Congo (1995)

Tim Curry: Herkermer Homolka

Photos 

Quotes 

• Captain Wanta : [Homolka is eating a cake]  Mr Homolka?

  Herkermer Homolka : Yes?

  Captain Wanta : Stop eating my sesame cake.

  [Homolka pauses in confusion] 

  Captain Wanta : [shouting angrily]  STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!

  [Homolka spits out the cake] 

  Captain Wanta : What are you doing in my country, bag of shit?

  Herkermer Homolka : Captain, please, I only wish to explore and discover...

  Captain Wanta : This fellow

  Captain Wanta : [pokes Homolka's face with a stick]  is a big. Bag. Of. Shit.

  Captain Wanta : [to Monroe]  You should shake this RAT from off your neck. He owes money to everyone everywhere he goes. I will ask you to wait outside Mr. Homolka!

• [Hormolka is poised in the doorway of a crippled DC-3, unable to jump] 

  Herkermer Homolka : Push me, please.

  [Kahega shoves him with both hands, but he still doesn't move] 

  Herkermer Homolka : Harder, please.

  [Kahega laughs, gets behind Hormolka, grabs an overhead rail and kicks him out with both feet] 

• 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.

• 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.

• Herkermer Homolka : Its the lost city of Zinj. Which I have looked for all my life.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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!

• 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!

• Herkermer Homolka : You've got to get me out of here!

  Monroe : Take a number.

• College President : Who are you, sir?

  Herkermer Homolka : Herkermer Homolka. Formerly of Romania. Free now of the chains of Ceaucescu. Traveling the world, doing good.

• Herkermer Homolka : In my life I have heard many a bizarre story. Many a bizarre story containing bizarre truth.

• 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.