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America | ||
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Deceased | ||
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1933 | ||
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Male | ||
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1.90 m | ||
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Black | ||
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Brown | ||
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Benjamin "Ben" Hayes is the tritagonist of Peter Jackson's King Kong 2005. Hayes is a soldier veteran from World War One and a sailor of SS Venture. Being the first mate and trusted officer to Captain Englehorn, he was a close friend with Jimmy, Bruce, Choy, and Lumpy.
Characterisation[]
Hayes sailed aboard the Venture realising their true destination, and confronted Carl Denham about the Skull Island. He discovered that their compass was acting strangely leading the ship to hit some reefs and rocks in the night. The next morning, Hayes awoke and discovered that the natives had abducted Ann Darrow, and a rescue party was launched.
Hayes now has a strong sense of duty. With his leadership, he often talk things out before they will move on. Together as a team, Hayes often have a weaponry knowledge during their quest from the Skull Island. When Ann Darrow was given to King Kong, Hayes further lead the search party alongside Jack Driscoll.
Hayes continued helping Jimmy and Jack. He led the rescue party protecting his friends and family. Hayes encountered many prehistoric creatures and once again-the legendary giant gorilla ,Kong. Hayes honourably and honourfully met his tragedy. A legacy pushing the rescue team to keep moving forward.
They respected him as a figure and an friend whom are all deeply saddened by his news. Benjamin Hayes was also portrayed by Evan Parke. An actor, comedian, entrepreneur, and writer. Throughout the year 2005, Evan voiceover Hayes in Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie.
Background[]
Before Hayes became the Venture's first mate, his past as a World War One veteran is mentioned, that; he was trained and awarded as a drill sergeant. This in turn gave him a good knowledge on weaponry.
Hayes was a soldier, he had fought in the trenches of World War One with the 369th infantry, otherwise known as the Harlem Hell-Fighters. At the insistence of his father and grandfather, the racial divide closed more.
Hayes and his platoon saw the most active combat of any U.S. soldiers; but were not recognized when they returned home. But the French government awarded them the Croix de Geurre.
While at sea, Hayes took the orphan Jimmy and took it upon himself to act as the boy's tutor. Hayes had him work out of an old school workbook. Hayes wanted Jimmy to be able to escape his life at sea with an education.
Hayes attempted to get that lessons through to the boy; who wanted nothing more than to stay at sea; with Hayes. As the Venture's First Mate, Hayes was well respected by everyone and he was shown as a father figure to Jimmy.
Biography[]
But unfortunately for Hayes; when he returned home a long time ago, he was met with more violence than; when he had left, and so he went to sea to prevent himself from experiencing his trauma on the past.
During the arrival of his friends, he told a fascinating story to Jack Driscoll. Hayes did found Jimmy in the Venture's being held some years before. His arm broken in two places, and wilder than half the animals on the ship.
Hayes knew that Jimmy couldn't have come from somewhere good because of how he was and tried to encourage him to get educated and not want to spend the rest of his life onboard the Venture.
The experience proved too traumatic for most of him. Hayes was now frustrated, and still respected Englehorn; but he knew that; even honorable men could make mistakes. Fearing what might come next, the safety of the crew.
Hayes began overseeing preparations to go ashore, and gained respect for Jack and lead the group into the jungle. He navigated the mountains to protect everyone. The survivors agreed with Hayes as a leader upon his death.
King Kong 2005: Official Film[]
As the first mate for the Venture, Hayes took the ship out of the harbor and believed he was sailing for Singapore. One night, he went to the cargo hold to see if Jimmy had run the ropes he had asked him to up to the deck. Jimmy tried to escape the situation, but Hayes caught him and made him return writer Jack Driscoll's pen. He apologized for the boy, and told Driscoll he would try to keep him out of his way and that he hadn't meant any harm.
