Boan
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Boan is an oil driller[1] working for the Petrox Corporation in the 1976 King Kong remake. He sailed to Skull Island on the Petrox Explorer and survived an encounter with Kong.
History
- King Kong (1976)
King Kong (1976)
Boan was preparing to sail on the Petrox Explorer from Surabaya, Indonesia. Together with Joe Perko, he noticed that Fred Wilson and Roy Bagley were taking too few pipes on the expedition. As the ship set out to open sea, Boan attended the presentation where Wilson and Bagley revealed to the crew that the destination of the voyage was the unexplored Skull Island. After the presentation, Jack Prescott noticed a life raft with Dwan near the ship and Boan pulled it towards the vessel. Dwan was unconscious but alive.
When the ship dropped anchor near the fog bank, Boan and eight other crew members set out in a boat through the fog towards the supposed island. They went ashore and climbed a wide canyon, where they discovered a giant wall and a native tribe. The chief, performing a ritual dance, noticed them and demanded that the strangers hand over Dwan. When they refused, the natives tried to take her, forcing Boan and others to fire several warning shots into the air. The group returned to the ship, and the following night the natives kidnapped Dwan. Boan went to the island as part of a rescue party and helped Prescott unbolt the giant gate in the wall. It turned out that Dwan had already been taken and carried off into the jungle by Kong, a giant ape who the natives worshiped as a god. Prescott, Carnahan, Boan, Perko, Garcia, and Timmons went in search of Dwan, following Kong's large footprints. They moved slowly during the day, taking breaks to install seismic equipment on Wilson's radio orders. When night fell, the group came to a deep chasm and began to cross it on a massive log. Suddenly, Kong appeared on the other side. Boan and the others began shooting, but only angered the huge beast. Coming closer, Kong began to shake the log, throwing the crewmen into the abyss. Boan was furthest from Kong and therefore managed to save himself by jumping and grabbing onto the plants on his side of the chasm. Unable to reach him and Prescott with his hand, Kong threw the log into the chasm and went to his lair. Prescott went after Kong, and Boan returned to the wall and told Wilson about the terrible event. It was at this time that Wilson was planning to catch Kong, since there was no usable oil on the island. Wilson consulted Boan during the preparation of the trap, and later they watched as Kong, who had come after Prescott and Dwan, broke through the gate, fell into a pit, and fell asleep under the influence of chloroform. It is unknown whether Boan traveled to New York City on the tanker Susanne Onstad that Kong was loaded onto.
Trivia
- Boan is the first named character in a King Kong film to be played by a Black actor.
References
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