Part 3
If you've seen the movie, you might remember that Buttercup is about twice as tall as Vizzinni, so she might have been able to overpower him and escape. But she didn't, which was very silly of her. In her defense, she was a bit of an idiot.
While Vizzinni continued his quest to take Buttercup to Guildor where she would be murdered, the Man In Black came to the place where Fezzik was hiding. Fezzik threw his rock at the Man In Black. But, being a sporting Giant, he had decided to get the Man In Black's attention before killing him, so he missed. The rock smashed into a boulder behind the Man In Black and broke into a gazillion pieces. Having sufficiently gotten the attention of the Man In Black, Fezzik came out of his hiding place.There were some negotiations, and they decided that they would both put down their weapons and just pummel each other to death. But, as you know, the Man In Black was a man who used sticky situations as scotch tape, so he was not afraid in the least. In the end, the Man In Black won, but he only won enough to knock Fezzik out.
As you may remember, the whole scheme of Buttercup Getting Murdered In Guildor To Make It Look Like The Guildarians Did It was originally cooked up by Buttercup's fiancee, The Great Prince Humperdink. But he, being the Prince of Florin as well as the cooker-upper of the scheme, was not allowed to reveal that he was, in fact, the cooker-upper of the scheme as well as the Prince of Florin. So, after Buttercup went missing, he pretended to be devastated, and mustered up some troops along with his sidekick, Count Rugen, who knew all about his dastardly evil plans. The party then went off to search for Buttercup, although Humperdink and Count Rugen already knew that she was in the clutches of Vizzinni and on her way to Guildor.
After Vizzinni and Buttercup left Fezzik to kill the Man In Black, Vizzinni decided to take a short rest, so he made Buttercup sit down and set himself up a snack to go with some wine he had with him. I don't know why he had wine with him. When you're an assassin on a job to kill a beautiful princess, I don't think you usually bring wine, because it can muddle your brains and if somebody else from a different side is coming to kick your assassin, you need your brains to be ship-shape. But, in Vizzinni's defense, he's fairly short and all his growing-powers were concentrated on his brain. On the other hand, this was the time before cars were invented, so the local government had to make walking under the influence illegal. But I'm sure Vizzinni knew what he was doing.
Vizzinni did not appear to be the least disappointed to see the man who had supposedly killed his two henchmen. Instead, he took out a knife and held it to Buttercup and said "This is Sting. You've seen it before, haven't you?" No, I'm sorry. He didn't say that. But he made it clear that if the Man In Black came any closer, he would kill Buttercup until she was quite dead. This did not bother the Man In Black in the least, for he was a man who styled his hair with liquid doom and used death as his deodorant. But he decided he had to get Vizzinni to take his knife away from Buttercup, so he challenged him to a battle of wits. Vizzinni accepted on the terms that whoever lost would die an untimely death.
Who will win the Battle Of Wits? Will Vizzinni win the Battle Of Wits and bring Buttercup to her doom? Or will the mysterious Man In Black win and take Buttercup to, possibly, an even greater doom? Or a doom less great? Or a doom equally great? Or a doom less great in some ways and more great in others? And who is the mysterious Man In Black? Tune in for answers: same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel, the most horrendous is yet to come!
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