He then recounted how he had found the boy four years prior, in 1929, stowed away in one of the cages in the cargo hold with a broken arm. Hayes then went to the deck to implore Jimmy to take his education seriously, but the boy was unreceptive. However, as it continued, Jimmy came to him with news that the ship was really headed for a place called Skull Island, and so he and Lumpy went to confront the director. They warned him with stories told to them by a castaway.
Seven years before, Hayes and Lumpy were paying their passage by working aboard a Norwegian barge. They found a castaway who had been adrift for days after his ship wrecked on a mysterious island. He spoke of a hundred foot tall wall built to keep out a monstrous creature. The next morning, they found that the man had stuck a knife in his heart. Denham was unfazed.
Hayes continued to steer the ship, and one night got word from Englehorn to set a course for Rangoon to turn Denham over to the authorities. They then discovered that their compass was malfunctioning, and Hayes went to map a course using the stars only to find no stars in the sky and informs Englehorn about this. As rocks began appearing all around the ship, Hayes and Englehorn frantically tried to steer away, but the ship was scuttled on a gigantic carving in the water.
Hayes quickly began helping to repair the damaged hull, but he was taken away from his work by Jimmy, who came to show then that Denham had taken a lifeboat to shore. That night, while lightening the ship by throwing everything overboard, Jack Driscoll revealed that Darrow had been kidnapped by the natives. Unfortunately, they were too late to keep her from being taken into the jungle, and they arranged a rescue party to retrieve her. Jimmy tried to join them, but Hayes wouldn't have it.
A short distance into the jungle, the sailors began to fire wildly into the brush, and only stopped at Hayes' command. He lit a flare and the crew was immedeately attacked by a Ferrucutus, which thrashed the group before Hayes was able to kill it. Englehorn ordered them to continue their work with or without the film crew until they heard Ann Darrow scream from the shore, followed by an earthshaking roar. Hayes and the Captain then went ashore to rescue them.
They continued into a boneyard on a cliff where they heard Ann scream in the distance and picked up a trail. Before moving on, Hayes realized that Jimmy had sneaked in with them. He was hesitant to let the boy have a gun, but decided to allow it. Hayes was wary of Denham, but accompanies him and Jack on their journey to find Ann. Hayes scolds Lumpy in the marshes for firing carelessly at an irritating fly and orders him to conserve ammunition.
At the valley, Hayes tells Jack to cut the crew some slack and gives them a 5 minute break and ordering everyone to stay in sight. When Jack discovered the footprint of Kong, Hayes calculated the ape to be around "20 - 25 feet" before noticing that Denham had gone to film the brontosaurus herd. Hayes managed to survive and regrouped the party in a swamp, which they constructed rafts to float across. Hayes stood ready to fire, but the rafts were destroyed by a Piranhadon. As the group continued through the jungle, they came to a log bridging a deep chasm.
As the crew crosses the log, Hayes approaches Kong's lair, loading a Thompson and ready to fire. Sensing something was wrong, Hayes went to investigate, and on hearing something in the tunnel at the other side, he ordered a reluctant Jimmy and the others to return across the log. He emptied his Tommy gun as Kong charged through the tunnel at him. As he hears Kong coming from within, he continued running forward and attempted everyone to get back across the log once again, and begins to shoot into the cave with his Thompson.
But as Kong comes; into view, he runs out of ammo and so drops the Tommy, and then goes to take out his pistol. As he does so, Kong charges from the cave and grabs Hayes, looking at him suspiciously. Hayes tells Jimmy to stay back, as he slowly prepares his pistol to fire.
The beast picked Hayes up as he readied his pistol. He once more urged Jimmy to flee before attempting to fire directly in the ape's face. As he attempts to shoot Kong further, the gorilla tosses him across the chasm, throwing him into the wall of the cliff, and then allowing him to fall to his death. It was also revealed that Hayes have been violently thrown against a rock wall which causes his eventual death into the pit below. When the others (Jack, Carl, Jimmy, Lumpy, and unnamed sailor), awakened in the pit, a quick scene of Hayes' dead corpse down the pit is shown.
