King Kong (2005) Poster

(2005)

Adrien Brody: Jack Driscoll

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  • 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.

  • Ann Darrow : Why would you do that?

    Jack Driscoll : Why would I write a play for you? Isn't it obvious?

    Ann Darrow : Not to me.

    Jack Driscoll : It's in the subtext.

  • Bruce Baxter : What do you think, Driscoll? Dialogue's got some flow now, huh?

    Jack Driscoll : [sarcastically]  That was pure effluence.

    Bruce Baxter : I beefed up the banter.

    Jack Driscoll : Try to resist that impulse.

    Bruce Baxter : It's just a bit of humor, bud. What are you a Bolshevik or something?

    Jack Driscoll : Actors. They travel the world, all they ever see is a mirror.

  • Carl Denham : Oh! Ann, this is... uh... Ann?

    Ann Darrow : That's all right Mr. Denham. I know who this is. Thrilled to meet you. It's an honor to be a part of this.

    [shakes hands with Mike] 

    Mike : [confused]  Gee, thanks.

    Ann Darrow : Actually, I'm quite familiar with your work.

    Mike : [very confused]  Really?

    Ann Darrow : Yes, and what I most admire is the way you've captured the voice of the common people.

    Mike : [smiling now]  Well, uh, that's my job.

    Ann Darrow : I'm sure you've heard this before, Mr. Driscoll, if you don't mind me saying, but, you don't look at all like your photograph.

    [Jack Driscoll looks over] 

    Mike : [smile disappears]  I'm sorry...

    Carl Denham : Wait a minute, Ann.

    Ann Darrow : [to Carl]  He's so much younger in person. And much better looking.

    Carl Denham : [as Jack approaches Ann from behind]  Ann, stop. Stop right there.

    Ann Darrow : [to Mike again]  You see. I was just afraid that you might be one of those self-obsessed, literary types.

    Mike : I'm sorry. I'm not...

    Ann Darrow : You know, the tweedy twerp with his nose in his book and his head up his a...

    [Jack snaps his book shut just behind her head. She turns around] 

    Jack Driscoll : It's nice to meet you too, Miss Darrow.

  • Ann Darrow : [Jack reminiscing]  You're writing a comedy?

    Jack Driscoll : I guess, I am. I'm writing it, for you.

    Ann Darrow : Why would you do that?

    Jack Driscoll : Why would I write a play for you?

    [pause] 

    Jack Driscoll : Isn't it obvious?

    [Play going on: "Cry Havoc!" by Jack Driscoll] 

    Theatre Actor : So he took me to this fancy french restaurant, and half way through the hors d'oeuvres, he clutches my hand...

    Theatre Actor : ...and that's when he told you how he felt?

    Theatre Actor : No. He never said it.

    Theatre Actor : He never said it?

    Theatre Actor : [Man disguised as a Woman]  He probably thought he didn't need to say it!

    Theatre Actor : Well then how does she know that it's real?

    Theatre Actor : He said that it was not about the words.

    Theatre Actor : Oh! Please! If you feel it, you say it! It's really very simple.

    Theatre Actor : He said we'd talk about it later. Only, there was no later. It never happened.

    Theatre Actor : [Lady 1 Stands, walks towards the audience]  Lady 1: That's how it ended.

    Theatre Actor : He just let you walk away? He didn't try to save it?

    Theatre Actor : I honestly believed things might actually work out, which was really very...

    Jack Driscoll : [along with Lady 1]  foolish.

    Theatre Actor : Men! Oh, they'll give you the world! But they let the one thing that truly matters slip through their fingers, typical!...

  • Jack Driscoll : I always knew you were nothing like the tough guy you play on the screen. I just never figured you for a coward.

    Bruce Baxter : Hey, pal. Hey, wake up. Heroes don't look like me - not in the real world. In th real world they got bad teeth, a bald spot, and a beer gut. I'm just an actor with a gun who's lost his motivation. Be seeing you.

  • Jack Driscoll : Taxi! Follow that ape!

  • Jack Driscoll : It's not about words.

  • [the boat is leaving the dock, and Carl made Jack stay because he hasn't finished the script] 

    Carl Denham : I keep telling you, Jack, there's no money in theater. That's why you should stick with film.

    Jack Driscoll : No Carl, it's not about the money. I love theater.

    Carl Denham : No, you don't. If you really loved it, you would've jumped.

  • Carl Denham : I'm finished.

    Jack Driscoll : How did you think this would end, Carl?

  • Jack Driscoll : [the crew has finally released the ship from the rocks where it was wrecked]  Stop! We've got to go back! They've taken Ann!

  • Carl Denham : [Denham stalls as the ship prepares to depart]  Alright. We might as well settle up.

    Jack Driscoll : You're gonna pay me?

    Carl Denham : I'm not gonna stiff a friend.

    Jack Driscoll : I've never known you to volunteer cash before.

    Carl Denham : How does two grand sound?

    Jack Driscoll : That sounds great... sounds great.

    Carl Denham : Here ya go.

    Jack Driscoll : Carl, you... you've written, "two grand".

    Carl Denham : Thought I did. I'm sorry, let's just do this from the beginning.

  • Carl Denham : She's standing at the railing. She doesn't know it yet, but they are sailing toward disaster. You got that?

    Jack Driscoll : Okay, so she turns and the first mate is staggering toward her. There's a knife sticking out of his back.

    Carl Denham : Wait a second... We're killing off the first mate?

    Jack Driscoll : Well that's assuming she knows who the first mate is.

    Carl Denham : Come on, Jack. It was an honest mistake. Anne is near-sighted. It could'a happened to anyone.

    Jack Driscoll : I was joking, Carl.

  • Jack Driscoll : [looking at map]  What is that?

    Carl Denham : What?

    Jack Driscoll : That. That right there.

    Carl Denham : I don't know. What is it? A coffee stain?

  • Jack Driscoll : You don't have to be nervous, Miss Darrow.

  • Jack Driscoll : She doesn't want the chocolate...

  • Jack Driscoll : Where's Carl?

    Bruce Baxter : Carl? He's up there, filming.

  • [Jack finds Kong's footprint in the mud and kneels down to touch it; Lumpy approaches] 

    Lumpy the Cook : Bloody Nora!

    [everyone gathers round the footprint] 

    Jimmy : Is that what took Miss Darrow?

    [Jack looks worried] 

    Lumpy the Cook : [points]  There's only one creature capable of leaving a footprint that size.

    [all eyes look to Lumpy, who puffs on his cigarette] 

    Lumpy the Cook : The abominable snowman.

    [Jack rolls his eyes; Hayes kneels beside him] 

    Venture Crew : Yeah, a snowman.

    Venture Crew : We dead meat.

    Hayes : It's gotta be what, twenty, 25 feet?

    Jack Driscoll : Carl saw it. Let's ask him.

    [they stand up] 

    Hayes : Denham!

    [Carl is nowhere in sight] 

    Hayes : Where'd he go?

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