Kon-Tiki2012

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] 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.