" The superhero was touchingly at the bedside of sleeping Jason, where he spoke: "You will be different."Meanwhile, the nefarious, narcissistic midget Lord Farquaad (in the town of DuLoc), with a Prince Valiant haircut, had ordered his masked men to torture the sarcastic Gingerbread Man (voice of Conrad Vernon) (reminiscent of SNL's clay Mr.One night, Gus worked overtime at his computer, and using a technique called 'salami slicing' to embezzle money from the payroll, he aggregated small left-over fractions of a cent to his own personal account (with the command: "Channel half-cents from all Webscoe Salaries Into Above Expenses Account").[Note: Another similar plotline is found in Hitchcock'sNotorious (1946).There were also many similarities to the Best Picture-winning film from a few years earlier,Casablanca (1942)- an exotic and remote setting, a casino, a dysfunctional or problematic love triangle (between a female, a European and an American), intriguing characters, memorable dialogue, and a backdrop or subplot regarding Nazis, etc.