We may believe there are no Battling Burrows, striking he helpless with brutal whip - but do we not ourselves use the whip of unkind words and deeds? So, perhaps, Battling may even carry a message of warning.As the independent-minded, individualistic Emma was getting in the car with her family to move from Houston, Texas to Des Moines, Iowa, away from her managing mother, she told her:Mama, that""s the first time I stopped hugging first.John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire), a tall, slim dancer ("hoofer") is the center tap-dancer in a group of male dancers in the short opening piece in a theatre.Now get out of here before I throw my desk at you." They often banter with each other in their easy-going relationship within the company.When Keyes pats his pockets for a match and comes up empty-handed, Walter quickly lights a wooden match for his cigar (one of many such instances in the film).At the river""s edge, the smartly-evolved and more advanced "Big Daddy" demonstrated to a well-organized horde of hundreds of other fellow zombies that they could cross the river without drowning, by walking on the riverbed bottom under the water.