King Kong 2005: Official Game[]
Hayes appears in Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie as a supporting tritagonist. Thanks to his years in the army and weaponry knowledge, Hayes is an exceptional ally, always giving helpful advice, shooting successfully at hostile creatures and handing Jack appropriate guns when being called on. When Hayes is selected, he will throw Jack a gun while Jack throws his gun in return.
In the game he first appears as a follower in the level "The Venture" as he rows along with Briggs. As the rock falls on the boat and Hayes and the others survive, Briggs dies in the rock fall. As Jack is unconcious, Ann tries to wake Jack up, Jack witnesses Briggs dead body covered as Hayes sends a flare out to Englehorn knowing that he'll come looking for them in the seaplane. Hayes and Carl part ways with Jack and Ann after losing them on uneven paths.
After Ann is sacrificed to Kong, Hayes and Carl get separated but reunite in the aptly named level "Hayes", where he tosses Jack a Tommy Gun after clearing a path for him. Hayes, Jack and Carl later find Preston, Lumpy, Choy, Baxter and Jimmy as they're being attacked by a Vastatosaurus rex but are unable to save any of them.
Hayes and Carl part ways with Jack to let him find Ann before Kong catches up to her, meeting up later in the canyon where the brontos are migrating. In the rapids, Hayes figures out that by reaching the waterhole where animals gather to drink, they'll catch up to Kong. After being ambushed by Skull Islanders on the rapids, two V. rexes attack as Hayes accepts that: "Nothing's gonna kill these things".
Unlike the movie, Hayes is deathly injured in the level "Call Kong" after being crushed by a V. rex when it charges at Kong while trying to shoot the ape for grabbing Ann. Hayes later dies in a shelter after telling Jimmy he needs to get back to the ship.
Official Film Quotes[]
"Jimmy. You run those ropes up on the deck like I told you?"
"Dead slow ahead both, Captain."
"You gotta strengthen up. Jimmy, you don't want to be on the ship for the rest of your life."
"No, you don't, Jimmy. You gotta be smart. Get yourself educated! Give yourself some options! Take this seriously!"
"Where did you get this?"
"How about return, Mr. Driscoll's pen first..."
"All hands going ashore!"
"Shore up that breach! Get me more men down here now! Move!!! Move!!! Move!!!"
"She's taken a pounding!"
"The shaft's not bent, as far as we can tell but she struck hard against the rock!"
"Not you, Jimmy!"
"Stay here!"
"No!"
"Hold your fire! HOLD YOUR FIRE!"
"There's a part of him that wants to, Jimmy. A part deep inside of himself that sounds a warning."
"But there's another part that needs to know. To defeat the thing that makes him afraid.
"We could not understand because we were to far and could remember because we were traveling in the night of the first ages of those ages that are gone leaving a sign, and no memories. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster. But there you could look at a thing monstrous and free."
"No, Jimmy. It's not.
"Denham. Where he go?
"Look at me!"
"I was in the Army!, I was trained and i'm a drill Sergeant!"
"CONSERVE YOUR AMMUNITION!"
"They're not about to give up on you. Give them some slack."
"Alright you got five minutes! everybody stay in sight!"
"It gotta be what? Twenty twenty five feet?"
"Go,Jimmy,run!"
"Jimmy give me your head count. I wanna known how many injured and how bad!"
"Anyone else?"
"Keep Paddling!"
"Steve! Swim ashore as fast as you can!"
"DENHAM!!!"
"If anything happens, i want you to run, understand?"
"It’s not about being brave Jimmy."
"GO BACK!!! BACK ACROSS THE LOG!!!"
"GET JIMMY OUT OF HERE!"
"Look at me."
"You gotta run, Jimmy. Do as I say. Go with Jack."
"RUN!!!"
Official Game Quotes[]
"Let go boys!"
"Hold on tight,this might get a little rough!"
"THIS IS TOO DANGEROUS! WE TURNING BACK!"
"DENHAM! LOOK OUT FOR THE ROCK! IT'S GONNA FALL ON US!!"
