Oh, it's simple, really. All we need to do is determine our coordinates, then use triangulation to chart a direct route to New York.
6 seconds sound clip from the James and the Giant Peach (1996) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:46:49.790 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Very informative magazine, the National Geographic. Wonderful pictures.
- You incompetent, blithering nitwit!
- Did you see what he did to me?
- What do we do now? Which way do we go?
- Don't be ridiculous. There's no hope at all. We don't have a compass.
- We'll never reach New York. We're gonna be stuck here forever.
- We're gonna be frozen like living statues.
- No dark hiding places. No cozy leaf in the park. No city where dreams come true.
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