He serves, moreover, in a role not unlike that of Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now (if less manic and more amiable), as interlocutor not for Kurtz but for Kong. Reilly), a WW II pilot who has been stranded on the island for 28 years. In addition to the aforementioned “Conrad,” the explorers soon find their “Marlow” (John C. It’s one of many references to Apocalypse Now and its literary antecedent Heart of Darkness. The dozen choppers of the Sky Devils have scarcely broken through the clouds before they rouse the King, and in a flat-out spectacular scene-half-monster movie, half- Apocalypse Now-he swats them out of the sky one by one, scattering the human characters (or at least those who survive the experience) across his island abode. In a clever inversion of the usual Kong narrative, the giant ape’s confrontation with American airpower comes at the outset of the film rather than its conclusion-and this time he has his feet firmly on the ground.
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Jackson) and his full “Sky Devils” helicopter squadron, which has been redeployed from Danang and tasked with “punching through” the encircling storms to land our adventurers on the island James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), a former tracker for the British SAS whose last name is by no means accidental Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), a seasoned “antiwar photographer” with a nose for a hidden story and assorted other bureaucrats and scientists. Under duress, a beleaguered senator (Richard Jenkins, wasted in a tiny role) grants Randa his funding, and a team is hastily assembled: Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. It is, Randa promises, “the land where God did not finish Creation”-a line borrowed from the opening of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. The speaker who observes how “screwed-up” things have gotten is Bill Randa (John Goodman), a quasi-scientist, quasi-explorer, quasi-conspiracy theorist who has come to DC in search of funding for his latest project: an expedition to Skull Island, a mythical atoll ringed by impenetrable storms that has for the first time been pinpointed by satellite image.
After a brief preamble set during World War II, Skull Island settles down in 1973 during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
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