[The black bird serves as the film""sMcGuffin, a plot device that propels the story forward but is proven ultimately worthless - although it wasn""t termed hat at the time.In a masturbatory way, Ted approached the screen as he spoke to one of the nude female figures in the film: "So you wanna give the ol"" Teddy Bear a kiss?" When the film broke and he was caught in the bright projection light, a large kitchen knife sliced through the screen behind him and impaled him - its blade was shoved into the back of his head from the other side of the screen(# 10 death).Thorin was brought before the Elven King Thranduil, a blonde Elf with a crown of leaves and twigs, who was immediately suspicious of Thorin""s greedy motives and quest:Some may imagine that a noble quest is at hand.Meanwhile, "bad luck" escaped convict Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), "tied to the Ben Parker homicide", was "on the run" from Rikers and pursued by police in the marshlands into a particle accelerator, where during a freak accident, he was transformed by fusion into the Sandman.Across the street was an unfinished, semi-built skyscraper tower.Inside the arches was a crowd-filled corridor with storefronts on the ground level, and many levels of apartment dwellings rising up on either side.