Lumpy

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Lumpy
Lumpy in King Kong (2005)
Species Human
Nationality American32
English05[1]
Occupation Cook
Related to None
First appearance King Kong (1932)
Played by Andy Serkis

Lumpy is the ship's cook aboard the Venture and is a supporting character in the 1932 novelization of King Kong, who makes his onscreen debut in its 2005 remake. In the 2005 film, he also served as the ship's barber, physician, veterinarian, and dentist.[2]

History

King Kong (2005)

Lumpy was the resourceful cook aboard the Venture, and could make many dishes out of walnuts. One morning, he was able to use walnuts to create a combination porridge and shaving cream. However, when word came to him that the ship was headed for uncharted waters, Lumpy, Hayes, and Jimmy went to warn Denham and Preston. Seven years before, Lumpy and Hayes had been sailing 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 by their warning. That night while Lumpy was smoking on deck, the ship entered thick fog and rough waves before striking a gigantic carving of a face in the water, challenging Lumpy's balance. When the ship became scuttled on rocks, Lumpy and the other sailors began working to lighten it by throwing everything overboard. The injured Jack Driscoll was laid on a table in the galley, but Lumpy was forced to remove it and everything in the kitchen except the potatoes.

Lumpy gripped Choy's dead hand for a moment before allowing it to slip out of his grasp. However, the Carnictis began to awaken, and Lumpy used his fists to try and protect Choy's body until he was attacked by a Weta-rex, which Jack helped him to pry off. He then attacked the Carnictis with a machete until they overwhelmed him and he suffocated as one swallowed his head.

Books

King Kong (1932)

Lumpy was originally an elderly Black man with a pet monkey named Ignatz who sailed aboard the Wanderer. He and Ann Darrow became fast friends, and Ignatz took an immediate liking to her, a relationship which Carl Denham joked was like "Beauty and the Beast". After their first encounter with the natives of Skull Island, Ann came to talk with Lumpy about what the alleged Kong they referred to might be, as Denham supposed it might be a gigantic monster. Lumpy scoffed and assured her that Kong was likely just a wood or mud idol somewhere in the jungle, and that the sacrificed girls went to the witch doctor's harem beyond the wall, citing past experience with tribal cultures. Ann then shifted, and made Ignatz run off. Lumpy was forced to chase him down, and while doing so, he discovered a native bracelet on deck. He showed it to Captain Englehorn, and they deduced that Ann had been kidnapped. Due to his frailty, Lumpy was one of the sailors that waited in the village for the search party to return. Eventually, Denham returned with news that the entire party save for himself and Jack Driscoll had perished in the jungle, and he asked for more volunteers. Englehorn forced the new party to wait until it was light to head out. Lumpy heard the men talking of a great beast beyond the wall, which Lumpy did not believe, but it still made him a bit on edge. When strolling to the gate to peek through, he saw Ann and Driscoll walking over the great Plateau toward them. However, after a brief celebration, the great beast found them, and began to terrorize the village in search of Ann. Luckily, there were a few gas bombs left in the camp, and Lumpy accompanied Denham as he threw them to incapacitate the beast.

King Kong: The Island of the Skull

One year before the events of the 2005 film, Lumpy sailed to Baffin Island area with Denham and Englehorn in search of a mythical gigantic Orca named Killer. At one point, the rough waters forced the stew he was making to fall, and his cursing could be heard up on deck, leading Denham and Englehorn to suspect that their dinner would consist of canned beans and yesterday's biscuits. However, things quickly went bad, and they were forced to go to Halifax to treat Denham's wounded cameraman. When he was well enough, they sailed back to New York.

King Kong (2005)

