As he wanders through the night and into the morning light, he contemplates whether he will be the messianic, god-like, miraculous savior of the Arabs.Balthazar eviscerated Takmet""s mid-section with his sword, claiming: "For your father." Atop the palace roof after a vicious fiery sword-fight against Memnon, Mathayus was shot in the back with an arrow (while shielding the Sorceress), but he recovered, painfully pulled the arrow from his wound, and put it in his own bow to shoot at Memnon ("Catch this!") - the torpedo-like force of the arrow""s hit in Memnon""s mid-section propelled him off the roof to his death below.The film was a well-meaning, but often misguided effort that had confusing and mixed messages about male superiority, the exploitation of Mexican workers, and racial equality (for both blacks in the Maryland sequences, and Hispanics in the Texas sequences).Not a darn thing.Not where he comes from, what he makes, or what he makes making it.Only thing we know about him is his name, and you weren""t too sure about that.Yet he walks in, and we hand him Kay....I want o know whether he""s going to make her happy.Whether he""s going o make a home for her, can he support her?"- Stanley""s desire is to follow through on all that "old-fashioned rigmarole" including the lengthy "man-to-man" talk (a fireside "little chat") he has with Buckley about his financial prospects (three months before the nuptials), to determine if he can suitably support Kay; the interview is interminably long and boring- during the required meeting of the Banks to get o know the wealthy in-laws the Dunstans, Stanley and Ellie meet with Herbert or "Herbie" (Moroni Olsen) and Doris Dunstan (Billie Burke), who live in much more than a "shack"; Stanley admits (in voice-over) about the meeting: "We did more bare-faced lying in those few minutes than we had done in our entire lives"; he get-together in the Dunstan""s living room ends when Stanley drinks too much Madeira (fortified wine from Portugal) and falls asleep upright on the couch in the midst of the discussion- in the scene of the Banks"" party to announce the engagement (the guests routinely decline Stanley""s pre-prepared martinis and order many other varieties of drinks), Stanley finds himself confined to the kitchen and is unable to deliver his prepared speech; he is advised about finances and his place in the proceedings: "Enjoy your minute in the limelight.