Rick challenged the Emperor to fight hand-to-hand "like a man" - without his supernatural powers, using only martial arts and combat skills.It was a classic, high-energy, mad-cap musical spoof of the dashing adventure films in Hollywood's Golden Age of Swashbucklers (many of which starred Errol Flynn) - with a masked Robin Hood or Zorro character in the forest, the romancing of a Princess-damsel in a tower, wenches, hypnotic spells, dueling, jousting with a knight's suit of body armor, and much more.Tatum: Big deal.1,000 rattlers in the underbrush.Give me just 50 of them loose in Albuquerque.Like that leopard in Oklahoma City.The whole town in panic.Deserted streets.Barricaded houses.They're evacuating he children.Every man is armed.Fifty killers on the prowl.Fifty.One by one, they start hunting them down.They get 10, 20.It's building.They get 40, 45.They getForty-nine.Where's the last rattler? In a kindergarten? In a church? In a crowded elevator?Where?...In my desk drawer, fan.Stashed away, only nobody knows it, see? The story's good for another three days.Then when I'm good and ready, we come out with a big extra.'Sun-Bulletin Snags Number 50.'Tatum concluded his wishes by emphasizing the type of 'bad news' he preferred to cover:Me, I didn't go to any college, but I know what makes a good story.A few moments later, he discovers her discarded handkerchief (and cigarette) and her purse - thrown down.Their calls stirred dozens of wailing, 'undead' flesh-eating zombies who lumbered en masse towards them.