While sailing aboard the Venture, Lumpy acted as the cook, barber, dentist, veterinarian, and chief medical officer, which put him in charge of examining new passengers like Ann Darrow, who had come aboard as an actress with filmmaker Carl Denham. The next morning, Lumpy served porridge and shaved a sailor named Judah simultaneously as he kept the food hot for the later-rising film crew. From then on, he completed his duties, and was revered for his wisdom by his friend and fellow sailor, Choy. While overlooking Denham's filming out on the top deck, Lumpy wondered about the process, and thought that, now that he was seeing how movies were made, they didn't really seem as impressive, and that it looked a lot like just playing around. He also reflected on Choy, and how he seemed happy to do anything. Lumpy guessed that it was his upbringing in the warring Northern China, and the fact that he had survived the horrors he had witnessed made everything else seem wonderful by comparison. However, he and Hayes grew suspicious of Denham, and headed him off in the mess hall, where they told him of a man they had found while on a ship seven years before. He was deranged and spoke of a fog-covered island with a wall built to keep out "Kong". Denham was unfazed, and the sailors' warnings were not heeded. However, when Lumpy learned that Denham was being left in Rangoon, he teased Jack and Ann about him choosing to finish his film there and how difficult it was to find safe passage out of. Later in a dense fog, Lumpy went to the top deck to scrub his dodgiest looking vegetables to prevent other sailors from seeing them and putting off vegetables forever. However, on hearing Jimmy from the crow's nest call out that he saw a wall, Lumpy laughed at the notion of a wall being in the middle of the Indian Ocean. However, after hitting some rocks, it was all the crew could do to keep the vessel afloat, but in the morning, Denham took his crew ashore. After he angered the natives, the Captain ordered all ballast overboard, forcing Lumpy to personally toss over his electric mixer. However, when it was revealed that Darrow had been kidnapped, Lumpy and Choy joined the part of the crew going ashore to rescue her. He and Choy arrived with Hayes on the second boat, full of ammunition and other supplies, and was one of the sailors who went into the jungle to search for her. In the hot jungle, Lumpy and Choy walked near the front with Hayes and Driscoll, with the strange sounds from all sides wearing on their nerves. Eventually, a roar from the jungle caused the crew to fire wildly into the bush, they found they had killed a dinosaur. When asked by Preston whether dinosaurs were extinct, Lumpy proclaimed that they were now. On discovering a boneyard of human sacrifices, Lumpy no longer suspected that Ann was alive, but he, Hayes and the others moved on with hope. Lumpy however, quickly lost this as he fumbled through the jungle, and at some point shot at an enormous bug, only to be told to conserve his ammunition. And through all this, his smoker's lungs did not aid him on the hike. After entering a narrow valley, the crew gathered around an enormous footprint, which Lumpy asserted could only have been left by an Abominable Snowman, against which they stood no chance. However, they had little time to reflect on this, as they were soon running from a stampede of Brontosaurus. Lumpy managed to survive, but was absolutely fed up with the situation. Sure that Darrow was dead, along with the four others they lost Lumpy demanded that the group return to the ship, with Bruce Baxter quickly joining his cause along with several other sailors. However, on seeing that Choy was not leaving, Lumpy found himself unable to leave without him, and so the short-lived coup ended. As they floated across the swamp, they were attacked by a Piranhadon. Denham attempted to shoot it and destroyed he and Lumpy's raft in the process. Lumpy dove in to save the quickly drowning Choy, and managed to save his friend's life. On reaching the shore, Denham started testing his camera, and filmed a sailor being suddenly taken by the sea beast, to Lumpy's dark amusement. As they walked through the forest, Jimmy became offended by Hayes' lack of faith in him. Lumpy then approached Jimmy, and encouraged him to not give up on Hayes, as he gave Jimmy something that he had never had growing up; a father who cared. As they continued through the jungle, they heard noises, and Lumpy once again shot at whatever was just out of sight, despite Jack's fears that it might be Ann. When they finally stopped, they saw that he had killed a large flightless bird, now in complete agony, which Lumpy mended with a quick shot to the head. As they continued, they found themselves on a log bridging a deep chasm. The giant ape Kong appeared from the darkness on the other side and threw Hayes down the pit before starting to shake the log. Denham begged Lumpy to save his camera, which the chef swiftly booted into the pit. Lumpy was then forced to watch Choy struggle for a handhold before being shaken into the abyss just before Kong threw the log in. Lumpy and Jack landed in thick mud and survived mostly unharmed. Choy however, had not been as lucky. He fell into shallow mud at the edge of the pool and his insides were completely destroyed. Choy smiled at Lumpy as he lay dying, boasting of how his Charlie Atlas training had saved his life. Lumpy congratulated him on proving him wrong about the training, and turned around to wipe his tears, but when he turned back, Choy was dead. Lumpy cradled his body as gigantic bugs began encroaching from all sides, and eventually consumed them both.

Comics

King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World

Lumpy sailed with the Venture to Skull Island, where Ann Darrow was kidnapped by natives. Lumpy was one of the men that stormed the island to search for her. Englehorn gave then twenty-four hours before they would haul anchor. While examining one of Kong's footprints, Lumpy came to the conclusion that an Abominable Snowman had taken Darrow, and proclaimed that they stood no chance of defeating it. However, a Brontosaurus stampede kept his ravings from being considered. Later, while crossing a fallen tree over a chasm, Kong, who turned out to be a gigantic gorilla, shook the sailors off. Before falling, Lumpy kicked off Carl Denham's camera, and claimed that he had killed them all by bringing them to the island. At the bottom of the pit, Lumpy fought to stay alive with a kitchen knife, but was eaten alive by the encroaching Carnictis.

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Trivia

  • While Lumpy does not appear in The Mighty Kong, a boy with a monkey, named Chips rather than Ignatz, is a major character.

References

This is a list of references for Lumpy. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. Christopher Golden (2005). King Kong. Pocket Star Books. p. 215. ISBN 1416503919.
  2. Christopher Golden (2005). King Kong. Pocket Star Books. p. 64. ISBN 1416503919.

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