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From “Inglourious Basterds”

MAJ. KING KONG: Am I German?
BRIDGET: No.
MAJ. KING KONG: Am I American?
The table laughs.
WICKI: Wait a minute, he goes to-
BRIDGET: Don’t be ridiculous. Obviously he wasn’t born in America.
MAJ. KING KONG: So… I visited America, aye?
The table says, “Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Was this visit Fortuitous?
WICKI: Not for you.
MAJ. KING KONG: . . . Hummm. My native land, is it what one would call exotic?
The table confers and decides, yes, it is exotic.
MAJ. KING KONG: Hummm. That could be either a reference to the jungle or the Orient. I’m going to let my first instinct take over and ask, am I from the jungle?
The table says, “Yes, you are.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Now gentlemen, around this time you could ask whether you’re real or fictitious. I, however, think that’s too easy, so I won’t ask that, yet. Okay, my native land is the jungle. I visited America, but my visit was not fortuitous to me, but the implication is that it was to somebody else. When I went from the jungle to America, . . . did I go by boat?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Did I go against my will?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: On this boat ride . . . Was I in chains?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: When I arrived in America . . . was I displayed in chains?
“Yes.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Am I the story of the Negro in America?
The table says, “No.”
MAJ. KING KONG: Well, then, I must be King Kong.