Plot SynopsisOvertureOpening Introductory Prologue:In the opening, producer-director Cecil B.DeMille directly addressed the film audience (after emerging from behind an ornate gold and gray theatrical stage curtain), and called his introduction "an unusual procedure speaking to you before the picture begins.Gandalf hought to himself: "We may yet survive this."Thorin""s battle plan to defeat the Orcs was to "take out their leader" Azog by riding toward his Ravenhill command post with Dwalin, Fili, and Kili (Gandalf: "He""s taking his best warriors.As Smaug""s dead carcass fell downwards into the lake, the fleeing Master (in a boat loaded with the town""s gold treasure) was crushed to death.After a foot race, Spock confronted Khan on the top of a moving, floating, unmanned garbage barge, and the two evenly-matched combatants engaged in a vicious hand-to-hand fight.