Kon-Tiki (2012)

Trevor Martin: Komitémedlem

Quotes 

• Thor Heyerdahl : [Talking with three National Geographic's members]  Gentlemen. Your magazine will be with me on a raft. At the mercy of the winds, all the way to Polynesia. It is further than from Chicago to Moscow. Here to here.

  [pointing it in a map behind him] 

  Committee Member : You'll have some sort of engine in case of emergency?

  Thor Heyerdahl : No. Absolutely not. We will surrender to the current and the wind... like Tiki did.

  Committee Member : [curious]  And by undertaking this extraordinary voyage, you are proving?

  Thor Heyerdahl : That the oceans were not barriers, but roads. Not impediments, but pathways. I will prove that South American people sailed to Polynesia...

  Committee Member : [refused]  Every schoolboy knows that Polynesia was peopled from Asia, not South America.

  Thor Heyerdahl : And it is my job as a scientist to prove those schoolboys, and those who quote them, wrong.

  [turning to the map] 

  Thor Heyerdahl : Ancient man, being sun worshipers...

  Committee Member : [interrupting Thor]  Mr. Heyerdahl. Doubtless the story of Norwegians drowning in the pacific will sell a lot of magazines. But not this one.

  Thor Heyerdahl : [angry]  This is a scientific expedition!

  Committee Member : Our magazine has a higher purpose than to finance and enable men bent on suicide. I doubt he'll have any success recruiting anyone for such a voyage.