"The sea is too rough! We've just got to hope he saw us....if he did,he'll come looking for us with seaplane!"
"And just how do you know that, Denham?
"Let's just concentrate on getting out of here alive."
"We've got already one person dead,Denham."
"This is the only passage dammit... can barely see 15 feet in front of us!"
"Shhh....Look..."
"Jack,come here.I've got a weapon for you..."
"9mm Luger careful the trigger's very sensitive"
"WITH ME,JACK!!"
"Okay, Denham. Sounds like we're going to find your 20-foot gorilla."
"It's Preston and his crew!"
"STICK TOGETHER!"
"HANG ON JACK!"
"Preston, We're right here!"
"Oh, my God. He completely tore Lumpy apart.
"You had enough yet, Denham? Or do you want some more?"
"Ready to open it Jack?"
"JAAAACCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!"
"This way Jack!"
"It's Captain Englehorn he spotted are distress signal!
"Yeah. Well, I nearly wasn't. We should never have followed you on this wild goose chase, Denham."
"He needs to find a stretch of water that's protected from storm!"
" Hey, Jack. You wanna quit counting out loud? Or do you wanna attract more of those things?"
"Shhhhhhhh!"
"Hmmm... Looks like it's time to get wet, boys. Keep your weapons dry."
"Denham, Open the door! Hurry!
" Get moving, Denham!"
"He's dropped something!"
"What's the matter, Denham? Not exciting enough for your film?"
"We gotta get what's in case!"
"Help yourself Jack be careful there loaded!"
"Thank God Englehorn spotted us keep your eyes peeled and i know him he'll send us more!"
"Denham, get some spears ready!"
"Jack I'm gonna need your help with this get over here and help me!"
"Did you find a lever?
"He made his choice. He's no longer our problem. All that counts now is that we stay together and get to the plane."
"Put it into the post i think it's some kind of lever!"
"Okay,Let's get it a go!"
"Jimmy, I thought I told you to stay put."
"Forget about me. I want you safe, Jimmy. You have to get back to the ship."
Film Personality[]
Because of Hayes' heroic and valiant leadership, he is a brave individual having a warrior's pride. He was recognised as a adventurous soldier and audacious sailor fufilling himself as a regal leader. He is a man of hundred words, but even when he speaks, every breath counts. Several people are moved by his kindness and selfless nature, to the point they even accepted him to be a friend and figure. Hayes therefore always prioritises the wellbeing of others till the end. He is kind and caring but knows how to be firm when the time comes. He will do anything to keep the innocent out of harm's way. Hayes could although be blunt, which comes off as serious, despite his heart of gold.
Game Personality[]
Hayes has constantly shown to be a kind, selfless, polite and helpful matured man. He always put others before himself. Even when it comes to his enemies, he shows them respect and speaks little ill of them. Although afterwards, he still cares for their well-being and refuses them to ever speak ill of others. Whenever someone else is in contact of danger, he states that the vulnerable should be his responsibility first. Hayes constantly tries to befriend others such Jack Driscoll, and always acts friendly towards him in a brotherly manner. It is because of his kind nature that he has formed a strong connection of his acquaintances like Jimmy, Lumpy, and Choy.
Behind the scenes[]
- Mr. Hayes was portrayed; by Evan Parke in the 2005 Peter Jackson version of the film and voiced by the same actor in the video game.
- In a deleted scene, we can see Jimmy taking Hayes' hat after his death in the pit.
- Hayes carries a Colt M1911. It's possible that this was his service pistol from his army days.
- Hayes tells Carl that if he goes ashore on Skull Island, that he won't come back. Ironically, Carl does in fact make it off the Island, whereas Hayes himself doesn't.
- Hayes is killed by Kong in the film, but by a V-Rex in the game.
- Also in the game; whenever Hayes doesn't have any guns to fight, he will use spears.
Appearances[]
- King Kong (2005 film) (first apppearance)
- Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie