Talk:Kon-Tiki (2012 film)

Historical accuracy
Just added this section, my first Wikipedia edit of this scale. I wonder about the length of the section--it's disproportionately long. But since the article is now classed as a Start, maybe it's OK to bring it up a notch one section at a time? Other questions: How to handle the overlap in Barker's comment quoted here and his comment in the sub-section Critical response? And are the repeated citations to the book Kon-Tiki, with just the page numbers different, handled according to Wikipedia style? Thanks for your help!Kinetic yankee (talk) 04:21, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Balsa Logs and Steel Cables
I have just added details on the to me most frustrating inaccuracy. In the book, Heyerdahl had been given the suggestion to not use ropes, but steel cables to make sure that the raft stayed together, but rejected the idea. Once they came out to sea he noted that the ropes were not worn down as the balsa logs were so light and soft. Instead, the ropes "sawed" themselves into the logs. Using steel cables (something even stronger and sharper) would have run the risk of them sawing the logs in halves. Making this observation, Heyerdahl was very happy to have used ropes instead of steel cables.

In the movie, Watzinger secretly brings steel cables and want to use them to keep the raft together. Movie Heyerdahl refuses and throws them overboard with the only explaination that they should trust the raft. For someone like me who has read the book, it is really frustrating that dangers of using steel cables is explained to movie Watzinger. I imagine that to someone who haven't read the book, nor know about the properties of the balsa logs, would get the impression that Heyerdahl is a fanatic believer in the raft without having any physical observation to back it up with, other than his reasoning that since it was used in the past, it should work. 98.128.162.182 (talk) 14:33, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

dramatizations
This article cites this: the ship's parrot is eaten by a shark in the film; its real-life counterpart was simply washed overboard by a large wave.[16] Writer Franz Lidz in Smithsonian Magazine (April, 2013, p.62) states the "parrot ... vanished without drama into salt air." Kathon (talk) 21:29, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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