the same symbol. Now... look at this.
[showing her one of Amy's drawings]
Herkermer Homolka : The gorilla drew this. It is the same image. It is the open eye. That gorilla... has seen the city of Zinj. And she will take us there!
Monroe : Have you been taking your medication?
Herkermer Homolka : [mimicking his chuckle sarcastically] Have your laughing, and I will have mine!
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Herkermer Homolka : You've got to get me out of here!
Monroe : Take a number.
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Dr. Peter Elliot : [after parachuting into the jungle] Where's Amy?
Monroe : Now, she's asleep. She's over there. On the way down, she decided to wake up. And let me tell you, that little lady has some set of teeth!
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Dr. Peter Elliot : [Their aircraft comes under fire as they cross the border into Zaire] What's going on? What the hell is that?
Monroe : [Waking up from a nap] Shit! I thought we'd get a little farther.
[Amy starts to get agitated]
Monroe : I'd put her out now, doctor!
Dr. Peter Elliot : Oh you would, would you?. Who's firing on us?
Monroe : [Ignoring him] Kahega!
[Kahega hands him half a banana, with a tranquilizer hidden inside]
Dr. Karen Ross : [Explaining to Peter] We've crossed the border into Zaire. We're violating their airspace.
Monroe : [Giving the drugged banana to Amy] She likes bananas?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Sure, she likes bananas!
Monroe : [to Amy] Eat this, darling!
[to Peter]
Monroe : She's going to feel great.
Dr. Peter Elliot : What do you mean?
Monroe : Something to keep her calm. Gorilla Prozac!
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Monroe : What are you doing with that gorilla?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Taking her home. She was caught in the Virunga region of the Congo.
Monroe : You're going to try and take her back to the farm now that she's seen Par-ee?
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Dr. Peter Elliot : I'm sorry, but we have to call this off.
Monroe : I beg your pardon?
Dr. Peter Elliot : I'm in over my head. I'm not James Bond.
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Monroe : First the Kigani in Zaire, now this Godfather stuff. Not a good day to be in central Africa.
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Monroe : You're looking for King Solomon's diamonds. The lost city of Zinj.
Herkermer Homolka : I've given it up.
Monroe : You'll never give it up. The problem is, Herkermer, it doesn't exist. Solomon must have gotten his diamonds from Cartiers, like everybody else.
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Monroe : They're out there! But what are they doing?
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Monroe : People come first, then gorillas. Do you agree?
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Dr. Peter Elliot : Are they friendly?
Monroe : They're sensitive. They're forest people.